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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,088 2,555 4,010
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.67% 20.72% 18.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.38% 45.03% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 1,861 3,165
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £45,350
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £58,750
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 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.51%

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 8,045 5,674 9,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.61% 46.01% 42.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,404 4,015 7,067
10th Percentile £42,075 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,313 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 0 534 £83,000 +7.10% 180
West London +4 95 £70,000 +55.56% 54
South London +8 47 £80,000 +23.08% 18
East London -16 17 £32,500 -40.91% 34
North London -3 8 £55,000 -21.43% 11
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
1 195 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Confluence
5 43 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 15 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.42%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Endur
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,021 (33.06%) AWS
2 604 (19.56%) GCP
3 530 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
4 403 (13.05%) Power Platform
5 380 (12.31%) Entra ID
6 367 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (6.93%) SaaS
8 181 (5.86%) GitHub
9 160 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.86%) PaaS
11 149 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 148 (4.79%) Serverless
13 147 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 139 (4.50%) Azure AI
15 121 (3.92%) Snowflake
16 114 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 106 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
18 104 (3.37%) Power Automate
19 97 (3.14%) IaaS
20 91 (2.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (10.30%) Firewall
2 177 (5.73%) VPN
3 171 (5.54%) DNS
4 160 (5.18%) Network Security
5 138 (4.47%) WAN
6 135 (4.37%) DHCP
7 119 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
8 113 (3.66%) LAN
9 92 (2.98%) TCP/IP
10 72 (2.33%) SD-WAN
11 71 (2.30%) VLAN
12 51 (1.65%) SAN
13 47 (1.52%) BGP
14 44 (1.42%) Wireless
15 43 (1.39%) OSPF
16 29 (0.94%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.87%) VoIP
18 26 (0.84%) WLAN
19 24 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
20 21 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (8.84%) Power BI
2 258 (8.35%) SQL Server
3 157 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.34%) Data Lake
5 112 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.40%) Tableau
8 68 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 65 (2.10%) NoSQL
10 61 (1.98%) Metadata
11 52 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 48 (1.55%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.42%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.30%) Big Data
15 38 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 38 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 38 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (1.10%) MySQL
16 34 (1.10%) Star Schema
17 30 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 172 (5.57%) Git
2 107 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 92 (2.98%) JIRA
4 75 (2.43%) GitLab
5 34 (1.10%) MLflow
6 18 (0.58%) Postman
7 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.52%) Selenium
8 14 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.32%) JUnit
10 10 (0.32%) Mockito
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.26%) Vite
13 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 932 (30.18%) Finance
2 885 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 283 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (7.03%) Banking
5 192 (6.22%) Law
6 130 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 121 (3.92%) Legal
8 113 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 86 (2.78%) Retail
10 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 37 (1.20%) Front Office
15 32 (1.04%) Marketing
16 30 (0.97%) Advertising
16 30 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 29 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.58%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 586 (18.98%) Senior
2 518 (16.77%) Architect
3 424 (13.73%) Lead
4 313 (10.14%) Developer
5 270 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.83%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
8 170 (5.51%) Analyst
9 144 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.05%) Consultant
11 115 (3.72%) Software Engineer
12 114 (3.69%) Azure Architect
12 114 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 109 (3.53%) Data Architect
14 96 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 96 (3.11%) Security Engineer
15 91 (2.95%) IT Engineer
16 87 (2.82%) IT Support
16 87 (2.82%) Network Engineer
17 83 (2.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (10.01%) .NET
2 169 (5.47%) React
3 141 (4.57%) REST
4 126 (4.08%) Kafka
5 102 (3.30%) OAuth
6 100 (3.24%) Node.js
7 89 (2.88%) RESTful
8 85 (2.75%) Spring
9 81 (2.62%) .NET Core
10 76 (2.46%) LangChain
11 74 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 70 (2.27%) ASP.NET
13 69 (2.23%) PySpark
14 59 (1.91%) PyTorch
15 55 (1.78%) CSS
15 55 (1.78%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.75%) OpenID
17 53 (1.72%) HTML
17 53 (1.72%) OAuth2
18 50 (1.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 394 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (3.43%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 87 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 84 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 63 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 59 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.75%) Data Structures
14 53 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
15 52 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
16 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 41 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
18 33 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (1.04%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 425 (13.76%) Windows
2 183 (5.93%) Linux
3 161 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 53 (1.72%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.87%) VMS
7 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.78%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Android
11 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.36%) CentOS
15 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
19 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (28.66%) DevOps
2 817 (26.46%) CI/CD
3 687 (22.25%) AI
4 642 (20.79%) Agile
5 485 (15.71%) Roadmaps
6 472 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 470 (15.22%) Mentoring
8 456 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
9 452 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 422 (13.67%) Analytics
11 329 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
12 327 (10.59%) Data Engineering
13 317 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 299 (9.68%) Software Engineering
15 298 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
16 295 (9.55%) Machine Learning
17 282 (9.13%) Microservices
18 277 (8.97%) Data Modelling
19 267 (8.65%) Migration
20 265 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 744 (24.09%) Python
2 623 (20.17%) SQL
3 317 (10.27%) C#
4 304 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 213 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 192 (6.22%) Java
7 171 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.56%) Bash
9 78 (2.53%) Bicep
10 40 (1.30%) Go
11 30 (0.97%) Scala
12 28 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
13 27 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.71%) R
15 21 (0.68%) C++
16 19 (0.62%) RPG
17 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
18 13 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 370 (11.98%) Degree
2 284 (9.20%) Azure Certification
3 250 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 189 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.27%) CISSP
6 126 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 65 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 62 (2.01%) CCNP
11 59 (1.91%) CISM
12 54 (1.75%) CCNA
12 54 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 49 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
14 47 (1.52%) CEH
15 29 (0.94%) CCIE
15 29 (0.94%) DV Cleared
16 27 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.81%) GIAC
18 24 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 161 (5.21%) GDPR
4 140 (4.53%) QA
5 138 (4.47%) NIST
6 93 (3.01%) SLA
7 59 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.36%) GRC
10 36 (1.17%) PMO
11 30 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 29 (0.94%) NCSC
13 28 (0.91%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (13.60%) Active Directory
2 240 (7.77%) Docker
3 126 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 442 (14.31%) Terraform
2 333 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 220 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (4.83%) Ansible
5 64 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.81%) Grafana
7 51 (1.65%) SCCM
8 42 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.39%) Istio
11 12 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.36%) Nagios
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 8 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,302 (42.16%) Microsoft
2 322 (10.43%) Databricks
3 198 (6.41%) VMware
4 152 (4.92%) Cisco
5 134 (4.34%) Google
6 90 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 74 (2.40%) Oracle
10 56 (1.81%) Foundry
11 54 (1.75%) SAP
12 51 (1.65%) Splunk
13 49 (1.59%) Salesforce
14 47 (1.52%) Meraki
15 45 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
15 45 (1.46%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.39%) Dell
17 39 (1.26%) Dynatrace
17 39 (1.26%) Tenable
18 38 (1.23%) iManage