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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,987 2,432 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.15% 19.91% 19.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.69% 44.51% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,118 1,803 3,741
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -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 7,340 5,464 10,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.78% 44.74% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,989 3,830 8,162
10th Percentile £41,985 £42,464 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 0 617 £82,500 +6.45% 270
West London +14 82 £60,000 +41.18% 43
South London +22 46 £80,000 +23.08% 10
East London -6 21 £31,500 -64.00% 35
North London +2 9 £55,000 +10.00% 12
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
1 189 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.14%) Confluence
6 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.57%) Apache
8 13 (0.44%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 9 (0.30%) Appian
11 7 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 46 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.50%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.033%) Maya
8 1 (0.033%) Notion
8 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Endur
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.067%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.067%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 968 (32.41%) AWS
2 571 (19.12%) GCP
3 505 (16.91%) Microsoft 365
4 368 (12.32%) Power Platform
5 359 (12.02%) Entra ID
6 354 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
7 201 (6.73%) SaaS
8 191 (6.39%) GitHub
9 144 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 141 (4.72%) PaaS
11 136 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 134 (4.49%) Serverless
13 128 (4.29%) Azure AI
14 113 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
16 101 (3.38%) Snowflake
17 98 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 97 (3.25%) Power Automate
19 94 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
19 94 (3.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.45%) Firewall
2 181 (6.06%) VPN
3 170 (5.69%) DNS
4 158 (5.29%) WAN
5 138 (4.62%) DHCP
6 135 (4.52%) Network Security
7 126 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.62%) LAN
9 90 (3.01%) TCP/IP
10 87 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 64 (2.14%) VLAN
12 56 (1.87%) SAN
13 42 (1.41%) BGP
14 38 (1.27%) OSPF
14 38 (1.27%) Wireless
15 32 (1.07%) WLAN
16 30 (1.00%) VoIP
17 29 (0.97%) Internet
18 28 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
19 25 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 249 (8.34%) Power BI
3 129 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 96 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (2.08%) Tableau
7 61 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 58 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 57 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 55 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (1.81%) Metadata
12 46 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 46 (1.54%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.47%) Big Data
14 41 (1.37%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (0.90%) MySQL
17 26 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 25 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (5.96%) Git
2 97 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.51%) GitLab
3 75 (2.51%) JIRA
4 44 (1.47%) MLflow
5 28 (0.94%) Postman
6 22 (0.74%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.64%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.54%) Selenium
9 14 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.33%) Vite
13 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.23%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 927 (31.03%) Finance
2 817 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 285 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (7.30%) Banking
5 175 (5.86%) Law
6 127 (4.25%) Public Sector
7 124 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (3.41%) Legal
9 74 (2.48%) Retail
10 60 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.44%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.17%) Front Office
15 32 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (0.97%) Marketing
17 27 (0.90%) Advertising
18 21 (0.70%) Multimedia
19 20 (0.67%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 574 (19.22%) Senior
2 457 (15.30%) Architect
3 393 (13.16%) Lead
4 293 (9.81%) Developer
5 275 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.96%) Analyst
7 168 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 161 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 146 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (4.22%) Software Engineer
11 122 (4.08%) Consultant
12 111 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 106 (3.55%) Azure Architect
14 101 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 101 (3.38%) Security Engineer
15 98 (3.28%) IT Engineer
15 98 (3.28%) Support Engineer
16 97 (3.25%) Network Engineer
17 94 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
18 86 (2.88%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (9.81%) .NET
2 160 (5.36%) React
3 134 (4.49%) REST
4 115 (3.85%) Kafka
5 103 (3.45%) OAuth
6 87 (2.91%) RESTful
7 77 (2.58%) Node.js
8 75 (2.51%) CSS
9 72 (2.41%) LangChain
10 69 (2.31%) .NET Core
11 68 (2.28%) HTML
11 68 (2.28%) PySpark
12 64 (2.14%) Spring
13 57 (1.91%) PyTorch
14 56 (1.87%) SAML
14 56 (1.87%) TensorFlow
15 54 (1.81%) Spring Boot
16 51 (1.71%) ASP.NET
17 49 (1.64%) OpenID
18 44 (1.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 327 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 103 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 92 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 68 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 64 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 63 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
10 62 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 59 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.41%) Low-Code
13 42 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 40 (1.34%) Cyberattack
15 34 (1.14%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 412 (13.79%) Windows
2 165 (5.52%) Linux
3 160 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.17%) VMS
7 29 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.94%) Unix
8 28 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.70%) Android
11 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.30%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
18 1 (0.033%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (28.22%) DevOps
2 748 (25.04%) CI/CD
3 625 (20.92%) AI
4 593 (19.85%) Agile
5 452 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (14.80%) Roadmaps
7 440 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 420 (14.06%) Mentoring
9 416 (13.93%) Analytics
9 416 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 313 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
11 311 (10.41%) Data Engineering
12 292 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 286 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
14 276 (9.24%) Software Engineering
15 269 (9.01%) Machine Learning
16 267 (8.94%) Data Modelling
17 257 (8.60%) Migration
18 256 (8.57%) Microservices
19 230 (7.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 729 (24.41%) Python
2 611 (20.46%) SQL
3 333 (11.15%) PowerShell
4 287 (9.61%) C#
5 221 (7.40%) JavaScript
6 167 (5.59%) Java
7 153 (5.12%) TypeScript
8 112 (3.75%) Bash
9 76 (2.54%) Bicep
10 49 (1.64%) Go
11 35 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.10%) R
14 21 (0.70%) C++
14 21 (0.70%) Scala
15 15 (0.50%) Rust
16 13 (0.44%) RPG
16 13 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.37%) C
17 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (12.35%) Degree
2 292 (9.78%) Azure Certification
3 228 (7.63%) Security Cleared
4 167 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 148 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 122 (4.08%) CISSP
6 122 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 109 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.84%) CCNP
10 53 (1.77%) CCNA
11 50 (1.67%) CEH
11 50 (1.67%) CISM
11 50 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 43 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
13 36 (1.21%) DV Cleared
14 32 (1.07%) CCIE
15 27 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 26 (0.87%) CompTIA CySA+
16 26 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (5.16%) NIST
3 152 (5.09%) Data Quality
4 148 (4.95%) GDPR
5 108 (3.62%) QA
6 91 (3.05%) SLA
7 54 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.31%) NCSC
10 34 (1.14%) GRC
10 34 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 31 (1.04%) PMO
12 28 (0.94%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.27%) COBIT
18 8 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 414 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 238 (7.97%) Docker
3 118 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.04%) vSphere
8 14 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.067%) Xen
11 2 (0.067%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 417 (13.96%) Terraform
2 323 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 217 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 135 (4.52%) Ansible
5 61 (2.04%) SCCM
6 57 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.81%) Grafana
8 44 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.44%) Istio
12 11 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.33%) Kibana
14 9 (0.30%) Argo
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
15 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 8 (0.27%) Nagios
16 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) VxRail
17 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,201 (40.21%) Microsoft
2 301 (10.08%) Databricks
3 194 (6.49%) VMware
4 147 (4.92%) Cisco
5 129 (4.32%) Google
6 91 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.71%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.08%) Oracle
10 52 (1.74%) Fortinet
10 52 (1.74%) Foundry
11 50 (1.67%) Meraki
11 50 (1.67%) SAP
12 48 (1.61%) Splunk
13 47 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
14 45 (1.51%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.44%) SolarWinds
16 41 (1.37%) Dell
17 40 (1.34%) Salesforce
18 38 (1.27%) ForeScout