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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,646 2,536 4,484
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.46% 19.14% 20.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.63% 43.42% 45.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,900 1,950 3,844
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -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 6,512 5,841 9,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.04% 44.08% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,198 4,135 8,114
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,750 £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 £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +1 620 £77,500 +3.33% 312
West London +9 71 £67,059 +36.86% 52
South London +24 30 £38,500 -35.83% 22
East London -9 27 £31,250 -63.24% 46
North London +17 15 £72,500 +70.59% 9
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
1 188 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 35 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.98%) Confluence
6 15 (0.57%) Appian
7 13 (0.49%) Apache
7 13 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.49%) WordPress
8 12 (0.45%) IIS
9 9 (0.34%) CMS
10 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 48 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 45 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.91%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.076%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.076%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.076%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.038%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 939 (35.49%) AWS
2 530 (20.03%) GCP
3 482 (18.22%) Microsoft 365
4 417 (15.76%) Power Platform
5 325 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
6 299 (11.30%) Entra ID
7 197 (7.45%) GitHub
8 192 (7.26%) SaaS
9 155 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 132 (4.99%) Power Automate
11 119 (4.50%) PaaS
12 116 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 104 (3.93%) PowerApps
14 100 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 100 (3.78%) Serverless
15 98 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
16 89 (3.36%) Azure AI
17 69 (2.61%) Snowflake
18 68 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
19 66 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 295 (11.15%) Firewall
2 172 (6.50%) VPN
3 159 (6.01%) DNS
4 155 (5.86%) WAN
5 136 (5.14%) DHCP
6 119 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
7 106 (4.01%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.63%) LAN
9 82 (3.10%) SD-WAN
10 80 (3.02%) Network Security
11 62 (2.34%) Internet
12 51 (1.93%) VLAN
13 38 (1.44%) SAN
14 36 (1.36%) VoIP
15 35 (1.32%) Wireless
16 27 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.83%) Broadband
19 21 (0.79%) BGP
19 21 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (11.45%) Power BI
2 257 (9.71%) SQL Server
3 161 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (5.67%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 60 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 60 (2.27%) Metadata
9 54 (2.04%) MongoDB
10 53 (2.00%) Tableau
11 52 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 52 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 47 (1.78%) Big Data
14 28 (1.06%) MySQL
14 28 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (1.02%) Delta Lake
16 23 (0.87%) Pinecone
17 22 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 187 (7.07%) Git
2 88 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.14%) JIRA
4 58 (2.19%) GitLab
5 44 (1.66%) MLflow
6 39 (1.47%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.17%) Postman
8 21 (0.79%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (0.60%) Selenium
12 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.53%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.53%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 10 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.34%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.30%) JMeter
16 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 788 (29.78%) Finance
2 770 (29.10%) Social Skills
3 277 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (8.39%) Banking
5 188 (7.11%) Law
6 120 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.20%) Retail
8 100 (3.78%) Legal
8 100 (3.78%) Public Sector
9 68 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
10 63 (2.38%) Marketing
11 61 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 54 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 50 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 43 (1.63%) Multimedia
16 39 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.40%) Front Office
18 33 (1.25%) Retail Banking
19 26 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 525 (19.84%) Senior
2 346 (13.08%) Lead
3 342 (12.93%) Architect
4 291 (11.00%) Developer
5 214 (8.09%) Analyst
6 198 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
7 170 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 126 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 123 (4.65%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 113 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 101 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
14 92 (3.48%) IT Support
15 89 (3.36%) Security Engineer
16 85 (3.21%) Network Engineer
17 82 (3.10%) IT Engineer
18 77 (2.91%) Data Architect
19 76 (2.87%) Senior Developer
20 73 (2.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (9.26%) .NET
2 159 (6.01%) React
3 130 (4.91%) REST
4 110 (4.16%) CSS
5 104 (3.93%) HTML
6 103 (3.89%) RESTful
7 91 (3.44%) Kafka
8 88 (3.33%) OAuth
9 87 (3.29%) Node.js
10 71 (2.68%) .NET Core
11 53 (2.00%) Django
12 50 (1.89%) PySpark
13 48 (1.81%) LangChain
13 48 (1.81%) SAML
14 45 (1.70%) PyTorch
15 44 (1.66%) SOAP
15 44 (1.66%) TensorFlow
16 40 (1.51%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.40%) Swagger
17 37 (1.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 232 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 100 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 92 (3.48%) Security Posture
5 79 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 79 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 73 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (2.65%) Data Structures
8 61 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 59 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 56 (2.12%) Low-Code
11 55 (2.08%) Data Centre
12 53 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (1.97%) Public Cloud
14 50 (1.89%) Onboarding
15 49 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
16 44 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.51%) Algorithms
18 35 (1.32%) Cyberattack
19 32 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 404 (15.27%) Windows
2 178 (6.73%) Windows Server
3 159 (6.01%) Linux
4 88 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.97%) Unix
6 46 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.28%) VMS
8 32 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 28 (1.06%) Android
11 19 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.23%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.15%) SUSE
17 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (27.55%) DevOps
2 642 (24.26%) CI/CD
3 548 (20.71%) Agile
4 540 (20.41%) AI
5 458 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 435 (16.44%) Analytics
7 379 (14.32%) Mentoring
8 341 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 334 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
10 312 (11.79%) Computer Science
11 310 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 310 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 308 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
13 282 (10.66%) Data Modelling
14 272 (10.28%) Software Engineering
15 264 (9.98%) Microservices
16 241 (9.11%) Machine Learning
17 238 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
18 230 (8.69%) ITIL
19 222 (8.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 701 (26.49%) Python
2 605 (22.86%) SQL
3 317 (11.98%) PowerShell
4 250 (9.45%) C#
5 249 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.10%) Java
7 126 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 99 (3.74%) Bash
9 52 (1.97%) Bicep
9 52 (1.97%) Go
10 45 (1.70%) R
11 38 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 23 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 20 (0.76%) C++
15 19 (0.72%) Scala
16 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.53%) Rust
17 12 (0.45%) PHP
17 12 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 417 (15.76%) Degree
2 265 (10.02%) Azure Certification
3 239 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 178 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 144 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 124 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 114 (4.31%) CISSP
8 110 (4.16%) AWS Certification
9 82 (3.10%) Master's Degree
10 67 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 48 (1.81%) CEH
13 46 (1.74%) DV Cleared
14 45 (1.70%) CISM
15 39 (1.47%) CCNP
16 34 (1.28%) PMI Certification
17 33 (1.25%) PMP
18 32 (1.21%) CCNA
18 32 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (1.10%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (7.11%) GDPR
3 167 (6.31%) NIST
4 137 (5.18%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.17%) QA
6 73 (2.76%) SLA
7 41 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 36 (1.36%) NCSC
10 33 (1.25%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.10%) EU AI Act
12 25 (0.94%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.91%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.87%) PSD2
15 22 (0.83%) GRC
16 19 (0.72%) PMO
17 17 (0.64%) ISO 22301
18 14 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 377 (14.25%) Active Directory
2 256 (9.67%) Docker
3 89 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.98%) vSphere
8 14 (0.53%) Firmware
9 10 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.038%) NLBS
13 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.038%) Xen
13 1 (0.038%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 328 (12.40%) Terraform
2 299 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 235 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.80%) Ansible
5 64 (2.42%) SCCM
6 59 (2.23%) Grafana
7 53 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 41 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.64%) Argo
12 13 (0.49%) Istio
13 12 (0.45%) CASB
14 9 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 6 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,043 (39.42%) Microsoft
2 218 (8.24%) Databricks
3 183 (6.92%) VMware
4 149 (5.63%) Google
5 125 (4.72%) Cisco
6 84 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.99%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.42%) Oracle
9 61 (2.31%) OpenAI
10 60 (2.27%) Fortinet
11 50 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
12 46 (1.74%) Salesforce
13 45 (1.70%) Meraki
14 42 (1.59%) Dell
14 42 (1.59%) SAP
15 34 (1.28%) CheckPoint
15 34 (1.28%) SolarWinds
15 34 (1.28%) Splunk
16 33 (1.25%) CyberArk
17 31 (1.17%) Foundry