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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,190 2,514 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.39% 20.64% 18.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.73% 44.91% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,812 2,845
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,500 £56,250 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,455 5,598 8,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.50% 45.96% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,667 3,907 6,271
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £43,536
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% - -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 13 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 13 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 0 492 £85,000 +9.68% 241
West London +1 101 £70,000 +48.94% 60
South London 0 39 £80,000 +23.08% 17
East London -17 17 £75,000 +51.52% 30
North London -7 9 £60,000 -14.29% 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
1 199 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 56 (1.76%) Confluence
5 46 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.75%) Apache
6 24 (0.75%) CMS
7 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 15 (0.47%) Camunda
7 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 11 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,092 (34.23%) AWS
2 654 (20.50%) GCP
3 529 (16.58%) Microsoft 365
4 417 (13.07%) Power Platform
5 396 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
6 375 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 212 (6.65%) SaaS
8 189 (5.92%) GitHub
9 164 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 162 (5.08%) Serverless
11 161 (5.05%) PaaS
12 152 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 152 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 145 (4.55%) Azure AI
14 144 (4.51%) Snowflake
15 115 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 114 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
16 114 (3.57%) Power Automate
17 98 (3.07%) IaaS
17 98 (3.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (9.97%) Firewall
2 169 (5.30%) VPN
3 164 (5.14%) DNS
3 164 (5.14%) Network Security
4 133 (4.17%) WAN
5 126 (3.95%) DHCP
6 112 (3.51%) LAN
6 112 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
7 91 (2.85%) TCP/IP
8 74 (2.32%) VLAN
9 70 (2.19%) SD-WAN
10 54 (1.69%) SAN
11 51 (1.60%) Wireless
12 43 (1.35%) BGP
13 39 (1.22%) OSPF
14 29 (0.91%) Kerberos
15 26 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
16 22 (0.69%) WLAN
17 20 (0.63%) VoIP
18 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (8.87%) Power BI
1 283 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 164 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
3 140 (4.39%) Data Lake
4 125 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 88 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (2.54%) Tableau
7 77 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 71 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 70 (2.19%) Metadata
10 54 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 51 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 50 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 43 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.16%) Big Data
15 36 (1.13%) MySQL
16 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
17 34 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 31 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (5.67%) Git
2 114 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 109 (3.42%) JIRA
4 72 (2.26%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.41%) Postman
10 12 (0.38%) JUnit
10 12 (0.38%) Mockito
11 11 (0.34%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.34%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.25%) Maven
14 8 (0.25%) Vite
15 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 969 (30.38%) Finance
2 946 (29.66%) Social Skills
3 318 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (7.05%) Banking
5 218 (6.83%) Law
6 146 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 143 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (4.26%) Legal
9 104 (3.26%) Retail
10 66 (2.07%) Marketing
11 58 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.10%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.78%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 604 (18.93%) Senior
2 542 (16.99%) Architect
3 430 (13.48%) Lead
4 335 (10.50%) Developer
5 279 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 178 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.27%) Analyst
9 128 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.92%) Consultant
11 123 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 119 (3.73%) Azure Architect
12 119 (3.73%) Data Architect
13 107 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 97 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 94 (2.95%) Network Engineer
16 87 (2.73%) Security Engineer
17 85 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
18 83 (2.60%) IT Engineer
19 81 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (10.00%) .NET
2 169 (5.30%) React
3 156 (4.89%) REST
4 136 (4.26%) Kafka
5 100 (3.13%) Node.js
6 93 (2.92%) OAuth
6 93 (2.92%) RESTful
7 89 (2.79%) LangChain
7 89 (2.79%) Spring
8 87 (2.73%) .NET Core
9 79 (2.48%) ASP.NET
10 77 (2.41%) Spring Boot
11 73 (2.29%) PySpark
12 64 (2.01%) PyTorch
13 62 (1.94%) TensorFlow
14 59 (1.85%) CSS
15 58 (1.82%) HTML
16 55 (1.72%) OAuth2
17 49 (1.54%) Blazor
17 49 (1.54%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 133 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 103 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.07%) Security Posture
6 97 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 82 (2.57%) AI Agents
8 69 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 66 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 63 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 49 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
14 46 (1.44%) Data Structures
14 46 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
16 41 (1.29%) Low-Code
17 35 (1.10%) Algorithms
17 35 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 424 (13.29%) Windows
2 189 (5.92%) Linux
3 161 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 47 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.72%) Unix
8 22 (0.69%) VMS
9 21 (0.66%) Android
9 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.34%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 929 (29.12%) DevOps
2 881 (27.62%) CI/CD
3 764 (23.95%) AI
4 707 (22.16%) Agile
5 525 (16.46%) Roadmaps
6 501 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 488 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
8 481 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 469 (14.70%) Mentoring
10 458 (14.36%) Analytics
11 359 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 349 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
13 341 (10.69%) Data Engineering
14 340 (10.66%) Machine Learning
15 324 (10.16%) Software Engineering
16 300 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
17 299 (9.37%) Microservices
18 295 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
19 293 (9.18%) Migration
20 284 (8.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 765 (23.98%) Python
2 646 (20.25%) SQL
3 335 (10.50%) C#
4 296 (9.28%) PowerShell
5 220 (6.90%) Java
6 215 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.01%) Bash
9 86 (2.70%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
11 39 (1.22%) Scala
12 30 (0.94%) R
13 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.60%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
16 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 401 (12.57%) Degree
2 295 (9.25%) Azure Certification
3 270 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 199 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.11%) CISSP
5 131 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 120 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 114 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (2.16%) AWS Certification
9 65 (2.04%) CCNP
10 63 (1.97%) CISM
11 58 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 54 (1.69%) CCNA
13 46 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
14 43 (1.35%) CEH
15 32 (1.00%) DV Cleared
16 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.85%) CCIE
16 27 (0.85%) PMP
17 24 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.61%) GDPR
3 168 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 146 (4.58%) QA
5 135 (4.23%) NIST
6 90 (2.82%) SLA
7 64 (2.01%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.82%) NCSC
13 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 406 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 260 (8.15%) Docker
3 129 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 466 (14.61%) Terraform
2 349 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 210 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 159 (4.98%) Ansible
5 68 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.69%) Grafana
7 52 (1.63%) SCCM
8 40 (1.25%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Argo
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
13 11 (0.34%) Nagios
14 9 (0.28%) QRadar
15 8 (0.25%) CASB
15 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.22%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,337 (41.91%) Microsoft
2 347 (10.88%) Databricks
3 200 (6.27%) VMware
4 166 (5.20%) Cisco
5 160 (5.02%) Google
6 87 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 85 (2.66%) OpenAI
8 80 (2.51%) Oracle
9 78 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 58 (1.82%) Foundry
11 55 (1.72%) Meraki
11 55 (1.72%) SAP
12 54 (1.69%) Splunk
13 53 (1.66%) Salesforce
14 46 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
15 44 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 41 (1.29%) Dell
16 41 (1.29%) Tenable
17 38 (1.19%) iManage
18 36 (1.13%) Dynatrace