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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,335 3,242 3,988
As % of all permanent jobs in London 17.27% 20.33% 22.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.69% 44.45% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 2,296 3,462
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £49,010
25th Percentile £55,750 £59,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,739 7,294 8,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 42.44% 45.73% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,721 4,756 7,031
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 0 468 £77,500 +6.90% 442
West London +4 60 £70,000 -5.08% 70
East London -6 25 £34,000 -35.24% 51
North London +19 24 £75,000 -6.25% 6
South London +7 19 £51,250 -16.86% 58
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
1 159 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 139 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 75 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.24%) Confluence
6 15 (0.64%) Apache
7 14 (0.60%) IIS
8 12 (0.51%) CMS
9 9 (0.39%) Appian
10 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.21%) Moodle
11 5 (0.21%) WordPress
12 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.17%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 46 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.34%) Maya
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.81%) Endur
4 10 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.086%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.086%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.043%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 846 (36.23%) AWS
2 458 (19.61%) GCP
3 404 (17.30%) Microsoft 365
4 392 (16.79%) Power Platform
5 341 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
6 247 (10.58%) Entra ID
7 167 (7.15%) GitHub
8 160 (6.85%) SaaS
9 142 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (5.74%) Power Automate
11 122 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
12 114 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 108 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 108 (4.63%) PowerApps
14 107 (4.58%) PaaS
15 105 (4.50%) Serverless
16 74 (3.17%) Azure AI
17 72 (3.08%) Snowflake
18 64 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
19 61 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 236 (10.11%) Firewall
2 138 (5.91%) VPN
3 128 (5.48%) WAN
4 117 (5.01%) DNS
5 99 (4.24%) LAN
6 89 (3.81%) DHCP
7 79 (3.38%) TCP/IP
8 77 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
9 64 (2.74%) Network Security
10 52 (2.23%) SD-WAN
11 49 (2.10%) Internet
12 46 (1.97%) Wireless
13 42 (1.80%) VLAN
14 37 (1.58%) VoIP
15 29 (1.24%) SAN
16 23 (0.99%) BGP
16 23 (0.99%) OSPF
17 20 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
18 12 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (11.61%) Power BI
2 225 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 179 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (6.17%) Data Lake
5 119 (5.10%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 84 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.34%) Metadata
9 73 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 72 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
11 60 (2.57%) Big Data
12 44 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.58%) MySQL
16 32 (1.37%) Tableau
17 30 (1.28%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (0.86%) DynamoDB
19 20 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 201 (8.61%) Git
2 100 (4.28%) JIRA
3 75 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 40 (1.71%) GitLab
6 29 (1.24%) MLflow
7 23 (0.99%) Postman
7 23 (0.99%) Selenium
8 16 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.64%) JMeter
10 13 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.30%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 735 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 705 (30.19%) Finance
3 291 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (8.65%) Law
5 172 (7.37%) Banking
6 147 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (5.95%) Retail
8 117 (5.01%) Legal
9 91 (3.90%) Marketing
10 84 (3.60%) Public Sector
11 63 (2.70%) Financial Institution
12 62 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (1.58%) Manufacturing
17 33 (1.41%) Retail Banking
18 32 (1.37%) Multimedia
19 30 (1.28%) Games
19 30 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 426 (18.24%) Senior
2 330 (14.13%) Developer
3 295 (12.63%) Architect
4 292 (12.51%) Lead
5 185 (7.92%) Data Engineer
6 181 (7.75%) Analyst
7 145 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
8 126 (5.40%) Support Engineer
9 103 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 93 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
11 83 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 79 (3.38%) Data Architect
13 77 (3.30%) Senior Developer
14 74 (3.17%) IT Support
15 73 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 73 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
15 73 (3.13%) Support Analyst
16 66 (2.83%) .NET Developer
17 64 (2.74%) Network Engineer
18 60 (2.57%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (10.45%) .NET
2 161 (6.90%) React
3 136 (5.82%) REST
4 109 (4.67%) HTML
5 98 (4.20%) CSS
6 91 (3.90%) RESTful
7 88 (3.77%) .NET Core
7 88 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 83 (3.55%) Node.js
9 81 (3.47%) Kafka
10 62 (2.66%) Vue
11 61 (2.61%) ASP.NET
12 55 (2.36%) PySpark
13 52 (2.23%) Web Services
14 51 (2.18%) .NET Framework
15 49 (2.10%) OAuth
16 47 (2.01%) Middleware
17 46 (1.97%) YAML
18 45 (1.93%) PyTorch
19 41 (1.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 202 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 105 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 100 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 99 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 76 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 62 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 58 (2.48%) Low-Code
9 55 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 54 (2.31%) AI Agents
11 50 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 43 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 35 (1.50%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.33%) Reinsurance
17 29 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 29 (1.24%) Virtual Team
18 26 (1.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 383 (16.40%) Windows
2 185 (7.92%) Windows Server
3 162 (6.94%) Linux
4 68 (2.91%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 39 (1.67%) Unix
7 35 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 32 (1.37%) Android
9 31 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (1.03%) VMS
11 17 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.21%) CentOS
16 4 (0.17%) Solaris
17 3 (0.13%) SUSE
18 2 (0.086%) Kali Linux
19 1 (0.043%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (29.94%) DevOps
2 589 (25.22%) CI/CD
3 587 (25.14%) Agile
4 493 (21.11%) AI
5 486 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
6 416 (17.82%) Analytics
7 304 (13.02%) Mentoring
8 297 (12.72%) Computer Science
9 289 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (12.29%) Roadmaps
11 283 (12.12%) Data Modelling
12 277 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
13 272 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
14 256 (10.96%) Microservices
15 253 (10.84%) Machine Learning
16 250 (10.71%) ETL
17 247 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 233 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
19 222 (9.51%) Migration
20 220 (9.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 644 (27.58%) Python
2 584 (25.01%) SQL
3 285 (12.21%) PowerShell
4 284 (12.16%) C#
5 250 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 130 (5.57%) Java
7 121 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 67 (2.87%) Bash
9 47 (2.01%) Bicep
10 39 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.58%) Scala
12 33 (1.41%) Go
12 33 (1.41%) R
13 32 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.73%) C++
16 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.56%) Rust
18 12 (0.51%) PHP
19 10 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 429 (18.37%) Degree
2 222 (9.51%) Azure Certification
3 211 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 140 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 128 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 115 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 103 (4.41%) Master's Degree
8 91 (3.90%) SC Cleared
9 82 (3.51%) CISSP
10 60 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.76%) CCNP
12 36 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 36 (1.54%) CISM
13 34 (1.46%) DV Cleared
14 33 (1.41%) PMI Certification
15 31 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (1.03%) CCIE
16 24 (1.03%) CEH
16 24 (1.03%) PMP
17 22 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.79%) GDPR
2 167 (7.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 126 (5.40%) NIST
4 116 (4.97%) Data Quality
5 115 (4.93%) QA
6 44 (1.88%) SLA
7 33 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (1.24%) NCSC
9 28 (1.20%) EU AI Act
10 24 (1.03%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.99%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.99%) PSD2
12 21 (0.90%) Solvency II
13 19 (0.81%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.64%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.60%) PMO
17 10 (0.43%) ISO 22301
18 9 (0.39%) GRC
19 8 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 326 (13.96%) Active Directory
2 224 (9.59%) Docker
3 91 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 27 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.73%) Firmware
8 16 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.51%) vSphere
10 9 (0.39%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.26%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) XenApp
14 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.17%) KVM
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
15 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.086%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 285 (12.21%) Terraform
2 262 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 198 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 118 (5.05%) Ansible
5 51 (2.18%) SCCM
6 42 (1.80%) Grafana
7 41 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 41 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.73%) Argo
10 13 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.51%) CASB
12 11 (0.47%) Autotask
13 9 (0.39%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.39%) SCOM
14 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.30%) Rancher
15 6 (0.26%) Puppet
16 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,004 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 210 (8.99%) Databricks
3 161 (6.90%) VMware
4 124 (5.31%) Cisco
5 95 (4.07%) Google
6 86 (3.68%) Oracle
7 73 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 68 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.53%) SAP
10 54 (2.31%) Fortinet
11 49 (2.10%) Salesforce
12 39 (1.67%) OpenAI
13 38 (1.63%) Meraki
14 33 (1.41%) Informatica
14 33 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 32 (1.37%) Citrix
16 30 (1.28%) CheckPoint
16 30 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
17 24 (1.03%) Commvault
17 24 (1.03%) Dell