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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,644 2,565 4,482
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.48% 19.20% 20.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.55% 43.51% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,900 1,961 3,845
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £56,250
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 £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

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 6,521 5,895 9,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.19% 44.12% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,212 4,153 8,129
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +1 614 £77,500 +3.33% 319
West London +11 71 £65,000 +32.65% 49
South London +22 29 £38,500 -35.83% 26
East London -6 27 £31,250 -63.24% 48
North London +19 15 £72,500 +65.71% 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
1 189 (7.15%) SharePoint
2 150 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.98%) Confluence
6 15 (0.57%) Appian
7 14 (0.53%) Apache
8 13 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.49%) WordPress
9 12 (0.45%) IIS
10 9 (0.34%) CMS
11 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.23%) Camunda
12 6 (0.23%) Moodle
13 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 48 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 46 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.91%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.076%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.076%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.076%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.038%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.038%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 930 (35.17%) AWS
2 519 (19.63%) GCP
3 481 (18.19%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (15.73%) Power Platform
5 330 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
6 300 (11.35%) Entra ID
7 199 (7.53%) GitHub
8 192 (7.26%) SaaS
9 152 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (5.07%) Power Automate
11 121 (4.58%) PaaS
12 113 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 105 (3.97%) PowerApps
14 102 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 101 (3.82%) Serverless
16 100 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
17 88 (3.33%) Azure AI
18 74 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
19 68 (2.57%) Snowflake
20 67 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 296 (11.20%) Firewall
2 175 (6.62%) VPN
3 164 (6.20%) DNS
4 156 (5.90%) WAN
5 137 (5.18%) DHCP
6 118 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 106 (4.01%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.63%) LAN
9 83 (3.14%) SD-WAN
10 77 (2.91%) Network Security
11 63 (2.38%) Internet
12 50 (1.89%) VLAN
13 38 (1.44%) SAN
14 37 (1.40%) VoIP
15 34 (1.29%) Wireless
16 27 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.83%) BGP
18 22 (0.83%) Broadband
19 21 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (11.42%) Power BI
2 258 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 157 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (5.67%) Data Lake
5 100 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 79 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 59 (2.23%) Metadata
9 56 (2.12%) MongoDB
10 55 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
11 53 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 49 (1.85%) Tableau
13 47 (1.78%) Big Data
14 46 (1.74%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.13%) MySQL
16 27 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (0.98%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.87%) Pinecone
19 22 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 189 (7.15%) Git
2 88 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.06%) JIRA
4 57 (2.16%) GitLab
5 41 (1.55%) MLflow
6 39 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.17%) Postman
8 20 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 17 (0.64%) Selenium
11 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.49%) Chocolatey
12 13 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.30%) JMeter
14 8 (0.30%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 781 (29.54%) Finance
2 775 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 278 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (8.17%) Banking
5 189 (7.15%) Law
6 121 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.16%) Retail
8 102 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 100 (3.78%) Legal
10 68 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (2.46%) Marketing
12 62 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
13 56 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 50 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.63%) Multimedia
17 39 (1.48%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.32%) Front Office
19 34 (1.29%) Retail Banking
20 26 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 515 (19.48%) Senior
2 341 (12.90%) Lead
3 337 (12.75%) Architect
4 298 (11.27%) Developer
5 215 (8.13%) Analyst
6 199 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
7 171 (6.47%) Data Engineer
8 128 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.54%) Software Engineer
10 117 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 113 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 98 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (3.44%) IT Support
15 87 (3.29%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.25%) Network Engineer
17 81 (3.06%) IT Engineer
18 78 (2.95%) Data Architect
19 77 (2.91%) Senior Developer
20 74 (2.80%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (9.34%) .NET
2 158 (5.98%) React
3 131 (4.95%) REST
4 112 (4.24%) CSS
5 106 (4.01%) HTML
6 102 (3.86%) RESTful
7 88 (3.33%) OAuth
8 86 (3.25%) Kafka
9 85 (3.21%) Node.js
10 70 (2.65%) .NET Core
11 51 (1.93%) Django
12 49 (1.85%) PySpark
13 48 (1.82%) SAML
14 45 (1.70%) LangChain
15 43 (1.63%) SOAP
16 42 (1.59%) PyTorch
17 41 (1.55%) AngularJS
17 41 (1.55%) TensorFlow
18 37 (1.40%) Swagger
18 37 (1.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 230 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 89 (3.37%) Security Posture
5 79 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.53%) Data Structures
9 63 (2.38%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (2.12%) Data Centre
11 56 (2.12%) Low-Code
12 54 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 54 (2.04%) Onboarding
13 48 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
14 47 (1.78%) Public Cloud
15 46 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.44%) Algorithms
17 35 (1.32%) Cyberattack
18 33 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 404 (15.28%) Windows
2 180 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 159 (6.01%) Linux
4 89 (3.37%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.97%) Unix
6 46 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.29%) VMS
8 33 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 32 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (1.13%) Android
10 30 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.23%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.15%) SUSE
17 2 (0.076%) Solaris
17 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (27.76%) DevOps
2 647 (24.47%) CI/CD
3 545 (20.61%) Agile
4 537 (20.31%) AI
5 462 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
6 438 (16.57%) Analytics
7 377 (14.26%) Mentoring
8 344 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 332 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
10 314 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 310 (11.72%) Computer Science
12 306 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
13 302 (11.42%) Roadmaps
14 279 (10.55%) Data Modelling
15 269 (10.17%) Software Engineering
16 261 (9.87%) Microservices
17 238 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 236 (8.93%) Machine Learning
19 231 (8.74%) ITIL
20 220 (8.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 692 (26.17%) Python
2 596 (22.54%) SQL
3 323 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 254 (9.61%) C#
5 247 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 133 (5.03%) Java
7 127 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 98 (3.71%) Bash
9 58 (2.19%) Bicep
10 50 (1.89%) Go
11 45 (1.70%) R
12 38 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.72%) C++
15 19 (0.72%) Scala
16 16 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.57%) Rust
18 12 (0.45%) PHP
18 12 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 421 (15.92%) Degree
2 268 (10.14%) Azure Certification
3 237 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 181 (6.85%) Security Cleared
5 148 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 127 (4.80%) SC Cleared
7 114 (4.31%) CISSP
8 109 (4.12%) AWS Certification
9 83 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 64 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 48 (1.82%) CEH
13 45 (1.70%) DV Cleared
14 44 (1.66%) CISM
15 37 (1.40%) CCNP
16 35 (1.32%) PMI Certification
17 34 (1.29%) PMP
18 32 (1.21%) CCNA
19 31 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
20 27 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 185 (7.00%) GDPR
3 167 (6.32%) NIST
4 133 (5.03%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.25%) QA
6 72 (2.72%) SLA
7 41 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.51%) PCI DSS
9 37 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 36 (1.36%) NCSC
11 31 (1.17%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.10%) EU AI Act
13 25 (0.95%) Solvency II
14 24 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.91%) HIPAA
15 23 (0.87%) PSD2
16 22 (0.83%) GRC
17 19 (0.72%) PMO
18 17 (0.64%) ISO 22301
19 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 380 (14.37%) Active Directory
2 260 (9.83%) Docker
3 94 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.95%) vSphere
8 14 (0.53%) Firmware
9 11 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.038%) NLBS
13 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.038%) Xen
13 1 (0.038%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 335 (12.67%) Terraform
2 303 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 235 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 126 (4.77%) Ansible
5 64 (2.42%) SCCM
6 60 (2.27%) Grafana
7 54 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.10%) FortiGate
10 27 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.64%) Argo
12 13 (0.49%) Istio
13 12 (0.45%) CASB
14 9 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 6 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,050 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 215 (8.13%) Databricks
3 188 (7.11%) VMware
4 146 (5.52%) Google
5 126 (4.77%) Cisco
6 83 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.95%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.42%) Oracle
9 60 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 58 (2.19%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.78%) Meraki
13 46 (1.74%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.59%) SAP
15 38 (1.44%) Dell
16 37 (1.40%) SolarWinds
17 34 (1.29%) CheckPoint
18 33 (1.25%) Splunk
19 32 (1.21%) CyberArk
20 31 (1.17%) Commvault