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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,895 2,460 4,594
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.07% 19.83% 19.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.44% 45.01% 45.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,049 1,853 3,755
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,158 5,466 10,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.79% 44.07% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,778 3,982 8,094
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,188
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 0 660 £80,000 +3.23% 271
West London +12 78 £60,000 +37.14% 47
South London +16 45 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East London -11 22 £87,500 +2.94% 32
North London +3 11 £55,000 +10.00% 7
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
1 178 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 120 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.97%) Confluence
6 19 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.55%) Apache
8 12 (0.41%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) Appian
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.35%) PlantUML
6 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.41%) Endur
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.069%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 944 (32.61%) AWS
2 552 (19.07%) GCP
3 496 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
4 379 (13.09%) Power Platform
5 347 (11.99%) Entra ID
6 337 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (6.60%) GitHub
8 190 (6.56%) SaaS
9 155 (5.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 142 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 132 (4.56%) PaaS
12 124 (4.28%) Azure AI
13 123 (4.25%) Serverless
14 109 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (3.45%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.35%) Snowflake
17 94 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
18 92 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
19 86 (2.97%) IaaS
20 85 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.85%) Firewall
2 179 (6.18%) VPN
3 169 (5.84%) DNS
4 157 (5.42%) WAN
5 139 (4.80%) DHCP
6 128 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
7 122 (4.21%) Network Security
8 100 (3.45%) LAN
9 89 (3.07%) SD-WAN
9 89 (3.07%) TCP/IP
10 59 (2.04%) VLAN
11 55 (1.90%) SAN
12 40 (1.38%) Internet
13 34 (1.17%) Wireless
14 32 (1.11%) BGP
14 32 (1.11%) WLAN
15 31 (1.07%) VoIP
16 28 (0.97%) OSPF
17 26 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
18 25 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 259 (8.95%) Power BI
3 136 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (4.66%) Data Lake
5 88 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 66 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 59 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 59 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 58 (2.00%) Tableau
9 56 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 54 (1.87%) BigQuery
11 52 (1.80%) Big Data
12 45 (1.55%) Metadata
13 42 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.38%) Relational Database
15 37 (1.28%) Delta Lake
16 28 (0.97%) Pinecone
17 27 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
18 25 (0.86%) MySQL
18 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 176 (6.08%) Git
2 94 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 69 (2.38%) JIRA
4 67 (2.31%) GitLab
5 50 (1.73%) MLflow
6 27 (0.93%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.73%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.59%) Selenium
10 16 (0.55%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.38%) Vite
14 10 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
18 6 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 879 (30.36%) Finance
2 773 (26.70%) Social Skills
3 292 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (7.22%) Banking
5 170 (5.87%) Law
6 118 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 96 (3.32%) Legal
9 66 (2.28%) Retail
10 53 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 39 (1.35%) Front Office
14 30 (1.04%) Marketing
15 29 (1.00%) Multimedia
16 23 (0.79%) Advertising
17 22 (0.76%) Retail Banking
18 19 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 561 (19.38%) Senior
2 415 (14.34%) Architect
3 365 (12.61%) Lead
4 277 (9.57%) Developer
5 267 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 191 (6.60%) Analyst
7 168 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 149 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 135 (4.66%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 117 (4.04%) Consultant
12 109 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 104 (3.59%) Azure Architect
13 104 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 100 (3.45%) Support Engineer
15 96 (3.32%) IT Engineer
15 96 (3.32%) Network Engineer
16 93 (3.21%) Security Engineer
17 92 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.83%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (9.74%) .NET
2 159 (5.49%) React
3 122 (4.21%) REST
4 106 (3.66%) Kafka
5 93 (3.21%) OAuth
6 83 (2.87%) CSS
7 82 (2.83%) RESTful
8 76 (2.63%) HTML
9 72 (2.49%) Node.js
10 66 (2.28%) PySpark
11 64 (2.21%) .NET Core
12 62 (2.14%) LangChain
13 55 (1.90%) SAML
14 53 (1.83%) PyTorch
15 52 (1.80%) TensorFlow
16 47 (1.62%) Django
17 46 (1.59%) Spring
18 44 (1.52%) OpenID
19 39 (1.35%) ASP.NET
20 37 (1.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 281 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 84 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 82 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 82 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 71 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 70 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 63 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
8 63 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 61 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 60 (2.07%) AI Agents
10 60 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 43 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.35%) Algorithms
15 38 (1.31%) Cyberattack
15 38 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 406 (14.02%) Windows
2 167 (5.77%) Linux
3 157 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 81 (2.80%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.21%) VMS
7 33 (1.14%) Unix
8 31 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 29 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (0.90%) Android
11 24 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.31%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.10%) SUSE
19 2 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
20 1 (0.035%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (27.84%) DevOps
2 691 (23.87%) CI/CD
3 589 (20.35%) AI
4 559 (19.31%) Agile
5 440 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
6 421 (14.54%) Analytics
7 411 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 405 (13.99%) Roadmaps
9 400 (13.82%) Mentoring
10 385 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 318 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
12 297 (10.26%) Data Engineering
13 288 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
14 272 (9.40%) Software Engineering
15 269 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 261 (9.02%) Data Modelling
17 255 (8.81%) Migration
18 250 (8.64%) Machine Learning
19 238 (8.22%) Microservices
20 228 (7.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 732 (25.28%) Python
2 610 (21.07%) SQL
3 331 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 282 (9.74%) C#
5 222 (7.67%) JavaScript
6 164 (5.66%) Java
7 145 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.52%) Bash
9 74 (2.56%) Bicep
10 49 (1.69%) Go
11 38 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.28%) R
13 29 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.76%) C++
14 22 (0.76%) Scala
15 15 (0.52%) Rust
16 13 (0.45%) C
17 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (12.82%) Degree
2 300 (10.36%) Azure Certification
3 208 (7.18%) Security Cleared
4 166 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 145 (5.01%) SC Cleared
6 125 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (4.25%) CISSP
8 99 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
9 83 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.90%) CEH
11 49 (1.69%) CISM
12 48 (1.66%) CCNP
13 47 (1.62%) CCNA
14 44 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
14 44 (1.52%) Master's Degree
15 38 (1.31%) DV Cleared
16 35 (1.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 35 (1.21%) PMI Certification
17 34 (1.17%) PMP
18 28 (0.97%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (5.42%) NIST
3 146 (5.04%) GDPR
4 143 (4.94%) Data Quality
5 90 (3.11%) SLA
6 86 (2.97%) QA
7 47 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (1.28%) NCSC
10 36 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 35 (1.21%) GRC
12 31 (1.07%) SOC 2
13 28 (0.97%) PMO
14 20 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 18 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 11 (0.38%) ISO 22301
18 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 400 (13.82%) Active Directory
2 230 (7.94%) Docker
3 111 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.97%) vSphere
8 13 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.35%) Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.069%) Xen
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 389 (13.44%) Terraform
2 314 (10.85%) Kubernetes
3 226 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 126 (4.35%) Ansible
5 67 (2.31%) SCCM
6 55 (1.90%) Grafana
7 52 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (1.49%) Prometheus
9 29 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 28 (0.97%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.45%) Istio
12 12 (0.41%) Argo
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) CASB
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,179 (40.73%) Microsoft
2 292 (10.09%) Databricks
3 193 (6.67%) VMware
4 138 (4.77%) Cisco
5 131 (4.53%) Google
6 83 (2.87%) OpenAI
6 83 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 75 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 56 (1.93%) Oracle
9 55 (1.90%) Fortinet
10 50 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.69%) Meraki
11 49 (1.69%) SAP
12 45 (1.55%) Foundry
13 44 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.45%) SolarWinds
15 41 (1.42%) Dell
15 41 (1.42%) ForeScout
15 41 (1.42%) Splunk
16 40 (1.38%) Dynatrace