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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,092 2,558 4,424
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.95% 20.33% 18.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.12% 45.02% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,233 1,874 3,522
10th Percentile £47,100 £45,000 £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% - -6.25%

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 7,904 5,682 10,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.66% 45.17% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,303 4,028 7,853
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 £122,325 £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 10 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 10 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 0 567 £82,500 +6.45% 212
West London +12 92 £70,000 +55.56% 57
South London +16 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -6 19 £32,500 -58.06% 36
North London 0 9 £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 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 129 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 66 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.33%) Confluence
6 19 (0.61%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
7 17 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 10 (0.32%) Camunda
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) 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%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
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 (1.16%) 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 HR
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (32.44%) AWS
2 586 (18.95%) GCP
3 534 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
4 401 (12.97%) Power Platform
5 385 (12.45%) Entra ID
6 365 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (7.02%) SaaS
8 189 (6.11%) GitHub
9 160 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.85%) PaaS
11 149 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 147 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 145 (4.69%) Serverless
14 135 (4.37%) Azure AI
15 115 (3.72%) Snowflake
16 114 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 108 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
18 105 (3.40%) Power Automate
19 99 (3.20%) IaaS
20 93 (3.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 317 (10.25%) Firewall
2 180 (5.82%) VPN
3 176 (5.69%) DNS
4 154 (4.98%) Network Security
5 143 (4.62%) WAN
6 140 (4.53%) DHCP
7 123 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
8 112 (3.62%) LAN
9 91 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 74 (2.39%) SD-WAN
11 70 (2.26%) VLAN
12 51 (1.65%) 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 24 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
20 23 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (8.76%) Power BI
2 257 (8.31%) SQL Server
3 152 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 113 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 74 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.20%) MongoDB
8 64 (2.07%) Tableau
9 61 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 60 (1.94%) Metadata
11 53 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.42%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.29%) Big Data
16 39 (1.26%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (1.00%) MySQL
19 30 (0.97%) Star Schema
20 28 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 176 (5.69%) Git
2 110 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.75%) JIRA
4 75 (2.43%) GitLab
5 34 (1.10%) MLflow
6 23 (0.74%) Postman
7 18 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.52%) Selenium
10 14 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) Vite
12 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.26%) JMeter
14 8 (0.26%) JUnit
14 8 (0.26%) Mockito
14 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 933 (30.17%) Finance
2 876 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (6.89%) Banking
5 181 (5.85%) Law
6 129 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 114 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (3.69%) Legal
8 80 (2.59%) Retail
9 52 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 43 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (1.13%) Front Office
12 32 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.03%) Marketing
13 31 (1.00%) Advertising
14 25 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 592 (19.15%) Senior
2 507 (16.40%) Architect
3 416 (13.45%) Lead
4 309 (9.99%) Developer
5 272 (8.80%) Azure Engineer
6 181 (5.85%) Analyst
7 173 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 172 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (4.01%) Consultant
11 119 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 115 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 109 (3.53%) Azure Architect
14 106 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 101 (3.27%) Data Architect
15 101 (3.27%) Security Engineer
16 94 (3.04%) IT Engineer
17 88 (2.85%) Network Engineer
18 87 (2.81%) IT Support
19 86 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (10.06%) .NET
2 173 (5.60%) React
3 139 (4.50%) REST
4 123 (3.98%) Kafka
5 104 (3.36%) OAuth
6 100 (3.23%) Node.js
7 89 (2.88%) RESTful
8 80 (2.59%) Spring
9 79 (2.55%) .NET Core
10 74 (2.39%) LangChain
11 70 (2.26%) Spring Boot
12 68 (2.20%) ASP.NET
13 65 (2.10%) PySpark
14 59 (1.91%) CSS
15 58 (1.88%) PyTorch
16 57 (1.84%) HTML
17 56 (1.81%) OpenID
18 54 (1.75%) SAML
18 54 (1.75%) TensorFlow
19 48 (1.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 385 (12.45%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.62%) Security Posture
4 100 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 98 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 82 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 76 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 71 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (2.07%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 59 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
18 34 (1.10%) Cyberattack
18 34 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
19 31 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 432 (13.97%) Windows
2 179 (5.79%) Linux
3 163 (5.27%) Windows Server
4 62 (2.01%) 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 (0.74%) Unix
10 19 (0.61%) 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
1 882 (28.53%) DevOps
2 814 (26.33%) CI/CD
3 658 (21.28%) AI
4 636 (20.57%) Agile
5 481 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 465 (15.04%) Roadmaps
7 459 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 453 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 450 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 420 (13.58%) Analytics
11 322 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
12 318 (10.28%) Data Engineering
13 300 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
14 297 (9.61%) Software Engineering
15 295 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 282 (9.12%) Machine Learning
16 282 (9.12%) Microservices
17 270 (8.73%) Data Modelling
18 264 (8.54%) Migration
19 254 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 746 (24.13%) Python
2 619 (20.02%) SQL
3 323 (10.45%) PowerShell
4 317 (10.25%) C#
5 223 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 189 (6.11%) Java
7 175 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.56%) Bash
9 80 (2.59%) Bicep
10 42 (1.36%) Go
11 32 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 30 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (0.81%) Scala
14 22 (0.71%) C++
15 21 (0.68%) R
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (12.00%) Degree
2 282 (9.12%) Azure Certification
3 253 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 183 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 138 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.17%) CISSP
7 117 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
8 111 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.94%) CCNP
11 56 (1.81%) CCNA
12 54 (1.75%) CISM
12 54 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.55%) CEH
14 47 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.13%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.97%) CCIE
17 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.84%) GIAC
19 25 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.17%) GDPR
3 151 (4.88%) NIST
4 138 (4.46%) QA
5 93 (3.01%) SLA
6 58 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.29%) GRC
9 34 (1.10%) PMO
10 32 (1.03%) NCSC
11 30 (0.97%) SOC 2
12 26 (0.84%) PCI DSS
13 19 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 431 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 246 (7.96%) Docker
3 124 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 453 (14.65%) Terraform
2 333 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 227 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (4.85%) Ansible
5 64 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 59 (1.91%) SCCM
7 57 (1.84%) Grafana
8 43 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.03%) 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%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) CloudHub
15 8 (0.26%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,286 (41.59%) Microsoft
2 312 (10.09%) Databricks
3 199 (6.44%) VMware
4 151 (4.88%) Cisco
5 129 (4.17%) Google
6 92 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 77 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.36%) Oracle
8 73 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.91%) Foundry
10 52 (1.68%) Splunk
11 50 (1.62%) SAP
12 49 (1.58%) Meraki
13 46 (1.49%) Fortinet
13 46 (1.49%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.39%) Dell
15 42 (1.36%) Dynatrace
16 41 (1.33%) SolarWinds
17 40 (1.29%) Tenable