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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,140 2,400 3,717
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.98% 20.35% 19.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.25% 44.26% 44.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 1,709 2,723
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -0.79%

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 8,429 5,423 8,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.85% 45.98% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 3,722 5,909
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,900 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.17% -4.00% -3.85%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +1 428 £85,000 +6.25% 254
West London +2 93 £69,119 +25.67% 98
South London -3 38 £90,000 +38.46% 22
East London -12 17 £75,000 +76.47% 30
North London -6 10 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 119 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.91%) Confluence
5 39 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 23 (0.73%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.32%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 52 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.76%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.032%) Maximo
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.032%) Shopify
8 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (33.57%) AWS
2 631 (20.10%) GCP
3 523 (16.66%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
5 414 (13.18%) Power Platform
6 377 (12.01%) Entra ID
7 210 (6.69%) SaaS
8 186 (5.92%) GitHub
9 168 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 160 (5.10%) Serverless
11 159 (5.06%) Azure AI
12 157 (5.00%) PaaS
13 155 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 154 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
15 137 (4.36%) Snowflake
16 119 (3.79%) Power Automate
17 118 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
18 112 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
19 102 (3.25%) Microsoft Copilot
20 101 (3.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 302 (9.62%) Firewall
2 164 (5.22%) VPN
3 162 (5.16%) Network Security
4 154 (4.90%) DNS
5 118 (3.76%) DHCP
6 114 (3.63%) WAN
7 100 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
8 98 (3.12%) LAN
9 77 (2.45%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.42%) VLAN
11 63 (2.01%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.82%) SAN
12 57 (1.82%) Wireless
13 40 (1.27%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 30 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.80%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.48%) VoIP
18 15 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (8.82%) Power BI
2 271 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 167 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 133 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.48%) Metadata
7 73 (2.32%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 70 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.23%) Tableau
9 57 (1.82%) Delta Lake
10 50 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 39 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
15 33 (1.05%) MySQL
16 30 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 28 (0.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 187 (5.96%) Git
2 117 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 112 (3.57%) JIRA
4 69 (2.20%) GitLab
5 25 (0.80%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.48%) JUnit
8 15 (0.48%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 953 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 944 (30.06%) Finance
3 311 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.07%) Banking
4 222 (7.07%) Law
5 150 (4.78%) Legal
6 144 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 139 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.28%) Retail
9 71 (2.26%) Marketing
10 61 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 61 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.88%) Financial Institution
12 44 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 31 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (0.76%) Front Office
16 22 (0.70%) Advertising
17 20 (0.64%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 578 (18.41%) Senior
2 554 (17.64%) Architect
3 387 (12.32%) Lead
4 334 (10.64%) Developer
5 287 (9.14%) Azure Engineer
6 194 (6.18%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 158 (5.03%) Analyst
9 127 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 127 (4.04%) Consultant
10 126 (4.01%) Azure Architect
11 122 (3.89%) Data Architect
12 117 (3.73%) Software Engineer
13 111 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 105 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 90 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
16 86 (2.74%) Network Engineer
17 84 (2.68%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.45%) Security Engineer
19 76 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (14.65%) Terraform
2 312 (9.94%) .NET
3 182 (5.80%) REST
4 154 (4.90%) React
5 138 (4.39%) Kafka
6 102 (3.25%) RESTful
7 89 (2.83%) Spring
8 88 (2.80%) OAuth
9 86 (2.74%) ASP.NET
9 86 (2.74%) Node.js
10 85 (2.71%) .NET Core
11 84 (2.68%) LangChain
12 77 (2.45%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.39%) PySpark
14 60 (1.91%) PyTorch
15 59 (1.88%) HTML
15 59 (1.88%) TensorFlow
16 57 (1.82%) CSS
17 53 (1.69%) OAuth2
18 52 (1.66%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 415 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 163 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.96%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 61 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.78%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (1.37%) Data Structures
17 41 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
18 40 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
19 35 (1.11%) Low-Code
20 31 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 398 (12.68%) Windows
2 167 (5.32%) Linux
3 152 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.67%) Android
8 20 (0.64%) VMS
9 15 (0.48%) Unix
9 15 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (29.14%) DevOps
2 877 (27.93%) CI/CD
3 799 (25.45%) AI
4 678 (21.59%) Agile
5 532 (16.94%) Roadmaps
6 501 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
7 490 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 486 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 450 (14.33%) Analytics
10 444 (14.14%) Mentoring
11 377 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 345 (10.99%) Data Engineering
13 343 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
14 336 (10.70%) Machine Learning
15 318 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
16 312 (9.94%) Software Engineering
17 299 (9.52%) Microservices
18 296 (9.43%) Migration
19 293 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
20 285 (9.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 743 (23.66%) Python
2 652 (20.76%) SQL
3 330 (10.51%) C#
4 279 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 228 (7.26%) Java
6 200 (6.37%) JavaScript
7 161 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 88 (2.80%) Bash
9 86 (2.74%) Bicep
10 46 (1.46%) Scala
11 36 (1.15%) Go
12 30 (0.96%) R
13 23 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.67%) C++
15 19 (0.61%) RPG
16 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.45%) VB.NET
17 14 (0.45%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 393 (12.52%) Degree
2 284 (9.04%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.15%) Security Cleared
4 187 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 130 (4.14%) CISSP
6 126 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 113 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 68 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 68 (2.17%) CISM
10 65 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 62 (1.97%) CCNP
12 47 (1.50%) CCNA
13 40 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 33 (1.05%) CEH
15 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 28 (0.89%) DV Cleared
16 27 (0.86%) PMP
17 25 (0.80%) CCIE
18 24 (0.76%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.41%) GDPR
2 170 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 149 (4.75%) QA
4 127 (4.04%) NIST
5 85 (2.71%) SLA
6 62 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 48 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 44 (1.40%) GRC
9 29 (0.92%) NCSC
9 29 (0.92%) PMO
10 26 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.22%) COBIT
15 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 394 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 251 (7.99%) Docker
3 127 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Firmware
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 329 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (4.43%) Ansible
4 76 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.69%) Grafana
5 53 (1.69%) SCCM
6 36 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.48%) Argo
9 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.41%) Istio
10 12 (0.38%) Nagios
11 11 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.32%) CASB
12 10 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.32%) QRadar
13 6 (0.19%) Packer
13 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,353 (43.09%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.64%) Databricks
3 188 (5.99%) VMware
4 163 (5.19%) Cisco
5 154 (4.90%) Google
6 83 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.45%) Oracle
9 75 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 63 (2.01%) Foundry
11 57 (1.82%) Splunk
12 52 (1.66%) Meraki
12 52 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 51 (1.62%) SAP
14 42 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
14 42 (1.34%) Tenable
15 40 (1.27%) Fortinet
15 40 (1.27%) Zscaler
16 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace
17 33 (1.05%) Dell