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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,075 2,469 4,566
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.03% 20.18% 18.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.76% 44.84% 44.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 1,821 3,652
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
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 £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,353 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.25% +3.92% -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 7,734 5,506 10,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.29% 45.00% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,244 3,901 8,077
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 £120,000 £120,000
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 30 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 30 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 0 591 £82,500 +6.45% 156
West London +10 89 £69,559 +54.58% 55
South London +19 48 £80,000 +23.08% 13
East London -4 19 £32,500 -61.76% 32
North London +1 9 £55,000 -18.52% 6
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
1 196 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 126 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 63 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.27%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.55%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.26%) Camunda
11 7 (0.23%) Appian
12 6 (0.20%) Mule
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%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.65%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.065%) Shopify
8 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (32.55%) AWS
2 591 (19.22%) GCP
3 526 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
4 392 (12.75%) Power Platform
5 376 (12.23%) Entra ID
6 367 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
7 215 (6.99%) SaaS
8 193 (6.28%) GitHub
9 157 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.78%) PaaS
11 146 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 137 (4.46%) Serverless
13 135 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 133 (4.33%) Azure AI
15 110 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
16 108 (3.51%) Snowflake
17 107 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
18 104 (3.38%) Power Automate
19 100 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
20 97 (3.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.21%) Firewall
2 178 (5.79%) VPN
3 172 (5.59%) DNS
4 153 (4.98%) Network Security
5 147 (4.78%) WAN
6 141 (4.59%) DHCP
7 123 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.51%) LAN
9 89 (2.89%) TCP/IP
10 78 (2.54%) SD-WAN
11 68 (2.21%) VLAN
12 54 (1.76%) SAN
13 44 (1.43%) BGP
14 40 (1.30%) OSPF
15 38 (1.24%) Wireless
16 29 (0.94%) VoIP
17 28 (0.91%) WLAN
18 25 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
18 25 (0.81%) Kerberos
19 22 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (8.59%) Power BI
1 264 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 144 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (4.16%) Data Lake
4 110 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (2.24%) MongoDB
5 69 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (2.02%) Tableau
7 60 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 59 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
9 57 (1.85%) Metadata
10 44 (1.43%) Delta Lake
10 44 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 44 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 40 (1.30%) Big Data
13 35 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (0.98%) MySQL
15 27 (0.88%) Star Schema
16 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (5.85%) Git
2 106 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.57%) JIRA
4 76 (2.47%) GitLab
5 37 (1.20%) MLflow
6 25 (0.81%) Postman
7 22 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.59%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.49%) Selenium
11 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.36%) Vite
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 950 (30.89%) Finance
2 860 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 276 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (7.12%) Banking
5 180 (5.85%) Law
6 124 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 114 (3.71%) Legal
9 76 (2.47%) Retail
10 56 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.14%) Front Office
14 33 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.01%) Advertising
16 30 (0.98%) Marketing
17 21 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 593 (19.28%) Senior
2 492 (16.00%) Architect
3 418 (13.59%) Lead
4 307 (9.98%) Developer
5 270 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.79%) Analyst
7 167 (5.43%) Data Engineer
8 166 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 130 (4.23%) Software Engineer
11 120 (3.90%) Consultant
12 117 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 109 (3.54%) Azure Architect
14 105 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 105 (3.41%) Security Engineer
15 97 (3.15%) Data Architect
15 97 (3.15%) IT Engineer
16 91 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
17 90 (2.93%) Network Engineer
18 89 (2.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (10.02%) .NET
2 170 (5.53%) React
3 138 (4.49%) REST
4 117 (3.80%) Kafka
5 105 (3.41%) OAuth
6 94 (3.06%) Node.js
7 88 (2.86%) RESTful
8 80 (2.60%) .NET Core
9 79 (2.57%) LangChain
10 76 (2.47%) Spring
11 68 (2.21%) PySpark
12 66 (2.15%) ASP.NET
12 66 (2.15%) Spring Boot
13 63 (2.05%) CSS
14 60 (1.95%) HTML
14 60 (1.95%) PyTorch
15 58 (1.89%) TensorFlow
16 55 (1.79%) SAML
17 53 (1.72%) OpenID
18 45 (1.46%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 364 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 131 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 111 (3.61%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 93 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 72 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 70 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 69 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 66 (2.15%) AI Agents
11 63 (2.05%) Management Information System
12 60 (1.95%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
14 48 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
15 47 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
17 43 (1.40%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.20%) Cyberattack
19 36 (1.17%) Algorithms
20 33 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 420 (13.66%) Windows
2 174 (5.66%) Linux
3 160 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 66 (2.15%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.04%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.78%) Unix
9 19 (0.62%) Android
9 19 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.33%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (28.62%) DevOps
2 799 (25.98%) CI/CD
3 655 (21.30%) AI
4 636 (20.68%) Agile
5 465 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 464 (15.09%) Roadmaps
7 461 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 448 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 435 (14.15%) Mentoring
10 428 (13.92%) Analytics
11 319 (10.37%) Data Engineering
12 309 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
13 308 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
14 303 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 299 (9.72%) Software Engineering
16 283 (9.20%) Machine Learning
17 281 (9.14%) Microservices
18 267 (8.68%) Data Modelling
19 257 (8.36%) Migration
20 248 (8.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 740 (24.07%) Python
2 628 (20.42%) SQL
3 329 (10.70%) PowerShell
4 303 (9.85%) C#
5 224 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 179 (5.82%) Java
7 174 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.54%) Bash
9 79 (2.57%) Bicep
10 43 (1.40%) Go
11 35 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (0.78%) R
14 23 (0.75%) Scala
15 21 (0.68%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) RPG
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (12.23%) Degree
2 283 (9.20%) Azure Certification
3 245 (7.97%) Security Cleared
4 178 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 148 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.20%) CISSP
7 114 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 68 (2.21%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.85%) CCNP
11 56 (1.82%) CISM
12 54 (1.76%) CCNA
12 54 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.56%) CEH
14 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.98%) CCIE
17 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.85%) GIAC
19 25 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.24%) GDPR
3 158 (5.14%) NIST
4 152 (4.94%) Data Quality
5 129 (4.20%) QA
6 91 (2.96%) SLA
7 57 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.30%) GRC
10 35 (1.14%) NCSC
11 33 (1.07%) PMO
11 33 (1.07%) SOC 2
12 31 (1.01%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 18 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 423 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.03%) Docker
3 123 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.91%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.065%) Xen
11 1 (0.033%) NLBS
11 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 444 (14.44%) Terraform
2 332 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 224 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (4.78%) Ansible
5 63 (2.05%) SCCM
6 61 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.76%) Grafana
8 42 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 25 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 8 (0.26%) Kibana
14 8 (0.26%) QRadar
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.20%) CloudHub
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,256 (40.85%) Microsoft
2 314 (10.21%) Databricks
3 197 (6.41%) VMware
4 145 (4.72%) Cisco
5 130 (4.23%) Google
6 95 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.63%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.34%) Oracle
8 72 (2.34%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.82%) Foundry
10 52 (1.69%) Splunk
11 49 (1.59%) SAP
12 48 (1.56%) Meraki
13 44 (1.43%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.40%) Dell
14 43 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 43 (1.40%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.40%) SolarWinds
15 41 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
16 39 (1.27%) Tenable