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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,073 2,557 4,309
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.83% 20.53% 18.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.71% 45.08% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,222 1,878 3,422
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,338 £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 £114,875 £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 7,939 5,672 9,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.72% 45.55% 42.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,300 4,037 7,663
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 16 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 16 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 0 552 £82,750 +6.77% 137
West London +6 90 £70,000 +55.56% 53
South London +10 47 £80,000 +23.08% 15
East London -11 17 £31,500 -56.55% 37
North London -1 8 £55,000 -20.00% 11
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 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 130 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 69 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (1.37%) Confluence
6 20 (0.65%) 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 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Mule
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
11 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
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
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.033%) Houdini
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) NUKE
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Endur
6 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 999 (32.51%) AWS
2 585 (19.04%) GCP
3 531 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
4 402 (13.08%) Power Platform
5 385 (12.53%) Entra ID
6 367 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.90%) SaaS
8 185 (6.02%) GitHub
9 159 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 147 (4.78%) PaaS
11 147 (4.78%) Serverless
12 145 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 139 (4.52%) Azure AI
14 114 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 113 (3.68%) Snowflake
16 106 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
17 102 (3.32%) Power Automate
18 95 (3.09%) IaaS
19 90 (2.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 315 (10.25%) Firewall
2 181 (5.89%) VPN
3 178 (5.79%) DNS
4 157 (5.11%) Network Security
5 142 (4.62%) DHCP
5 142 (4.62%) WAN
6 121 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
7 113 (3.68%) LAN
8 92 (2.99%) TCP/IP
9 73 (2.38%) SD-WAN
10 70 (2.28%) VLAN
11 51 (1.66%) SAN
12 46 (1.50%) BGP
13 43 (1.40%) Wireless
14 42 (1.37%) OSPF
15 29 (0.94%) Kerberos
15 29 (0.94%) VoIP
16 26 (0.85%) WLAN
17 23 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
18 22 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.85%) Power BI
2 255 (8.30%) SQL Server
3 154 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (4.33%) Data Lake
5 111 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 69 (2.25%) Tableau
8 66 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 61 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.89%) Metadata
11 51 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.46%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.40%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (1.27%) Big Data
16 38 (1.24%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
18 32 (1.04%) Star Schema
19 30 (0.98%) MySQL
20 28 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 171 (5.56%) Git
2 107 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.80%) JIRA
4 73 (2.38%) GitLab
5 33 (1.07%) MLflow
6 22 (0.72%) Postman
7 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.49%) Eclipse
8 15 (0.49%) Selenium
9 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.29%) JUnit
11 9 (0.29%) Mockito
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.26%) Vite
13 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 932 (30.33%) Finance
2 876 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (7.00%) Banking
5 186 (6.05%) Law
6 128 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 120 (3.90%) Legal
8 116 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 79 (2.57%) Retail
10 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.17%) Front Office
15 32 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Marketing
17 30 (0.98%) Advertising
18 25 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.59%) Investment Banking
20 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 591 (19.23%) Senior
2 508 (16.53%) Architect
3 417 (13.57%) Lead
4 304 (9.89%) Developer
5 275 (8.95%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (5.69%) Analyst
6 175 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
7 174 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 149 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 128 (4.17%) Consultant
10 119 (3.87%) Software Engineer
11 117 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
12 112 (3.64%) Azure Architect
13 102 (3.32%) Data Architect
14 101 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 99 (3.22%) Security Engineer
16 93 (3.03%) IT Engineer
17 88 (2.86%) IT Support
18 86 (2.80%) Network Engineer
19 85 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (9.93%) .NET
2 171 (5.56%) React
3 142 (4.62%) REST
4 122 (3.97%) Kafka
5 106 (3.45%) OAuth
6 99 (3.22%) Node.js
7 87 (2.83%) RESTful
8 81 (2.64%) Spring
9 77 (2.51%) .NET Core
10 75 (2.44%) LangChain
11 71 (2.31%) Spring Boot
12 67 (2.18%) ASP.NET
13 66 (2.15%) PySpark
14 60 (1.95%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.85%) OpenID
16 56 (1.82%) TensorFlow
17 55 (1.79%) CSS
18 54 (1.76%) SAML
19 53 (1.72%) HTML
20 50 (1.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 387 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 111 (3.61%) Security Posture
4 101 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
5 99 (3.22%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 79 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 55 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
16 42 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.30%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
19 33 (1.07%) Cyberattack
20 32 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 429 (13.96%) Windows
2 178 (5.79%) Linux
3 165 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.98%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.75%) Unix
9 19 (0.62%) Android
10 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.33%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (28.67%) DevOps
2 810 (26.36%) CI/CD
3 668 (21.74%) AI
4 634 (20.63%) Agile
5 477 (15.52%) Roadmaps
6 475 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 458 (14.90%) Mentoring
8 450 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
9 447 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 419 (13.63%) Analytics
11 323 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
12 321 (10.45%) Data Engineering
13 303 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
14 296 (9.63%) Software Engineering
14 296 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 287 (9.34%) Machine Learning
16 278 (9.05%) Microservices
17 269 (8.75%) Data Modelling
18 264 (8.59%) Migration
19 259 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 749 (24.37%) Python
2 624 (20.31%) SQL
3 315 (10.25%) PowerShell
4 313 (10.19%) C#
5 216 (7.03%) JavaScript
6 190 (6.18%) Java
7 171 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.55%) Bash
9 80 (2.60%) Bicep
10 40 (1.30%) Go
11 30 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
11 30 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.85%) Scala
13 21 (0.68%) R
14 20 (0.65%) C++
15 19 (0.62%) RPG
16 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.39%) Rust
17 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 370 (12.04%) Degree
2 280 (9.11%) Azure Certification
3 249 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 183 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.26%) CISSP
5 131 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 119 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
7 106 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 67 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 61 (1.99%) CCNP
10 56 (1.82%) CISM
11 55 (1.79%) CCNA
11 55 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 48 (1.56%) CEH
12 48 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 32 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 30 (0.98%) CCIE
15 29 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.85%) GIAC
17 25 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 159 (5.17%) GDPR
4 148 (4.82%) NIST
5 138 (4.49%) QA
6 91 (2.96%) SLA
7 58 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.30%) GRC
10 36 (1.17%) PMO
11 31 (1.01%) NCSC
12 29 (0.94%) SOC 2
13 25 (0.81%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
19 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 430 (13.99%) Active Directory
2 237 (7.71%) Docker
3 123 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.85%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 3 (0.098%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.033%) NLBS
13 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 446 (14.51%) Terraform
2 326 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 225 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 146 (4.75%) Ansible
5 64 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (1.79%) Grafana
6 55 (1.79%) SCCM
7 42 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 21 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.42%) Istio
11 12 (0.39%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.29%) CloudHub
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 6 (0.20%) Packer
15 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,287 (41.88%) Microsoft
2 314 (10.22%) Databricks
3 195 (6.35%) VMware
4 148 (4.82%) Cisco
5 130 (4.23%) Google
6 91 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.57%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 72 (2.34%) Oracle
10 59 (1.92%) Foundry
11 50 (1.63%) SAP
12 49 (1.59%) Splunk
13 47 (1.53%) Meraki
14 46 (1.50%) Salesforce
15 44 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
15 44 (1.43%) Dell
15 44 (1.43%) Fortinet
16 40 (1.30%) Dynatrace
16 40 (1.30%) Tenable
17 39 (1.27%) iManage