Azure Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,103 2,295 3,629
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.00% 19.46% 19.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.64% 43.09% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 1,645 2,514
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,350 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,469 5,326 8,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.75% 45.16% 44.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,602 3,634 5,459
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £44,710
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,870 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.78% -7.69% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure job vacancy trend in London

Azure
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in London

Azure
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the London region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 386 £83,000 +7.10% 435
West London 0 84 £77,500 +37.78% 70
East London -5 22 £36,000 -15.29% 22
South London -15 19 £51,250 -21.15% 22
North London -5 14 £60,000 -20.00% 11
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 201 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 140 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 85 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 63 (2.03%) Confluence
5 33 (1.06%) Apache
6 28 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.68%) CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 7 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
11 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.097%) Kentico
14 3 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.097%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 61 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.032%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.097%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.097%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.032%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (32.26%) AWS
2 638 (20.56%) GCP
3 540 (17.40%) Microsoft 365
4 478 (15.40%) Azure DevOps
5 447 (14.41%) Power Platform
6 427 (13.76%) Entra ID
7 233 (7.51%) SaaS
8 214 (6.90%) GitHub
9 195 (6.28%) Serverless
10 189 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 176 (5.67%) PaaS
12 147 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 140 (4.51%) Microsoft Copilot
14 139 (4.48%) Azure AI
15 131 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
16 129 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
17 127 (4.09%) Power Automate
18 115 (3.71%) Microsoft Purview
18 115 (3.71%) Snowflake
19 113 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 285 (9.18%) Firewall
2 171 (5.51%) DNS
3 165 (5.32%) VPN
4 150 (4.83%) Network Security
5 130 (4.19%) DHCP
6 103 (3.32%) WAN
7 89 (2.87%) LAN
8 88 (2.84%) TCP/IP
9 87 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (2.55%) VLAN
11 55 (1.77%) SAN
12 54 (1.74%) Wireless
13 51 (1.64%) SD-WAN
14 39 (1.26%) BGP
15 36 (1.16%) OSPF
16 29 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
17 26 (0.84%) Kerberos
18 19 (0.61%) SSL
19 16 (0.52%) DMARC
20 14 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (9.35%) Power BI
2 245 (7.90%) SQL Server
3 175 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 122 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 101 (3.25%) Metadata
7 81 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.09%) Tableau
11 54 (1.74%) Relational Database
12 50 (1.61%) Delta Lake
13 42 (1.35%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.13%) Data Vault
16 32 (1.03%) MySQL
17 30 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 27 (0.87%) Big Data
19 25 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (5.74%) Git
2 123 (3.96%) JIRA
3 114 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.93%) GitLab
5 32 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.58%) MLflow
7 14 (0.45%) JUnit
7 14 (0.45%) Mockito
8 13 (0.42%) Selenium
9 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.29%) Postman
12 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 8 (0.26%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 1,002 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 972 (31.32%) Finance
3 303 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.32%) Law
5 212 (6.83%) Banking
6 175 (5.64%) Legal
7 149 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.32%) Retail
10 87 (2.80%) Marketing
11 74 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.03%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 36 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 34 (1.10%) Front Office
17 22 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 18 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 597 (19.24%) Senior
2 559 (18.01%) Architect
3 387 (12.47%) Lead
4 358 (11.54%) Developer
5 280 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
6 204 (6.57%) Data Engineer
7 183 (5.90%) Solutions Architect
8 160 (5.16%) Analyst
9 144 (4.64%) Consultant
10 139 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 117 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 115 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 111 (3.58%) Data Architect
14 107 (3.45%) Azure Architect
15 101 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 99 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
17 96 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
18 91 (2.93%) Senior Developer
19 75 (2.42%) Network Engineer
19 75 (2.42%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (15.08%) Terraform
2 292 (9.41%) .NET
3 222 (7.15%) REST
4 163 (5.25%) React
5 113 (3.64%) RESTful
6 112 (3.61%) Kafka
7 93 (3.00%) OAuth
8 89 (2.87%) LangChain
9 88 (2.84%) Node.js
9 88 (2.84%) Spring
10 86 (2.77%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 79 (2.55%) .NET Core
13 76 (2.45%) PySpark
14 67 (2.16%) LangGraph
15 58 (1.87%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.80%) AngularJS
16 56 (1.80%) JSON
17 51 (1.64%) .NET Framework
17 51 (1.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 419 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 155 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 152 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
6 106 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 95 (3.06%) Data Centre
8 91 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 70 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 66 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 40 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.22%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 35 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
17 34 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 389 (12.54%) Windows
2 173 (5.58%) Windows Server
3 152 (4.90%) Linux
4 48 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 18 (0.58%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.29%) CentOS
11 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (30.52%) DevOps
2 929 (29.94%) CI/CD
3 858 (27.65%) AI
4 656 (21.14%) Agile
5 520 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 510 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 506 (16.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 489 (15.76%) Roadmaps
9 474 (15.28%) Analytics
10 461 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 429 (13.83%) Mentoring
12 350 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
13 347 (11.18%) Software Engineering
14 335 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
15 322 (10.38%) Data Engineering
16 315 (10.15%) Migration
17 311 (10.02%) Data Modelling
17 311 (10.02%) Machine Learning
18 310 (9.99%) Microservices
19 309 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 766 (24.69%) Python
2 653 (21.04%) SQL
3 319 (10.28%) C#
4 291 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 202 (6.51%) Java
6 189 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 160 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.32%) Bicep
9 83 (2.67%) Bash
10 53 (1.71%) Scala
11 44 (1.42%) R
12 30 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (0.77%) Go
15 19 (0.61%) C++
15 19 (0.61%) RPG
16 14 (0.45%) VBA
17 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
17 13 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 402 (12.96%) Degree
2 282 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 247 (7.96%) Azure Certification
4 214 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 140 (4.51%) CISSP
6 132 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 92 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (2.45%) CISM
10 75 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 51 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 43 (1.39%) CCNP
13 41 (1.32%) CCNA
14 37 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (1.10%) PhD
17 27 (0.87%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.81%) PMP
19 24 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.74%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (5.25%) GDPR
4 144 (4.64%) QA
5 114 (3.67%) NIST
6 72 (2.32%) SLA
7 58 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.16%) GRC
10 30 (0.97%) NCSC
11 29 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 26 (0.84%) PMO
13 22 (0.71%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 13 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.23%) WCAG
17 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 396 (12.76%) Active Directory
2 268 (8.64%) Docker
3 123 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.52%) vSphere
8 10 (0.32%) BitLocker
8 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.23%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.064%) XenApp
13 1 (0.032%) HDFS
13 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 325 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 209 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 138 (4.45%) Ansible
4 78 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
5 62 (2.00%) Grafana
6 46 (1.48%) SCCM
7 34 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.90%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.55%) Argo
10 15 (0.48%) CASB
11 13 (0.42%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.35%) Puppet
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 8 (0.26%) Istio
15 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
17 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,349 (43.47%) Microsoft
2 275 (8.86%) Databricks
3 178 (5.74%) VMware
4 173 (5.58%) Google
5 144 (4.64%) Cisco
6 79 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 74 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 72 (2.32%) Oracle
9 64 (2.06%) Palo Alto
10 62 (2.00%) Foundry
11 57 (1.84%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.77%) SAP
13 47 (1.51%) Splunk
14 44 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 43 (1.39%) Meraki
16 40 (1.29%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.19%) Fortinet
18 32 (1.03%) Tenable
19 31 (1.00%) Citrix