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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,173 2,483 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.26% 20.52% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.43% 44.63% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,783 2,798
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,425
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £96,000
90th Percentile £114,125 £110,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,477 5,564 8,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.42% 45.98% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,685 3,857 6,176
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,307 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +1 468 £85,000 +9.68% 235
West London +4 101 £70,000 +42.86% 49
South London +1 42 £85,000 +30.77% 13
East London -17 17 £75,000 +51.52% 36
North London -4 13 £60,000 -17.24% 14
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 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 120 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.80%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (0.88%) Apache
7 25 (0.79%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.32%) WordPress
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.60%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
9 2 (0.063%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (34.13%) AWS
2 650 (20.49%) GCP
3 530 (16.70%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 402 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
6 373 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 208 (6.56%) SaaS
8 187 (5.89%) GitHub
9 165 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 161 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 160 (5.04%) Serverless
12 156 (4.92%) PaaS
13 154 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 151 (4.76%) Azure AI
15 141 (4.44%) Snowflake
16 119 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 116 (3.66%) Power Automate
18 113 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
19 99 (3.12%) PowerApps
20 98 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 313 (9.86%) Firewall
2 169 (5.33%) VPN
3 166 (5.23%) Network Security
4 158 (4.98%) DNS
5 126 (3.97%) WAN
6 122 (3.84%) DHCP
7 108 (3.40%) LAN
8 107 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
9 86 (2.71%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.40%) VLAN
11 67 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.76%) SAN
13 53 (1.67%) Wireless
14 41 (1.29%) BGP
15 37 (1.17%) OSPF
16 28 (0.88%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.60%) WLAN
19 18 (0.57%) VoIP
20 17 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 278 (8.76%) Power BI
3 167 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 142 (4.48%) Data Lake
5 127 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 83 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
7 79 (2.49%) Tableau
8 78 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 70 (2.21%) Metadata
9 70 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.80%) Delta Lake
11 53 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 48 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 44 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.17%) MySQL
16 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.07%) Big Data
18 33 (1.04%) Data Vault
19 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 185 (5.83%) Git
2 114 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 105 (3.31%) JIRA
4 72 (2.27%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 963 (30.35%) Finance
2 958 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 319 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.06%) Banking
5 220 (6.93%) Law
6 148 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 145 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 141 (4.44%) Legal
9 104 (3.28%) Retail
10 70 (2.21%) Marketing
11 60 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.04%) Front Office
17 30 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.79%) Advertising
19 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
20 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 587 (18.50%) Senior
2 549 (17.30%) Architect
3 417 (13.14%) Lead
4 330 (10.40%) Developer
5 280 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 197 (6.21%) Data Engineer
7 183 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 166 (5.23%) Analyst
9 129 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 126 (3.97%) Azure Architect
11 125 (3.94%) Consultant
12 120 (3.78%) Software Engineer
13 119 (3.75%) Data Architect
14 106 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 99 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 90 (2.84%) Network Engineer
17 87 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
18 86 (2.71%) Security Engineer
19 79 (2.49%) Senior Developer
20 77 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (14.65%) Terraform
2 317 (9.99%) .NET
3 169 (5.33%) REST
4 163 (5.14%) React
5 140 (4.41%) Kafka
6 96 (3.03%) RESTful
7 95 (2.99%) Node.js
8 93 (2.93%) LangChain
9 90 (2.84%) OAuth
9 90 (2.84%) Spring
10 86 (2.71%) .NET Core
11 85 (2.68%) ASP.NET
12 78 (2.46%) Spring Boot
13 76 (2.40%) PySpark
14 66 (2.08%) PyTorch
15 64 (2.02%) TensorFlow
16 58 (1.83%) CSS
16 58 (1.83%) HTML
17 54 (1.70%) OAuth2
18 51 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 159 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 100 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 93 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 86 (2.71%) AI Agents
8 67 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 61 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 44 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
15 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 35 (1.10%) Low-Code
16 34 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (13.02%) Windows
2 179 (5.64%) Linux
3 160 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Android
8 19 (0.60%) Unix
8 19 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.54%) VMS
10 16 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (28.93%) DevOps
2 877 (27.64%) CI/CD
3 778 (24.52%) AI
4 704 (22.19%) Agile
5 530 (16.70%) Roadmaps
6 500 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 494 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 486 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 466 (14.69%) Mentoring
10 455 (14.34%) Analytics
11 363 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 347 (10.94%) Machine Learning
13 345 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
13 345 (10.87%) Data Engineering
14 319 (10.05%) Software Engineering
15 303 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
16 301 (9.49%) Microservices
17 294 (9.27%) Migration
18 291 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
19 288 (9.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 765 (24.11%) Python
2 649 (20.45%) SQL
3 335 (10.56%) C#
4 291 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 225 (7.09%) Java
6 210 (6.62%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.03%) Bash
9 90 (2.84%) Bicep
10 43 (1.36%) Scala
11 38 (1.20%) Go
12 28 (0.88%) R
13 24 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 18 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VB.NET
20 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 405 (12.76%) Degree
2 294 (9.27%) Azure Certification
3 261 (8.23%) Security Cleared
4 194 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.07%) CISSP
7 118 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.02%) CCNP
10 64 (2.02%) CISM
11 63 (1.99%) Master's Degree
12 50 (1.58%) CCNA
13 44 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 40 (1.26%) CEH
15 29 (0.91%) PMP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.85%) CCIE
18 26 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.67%) GDPR
3 168 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 150 (4.73%) QA
5 130 (4.10%) NIST
6 87 (2.74%) SLA
7 65 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 20 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 404 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 258 (8.13%) Docker
3 127 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.72%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 338 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 209 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 152 (4.79%) Ansible
4 69 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 56 (1.76%) Grafana
6 54 (1.70%) SCCM
7 39 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Argo
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) CASB
15 7 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,349 (42.51%) Microsoft
2 347 (10.94%) Databricks
3 195 (6.15%) VMware
4 162 (5.11%) Cisco
5 153 (4.82%) Google
6 87 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 84 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 82 (2.58%) Oracle
9 76 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 60 (1.89%) Foundry
11 56 (1.76%) Splunk
12 53 (1.67%) SAP
13 51 (1.61%) Meraki
14 49 (1.54%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.36%) Fortinet
17 42 (1.32%) Tenable
18 39 (1.23%) Dell
19 37 (1.17%) Zscaler
20 35 (1.10%) iManage