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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,118 2,523 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.62% 20.59% 18.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.32% 44.66% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 1,831 2,972
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,063
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.99%

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 8,136 5,649 8,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.53% 46.10% 42.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,457 3,992 6,622
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £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 29 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 29 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 0 513 £83,000 +7.10% 227
West London +3 97 £70,000 +55.56% 53
South London +1 44 £80,000 +23.08% 18
East London -16 16 £32,500 -34.34% 36
North London -10 7 £48,750 -30.36% 15
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
1 196 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 78 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.51%) Confluence
5 44 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.71%) Apache
7 19 (0.61%) CMS
8 15 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 14 (0.45%) Camunda
10 12 (0.38%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
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%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.67%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
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%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.45%) 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%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.096%) Endur
9 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.064%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.064%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Alphatax
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (33.74%) AWS
2 622 (19.95%) GCP
3 529 (16.97%) Microsoft 365
4 411 (13.18%) Power Platform
5 381 (12.22%) Entra ID
6 376 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (6.86%) SaaS
8 189 (6.06%) GitHub
9 163 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (4.97%) PaaS
11 154 (4.94%) Serverless
12 148 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 146 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 142 (4.55%) Azure AI
15 130 (4.17%) Snowflake
16 114 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 106 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
17 106 (3.40%) Power Automate
18 96 (3.08%) IaaS
19 91 (2.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.01%) Firewall
2 173 (5.55%) VPN
3 168 (5.39%) DNS
4 163 (5.23%) Network Security
5 135 (4.33%) WAN
6 132 (4.23%) DHCP
7 117 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
8 113 (3.62%) LAN
9 92 (2.95%) TCP/IP
10 71 (2.28%) VLAN
11 70 (2.25%) SD-WAN
12 51 (1.64%) SAN
13 46 (1.48%) BGP
13 46 (1.48%) Wireless
14 42 (1.35%) OSPF
15 31 (0.99%) Kerberos
16 26 (0.83%) VoIP
17 24 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (0.77%) WLAN
18 19 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (9.04%) Power BI
2 264 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 159 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (4.43%) Data Lake
5 117 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 78 (2.50%) Tableau
8 71 (2.28%) MongoDB
9 66 (2.12%) Metadata
9 66 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 52 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 51 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.25%) Big Data
16 36 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.12%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.09%) MySQL
19 30 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 175 (5.61%) Git
2 111 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 95 (3.05%) JIRA
4 76 (2.44%) GitLab
5 34 (1.09%) MLflow
6 17 (0.55%) Postman
6 17 (0.55%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.42%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) JUnit
11 10 (0.32%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 941 (30.18%) Finance
2 906 (29.06%) Social Skills
3 288 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (7.09%) Banking
5 205 (6.57%) Law
6 133 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 127 (4.07%) Legal
8 126 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 93 (2.98%) Retail
10 56 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 42 (1.35%) Marketing
15 36 (1.15%) Front Office
16 33 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 29 (0.93%) Advertising
17 29 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.64%) Investment Banking
19 19 (0.61%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 584 (18.73%) Senior
2 523 (16.77%) Architect
3 428 (13.73%) Lead
4 322 (10.33%) Developer
5 275 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (5.90%) Data Engineer
7 174 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.39%) Analyst
9 135 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 122 (3.91%) Consultant
11 121 (3.88%) Software Engineer
12 116 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 111 (3.56%) Azure Architect
15 96 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 93 (2.98%) Security Engineer
17 88 (2.82%) IT Engineer
18 86 (2.76%) Network Engineer
19 85 (2.73%) IT Support
20 81 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (10.13%) .NET
2 170 (5.45%) React
3 152 (4.87%) REST
4 131 (4.20%) Kafka
5 101 (3.24%) OAuth
6 99 (3.18%) Node.js
7 89 (2.85%) RESTful
8 87 (2.79%) Spring
9 82 (2.63%) .NET Core
10 81 (2.60%) LangChain
11 75 (2.41%) Spring Boot
12 74 (2.37%) ASP.NET
13 73 (2.34%) PySpark
14 60 (1.92%) PyTorch
15 56 (1.80%) CSS
15 56 (1.80%) TensorFlow
16 55 (1.76%) OAuth2
17 54 (1.73%) HTML
17 54 (1.73%) OpenID
18 49 (1.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 409 (13.12%) Cloud Native
2 140 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 121 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.30%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 92 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 73 (2.34%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 60 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 56 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
15 50 (1.60%) Data Structures
16 42 (1.35%) Low-Code
16 42 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
18 33 (1.06%) Algorithms
19 32 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 423 (13.57%) Windows
2 187 (6.00%) Linux
3 159 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.80%) VMS
8 24 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.74%) Unix
10 21 (0.67%) Android
11 18 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.35%) CentOS
13 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (28.77%) DevOps
2 841 (26.97%) CI/CD
3 712 (22.84%) AI
4 668 (21.42%) Agile
5 501 (16.07%) Roadmaps
6 484 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 475 (15.23%) Mentoring
8 460 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 458 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 433 (13.89%) Analytics
11 342 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
12 332 (10.65%) Data Engineering
13 331 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 310 (9.94%) Machine Learning
15 307 (9.85%) Software Engineering
16 294 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
17 290 (9.30%) Microservices
18 280 (8.98%) Data Modelling
19 276 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
20 275 (8.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 752 (24.12%) Python
2 633 (20.30%) SQL
3 324 (10.39%) C#
4 300 (9.62%) PowerShell
5 215 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 203 (6.51%) Java
7 171 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 104 (3.34%) Bash
9 79 (2.53%) Bicep
10 42 (1.35%) Go
11 34 (1.09%) Scala
12 27 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.83%) R
14 24 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.61%) RPG
16 18 (0.58%) C++
17 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.45%) DataWeave
18 14 (0.45%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 376 (12.06%) Degree
2 289 (9.27%) Azure Certification
3 257 (8.24%) Security Cleared
4 194 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.30%) CISSP
6 127 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.12%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.05%) CCNP
11 61 (1.96%) CISM
12 57 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.73%) CCNA
14 50 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (1.48%) CEH
16 29 (0.93%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.87%) CCIE
18 24 (0.77%) PMP
19 23 (0.74%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.36%) GDPR
3 162 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 142 (4.55%) QA
5 133 (4.27%) NIST
6 93 (2.98%) SLA
7 62 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 45 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.35%) GRC
10 35 (1.12%) PMO
11 29 (0.93%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.90%) NCSC
13 25 (0.80%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 417 (13.37%) Active Directory
2 248 (7.95%) Docker
3 126 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.77%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.096%) Firmware
10 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.064%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 455 (14.59%) Terraform
2 343 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 217 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 155 (4.97%) Ansible
5 65 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 53 (1.70%) Grafana
7 52 (1.67%) SCCM
8 40 (1.28%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 11 (0.35%) Argo
14 9 (0.29%) QRadar
15 8 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.22%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) CASB
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,320 (42.33%) Microsoft
2 332 (10.65%) Databricks
3 195 (6.25%) VMware
4 157 (5.04%) Cisco
5 140 (4.49%) Google
6 90 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 74 (2.37%) Oracle
10 56 (1.80%) Foundry
11 54 (1.73%) SAP
12 53 (1.70%) Splunk
13 51 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 50 (1.60%) Meraki
15 45 (1.44%) Fortinet
16 44 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
17 43 (1.38%) Dell
18 40 (1.28%) iManage
19 39 (1.25%) Tenable
20 38 (1.22%) Dynatrace