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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,060 2,459 4,639
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.08% 20.16% 18.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.04% 44.71% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 1,822 3,718
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 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7,642 5,500 10,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.17% 45.10% 42.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,173 3,900 8,193
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 £96,250
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 25 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 25 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 0 596 £82,750 +6.77% 213
West London +11 88 £69,119 +53.60% 64
South London +19 48 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East London -2 20 £32,500 -61.76% 37
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 5
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 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.31%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.52%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 45 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.62%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.49%) 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 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.098%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.065%) Shopify
7 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 995 (32.52%) AWS
2 588 (19.22%) GCP
3 522 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
4 395 (12.91%) Power Platform
5 372 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 364 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.93%) SaaS
8 194 (6.34%) GitHub
9 158 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 144 (4.71%) PaaS
12 134 (4.38%) Serverless
13 133 (4.35%) Azure AI
14 130 (4.25%) Azure Logic Apps
15 110 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
16 105 (3.43%) Snowflake
17 104 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
18 103 (3.37%) Power Automate
19 102 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
20 95 (3.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.20%) Firewall
2 177 (5.78%) VPN
3 169 (5.52%) DNS
4 149 (4.87%) WAN
5 148 (4.84%) Network Security
6 138 (4.51%) DHCP
7 121 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.53%) LAN
9 89 (2.91%) TCP/IP
10 79 (2.58%) SD-WAN
11 66 (2.16%) VLAN
12 52 (1.70%) SAN
13 44 (1.44%) BGP
14 40 (1.31%) OSPF
15 38 (1.24%) Wireless
16 30 (0.98%) VoIP
17 28 (0.92%) WLAN
18 26 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.78%) Broadband
20 23 (0.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (8.66%) Power BI
2 262 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 142 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.25%) Data Lake
5 106 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 67 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (2.03%) Tableau
9 60 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 59 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
11 58 (1.90%) Metadata
12 45 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.44%) Delta Lake
14 43 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 43 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 41 (1.34%) Big Data
16 34 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (0.95%) MySQL
18 27 (0.88%) Star Schema
19 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (5.98%) Git
2 106 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 77 (2.52%) JIRA
4 76 (2.48%) GitLab
5 40 (1.31%) MLflow
6 26 (0.85%) Postman
7 22 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.56%) Chocolatey
8 17 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.49%) Selenium
10 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.36%) Vite
12 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 947 (30.95%) Finance
2 853 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 275 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (7.12%) Banking
5 176 (5.75%) Law
6 123 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 114 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 110 (3.59%) Legal
9 76 (2.48%) Retail
10 60 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.14%) Front Office
14 34 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.01%) Advertising
16 30 (0.98%) Marketing
17 20 (0.65%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.59%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 589 (19.25%) Senior
2 488 (15.95%) Architect
3 412 (13.46%) Lead
4 304 (9.93%) Developer
5 272 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.88%) Analyst
7 164 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 162 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 157 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 128 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.95%) Consultant
12 116 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.53%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.37%) Security Engineer
15 102 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 98 (3.20%) Data Architect
17 96 (3.14%) IT Engineer
18 90 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
19 89 (2.91%) Network Engineer
20 88 (2.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (9.97%) .NET
2 167 (5.46%) React
3 137 (4.48%) REST
4 117 (3.82%) Kafka
5 104 (3.40%) OAuth
6 94 (3.07%) Node.js
7 88 (2.88%) RESTful
8 80 (2.61%) .NET Core
8 80 (2.61%) LangChain
9 75 (2.45%) Spring
10 68 (2.22%) PySpark
11 67 (2.19%) CSS
12 65 (2.12%) Spring Boot
13 63 (2.06%) HTML
14 62 (2.03%) ASP.NET
14 62 (2.03%) PyTorch
15 60 (1.96%) TensorFlow
16 57 (1.86%) SAML
17 52 (1.70%) OpenID
18 45 (1.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 362 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 128 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 91 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 68 (2.22%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 61 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
11 61 (1.99%) Public Cloud
12 47 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.34%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.31%) Cyberattack
17 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 414 (13.53%) Windows
2 172 (5.62%) Linux
3 159 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.08%) VMS
7 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.62%) Android
12 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.33%) CentOS
15 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (28.50%) DevOps
2 791 (25.85%) CI/CD
3 650 (21.24%) AI
4 628 (20.52%) Agile
5 461 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 460 (15.03%) Roadmaps
7 456 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
8 440 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 432 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 429 (14.02%) Analytics
11 318 (10.39%) Data Engineering
12 316 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
13 310 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
14 302 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 293 (9.58%) Software Engineering
16 285 (9.31%) Machine Learning
17 275 (8.99%) Microservices
18 272 (8.89%) Data Modelling
19 251 (8.20%) Migration
20 245 (8.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 734 (23.99%) Python
2 619 (20.23%) SQL
3 330 (10.78%) PowerShell
4 297 (9.71%) C#
5 225 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 177 (5.78%) Java
7 170 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.59%) Bash
9 80 (2.61%) Bicep
10 43 (1.41%) Go
11 38 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (0.85%) R
14 23 (0.75%) Scala
15 21 (0.69%) 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
1 375 (12.25%) Degree
2 289 (9.44%) Azure Certification
3 241 (7.88%) Security Cleared
4 176 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 150 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.15%) CISSP
7 116 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 114 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 71 (2.32%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.86%) CCNP
11 55 (1.80%) CCNA
11 55 (1.80%) CISM
12 54 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.57%) CEH
14 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.01%) CCIE
17 28 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.85%) GIAC
18 26 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (5.23%) GDPR
2 160 (5.23%) NIST
3 152 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 126 (4.12%) QA
5 90 (2.94%) SLA
6 57 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 39 (1.27%) GRC
9 38 (1.24%) NCSC
10 32 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.05%) PMO
10 32 (1.05%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.26%) COBIT
16 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 417 (13.63%) Active Directory
2 249 (8.14%) Docker
3 122 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.92%) 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
1 439 (14.35%) Terraform
2 334 (10.92%) Kubernetes
3 220 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (4.71%) Ansible
5 61 (1.99%) SCCM
5 61 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 53 (1.73%) Grafana
7 41 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 26 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.42%) Istio
11 11 (0.36%) Argo
11 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.26%) Kibana
14 7 (0.23%) Control-M
14 7 (0.23%) QRadar
15 6 (0.20%) Packer
15 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,248 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 314 (10.26%) Databricks
3 194 (6.34%) VMware
4 144 (4.71%) Cisco
5 128 (4.18%) Google
6 91 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 72 (2.35%) Oracle
10 55 (1.80%) Foundry
11 51 (1.67%) Splunk
12 47 (1.54%) Meraki
12 47 (1.54%) SAP
13 45 (1.47%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.37%) Dell
15 42 (1.37%) Salesforce
16 41 (1.34%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.21%) iManage