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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,098 2,559 4,478
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.98% 20.34% 18.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.11% 44.99% 44.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,237 1,876 3,569
10th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.45%

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 7,921 5,688 10,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.73% 45.21% 42.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5,314 4,036 7,940
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £122,500
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 9 July 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 9 July 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 0 567 £82,500 +6.45% 222
West London +11 92 £70,000 +55.56% 126
South London +18 48 £80,000 +23.08% 12
East London -5 19 £32,500 -58.06% 34
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 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
1 198 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 130 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 65 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.32%) Confluence
6 18 (0.58%) Apache
6 18 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.32%) Camunda
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.23%) Mule
12 6 (0.19%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.16%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (32.41%) AWS
2 587 (18.95%) GCP
3 537 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
4 402 (12.98%) Power Platform
5 389 (12.56%) Entra ID
6 366 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (7.00%) SaaS
8 191 (6.17%) GitHub
9 159 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.84%) PaaS
11 148 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 146 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 145 (4.68%) Serverless
14 136 (4.39%) Azure AI
15 114 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
16 113 (3.65%) Snowflake
17 108 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
18 106 (3.42%) Power Automate
19 98 (3.16%) IaaS
20 93 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (10.26%) Firewall
2 182 (5.87%) VPN
3 177 (5.71%) DNS
4 156 (5.04%) Network Security
5 145 (4.68%) WAN
6 142 (4.58%) DHCP
7 123 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
8 111 (3.58%) LAN
9 91 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.45%) SD-WAN
11 71 (2.29%) VLAN
12 52 (1.68%) SAN
13 45 (1.45%) BGP
14 42 (1.36%) Wireless
15 41 (1.32%) OSPF
16 29 (0.94%) VoIP
17 28 (0.90%) Kerberos
18 27 (0.87%) WLAN
19 24 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
20 23 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.78%) Power BI
2 259 (8.36%) SQL Server
3 149 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 128 (4.13%) Data Lake
5 112 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 74 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 64 (2.07%) Tableau
9 60 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.84%) Metadata
11 54 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.42%) Relational Database
13 42 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.29%) Big Data
16 39 (1.26%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (1.00%) MySQL
19 29 (0.94%) Star Schema
20 27 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 175 (5.65%) Git
2 108 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 84 (2.71%) JIRA
4 75 (2.42%) GitLab
5 35 (1.13%) MLflow
6 23 (0.74%) Postman
7 18 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.48%) Selenium
10 14 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) Vite
12 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.26%) JMeter
14 8 (0.26%) JUnit
14 8 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 938 (30.28%) Finance
2 876 (28.28%) Social Skills
3 274 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (6.88%) Banking
5 180 (5.81%) Law
6 129 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 116 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 113 (3.65%) Legal
9 81 (2.61%) Retail
10 54 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.13%) Front Office
14 33 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (1.03%) Marketing
16 31 (1.00%) Advertising
17 25 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 594 (19.17%) Senior
2 506 (16.33%) Architect
3 416 (13.43%) Lead
4 309 (9.97%) Developer
5 275 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
6 182 (5.87%) Analyst
7 172 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
8 171 (5.52%) Data Engineer
9 155 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (4.00%) Consultant
11 119 (3.84%) Software Engineer
12 116 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 110 (3.55%) Azure Architect
14 106 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 103 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 100 (3.23%) Data Architect
17 95 (3.07%) IT Engineer
18 88 (2.84%) Network Engineer
19 87 (2.81%) IT Support
20 86 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (10.04%) .NET
2 171 (5.52%) React
3 142 (4.58%) REST
4 123 (3.97%) Kafka
5 107 (3.45%) OAuth
6 100 (3.23%) Node.js
7 90 (2.91%) RESTful
8 79 (2.55%) .NET Core
8 79 (2.55%) Spring
9 74 (2.39%) LangChain
10 69 (2.23%) Spring Boot
11 68 (2.19%) ASP.NET
12 65 (2.10%) PySpark
13 59 (1.90%) CSS
14 58 (1.87%) OpenID
14 58 (1.87%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.84%) HTML
15 57 (1.84%) SAML
16 55 (1.78%) TensorFlow
17 47 (1.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 383 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 134 (4.33%) Product Ownership
3 113 (3.65%) Security Posture
4 99 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 96 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 82 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 76 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (2.10%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 59 (1.90%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
17 42 (1.36%) Low-Code
18 36 (1.16%) Cyberattack
19 34 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
20 32 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 433 (13.98%) Windows
2 178 (5.75%) Linux
3 165 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.03%) VMS
7 27 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.74%) Unix
9 19 (0.61%) Android
10 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.32%) CentOS
13 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (28.50%) DevOps
2 812 (26.21%) CI/CD
3 658 (21.24%) AI
4 637 (20.56%) Agile
5 480 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 467 (15.07%) Roadmaps
7 456 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
8 452 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 448 (14.46%) Mentoring
10 422 (13.62%) Analytics
11 321 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
12 319 (10.30%) Data Engineering
13 307 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
14 299 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 295 (9.52%) Software Engineering
16 284 (9.17%) Machine Learning
17 281 (9.07%) Microservices
18 267 (8.62%) Data Modelling
19 265 (8.55%) Migration
20 252 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 745 (24.05%) Python
2 621 (20.05%) SQL
3 325 (10.49%) PowerShell
4 317 (10.23%) C#
5 223 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 188 (6.07%) Java
7 174 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 111 (3.58%) Bash
9 79 (2.55%) Bicep
10 42 (1.36%) Go
11 34 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (0.77%) Scala
14 22 (0.71%) C++
15 21 (0.68%) R
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (12.04%) Degree
2 282 (9.10%) Azure Certification
3 250 (8.07%) Security Cleared
4 181 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 139 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 130 (4.20%) CISSP
7 117 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.94%) CCNP
11 56 (1.81%) CCNA
12 55 (1.78%) CISM
13 54 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.55%) CEH
15 47 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.13%) DV Cleared
17 30 (0.97%) CCIE
18 28 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.84%) GIAC
20 25 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 164 (5.29%) GDPR
3 158 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 156 (5.04%) NIST
5 137 (4.42%) QA
6 92 (2.97%) SLA
7 58 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.10%) NCSC
10 34 (1.10%) PMO
11 32 (1.03%) SOC 2
12 28 (0.90%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 436 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 247 (7.97%) Docker
3 125 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 455 (14.69%) Terraform
2 333 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 227 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (4.94%) Ansible
5 64 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 59 (1.90%) SCCM
7 57 (1.84%) Grafana
8 43 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.45%) Istio
12 13 (0.42%) Argo
13 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) CloudHub
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,286 (41.51%) Microsoft
2 312 (10.07%) Databricks
3 201 (6.49%) VMware
4 151 (4.87%) Cisco
5 130 (4.20%) Google
6 91 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 73 (2.36%) Oracle
10 59 (1.90%) Foundry
11 52 (1.68%) Splunk
12 49 (1.58%) Meraki
12 49 (1.58%) SAP
13 46 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 46 (1.48%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.39%) Dell
15 42 (1.36%) Dynatrace
16 41 (1.32%) SolarWinds
17 40 (1.29%) Tenable