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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,554 2,868 4,399
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.03% 19.66% 20.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.23% 44.02% 45.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,838 2,028 3,825
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.73% -1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -8.42%

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 6,195 6,515 9,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.87% 44.66% 45.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,010 4,253 7,999
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,230 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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 0 592 £77,500 +3.33% 241
West London +14 67 £63,750 +8.51% 54
South London +14 22 £46,000 -23.33% 21
East London -8 22 £32,000 -50.39% 42
North London +16 17 £75,000 -6.25% 13
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
1 183 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.10%) Confluence
6 15 (0.59%) Apache
6 15 (0.59%) Appian
7 12 (0.47%) IIS
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.27%) CMS
10 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.20%) Moodle
10 5 (0.20%) SAS
10 5 (0.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.078%) Camunda
Applications
1 47 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.12%) Maya
7 3 (0.12%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.98%) Endur
3 11 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.078%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.078%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 889 (34.81%) AWS
2 498 (19.50%) GCP
3 454 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 407 (15.94%) Power Platform
5 346 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
6 291 (11.39%) Entra ID
7 195 (7.64%) SaaS
8 188 (7.36%) GitHub
9 149 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.32%) Power Automate
11 121 (4.74%) PaaS
12 108 (4.23%) PowerApps
13 107 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 104 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
15 103 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 102 (3.99%) Serverless
17 83 (3.25%) Azure AI
18 73 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
19 69 (2.70%) Snowflake
20 65 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 273 (10.69%) Firewall
2 167 (6.54%) VPN
3 156 (6.11%) DNS
4 149 (5.83%) WAN
5 130 (5.09%) DHCP
6 111 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
7 99 (3.88%) TCP/IP
8 92 (3.60%) LAN
9 76 (2.98%) SD-WAN
10 60 (2.35%) Network Security
11 55 (2.15%) Internet
12 52 (2.04%) VLAN
13 39 (1.53%) SAN
14 38 (1.49%) Wireless
15 35 (1.37%) VoIP
16 26 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (0.94%) BGP
17 24 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
17 24 (0.94%) OSPF
18 21 (0.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (11.39%) Power BI
2 255 (9.98%) SQL Server
3 165 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
4 152 (5.95%) Data Lake
5 102 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 87 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
8 68 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 67 (2.62%) Metadata
10 54 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 53 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 48 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.84%) Big Data
14 43 (1.68%) Tableau
15 37 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 28 (1.10%) MySQL
16 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.94%) Hadoop
17 24 (0.94%) Pinecone
18 22 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 187 (7.32%) Git
2 87 (3.41%) JIRA
3 83 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.00%) GitLab
5 40 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 38 (1.49%) MLflow
7 34 (1.33%) Postman
8 19 (0.74%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.70%) Selenium
10 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.47%) Chocolatey
12 11 (0.43%) JMeter
13 10 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.31%) Vite
16 7 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 783 (30.66%) Finance
2 747 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 276 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (7.79%) Law
5 198 (7.75%) Banking
6 118 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 118 (4.62%) Legal
7 111 (4.35%) Retail
8 99 (3.88%) Public Sector
9 67 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 65 (2.55%) Marketing
11 59 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 53 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
13 52 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
15 46 (1.80%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.41%) Multimedia
16 36 (1.41%) Retail Banking
17 28 (1.10%) Front Office
18 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (19.34%) Senior
2 320 (12.53%) Architect
3 315 (12.33%) Developer
4 313 (12.26%) Lead
5 202 (7.91%) Analyst
6 186 (7.28%) Azure Engineer
7 177 (6.93%) Data Engineer
8 125 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 124 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 123 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 95 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 87 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
14 81 (3.17%) IT Support
14 81 (3.17%) Senior Developer
15 80 (3.13%) Network Engineer
16 78 (3.05%) Data Architect
17 77 (3.01%) IT Engineer
18 71 (2.78%) Security Engineer
18 71 (2.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (10.02%) .NET
2 164 (6.42%) React
3 142 (5.56%) REST
4 105 (4.11%) CSS
5 104 (4.07%) RESTful
6 103 (4.03%) HTML
7 89 (3.48%) OAuth
8 88 (3.45%) Node.js
9 73 (2.86%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.62%) Kafka
11 52 (2.04%) AngularJS
12 50 (1.96%) SAML
13 48 (1.88%) Django
14 47 (1.84%) SOAP
15 45 (1.76%) LangChain
16 44 (1.72%) PySpark
16 44 (1.72%) Web Services
17 41 (1.61%) PyTorch
18 40 (1.57%) Middleware
18 40 (1.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 209 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 102 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 81 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 63 (2.47%) Low-Code
9 62 (2.43%) Data Structures
10 57 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 56 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 55 (2.15%) Onboarding
13 45 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
15 39 (1.53%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.45%) Algorithms
17 34 (1.33%) Virtual Team
18 33 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 377 (14.76%) Windows
2 171 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 151 (5.91%) Linux
4 80 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.88%) Unix
6 41 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.29%) VMS
9 31 (1.21%) Android
10 27 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.20%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.078%) Solaris
19 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (28.03%) DevOps
2 638 (24.98%) CI/CD
3 550 (21.53%) AI
4 549 (21.50%) Agile
5 463 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (17.07%) Analytics
7 348 (13.63%) Mentoring
8 320 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
9 313 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 303 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 297 (11.63%) Computer Science
13 296 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
14 275 (10.77%) Data Modelling
15 268 (10.49%) Software Engineering
16 264 (10.34%) Microservices
17 237 (9.28%) Machine Learning
18 229 (8.97%) ETL
19 225 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
20 219 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 663 (25.96%) Python
2 583 (22.83%) SQL
3 308 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 269 (10.53%) C#
5 258 (10.10%) JavaScript
6 137 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 126 (4.93%) Java
8 85 (3.33%) Bash
9 54 (2.11%) Bicep
10 43 (1.68%) Go
11 42 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.45%) R
13 33 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
14 25 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.98%) Scala
15 19 (0.74%) C++
16 16 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.59%) Rust
18 12 (0.47%) PHP
19 10 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 415 (16.25%) Degree
2 239 (9.36%) Azure Certification
3 222 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (6.62%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 119 (4.66%) SC Cleared
7 107 (4.19%) CISSP
8 106 (4.15%) AWS Certification
9 86 (3.37%) Master's Degree
10 55 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (1.88%) CISM
12 41 (1.61%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.37%) CCNP
15 33 (1.29%) CEH
16 32 (1.25%) PMI Certification
17 28 (1.10%) PMP
17 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
18 27 (1.06%) CCNA
19 24 (0.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (6.89%) GDPR
3 158 (6.19%) NIST
4 132 (5.17%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.37%) QA
6 64 (2.51%) SLA
7 40 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.37%) NCSC
8 35 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 34 (1.33%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.10%) EU AI Act
11 27 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.94%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.90%) PSD2
14 22 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 22 (0.86%) Solvency II
15 17 (0.67%) GRC
16 15 (0.59%) ISO 22301
17 12 (0.47%) PMO
18 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 371 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 252 (9.87%) Docker
3 93 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 29 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.82%) vSphere
8 14 (0.55%) Firmware
9 11 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.078%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.078%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.078%) NFS
13 2 (0.078%) XenApp
14 1 (0.039%) vCloud
14 1 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 324 (12.69%) Terraform
2 298 (11.67%) Kubernetes
3 227 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 125 (4.89%) Ansible
5 60 (2.35%) SCCM
6 58 (2.27%) Grafana
7 53 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.78%) Argo
12 15 (0.59%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.27%) VxRail
15 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.23%) SCOM
16 5 (0.20%) Control-M
16 5 (0.20%) Istio
16 5 (0.20%) linkerd
16 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,024 (40.09%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.67%) Databricks
3 180 (7.05%) VMware
4 132 (5.17%) Google
5 120 (4.70%) Cisco
6 80 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 73 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 69 (2.70%) Oracle
9 59 (2.31%) Fortinet
10 58 (2.27%) OpenAI
11 47 (1.84%) Meraki
12 45 (1.76%) SAP
13 44 (1.72%) Salesforce
14 37 (1.45%) SolarWinds
15 36 (1.41%) CheckPoint
16 33 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
17 32 (1.25%) Informatica
18 31 (1.21%) Dell
19 30 (1.17%) Dynatrace
20 29 (1.14%) Splunk