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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,087 2,565 4,343
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.86% 20.41% 18.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.79% 45.00% 44.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 1,882 3,449
10th Percentile £47,000 £44,590 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £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 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.53%

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 7,958 5,700 9,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.72% 45.36% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,317 4,046 7,711
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 £122,500
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 13 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 13 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 0 563 £82,500 +6.45% 300
West London +9 90 £70,000 +55.56% 133
South London +12 47 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -11 18 £32,500 -55.17% 36
North London +1 8 £55,000 -18.52% 7
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
1 197 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 129 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 66 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.33%) Confluence
6 19 (0.62%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
7 17 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 11 (0.36%) Camunda
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Mule
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
11 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (32.56%) AWS
2 589 (19.08%) GCP
3 530 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 402 (13.02%) Power Platform
5 388 (12.57%) Entra ID
6 366 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 216 (7.00%) SaaS
8 187 (6.06%) GitHub
9 161 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 149 (4.83%) PaaS
11 148 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 147 (4.76%) Serverless
13 133 (4.31%) Azure AI
14 115 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 115 (3.73%) Snowflake
15 107 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
16 105 (3.40%) Power Automate
17 98 (3.17%) IaaS
18 93 (3.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.17%) Firewall
2 178 (5.77%) VPN
3 174 (5.64%) DNS
4 155 (5.02%) Network Security
5 141 (4.57%) WAN
6 139 (4.50%) DHCP
7 121 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
8 111 (3.60%) LAN
9 90 (2.92%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.36%) SD-WAN
11 69 (2.24%) VLAN
12 50 (1.62%) SAN
13 45 (1.46%) BGP
14 42 (1.36%) Wireless
15 41 (1.33%) OSPF
16 29 (0.94%) VoIP
17 28 (0.91%) Kerberos
18 27 (0.87%) WLAN
19 23 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
19 23 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.81%) Power BI
2 256 (8.29%) SQL Server
3 152 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 115 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 77 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 65 (2.11%) Tableau
9 63 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 60 (1.94%) Metadata
11 53 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.43%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.30%) Big Data
16 39 (1.26%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 32 (1.04%) MySQL
19 30 (0.97%) Star Schema
20 28 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 174 (5.64%) Git
2 110 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.75%) JIRA
4 75 (2.43%) GitLab
5 33 (1.07%) MLflow
6 23 (0.75%) Postman
7 17 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.52%) Selenium
9 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) Vite
12 9 (0.29%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) JMeter
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 931 (30.16%) Finance
2 876 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (6.87%) Banking
5 185 (5.99%) Law
6 130 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 118 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 116 (3.76%) Legal
9 80 (2.59%) Retail
10 52 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 44 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.13%) Front Office
15 31 (1.00%) Advertising
15 31 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.00%) Marketing
16 25 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 590 (19.11%) Senior
2 511 (16.55%) Architect
3 418 (13.54%) Lead
4 309 (10.01%) Developer
5 271 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.83%) Analyst
7 173 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
8 171 (5.54%) Data Engineer
9 152 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 126 (4.08%) Consultant
11 118 (3.82%) Software Engineer
12 117 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 111 (3.60%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.34%) Data Architect
15 102 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.21%) Security Engineer
17 93 (3.01%) IT Engineer
18 88 (2.85%) IT Support
19 87 (2.82%) Network Engineer
20 86 (2.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (9.94%) .NET
2 171 (5.54%) React
3 140 (4.54%) REST
4 122 (3.95%) Kafka
5 106 (3.43%) OAuth
6 100 (3.24%) Node.js
7 89 (2.88%) RESTful
8 80 (2.59%) Spring
9 78 (2.53%) .NET Core
10 74 (2.40%) LangChain
11 70 (2.27%) Spring Boot
12 68 (2.20%) ASP.NET
13 65 (2.11%) PySpark
14 58 (1.88%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.85%) CSS
15 57 (1.85%) OpenID
16 55 (1.78%) HTML
17 54 (1.75%) SAML
17 54 (1.75%) TensorFlow
18 50 (1.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 382 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 111 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 99 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 99 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 83 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 78 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 68 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 62 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.88%) Data Structures
12 54 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
13 53 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
14 48 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
17 36 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
18 33 (1.07%) Cyberattack
19 31 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 430 (13.93%) Windows
2 180 (5.83%) Linux
3 163 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 61 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 31 (1.00%) VMS
7 27 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 19 (0.62%) Android
11 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.32%) CentOS
14 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (28.54%) DevOps
2 816 (26.43%) CI/CD
3 663 (21.48%) AI
4 637 (20.63%) Agile
5 481 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 467 (15.13%) Roadmaps
7 457 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
8 454 (14.71%) Mentoring
9 452 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 416 (13.48%) Analytics
11 324 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
12 318 (10.30%) Data Engineering
13 299 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
14 295 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 294 (9.52%) Software Engineering
16 283 (9.17%) Machine Learning
17 279 (9.04%) Microservices
18 271 (8.78%) Data Modelling
19 266 (8.62%) Migration
20 256 (8.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 751 (24.33%) Python
2 622 (20.15%) SQL
3 322 (10.43%) PowerShell
4 315 (10.20%) C#
5 221 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 190 (6.15%) Java
7 174 (5.64%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.53%) Bash
9 79 (2.56%) Bicep
10 41 (1.33%) Go
11 31 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 30 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (0.84%) Scala
14 21 (0.68%) C++
14 21 (0.68%) R
15 19 (0.62%) RPG
16 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.39%) Rust
17 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (11.95%) Degree
2 277 (8.97%) Azure Certification
3 257 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 186 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 130 (4.21%) CISSP
7 116 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 59 (1.91%) CCNP
11 55 (1.78%) CCNA
11 55 (1.78%) CISM
12 53 (1.72%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.55%) CEH
13 48 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 35 (1.13%) DV Cleared
15 29 (0.94%) CCIE
16 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.84%) GIAC
17 26 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 160 (5.18%) GDPR
4 151 (4.89%) NIST
5 138 (4.47%) QA
6 92 (2.98%) SLA
7 58 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.30%) GRC
10 34 (1.10%) PMO
11 31 (1.00%) NCSC
12 30 (0.97%) SOC 2
13 26 (0.84%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.26%) COBIT
19 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 431 (13.96%) Active Directory
2 243 (7.87%) Docker
3 123 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.065%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) NLBS
14 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 453 (14.67%) Terraform
2 330 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 225 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (4.86%) Ansible
5 64 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (1.85%) Grafana
7 56 (1.81%) SCCM
8 42 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.45%) Istio
12 13 (0.42%) Argo
13 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.29%) CloudHub
14 9 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,277 (41.37%) Microsoft
2 311 (10.07%) Databricks
3 195 (6.32%) VMware
4 148 (4.79%) Cisco
5 130 (4.21%) Google
6 93 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.53%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.36%) Oracle
8 73 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.91%) Foundry
10 51 (1.65%) SAP
11 50 (1.62%) Splunk
12 49 (1.59%) Meraki
13 47 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.43%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.39%) Dell
16 41 (1.33%) Dynatrace
17 39 (1.26%) SolarWinds
17 39 (1.26%) Tenable