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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,692 2,491 4,541
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.42% 19.14% 20.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.59% 43.64% 45.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 1,945 3,859
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,018 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -2.34% +7.52% -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 6,632 5,708 9,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.98% 43.86% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,256 4,113 8,130
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,434 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £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 24 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 24 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 +1 635 £80,000 +6.67% 310
West London +12 74 £65,000 +32.65% 50
South London +32 38 £70,000 +16.67% 25
East London -9 27 £31,250 -63.24% 39
North London +15 14 £66,250 +55.88% 8
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
1 184 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 146 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.93%) Confluence
6 15 (0.56%) Appian
7 14 (0.52%) Apache
8 13 (0.48%) WordPress
9 12 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.41%) IIS
11 9 (0.33%) CMS
12 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.22%) Moodle
14 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.11%) SAS
17 2 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 50 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.037%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.85%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.037%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 959 (35.62%) AWS
2 549 (20.39%) GCP
3 483 (17.94%) Microsoft 365
4 426 (15.82%) Power Platform
5 324 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 301 (11.18%) Entra ID
7 200 (7.43%) GitHub
8 189 (7.02%) SaaS
9 155 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 132 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 129 (4.79%) Power Automate
12 115 (4.27%) PaaS
13 103 (3.83%) Serverless
14 102 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 102 (3.79%) PowerApps
15 100 (3.71%) Azure AI
16 96 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
17 85 (3.16%) Snowflake
18 73 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (2.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 295 (10.96%) Firewall
2 171 (6.35%) VPN
3 161 (5.98%) DNS
4 155 (5.76%) WAN
5 138 (5.13%) DHCP
6 120 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 109 (4.05%) TCP/IP
8 97 (3.60%) LAN
9 83 (3.08%) SD-WAN
10 82 (3.05%) Network Security
11 61 (2.27%) Internet
12 49 (1.82%) VLAN
13 37 (1.37%) SAN
13 37 (1.37%) Wireless
14 35 (1.30%) VoIP
15 27 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (0.82%) Broadband
18 21 (0.78%) BGP
18 21 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (11.52%) Power BI
2 265 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 166 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (5.76%) Data Lake
5 103 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 78 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (2.27%) Metadata
8 61 (2.27%) Tableau
9 59 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 55 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 54 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 50 (1.86%) Big Data
12 50 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.11%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.08%) MySQL
15 28 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 193 (7.17%) Git
2 89 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.05%) JIRA
4 59 (2.19%) GitLab
5 51 (1.89%) MLflow
6 39 (1.45%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.15%) Postman
8 21 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 17 (0.63%) Selenium
11 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.52%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.30%) JMeter
16 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 802 (29.79%) Finance
2 778 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (8.21%) Banking
5 187 (6.95%) Law
6 119 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.09%) Retail
8 104 (3.86%) Legal
9 98 (3.64%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.34%) Marketing
12 61 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (1.97%) Financial Institution
14 48 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.60%) Multimedia
17 39 (1.45%) Telecoms
18 37 (1.37%) Front Office
19 34 (1.26%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.93%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 536 (19.91%) Senior
2 351 (13.04%) Lead
3 350 (13.00%) Architect
4 288 (10.70%) Developer
5 216 (8.02%) Analyst
6 209 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
7 174 (6.46%) Data Engineer
8 129 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 125 (4.64%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 116 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 104 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 103 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 92 (3.42%) IT Support
13 92 (3.42%) Security Engineer
14 84 (3.12%) IT Engineer
14 84 (3.12%) Network Engineer
15 82 (3.05%) Data Architect
16 79 (2.93%) Consultant
17 75 (2.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (9.25%) .NET
2 160 (5.94%) React
3 129 (4.79%) REST
4 109 (4.05%) CSS
5 103 (3.83%) HTML
5 103 (3.83%) RESTful
6 100 (3.71%) Kafka
7 88 (3.27%) OAuth
8 87 (3.23%) Node.js
9 72 (2.67%) .NET Core
10 57 (2.12%) LangChain
11 54 (2.01%) PyTorch
12 53 (1.97%) Django
12 53 (1.97%) TensorFlow
13 51 (1.89%) PySpark
14 47 (1.75%) SAML
15 43 (1.60%) SOAP
16 40 (1.49%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.37%) Swagger
17 37 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 99 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 83 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 71 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 70 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 62 (2.30%) AI Agents
10 61 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 58 (2.15%) Data Centre
11 58 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
12 55 (2.04%) Low-Code
13 51 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 49 (1.82%) Onboarding
15 48 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
16 44 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.49%) Algorithms
18 37 (1.37%) Cyberattack
19 32 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 410 (15.23%) Windows
2 177 (6.58%) Windows Server
3 165 (6.13%) Linux
4 89 (3.31%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.93%) Unix
6 45 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.26%) VMS
8 31 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.00%) Android
10 19 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.26%) CentOS
15 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.15%) SUSE
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (27.27%) DevOps
2 646 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 565 (20.99%) AI
4 557 (20.69%) Agile
5 458 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 451 (16.75%) Analytics
7 381 (14.15%) Mentoring
8 344 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 335 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
10 330 (12.26%) Roadmaps
11 317 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 316 (11.74%) Business Intelligence
13 311 (11.55%) Computer Science
14 290 (10.77%) Data Modelling
15 273 (10.14%) Software Engineering
16 261 (9.70%) Machine Learning
17 260 (9.66%) Microservices
18 241 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 236 (8.77%) ITIL
20 233 (8.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 720 (26.75%) Python
2 624 (23.18%) SQL
3 321 (11.92%) PowerShell
4 253 (9.40%) C#
5 248 (9.21%) JavaScript
6 138 (5.13%) Java
7 128 (4.75%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.71%) Bash
9 53 (1.97%) Bicep
10 52 (1.93%) Go
11 45 (1.67%) R
12 39 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 20 (0.74%) C++
15 20 (0.74%) Scala
16 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.52%) Rust
17 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 416 (15.45%) Degree
2 270 (10.03%) Azure Certification
3 236 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 178 (6.61%) Security Cleared
5 143 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 125 (4.64%) SC Cleared
7 113 (4.20%) CISSP
8 107 (3.97%) AWS Certification
9 78 (2.90%) Master's Degree
10 69 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 50 (1.86%) CEH
12 44 (1.63%) CISM
13 43 (1.60%) DV Cleared
14 41 (1.52%) CCNP
15 34 (1.26%) CCNA
15 34 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (1.23%) PMI Certification
17 32 (1.19%) PMP
18 30 (1.11%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (7.24%) GDPR
2 188 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.24%) NIST
4 137 (5.09%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.19%) QA
6 76 (2.82%) SLA
7 41 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 35 (1.30%) NCSC
10 33 (1.23%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.08%) EU AI Act
12 26 (0.97%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.89%) GRC
13 24 (0.89%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.85%) PSD2
15 21 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 19 (0.71%) PMO
17 17 (0.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 381 (14.15%) Active Directory
2 255 (9.47%) Docker
3 90 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.97%) vSphere
8 12 (0.45%) Firmware
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.037%) NLBS
13 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.037%) Xen
13 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 329 (12.22%) Terraform
2 304 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 238 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.79%) Ansible
5 64 (2.38%) SCCM
6 60 (2.23%) Grafana
7 51 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.63%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.45%) CASB
14 9 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 7 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.19%) linkerd
18 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,065 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 239 (8.88%) Databricks
3 182 (6.76%) VMware
4 152 (5.65%) Google
5 132 (4.90%) Cisco
6 86 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.93%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.38%) Oracle
9 63 (2.34%) OpenAI
10 61 (2.27%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.82%) Dell
12 46 (1.71%) Meraki
13 44 (1.63%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.56%) SAP
15 36 (1.34%) CheckPoint
15 36 (1.34%) SolarWinds
15 36 (1.34%) Splunk
16 33 (1.23%) CyberArk
17 31 (1.15%) iManage