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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,826 2,560 4,617
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.64% 19.83% 19.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.14% 44.81% 45.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,005 1,964 3,826
10th Percentile £44,150 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.00% -8.42%

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 7,041 5,713 10,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.47% 44.26% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,516 4,142 8,194
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 April 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 18 April 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 0 631 £80,000 +6.67% 322
West London +9 83 £60,000 +27.66% 42
South London +17 45 £80,000 +31.96% 13
East London -11 24 £31,250 -63.24% 43
North London +4 11 £60,000 +37.14% 5
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
1 180 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 141 (4.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.92%) Confluence
6 17 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.57%) Apache
8 15 (0.53%) WordPress
9 14 (0.50%) Appian
10 12 (0.42%) CMS
11 8 (0.28%) IIS
12 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.21%) Camunda
13 6 (0.21%) Moodle
13 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
15 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.21%) PlantUML
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.071%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.035%) Maya
10 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.57%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.25%) Shopify
5 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.071%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.035%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.035%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 982 (34.75%) AWS
2 560 (19.82%) GCP
3 497 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
4 406 (14.37%) Power Platform
5 334 (11.82%) Entra ID
6 322 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (6.94%) GitHub
8 177 (6.26%) SaaS
9 164 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 153 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 135 (4.78%) Azure AI
12 116 (4.10%) PaaS
13 110 (3.89%) Power Automate
13 110 (3.89%) Serverless
14 102 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 101 (3.57%) Snowflake
16 91 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
17 88 (3.11%) PowerApps
18 78 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
19 74 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 313 (11.08%) Firewall
2 175 (6.19%) DNS
3 173 (6.12%) VPN
4 153 (5.41%) WAN
5 150 (5.31%) DHCP
6 128 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
7 106 (3.75%) TCP/IP
8 100 (3.54%) Network Security
9 96 (3.40%) LAN
10 82 (2.90%) SD-WAN
11 57 (2.02%) VLAN
12 55 (1.95%) Internet
13 45 (1.59%) SAN
14 35 (1.24%) Wireless
15 32 (1.13%) VoIP
16 24 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
16 24 (0.85%) WLAN
17 23 (0.81%) Broadband
18 22 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
19 21 (0.74%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (10.08%) Power BI
2 275 (9.73%) SQL Server
3 147 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (5.10%) Data Lake
5 88 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 73 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 69 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 61 (2.16%) Tableau
10 59 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 51 (1.80%) Big Data
11 51 (1.80%) Metadata
11 51 (1.80%) MongoDB
12 47 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 45 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.06%) Pinecone
16 27 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.85%) MySQL
18 23 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (6.79%) Git
2 96 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.69%) JIRA
4 65 (2.30%) GitLab
5 52 (1.84%) MLflow
6 32 (1.13%) Postman
7 27 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 20 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 19 (0.67%) Selenium
10 18 (0.64%) Chocolatey
11 14 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.39%) Vite
15 9 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 848 (30.01%) Finance
2 788 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (8.39%) Banking
5 180 (6.37%) Law
6 121 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (3.79%) Legal
8 106 (3.75%) Retail
9 104 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 66 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (1.98%) Marketing
13 51 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.45%) Front Office
16 41 (1.45%) Multimedia
17 33 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.96%) Retail Banking
19 24 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 551 (19.50%) Senior
2 385 (13.62%) Lead
3 373 (13.20%) Architect
4 281 (9.94%) Developer
5 249 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.50%) Analyst
7 173 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 134 (4.74%) Software Engineer
9 132 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 122 (4.32%) Support Engineer
11 116 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
13 101 (3.57%) Security Engineer
14 98 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
15 94 (3.33%) Azure Architect
15 94 (3.33%) Consultant
16 91 (3.22%) IT Engineer
17 88 (3.11%) Network Engineer
18 87 (3.08%) IT Support
19 83 (2.94%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (9.16%) .NET
2 163 (5.77%) React
3 127 (4.49%) REST
4 104 (3.68%) CSS
5 103 (3.64%) Kafka
5 103 (3.64%) RESTful
6 99 (3.50%) HTML
7 94 (3.33%) OAuth
8 82 (2.90%) Node.js
9 64 (2.26%) LangChain
10 59 (2.09%) .NET Core
11 57 (2.02%) PyTorch
11 57 (2.02%) TensorFlow
12 55 (1.95%) PySpark
13 52 (1.84%) Django
14 51 (1.80%) SAML
15 41 (1.45%) OpenID
16 39 (1.38%) Spring
17 38 (1.34%) scikit-learn
18 37 (1.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 261 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.40%) Security Posture
4 89 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 85 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 59 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 58 (2.05%) AI Agents
12 56 (1.98%) Low-Code
13 54 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.84%) Onboarding
15 43 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.49%) Cyberattack
17 41 (1.45%) Algorithms
18 39 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 417 (14.76%) Windows
2 169 (5.98%) Windows Server
3 167 (5.91%) Linux
4 87 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 41 (1.45%) Unix
7 38 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.20%) VMS
9 33 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (1.13%) Android
11 28 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.28%) CentOS
16 6 (0.21%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.14%) SUSE
19 2 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (27.21%) DevOps
2 652 (23.07%) CI/CD
3 602 (21.30%) AI
4 559 (19.78%) Agile
5 454 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (15.68%) Analytics
7 400 (14.15%) Mentoring
8 384 (13.59%) Roadmaps
9 371 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 362 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 344 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
12 309 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
13 292 (10.33%) Computer Science
14 289 (10.23%) Machine Learning
15 279 (9.87%) Data Engineering
16 276 (9.77%) Software Engineering
17 272 (9.62%) Data Modelling
18 250 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 245 (8.67%) Microservices
20 241 (8.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 731 (25.87%) Python
2 630 (22.29%) SQL
3 329 (11.64%) PowerShell
4 265 (9.38%) C#
5 246 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 162 (5.73%) Java
7 141 (4.99%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.61%) Bash
9 67 (2.37%) Bicep
10 58 (2.05%) Go
11 44 (1.56%) R
12 37 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.88%) C++
15 24 (0.85%) Scala
16 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.46%) Rust
18 12 (0.42%) C
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 409 (14.47%) Degree
2 301 (10.65%) Azure Certification
3 221 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 187 (6.62%) Security Cleared
5 137 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 127 (4.49%) SC Cleared
7 120 (4.25%) CISSP
8 99 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 79 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
10 73 (2.58%) Master's Degree
11 55 (1.95%) CEH
12 49 (1.73%) CISM
13 47 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 46 (1.63%) DV Cleared
15 43 (1.52%) CCNP
16 40 (1.42%) CCNA
16 40 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
17 30 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 29 (1.03%) PMP
19 28 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.72%) GDPR
2 186 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 165 (5.84%) NIST
4 140 (4.95%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.04%) SLA
6 80 (2.83%) QA
7 44 (1.56%) Accessibility
8 42 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.42%) PCI DSS
10 36 (1.27%) NCSC
11 34 (1.20%) SOC 2
12 30 (1.06%) GRC
13 28 (0.99%) EU AI Act
14 26 (0.92%) HIPAA
14 26 (0.92%) Solvency II
15 22 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 20 (0.71%) PSD2
18 19 (0.67%) PMO
19 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 400 (14.15%) Active Directory
2 244 (8.63%) Docker
3 97 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 40 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.96%) vSphere
8 11 (0.39%) Firmware
9 8 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.21%) KVM
11 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.14%) Postfix
12 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.035%) NLBS
14 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 358 (12.67%) Terraform
2 311 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 244 (8.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 128 (4.53%) Ansible
5 63 (2.23%) SCCM
6 57 (2.02%) Grafana
7 47 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 47 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.60%) Argo
11 13 (0.46%) Istio
12 10 (0.35%) CASB
12 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.32%) Kibana
14 7 (0.25%) VxRail
15 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.21%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,150 (40.69%) Microsoft
2 273 (9.66%) Databricks
3 188 (6.65%) VMware
4 158 (5.59%) Google
5 128 (4.53%) Cisco
6 80 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 76 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.65%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.19%) Oracle
10 60 (2.12%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.66%) Dell
13 44 (1.56%) Meraki
13 44 (1.56%) SAP
14 41 (1.45%) Salesforce
14 41 (1.45%) Splunk
15 39 (1.38%) ForeScout
16 38 (1.34%) SolarWinds
17 37 (1.31%) iManage
18 36 (1.27%) CyberArk