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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,870 2,569 4,617
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.63% 20.01% 19.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.33% 44.96% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 1,967 3,810
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.00% -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 7,116 5,714 10,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.28% 44.51% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,585 4,150 8,199
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £116,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +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 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 24 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 0 648 £80,000 +6.67% 236
West London +4 80 £60,000 +33.33% 44
South London +18 45 £80,000 +29.78% 11
East London -14 25 £32,000 -62.35% 51
North London 0 11 £60,000 +33.33% 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
1 182 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 139 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.94%) Confluence
6 18 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.56%) Apache
8 15 (0.52%) WordPress
9 13 (0.45%) Appian
9 13 (0.45%) CMS
10 8 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 51 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.24%) PlantUML
7 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.035%) Maya
10 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.52%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.070%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.035%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.035%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.035%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.035%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 990 (34.49%) AWS
2 560 (19.51%) GCP
3 500 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
4 406 (14.15%) Power Platform
5 336 (11.71%) Entra ID
6 334 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
7 195 (6.79%) GitHub
8 181 (6.31%) SaaS
9 160 (5.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 137 (4.77%) Azure AI
12 118 (4.11%) PaaS
13 114 (3.97%) Serverless
14 108 (3.76%) Power Automate
15 102 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
16 100 (3.48%) Snowflake
17 92 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
18 86 (3.00%) PowerApps
19 79 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
20 76 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.84%) Firewall
2 178 (6.20%) VPN
3 174 (6.06%) DNS
4 151 (5.26%) WAN
5 149 (5.19%) DHCP
6 130 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
7 103 (3.59%) Network Security
8 99 (3.45%) TCP/IP
9 96 (3.34%) LAN
10 80 (2.79%) SD-WAN
11 57 (1.99%) VLAN
12 53 (1.85%) Internet
13 50 (1.74%) SAN
14 32 (1.11%) Wireless
15 31 (1.08%) VoIP
16 26 (0.91%) WLAN
17 25 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.84%) Broadband
19 23 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
20 22 (0.77%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (9.86%) Power BI
2 276 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 142 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.91%) Data Lake
5 85 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 71 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 68 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 64 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
9 60 (2.09%) Tableau
10 59 (2.06%) BigQuery
11 51 (1.78%) Big Data
11 51 (1.78%) MongoDB
12 50 (1.74%) Metadata
13 46 (1.60%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.32%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.08%) Pinecone
17 25 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 190 (6.62%) Git
2 93 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.65%) JIRA
4 64 (2.23%) GitLab
5 52 (1.81%) MLflow
6 32 (1.11%) Postman
7 23 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.70%) Chocolatey
10 18 (0.63%) Selenium
11 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.38%) Vite
15 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) JMeter
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 867 (30.21%) Finance
2 794 (27.67%) Social Skills
3 291 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (8.29%) Banking
5 173 (6.03%) Law
6 119 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 103 (3.59%) Legal
9 99 (3.45%) Retail
10 63 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 60 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (1.92%) Marketing
13 52 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.36%) Front Office
16 39 (1.36%) Multimedia
17 33 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 26 (0.91%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 553 (19.27%) Senior
2 392 (13.66%) Lead
3 375 (13.07%) Architect
4 286 (9.97%) Developer
5 250 (8.71%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.39%) Analyst
7 181 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 138 (4.81%) Software Engineer
9 137 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 116 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 116 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 111 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
12 103 (3.59%) Consultant
13 102 (3.55%) Security Engineer
14 98 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
15 97 (3.38%) Azure Architect
16 90 (3.14%) IT Engineer
17 88 (3.07%) Network Engineer
18 81 (2.82%) Data Architect
18 81 (2.82%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (9.34%) .NET
2 167 (5.82%) React
3 123 (4.29%) REST
4 105 (3.66%) Kafka
5 104 (3.62%) RESTful
6 103 (3.59%) CSS
7 98 (3.41%) HTML
8 94 (3.28%) OAuth
9 83 (2.89%) Node.js
10 65 (2.26%) LangChain
11 63 (2.20%) .NET Core
12 57 (1.99%) PySpark
12 57 (1.99%) PyTorch
12 57 (1.99%) TensorFlow
13 51 (1.78%) Django
13 51 (1.78%) SAML
14 41 (1.43%) OpenID
15 39 (1.36%) scikit-learn
16 38 (1.32%) Spring
17 37 (1.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 264 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.31%) Security Posture
4 91 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 86 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 67 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 61 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 60 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 56 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
13 53 (1.85%) Low-Code
13 53 (1.85%) Onboarding
14 41 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 41 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.36%) Cyberattack
16 38 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
17 35 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 412 (14.36%) Windows
2 167 (5.82%) Windows Server
3 163 (5.68%) Linux
4 87 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 38 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 37 (1.29%) Unix
8 34 (1.18%) Android
8 34 (1.18%) VMS
9 31 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.31%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.14%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (27.42%) DevOps
2 662 (23.07%) CI/CD
3 614 (21.39%) AI
4 561 (19.55%) Agile
5 451 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
6 450 (15.68%) Analytics
7 400 (13.94%) Mentoring
8 393 (13.69%) Roadmaps
9 371 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 370 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 346 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
12 314 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
13 292 (10.17%) Data Engineering
14 289 (10.07%) Machine Learning
15 283 (9.86%) Computer Science
16 276 (9.62%) Software Engineering
17 271 (9.44%) Data Modelling
18 258 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 246 (8.57%) Migration
20 243 (8.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 744 (25.92%) Python
2 637 (22.20%) SQL
3 325 (11.32%) PowerShell
4 268 (9.34%) C#
5 243 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 163 (5.68%) Java
7 148 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.55%) Bash
9 69 (2.40%) Bicep
10 60 (2.09%) Go
11 45 (1.57%) R
12 38 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.91%) C++
15 23 (0.80%) Scala
16 15 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.49%) C
17 14 (0.49%) Rust
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 407 (14.18%) Degree
2 302 (10.52%) Azure Certification
3 216 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 187 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 133 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (4.46%) SC Cleared
7 120 (4.18%) CISSP
8 96 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 83 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
10 72 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.88%) CEH
12 48 (1.67%) CISM
13 45 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 45 (1.57%) CCNP
13 45 (1.57%) DV Cleared
14 43 (1.50%) CCNA
15 40 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
16 31 (1.08%) PMI Certification
17 30 (1.05%) PMP
18 29 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.31%) GDPR
2 180 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (5.68%) NIST
4 141 (4.91%) Data Quality
5 89 (3.10%) SLA
6 84 (2.93%) QA
7 44 (1.53%) Accessibility
8 42 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (1.29%) NCSC
9 37 (1.29%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 32 (1.11%) GRC
12 26 (0.91%) HIPAA
12 26 (0.91%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.80%) EU AI Act
14 20 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 20 (0.70%) PSD2
15 19 (0.66%) PMO
16 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 400 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 246 (8.57%) Docker
3 97 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.94%) vSphere
8 11 (0.38%) Firmware
9 9 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.070%) Postfix
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
13 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 361 (12.58%) Terraform
2 316 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 239 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.43%) Ansible
5 64 (2.23%) SCCM
6 57 (1.99%) Grafana
7 51 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (1.64%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 8 (0.28%) CASB
16 7 (0.24%) Nagios
16 7 (0.24%) VxRail
17 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,167 (40.66%) Microsoft
2 287 (10.00%) Databricks
3 186 (6.48%) VMware
4 157 (5.47%) Google
5 131 (4.56%) Cisco
6 82 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.75%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.54%) Palo Alto
9 61 (2.13%) Oracle
10 57 (1.99%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.64%) Meraki
13 46 (1.60%) Dell
14 42 (1.46%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.46%) Salesforce
15 41 (1.43%) SAP
15 41 (1.43%) SolarWinds
16 39 (1.36%) Splunk
17 37 (1.29%) Foundry
17 37 (1.29%) iManage