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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,184 2,441 3,736
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.94% 20.41% 19.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.33% 44.48% 44.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 1,737 2,677
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £46,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,529 5,488 8,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.65% 45.88% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 3,764 5,793
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,688 £55,000 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -3.85%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +1 433 £85,000 +6.25% 234
West London 0 93 £69,119 +25.67% 89
South London -3 38 £90,000 +38.46% 23
East London -11 18 £75,000 +76.47% 40
North London -7 11 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 202 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.92%) Confluence
5 40 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.94%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 16 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.031%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.031%) Shopify
9 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,069 (33.57%) AWS
2 642 (20.16%) GCP
3 533 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
4 425 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
5 420 (13.19%) Power Platform
6 388 (12.19%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.69%) SaaS
8 188 (5.90%) GitHub
9 172 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 162 (5.09%) Azure AI
11 161 (5.06%) Serverless
12 158 (4.96%) PaaS
13 157 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 156 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
15 138 (4.33%) Snowflake
16 121 (3.80%) Power Automate
17 119 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
18 113 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
19 108 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
20 104 (3.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 304 (9.55%) Firewall
2 165 (5.18%) VPN
3 163 (5.12%) Network Security
4 156 (4.90%) DNS
5 120 (3.77%) DHCP
6 114 (3.58%) WAN
7 100 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
8 98 (3.08%) LAN
9 79 (2.48%) TCP/IP
10 77 (2.42%) VLAN
11 63 (1.98%) SD-WAN
12 58 (1.82%) SAN
13 57 (1.79%) Wireless
14 40 (1.26%) BGP
15 36 (1.13%) OSPF
16 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
18 17 (0.53%) SSL
19 15 (0.47%) VoIP
19 15 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (8.86%) Power BI
2 274 (8.61%) SQL Server
3 170 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.43%) Data Lake
5 135 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 82 (2.58%) Metadata
7 73 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (2.26%) Tableau
9 71 (2.23%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.82%) Delta Lake
11 53 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.16%) Star Schema
15 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
16 33 (1.04%) MySQL
17 30 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 29 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 191 (6.00%) Git
2 120 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 114 (3.58%) JIRA
4 69 (2.17%) GitLab
5 25 (0.79%) MLflow
6 18 (0.57%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.53%) Selenium
8 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.47%) JUnit
9 15 (0.47%) Mockito
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.35%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.22%) Vite
16 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 970 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 965 (30.31%) Finance
3 313 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.22%) Banking
5 225 (7.07%) Law
6 153 (4.81%) Legal
7 147 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (3.27%) Retail
10 72 (2.26%) Marketing
11 64 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (0.75%) Front Office
18 23 (0.72%) Advertising
19 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
20 15 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 586 (18.40%) Senior
2 561 (17.62%) Architect
3 395 (12.41%) Lead
4 339 (10.65%) Developer
5 292 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 185 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 159 (4.99%) Analyst
9 131 (4.11%) Consultant
10 129 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 126 (3.96%) Azure Architect
12 123 (3.86%) Data Architect
12 123 (3.86%) Software Engineer
13 113 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 105 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 91 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
16 86 (2.70%) Network Engineer
17 84 (2.64%) Senior Developer
18 79 (2.48%) Security Engineer
19 77 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (14.64%) Terraform
2 315 (9.89%) .NET
3 188 (5.90%) REST
4 155 (4.87%) React
5 139 (4.37%) Kafka
6 103 (3.23%) RESTful
7 89 (2.80%) Spring
8 88 (2.76%) OAuth
9 87 (2.73%) ASP.NET
9 87 (2.73%) Node.js
10 86 (2.70%) LangChain
11 85 (2.67%) .NET Core
12 77 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 76 (2.39%) PySpark
14 62 (1.95%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.92%) TensorFlow
16 60 (1.88%) HTML
17 58 (1.82%) CSS
18 53 (1.66%) OAuth2
19 52 (1.63%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 168 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 139 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 101 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 94 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 89 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 44 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 41 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
16 41 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
17 35 (1.10%) Low-Code
18 31 (0.97%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 404 (12.69%) Windows
2 169 (5.31%) Linux
3 157 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.69%) VMS
8 21 (0.66%) Android
9 15 (0.47%) Unix
9 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (29.05%) DevOps
2 888 (27.89%) CI/CD
3 816 (25.63%) AI
4 684 (21.48%) Agile
5 544 (17.09%) Roadmaps
6 509 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
7 494 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 492 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 457 (14.35%) Analytics
10 453 (14.23%) Mentoring
11 384 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 350 (10.99%) Data Engineering
13 347 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
14 340 (10.68%) Machine Learning
15 327 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
16 319 (10.02%) Software Engineering
17 300 (9.42%) Microservices
17 300 (9.42%) Migration
18 298 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
19 293 (9.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 757 (23.78%) Python
2 659 (20.70%) SQL
3 333 (10.46%) C#
4 283 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 229 (7.19%) Java
6 202 (6.34%) JavaScript
7 162 (5.09%) TypeScript
8 89 (2.80%) Bash
9 86 (2.70%) Bicep
10 48 (1.51%) Scala
11 36 (1.13%) Go
12 32 (1.01%) R
13 24 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.66%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 15 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 14 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 400 (12.56%) Degree
2 285 (8.95%) Azure Certification
3 261 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 191 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.18%) CISSP
6 128 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 121 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 114 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.20%) CISM
10 69 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 67 (2.10%) Master's Degree
12 62 (1.95%) CCNP
13 48 (1.51%) CCNA
14 41 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.07%) CEH
16 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.88%) PMP
17 25 (0.79%) CCIE
17 25 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 172 (5.40%) GDPR
4 150 (4.71%) QA
5 128 (4.02%) NIST
6 85 (2.67%) SLA
7 61 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 51 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 44 (1.38%) GRC
10 30 (0.94%) NCSC
11 29 (0.91%) PMO
12 26 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 20 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 400 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 253 (7.95%) Docker
3 129 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 334 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 219 (6.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (4.40%) Ansible
4 78 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.70%) SCCM
6 53 (1.66%) Grafana
7 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.97%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Argo
10 14 (0.44%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 11 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.31%) CASB
14 10 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.31%) QRadar
15 6 (0.19%) Packer
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,378 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 336 (10.55%) Databricks
3 191 (6.00%) VMware
4 165 (5.18%) Cisco
5 158 (4.96%) Google
6 84 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.45%) Oracle
9 76 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.98%) Foundry
11 57 (1.79%) Splunk
12 52 (1.63%) Meraki
12 52 (1.63%) Salesforce
13 51 (1.60%) SAP
14 44 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
15 42 (1.32%) Tenable
16 41 (1.29%) Fortinet
16 41 (1.29%) Zscaler
17 35 (1.10%) Dell
17 35 (1.10%) Dynatrace