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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,076 2,554 4,230
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.80% 20.52% 18.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.65% 45.03% 44.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 1,870 3,354
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,625 £57,500 £57,500
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 £115,000 £112,050 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.45%

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 7,959 5,672 9,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.71% 45.58% 42.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,322 4,028 7,477
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.21% -9.69%

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 July 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 July 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 0 550 £83,000 +7.10% 141
West London +5 91 £70,000 +55.56% 49
South London +11 48 £80,000 +23.08% 21
East London -11 17 £31,500 -56.55% 37
North London 0 8 £55,000 -20.00% 12
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
1 195 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 131 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 69 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.43%) Confluence
5 42 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 16 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.39%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.36%) Camunda
11 10 (0.33%) Mule
11 10 (0.33%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.33%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.033%) Houdini
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) NUKE
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Endur
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (32.67%) AWS
2 588 (19.12%) GCP
3 530 (17.23%) Microsoft 365
4 395 (12.84%) Power Platform
5 387 (12.58%) Entra ID
6 365 (11.87%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (6.86%) SaaS
8 184 (5.98%) GitHub
9 158 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 148 (4.81%) PaaS
12 147 (4.78%) Serverless
13 145 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 137 (4.45%) Azure AI
15 114 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 114 (3.71%) Snowflake
16 105 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
17 100 (3.25%) Power Automate
18 96 (3.12%) IaaS
19 90 (2.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 315 (10.24%) Firewall
2 180 (5.85%) VPN
3 178 (5.79%) DNS
4 157 (5.10%) Network Security
5 141 (4.58%) DHCP
5 141 (4.58%) WAN
6 121 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
7 115 (3.74%) LAN
8 93 (3.02%) TCP/IP
9 73 (2.37%) SD-WAN
10 70 (2.28%) VLAN
11 50 (1.63%) SAN
12 46 (1.50%) BGP
13 44 (1.43%) Wireless
14 42 (1.37%) OSPF
15 30 (0.98%) Kerberos
15 30 (0.98%) VoIP
16 26 (0.85%) WLAN
17 23 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
18 22 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (8.62%) Power BI
2 254 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 152 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 112 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.21%) Tableau
8 67 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 62 (2.02%) NoSQL
10 59 (1.92%) Metadata
11 52 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (1.50%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.40%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.27%) Big Data
14 39 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.24%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 33 (1.07%) Star Schema
18 31 (1.01%) MySQL
19 29 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 170 (5.53%) Git
2 109 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 89 (2.89%) JIRA
4 75 (2.44%) GitLab
5 33 (1.07%) MLflow
6 21 (0.68%) Postman
7 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.52%) Selenium
8 15 (0.49%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.29%) JUnit
11 9 (0.29%) Mockito
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.26%) Vite
13 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 923 (30.01%) Finance
2 873 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (7.02%) Banking
5 187 (6.08%) Law
6 128 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 121 (3.93%) Legal
8 115 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (2.60%) Retail
10 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.17%) Front Office
15 31 (1.01%) Marketing
16 30 (0.98%) Advertising
16 30 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.59%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 592 (19.25%) Senior
2 511 (16.61%) Architect
3 420 (13.65%) Lead
4 306 (9.95%) Developer
5 276 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
7 173 (5.62%) Analyst
7 173 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 148 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 129 (4.19%) Consultant
10 118 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 118 (3.84%) Software Engineer
11 112 (3.64%) Azure Architect
12 104 (3.38%) Data Architect
13 100 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 98 (3.19%) Security Engineer
15 92 (2.99%) IT Engineer
16 87 (2.83%) IT Support
17 86 (2.80%) Network Engineer
18 85 (2.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (9.92%) .NET
2 172 (5.59%) React
3 140 (4.55%) REST
4 122 (3.97%) Kafka
5 105 (3.41%) OAuth
6 100 (3.25%) Node.js
7 86 (2.80%) RESTful
8 82 (2.67%) Spring
9 78 (2.54%) .NET Core
10 75 (2.44%) LangChain
11 72 (2.34%) Spring Boot
12 68 (2.21%) ASP.NET
13 66 (2.15%) PySpark
14 59 (1.92%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.85%) OpenID
16 55 (1.79%) CSS
16 55 (1.79%) TensorFlow
17 53 (1.72%) HTML
17 53 (1.72%) SAML
18 51 (1.66%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 389 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.58%) Security Posture
4 104 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 84 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 79 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (2.05%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
12 56 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 54 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
14 50 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.27%) Low-Code
17 38 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
18 33 (1.07%) Cyberattack
19 31 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 432 (14.04%) Windows
2 183 (5.95%) Linux
3 166 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.14%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.94%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.75%) Unix
9 20 (0.65%) Android
10 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.36%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (28.67%) DevOps
2 808 (26.27%) CI/CD
3 668 (21.72%) AI
4 634 (20.61%) Agile
5 479 (15.57%) Roadmaps
6 476 (15.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 462 (15.02%) Mentoring
8 449 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
9 447 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 416 (13.52%) Analytics
11 319 (10.37%) Data Engineering
12 317 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
13 304 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
14 299 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 297 (9.66%) Software Engineering
16 283 (9.20%) Machine Learning
17 280 (9.10%) Microservices
18 270 (8.78%) Data Modelling
19 262 (8.52%) Migration
20 258 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 743 (24.15%) Python
2 613 (19.93%) SQL
3 316 (10.27%) PowerShell
4 314 (10.21%) C#
5 216 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 191 (6.21%) Java
7 172 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 111 (3.61%) Bash
9 79 (2.57%) Bicep
10 40 (1.30%) Go
11 30 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 29 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (0.85%) Scala
14 21 (0.68%) R
15 20 (0.65%) C++
16 19 (0.62%) RPG
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.39%) DataWeave
18 12 (0.39%) Rust
18 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 365 (11.87%) Degree
2 279 (9.07%) Azure Certification
3 252 (8.19%) Security Cleared
4 185 (6.01%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.32%) CISSP
6 129 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 106 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 62 (2.02%) CCNP
11 58 (1.89%) CISM
12 56 (1.82%) CCNA
13 52 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.56%) CEH
15 47 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 32 (1.04%) DV Cleared
17 30 (0.98%) CCIE
18 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.85%) GIAC
20 24 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 158 (5.14%) GDPR
4 147 (4.78%) NIST
5 137 (4.45%) QA
6 92 (2.99%) SLA
7 59 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.37%) GRC
10 36 (1.17%) PMO
11 31 (1.01%) NCSC
12 28 (0.91%) SOC 2
13 27 (0.88%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
19 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 433 (14.08%) Active Directory
2 236 (7.67%) Docker
3 125 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.85%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 3 (0.098%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.033%) NLBS
13 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 447 (14.53%) Terraform
2 328 (10.66%) Kubernetes
3 223 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (4.78%) Ansible
5 64 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.82%) Grafana
7 55 (1.79%) SCCM
8 42 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 12 (0.39%) Argo
13 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.33%) CloudHub
14 10 (0.33%) Nagios
15 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
15 9 (0.29%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.20%) Packer
17 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,289 (41.91%) Microsoft
2 317 (10.31%) Databricks
3 196 (6.37%) VMware
4 149 (4.84%) Cisco
5 130 (4.23%) Google
6 92 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.54%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.37%) Oracle
8 73 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.89%) Foundry
10 50 (1.63%) SAP
10 50 (1.63%) Splunk
11 48 (1.56%) Meraki
12 47 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 45 (1.46%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
14 44 (1.43%) Dell
15 40 (1.30%) Dynatrace
15 40 (1.30%) Tenable
16 39 (1.27%) iManage