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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,749 2,489 4,563
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.26% 19.41% 20.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.50% 44.12% 45.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,965 1,953 3,863
10th Percentile £42,600 £45,940 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 6,788 5,641 9,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.68% 43.99% 44.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 4,125 8,151
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £97,500 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +1 632 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +9 75 £65,000 +32.65% 45
South London +35 42 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -10 27 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +12 13 £60,000 +41.18% 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
1 178 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 144 (5.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.95%) Confluence
6 14 (0.51%) Apache
6 14 (0.51%) Appian
6 14 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.47%) WordPress
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
8 10 (0.36%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.22%) Camunda
10 6 (0.22%) Moodle
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.036%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.036%) Maya
9 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.76%) Endur
3 8 (0.29%) Shopify
4 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.073%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.073%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.073%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.036%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.036%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.036%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.036%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 974 (35.43%) AWS
2 554 (20.15%) GCP
3 492 (17.90%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (15.42%) Power Platform
5 321 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
6 302 (10.99%) Entra ID
7 202 (7.35%) GitHub
8 190 (6.91%) SaaS
9 157 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 146 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 125 (4.55%) Power Automate
12 119 (4.33%) PaaS
13 116 (4.22%) Azure AI
14 105 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.75%) Serverless
16 101 (3.67%) PowerApps
17 95 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
18 94 (3.42%) Snowflake
19 73 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
20 72 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 303 (11.02%) Firewall
2 175 (6.37%) VPN
3 169 (6.15%) DNS
4 153 (5.57%) WAN
5 145 (5.27%) DHCP
6 128 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
7 108 (3.93%) TCP/IP
8 95 (3.46%) LAN
9 85 (3.09%) Network Security
10 82 (2.98%) SD-WAN
11 59 (2.15%) Internet
12 54 (1.96%) VLAN
13 42 (1.53%) SAN
14 33 (1.20%) VoIP
14 33 (1.20%) Wireless
15 27 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (0.80%) Broadband
18 21 (0.76%) BGP
18 21 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (11.06%) Power BI
2 264 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 159 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 99 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 75 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
9 63 (2.29%) Tableau
10 61 (2.22%) BigQuery
11 60 (2.18%) Metadata
12 55 (2.00%) MongoDB
13 50 (1.82%) Relational Database
14 49 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 46 (1.67%) Big Data
16 35 (1.27%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 28 (1.02%) MySQL
19 27 (0.98%) Pinecone
20 24 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (7.02%) Git
2 93 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.87%) JIRA
4 60 (2.18%) GitLab
5 51 (1.86%) MLflow
6 35 (1.27%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.16%) Postman
8 21 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.65%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.65%) Selenium
10 17 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
13 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.29%) Vite
15 7 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 817 (29.72%) Finance
2 787 (28.63%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (8.48%) Banking
5 182 (6.62%) Law
6 120 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.04%) Retail
8 105 (3.82%) Legal
9 100 (3.64%) Public Sector
10 67 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.22%) Marketing
13 51 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 49 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.56%) Multimedia
16 39 (1.42%) Front Office
17 37 (1.35%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.24%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 542 (19.72%) Senior
2 363 (13.20%) Lead
3 362 (13.17%) Architect
4 296 (10.77%) Developer
5 225 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.71%) Analyst
7 171 (6.22%) Data Engineer
8 131 (4.77%) Support Engineer
9 125 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 107 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
13 102 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 94 (3.42%) IT Support
14 94 (3.42%) Security Engineer
15 87 (3.16%) Data Architect
15 87 (3.16%) IT Engineer
16 85 (3.09%) Network Engineer
17 83 (3.02%) Consultant
18 80 (2.91%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (9.24%) .NET
2 167 (6.07%) React
3 126 (4.58%) REST
4 109 (3.97%) CSS
5 104 (3.78%) RESTful
6 103 (3.75%) HTML
7 99 (3.60%) Kafka
8 91 (3.31%) Node.js
9 86 (3.13%) OAuth
10 69 (2.51%) .NET Core
11 60 (2.18%) LangChain
12 58 (2.11%) PyTorch
13 57 (2.07%) TensorFlow
14 56 (2.04%) Django
15 54 (1.96%) PySpark
16 47 (1.71%) SAML
17 41 (1.49%) SOAP
18 38 (1.38%) AngularJS
18 38 (1.38%) scikit-learn
19 37 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 248 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 110 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.53%) Security Posture
4 93 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 81 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (2.66%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 61 (2.22%) AI Agents
11 59 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
12 56 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 56 (2.04%) Low-Code
13 53 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
14 51 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
14 51 (1.86%) Onboarding
15 43 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.49%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.42%) Cyberattack
18 32 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (15.02%) Windows
2 174 (6.33%) Windows Server
3 166 (6.04%) Linux
4 86 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.78%) Unix
6 45 (1.64%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (1.24%) VMS
9 33 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 30 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 28 (1.02%) Android
12 21 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.36%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.25%) CentOS
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.15%) SUSE
18 2 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (27.03%) DevOps
2 644 (23.43%) CI/CD
3 586 (21.32%) AI
4 560 (20.37%) Agile
5 464 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (16.11%) Analytics
7 390 (14.19%) Mentoring
8 352 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 352 (12.80%) Roadmaps
9 341 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
10 324 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 313 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
12 308 (11.20%) Computer Science
13 286 (10.40%) Data Modelling
14 277 (10.08%) Machine Learning
15 272 (9.89%) Software Engineering
16 254 (9.24%) Microservices
17 248 (9.02%) Data Engineering
17 248 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 241 (8.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 726 (26.41%) Python
2 635 (23.10%) SQL
3 321 (11.68%) PowerShell
4 257 (9.35%) C#
5 255 (9.28%) JavaScript
6 145 (5.27%) Java
7 134 (4.87%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.71%) Bash
9 56 (2.04%) Bicep
9 56 (2.04%) Go
10 45 (1.64%) R
11 37 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 32 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.80%) C++
14 21 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.76%) Scala
15 15 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.55%) Rust
16 13 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 412 (14.99%) Degree
2 283 (10.29%) Azure Certification
3 235 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 183 (6.66%) Security Cleared
5 142 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 129 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 115 (4.18%) CISSP
8 101 (3.67%) AWS Certification
9 75 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (2.69%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.93%) CEH
12 50 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 45 (1.64%) CISM
14 44 (1.60%) DV Cleared
15 43 (1.56%) CCNP
16 37 (1.35%) CCNA
17 36 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
18 32 (1.16%) PMI Certification
19 31 (1.13%) PMP
20 29 (1.05%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (7.13%) GDPR
2 188 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.11%) NIST
4 139 (5.06%) Data Quality
5 82 (2.98%) SLA
6 81 (2.95%) QA
7 40 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 40 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 34 (1.24%) NCSC
10 33 (1.20%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.05%) EU AI Act
12 27 (0.98%) GRC
12 27 (0.98%) Solvency II
13 25 (0.91%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.84%) PSD2
15 21 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.76%) PMO
16 17 (0.62%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 383 (13.93%) Active Directory
2 249 (9.06%) Docker
3 94 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 55 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.95%) vSphere
8 11 (0.40%) Firmware
9 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
10 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.036%) NLBS
13 1 (0.036%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.036%) Xen
13 1 (0.036%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 336 (12.22%) Terraform
2 302 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 244 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 126 (4.58%) Ansible
5 61 (2.22%) SCCM
6 59 (2.15%) Grafana
7 52 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 41 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.91%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.65%) Argo
12 13 (0.47%) Istio
13 12 (0.44%) CASB
14 10 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.33%) Kibana
16 8 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
17 7 (0.25%) VxRail
18 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.22%) Nagios
19 5 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1,108 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 261 (9.49%) Databricks
3 189 (6.88%) VMware
4 158 (5.75%) Google
5 131 (4.77%) Cisco
6 83 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 69 (2.51%) OpenAI
9 64 (2.33%) Fortinet
10 62 (2.26%) Oracle
11 50 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.71%) Dell
13 43 (1.56%) Meraki
13 43 (1.56%) SAP
14 42 (1.53%) Salesforce
15 39 (1.42%) Splunk
16 35 (1.27%) CyberArk
16 35 (1.27%) SolarWinds
17 34 (1.24%) Dynatrace
18 33 (1.20%) iManage