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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,175 2,446 3,754
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.86% 20.37% 19.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.25% 44.37% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 1,745 2,695
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £46,630
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £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 8,524 5,513 8,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.53% 45.92% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 3,791 5,824
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £99,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%

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 10 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 10 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 +1 430 £85,000 +6.25% 246
West London +1 92 £67,059 +21.93% 74
South London -4 38 £90,000 +38.46% 22
East London -12 18 £75,000 +76.47% 36
North London -7 11 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 203 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.89%) Confluence
5 40 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.94%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 16 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 54 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.031%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.031%) Shopify
9 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (33.54%) AWS
2 642 (20.22%) GCP
3 529 (16.66%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
5 419 (13.20%) Power Platform
6 389 (12.25%) Entra ID
7 212 (6.68%) SaaS
8 189 (5.95%) GitHub
9 174 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 162 (5.10%) Serverless
11 161 (5.07%) Azure AI
12 158 (4.98%) PaaS
13 157 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 156 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 138 (4.35%) Snowflake
16 121 (3.81%) Power Automate
17 120 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
18 113 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
19 108 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
20 104 (3.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 305 (9.61%) Firewall
2 166 (5.23%) VPN
3 164 (5.17%) Network Security
4 157 (4.94%) DNS
5 120 (3.78%) DHCP
6 114 (3.59%) WAN
7 98 (3.09%) LAN
7 98 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
8 80 (2.52%) TCP/IP
9 77 (2.43%) VLAN
10 62 (1.95%) SD-WAN
11 58 (1.83%) SAN
12 57 (1.80%) Wireless
13 40 (1.26%) BGP
14 36 (1.13%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) VoIP
18 15 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.82%) Power BI
2 272 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 169 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 136 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (2.55%) Metadata
7 73 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 71 (2.24%) Tableau
9 70 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.80%) Delta Lake
11 53 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 37 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
15 33 (1.04%) MySQL
16 29 (0.91%) Big Data
16 29 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 192 (6.05%) Git
2 118 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 113 (3.56%) JIRA
4 67 (2.11%) GitLab
5 24 (0.76%) MLflow
6 18 (0.57%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.54%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.47%) JUnit
8 15 (0.47%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 964 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 961 (30.27%) Finance
3 312 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.12%) Banking
5 225 (7.09%) Law
6 154 (4.85%) Legal
7 149 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (3.28%) Retail
10 72 (2.27%) Marketing
11 63 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (0.76%) Front Office
18 23 (0.72%) Advertising
19 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
20 15 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 588 (18.52%) Senior
2 558 (17.57%) Architect
3 391 (12.31%) Lead
4 339 (10.68%) Developer
5 292 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.24%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 157 (4.94%) Analyst
9 133 (4.19%) Consultant
10 131 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 125 (3.94%) Azure Architect
12 122 (3.84%) Data Architect
12 122 (3.84%) Software Engineer
13 118 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 104 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
15 91 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
16 84 (2.65%) Network Engineer
17 83 (2.61%) Senior Developer
18 78 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 77 (2.43%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (14.77%) Terraform
2 313 (9.86%) .NET
3 188 (5.92%) REST
4 154 (4.85%) React
5 137 (4.31%) Kafka
6 102 (3.21%) RESTful
7 89 (2.80%) Spring
8 88 (2.77%) OAuth
9 87 (2.74%) ASP.NET
10 86 (2.71%) LangChain
10 86 (2.71%) Node.js
11 85 (2.68%) .NET Core
12 77 (2.43%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.36%) PySpark
14 62 (1.95%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.92%) TensorFlow
16 59 (1.86%) HTML
17 57 (1.80%) CSS
18 53 (1.67%) OAuth2
19 52 (1.64%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 421 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 168 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 138 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 102 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 90 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 63 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
14 44 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 42 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 40 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (1.13%) Low-Code
18 31 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 404 (12.72%) Windows
2 172 (5.42%) Linux
3 157 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.69%) VMS
8 21 (0.66%) Android
9 15 (0.47%) Unix
10 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (28.94%) DevOps
2 888 (27.97%) CI/CD
3 822 (25.89%) AI
4 678 (21.35%) Agile
5 542 (17.07%) Roadmaps
6 506 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 495 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 491 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 459 (14.46%) Analytics
10 450 (14.17%) Mentoring
11 385 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (10.96%) Data Engineering
13 345 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
14 342 (10.77%) Machine Learning
15 330 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
16 317 (9.98%) Software Engineering
17 302 (9.51%) Migration
18 296 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
18 296 (9.32%) Microservices
19 293 (9.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 758 (23.87%) Python
2 657 (20.69%) SQL
3 333 (10.49%) C#
4 287 (9.04%) PowerShell
5 230 (7.24%) Java
6 202 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 161 (5.07%) TypeScript
8 89 (2.80%) Bash
9 88 (2.77%) Bicep
10 48 (1.51%) Scala
11 35 (1.10%) Go
12 32 (1.01%) R
13 24 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.69%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 16 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 394 (12.41%) Degree
2 280 (8.82%) Azure Certification
3 263 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 192 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.13%) CISSP
6 124 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 113 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.20%) CISM
10 69 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 67 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 60 (1.89%) CCNP
13 46 (1.45%) CCNA
14 40 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.01%) CEH
16 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) PMP
18 25 (0.79%) PhD
19 24 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 171 (5.39%) GDPR
4 151 (4.76%) QA
5 127 (4.00%) NIST
6 84 (2.65%) SLA
7 62 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 51 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 44 (1.39%) GRC
10 31 (0.98%) NCSC
11 28 (0.88%) PMO
12 25 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) COBIT
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 399 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 251 (7.91%) Docker
3 130 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Firmware
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 138 (4.35%) Ansible
4 78 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.67%) SCCM
6 52 (1.64%) Grafana
7 35 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.94%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Argo
10 14 (0.44%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 11 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.31%) CASB
14 10 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.31%) QRadar
15 6 (0.19%) Packer
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,375 (43.31%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.52%) Databricks
3 193 (6.08%) VMware
4 166 (5.23%) Cisco
5 160 (5.04%) Google
6 83 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.46%) Oracle
8 77 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 75 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.98%) Foundry
11 57 (1.80%) Splunk
12 52 (1.64%) Salesforce
13 51 (1.61%) Meraki
13 51 (1.61%) SAP
14 43 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
15 41 (1.29%) Fortinet
15 41 (1.29%) Tenable
15 41 (1.29%) Zscaler
16 36 (1.13%) Dell
17 34 (1.07%) Citrix