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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,942 2,383 4,628
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.07% 19.76% 19.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.97% 44.60% 44.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,086 1,783 3,742
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,800
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -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 7,361 5,343 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.21% 44.31% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,915 3,796 8,111
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 0 628 £82,500 +6.45% 287
West London +8 79 £60,000 +41.18% 39
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 12
East London -12 19 £95,000 +11.76% 35
North London +4 11 £55,000 +10.00% 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
1 186 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 124 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.16%) Confluence
6 18 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.54%) Apache
8 13 (0.44%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 8 (0.27%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.17%) IIS
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 48 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.48%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.034%) Maya
9 1 (0.034%) Notion
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.31%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.068%) Shopify
10 1 (0.034%) Alphatax
10 1 (0.034%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 962 (32.70%) AWS
2 564 (19.17%) GCP
3 501 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
4 368 (12.51%) Power Platform
5 353 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 350 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 197 (6.70%) SaaS
8 194 (6.59%) GitHub
9 147 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 139 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 137 (4.66%) PaaS
12 131 (4.45%) Serverless
13 121 (4.11%) Azure AI
14 113 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
16 98 (3.33%) Power Automate
17 97 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
18 95 (3.23%) Snowflake
19 92 (3.13%) IaaS
20 85 (2.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 315 (10.71%) Firewall
2 178 (6.05%) VPN
3 171 (5.81%) DNS
4 154 (5.23%) WAN
5 139 (4.72%) DHCP
6 126 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
7 125 (4.25%) Network Security
8 103 (3.50%) LAN
9 88 (2.99%) TCP/IP
10 85 (2.89%) SD-WAN
11 61 (2.07%) VLAN
12 56 (1.90%) SAN
13 38 (1.29%) BGP
14 35 (1.19%) Wireless
15 34 (1.16%) OSPF
16 33 (1.12%) WLAN
17 31 (1.05%) Internet
17 31 (1.05%) VoIP
18 27 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
19 26 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 251 (8.53%) Power BI
3 127 (4.32%) Data Lake
4 126 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 61 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 61 (2.07%) Tableau
7 60 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 58 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 56 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 50 (1.70%) BigQuery
10 50 (1.70%) Metadata
11 48 (1.63%) Big Data
12 44 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 40 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.95%) MySQL
17 26 (0.88%) Pinecone
18 25 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (6.12%) Git
2 96 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 74 (2.52%) JIRA
4 72 (2.45%) GitLab
5 44 (1.50%) MLflow
6 27 (0.92%) Postman
7 23 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.65%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.58%) Selenium
10 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.37%) Vite
13 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 902 (30.66%) Finance
2 796 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 292 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (7.31%) Banking
5 170 (5.78%) Law
6 123 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 98 (3.33%) Legal
9 68 (2.31%) Retail
10 57 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 34 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (1.16%) Front Office
15 30 (1.02%) Marketing
16 24 (0.82%) Advertising
16 24 (0.82%) Multimedia
17 21 (0.71%) Retail Banking
18 20 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 566 (19.24%) Senior
2 443 (15.06%) Architect
3 386 (13.12%) Lead
4 286 (9.72%) Developer
5 267 (9.08%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (6.08%) Analyst
7 167 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 160 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 138 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.18%) Consultant
12 107 (3.64%) Azure Architect
12 107 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 102 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 102 (3.47%) IT Engineer
13 102 (3.47%) Support Engineer
14 98 (3.33%) Security Engineer
15 97 (3.30%) Network Engineer
16 89 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
17 84 (2.86%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (9.69%) .NET
2 162 (5.51%) React
3 131 (4.45%) REST
4 110 (3.74%) Kafka
5 100 (3.40%) OAuth
6 83 (2.82%) RESTful
7 80 (2.72%) CSS
8 76 (2.58%) Node.js
9 73 (2.48%) HTML
10 70 (2.38%) PySpark
11 69 (2.35%) LangChain
12 68 (2.31%) .NET Core
13 58 (1.97%) Spring
14 54 (1.84%) PyTorch
14 54 (1.84%) SAML
15 53 (1.80%) TensorFlow
16 48 (1.63%) Spring Boot
17 47 (1.60%) ASP.NET
18 46 (1.56%) OpenID
19 45 (1.53%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 306 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 125 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 101 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 88 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 70 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 65 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 63 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
10 63 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.39%) Low-Code
15 40 (1.36%) Cyberattack
16 39 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.29%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 408 (13.87%) Windows
2 161 (5.47%) Linux
3 157 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 34 (1.16%) VMS
7 32 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 30 (1.02%) Unix
9 29 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.78%) Android
12 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.31%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
19 1 (0.034%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (28.28%) DevOps
2 724 (24.61%) CI/CD
3 610 (20.73%) AI
4 576 (19.58%) Agile
5 451 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 426 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 424 (14.41%) Roadmaps
8 421 (14.31%) Mentoring
9 416 (14.14%) Analytics
10 406 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 314 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
12 303 (10.30%) Data Engineering
13 283 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
14 280 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 269 (9.14%) Software Engineering
16 263 (8.94%) Data Modelling
17 259 (8.80%) Machine Learning
18 258 (8.77%) Migration
19 248 (8.43%) Microservices
20 227 (7.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 728 (24.75%) Python
2 605 (20.56%) SQL
3 337 (11.45%) PowerShell
4 283 (9.62%) C#
5 228 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 163 (5.54%) Java
7 152 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.60%) Bash
9 76 (2.58%) Bicep
10 48 (1.63%) Go
11 37 (1.26%) R
12 36 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.78%) Scala
15 20 (0.68%) C++
16 15 (0.51%) Rust
17 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.37%) C
18 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 372 (12.64%) Degree
2 291 (9.89%) Azure Certification
3 226 (7.68%) Security Cleared
4 163 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 152 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 119 (4.04%) CISSP
8 102 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (2.65%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.73%) CCNP
11 50 (1.70%) CEH
12 49 (1.67%) CCNA
13 48 (1.63%) CISM
14 47 (1.60%) Master's Degree
15 43 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
16 36 (1.22%) DV Cleared
17 30 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 30 (1.02%) CCIE
18 29 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 27 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 151 (5.13%) NIST
3 148 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 140 (4.76%) GDPR
5 99 (3.37%) QA
6 87 (2.96%) SLA
7 54 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 45 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.33%) NCSC
10 33 (1.12%) GRC
10 33 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 30 (1.02%) PMO
12 28 (0.95%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.31%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 406 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 229 (7.78%) Docker
3 117 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.05%) vSphere
8 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.24%) Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.068%) Xen
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 405 (13.77%) Terraform
2 312 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 216 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.38%) Ansible
5 61 (2.07%) SCCM
6 57 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.84%) Grafana
8 41 (1.39%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.12%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.41%) Istio
12 10 (0.34%) Argo
12 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.31%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,182 (40.18%) Microsoft
2 298 (10.13%) Databricks
3 194 (6.59%) VMware
4 144 (4.89%) Cisco
5 130 (4.42%) Google
6 90 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.75%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.11%) Oracle
10 56 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.73%) SAP
12 50 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
12 50 (1.70%) Meraki
13 48 (1.63%) Foundry
14 45 (1.53%) Splunk
15 43 (1.46%) Dynatrace
16 42 (1.43%) SolarWinds
17 41 (1.39%) Dell
17 41 (1.39%) Salesforce
18 39 (1.33%) ForeScout