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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,174 2,300 3,686
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.32% 19.63% 19.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.04% 43.27% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,641 2,535
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,530
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £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 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,568 5,316 8,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.27% 45.37% 44.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5,702 3,628 5,516
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +1.56%

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 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 29 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 +1 403 £85,000 +9.68% 418
West London -1 88 £77,500 +37.78% 95
South London -11 23 £80,000 +23.08% 22
East London -6 20 £75,000 +76.47% 23
North London -7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 9
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
1 206 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 133 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.98%) Confluence
5 33 (1.04%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 9 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.095%) Kentico
Applications
1 59 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) Houdini
10 1 (0.032%) Notion
10 1 (0.032%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 48 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.76%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (32.36%) AWS
2 640 (20.16%) GCP
3 545 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 467 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
5 443 (13.96%) Power Platform
6 433 (13.64%) Entra ID
7 227 (7.15%) SaaS
8 203 (6.40%) GitHub
9 190 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 183 (5.77%) Serverless
11 166 (5.23%) PaaS
12 152 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 146 (4.60%) Azure AI
14 132 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 132 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
15 131 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
16 129 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 129 (4.06%) Power Automate
17 121 (3.81%) Snowflake
18 112 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 293 (9.23%) Firewall
2 169 (5.32%) DNS
3 164 (5.17%) VPN
4 153 (4.82%) Network Security
5 127 (4.00%) DHCP
6 104 (3.28%) WAN
7 90 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
8 89 (2.80%) LAN
9 85 (2.68%) TCP/IP
10 78 (2.46%) VLAN
11 54 (1.70%) SAN
11 54 (1.70%) Wireless
12 53 (1.67%) SD-WAN
13 39 (1.23%) BGP
14 35 (1.10%) OSPF
15 29 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.57%) SSL
18 16 (0.50%) DMARC
19 14 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (9.04%) Power BI
2 255 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 172 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 125 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 97 (3.06%) Metadata
7 78 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 72 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 65 (2.05%) Tableau
11 54 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 52 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 35 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.07%) Data Vault
15 34 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.04%) Big Data
17 32 (1.01%) MySQL
18 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
18 27 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (5.64%) Git
2 124 (3.91%) JIRA
3 113 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.86%) GitLab
5 29 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 15 (0.47%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Postman
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,010 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 986 (31.06%) Finance
3 309 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.25%) Law
5 217 (6.84%) Banking
6 170 (5.36%) Legal
7 154 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.37%) Retail
10 84 (2.65%) Marketing
11 72 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.01%) Front Office
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.63%) Advertising
20 19 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 592 (18.65%) Senior
2 565 (17.80%) Architect
3 398 (12.54%) Lead
4 363 (11.44%) Developer
5 287 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 187 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
8 162 (5.10%) Analyst
9 141 (4.44%) Consultant
10 138 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 124 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 118 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 114 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 113 (3.56%) Azure Architect
15 98 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 98 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
16 97 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 88 (2.77%) Senior Developer
18 79 (2.49%) Network Engineer
19 72 (2.27%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (14.93%) Terraform
2 306 (9.64%) .NET
3 215 (6.77%) REST
4 163 (5.14%) React
5 119 (3.75%) Kafka
6 113 (3.56%) RESTful
7 94 (2.96%) OAuth
8 92 (2.90%) Spring
9 90 (2.84%) Node.js
10 87 (2.74%) ASP.NET
11 86 (2.71%) LangChain
12 83 (2.61%) Spring Boot
13 80 (2.52%) .NET Core
14 78 (2.46%) PySpark
15 61 (1.92%) LangGraph
16 58 (1.83%) OAuth2
17 54 (1.70%) AngularJS
17 54 (1.70%) JSON
18 53 (1.67%) PyTorch
19 52 (1.64%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 427 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 160 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 155 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 119 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 106 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 102 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 92 (2.90%) Security Posture
9 72 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 44 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
15 43 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.26%) Data Structures
17 39 (1.23%) Public Cloud
18 36 (1.13%) Low-Code
19 34 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
19 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 399 (12.57%) Windows
2 169 (5.32%) Windows Server
3 162 (5.10%) Linux
4 47 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 18 (0.57%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.32%) CentOS
11 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (29.93%) DevOps
2 931 (29.33%) CI/CD
3 852 (26.84%) AI
4 672 (21.17%) Agile
5 529 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 516 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 515 (16.23%) Roadmaps
8 506 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 475 (14.97%) Analytics
10 437 (13.77%) Mentoring
11 436 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 353 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
13 345 (10.87%) Software Engineering
14 341 (10.74%) Technical Leadership
15 335 (10.55%) Data Engineering
16 322 (10.14%) Machine Learning
17 318 (10.02%) Migration
18 313 (9.86%) Microservices
19 304 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
19 304 (9.58%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 760 (23.94%) Python
2 659 (20.76%) SQL
3 335 (10.55%) C#
4 295 (9.29%) PowerShell
5 219 (6.90%) Java
6 193 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 165 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.25%) Bicep
9 84 (2.65%) Bash
10 54 (1.70%) Scala
11 41 (1.29%) R
12 28 (0.88%) Go
12 28 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.69%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 409 (12.89%) Degree
2 280 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 259 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 210 (6.62%) SC Cleared
5 136 (4.28%) CISSP
6 126 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 96 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 74 (2.33%) CISM
9 72 (2.27%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 47 (1.48%) CCNP
12 44 (1.39%) CCNA
13 33 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
14 32 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 31 (0.98%) PhD
16 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 25 (0.79%) PMP
18 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 23 (0.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 161 (5.07%) GDPR
4 148 (4.66%) QA
5 116 (3.65%) NIST
6 75 (2.36%) SLA
7 61 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.26%) GRC
10 31 (0.98%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 25 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 6 (0.19%) PSD2
17 6 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 406 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 270 (8.51%) Docker
3 123 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 47 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.19%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 339 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 218 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (4.28%) Ansible
4 84 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 59 (1.86%) Grafana
6 46 (1.45%) SCCM
7 34 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.57%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 9 (0.28%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Puppet
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,383 (43.57%) Microsoft
2 298 (9.39%) Databricks
3 183 (5.77%) VMware
4 173 (5.45%) Google
5 152 (4.79%) Cisco
6 79 (2.49%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.39%) Oracle
9 64 (2.02%) Palo Alto
10 60 (1.89%) Foundry
11 58 (1.83%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.76%) SAP
13 50 (1.58%) Splunk
14 45 (1.42%) Meraki
15 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
16 39 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.17%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 33 (1.04%) Tenable
19 32 (1.01%) Citrix