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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,149 2,549 3,693
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.48% 20.65% 18.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.03% 44.77% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 1,851 2,876
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,280 5,694 8,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.44% 46.13% 42.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,558 4,024 6,372
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 0 507 £85,000 +9.68% 288
West London +2 99 £70,000 +55.56% 61
South London -2 45 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -17 17 £53,750 +8.59% 36
North London -10 7 £48,750 -30.36% 14
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
1 196 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 126 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 81 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 50 (1.59%) Confluence
5 47 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.73%) Apache
7 21 (0.67%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 14 (0.44%) Camunda
8 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.38%) Mule
10 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.32%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.67%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
7 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.064%) Endur
8 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.064%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (34.01%) AWS
2 636 (20.20%) GCP
3 527 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
4 418 (13.27%) Power Platform
5 385 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
6 383 (12.16%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.76%) SaaS
8 188 (5.97%) GitHub
9 166 (5.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (4.92%) Serverless
11 154 (4.89%) PaaS
12 149 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 146 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 141 (4.48%) Azure AI
15 135 (4.29%) Snowflake
16 114 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
17 110 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
18 108 (3.43%) Power Automate
19 96 (3.05%) IaaS
20 92 (2.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 312 (9.91%) Firewall
2 168 (5.34%) VPN
3 166 (5.27%) DNS
4 164 (5.21%) Network Security
5 133 (4.22%) WAN
6 130 (4.13%) DHCP
7 116 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
8 113 (3.59%) LAN
9 92 (2.92%) TCP/IP
10 71 (2.25%) VLAN
11 68 (2.16%) SD-WAN
12 51 (1.62%) SAN
13 47 (1.49%) Wireless
14 45 (1.43%) BGP
15 41 (1.30%) OSPF
16 32 (1.02%) Kerberos
17 25 (0.79%) VoIP
18 24 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
19 23 (0.73%) WLAN
20 18 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (9.15%) Power BI
2 268 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 163 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 122 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 88 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (2.54%) Tableau
8 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 69 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 66 (2.10%) Metadata
11 53 (1.68%) Delta Lake
12 52 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.49%) Relational Database
14 42 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 41 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 40 (1.27%) Big Data
17 37 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.17%) MySQL
18 35 (1.11%) Star Schema
19 30 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (5.68%) Git
2 112 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 99 (3.14%) JIRA
4 78 (2.48%) GitLab
5 33 (1.05%) MLflow
6 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
6 16 (0.51%) Postman
6 16 (0.51%) Selenium
7 13 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.35%) JUnit
9 11 (0.35%) Mockito
10 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 948 (30.10%) Finance
2 919 (29.18%) Social Skills
3 299 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (6.92%) Banking
5 207 (6.57%) Law
6 140 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 129 (4.10%) Legal
8 128 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 100 (3.18%) Retail
10 57 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 52 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.56%) Marketing
13 46 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.17%) Front Office
16 34 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.95%) Advertising
18 29 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 18 (0.57%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 587 (18.64%) Senior
2 529 (16.80%) Architect
3 434 (13.78%) Lead
4 329 (10.45%) Developer
5 272 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.19%) Data Engineer
7 171 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.34%) Analyst
9 130 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (3.84%) Consultant
10 121 (3.84%) Software Engineer
11 117 (3.72%) Data Architect
12 114 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 113 (3.59%) Azure Architect
14 95 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 91 (2.89%) Security Engineer
16 89 (2.83%) IT Engineer
17 87 (2.76%) Network Engineer
18 83 (2.64%) IT Support
19 82 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (9.94%) .NET
2 168 (5.34%) React
3 155 (4.92%) REST
4 135 (4.29%) Kafka
5 102 (3.24%) Node.js
6 99 (3.14%) OAuth
7 93 (2.95%) RESTful
8 90 (2.86%) Spring
9 84 (2.67%) LangChain
10 83 (2.64%) .NET Core
11 78 (2.48%) Spring Boot
12 75 (2.38%) ASP.NET
13 74 (2.35%) PySpark
14 62 (1.97%) PyTorch
15 58 (1.84%) CSS
15 58 (1.84%) TensorFlow
16 56 (1.78%) HTML
17 55 (1.75%) OAuth2
18 53 (1.68%) OpenID
19 47 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 411 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 143 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 128 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (3.24%) Security Posture
5 100 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 97 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 77 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 61 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 61 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 52 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
13 51 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 50 (1.59%) Data Structures
15 43 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.27%) Low-Code
17 39 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
18 35 (1.11%) Algorithms
18 35 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 422 (13.40%) Windows
2 191 (6.07%) Linux
3 162 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.76%) Unix
7 24 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.73%) VMS
9 22 (0.70%) Android
10 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (28.93%) DevOps
2 858 (27.25%) CI/CD
3 728 (23.12%) AI
4 684 (21.72%) Agile
5 512 (16.26%) Roadmaps
6 486 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 476 (15.12%) Mentoring
8 469 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 466 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
10 445 (14.13%) Analytics
11 349 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
12 341 (10.83%) Data Engineering
13 336 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 321 (10.19%) Machine Learning
15 315 (10.00%) Software Engineering
16 295 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
17 292 (9.27%) Microservices
18 286 (9.08%) Data Modelling
19 284 (9.02%) Migration
20 283 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 765 (24.29%) Python
2 640 (20.32%) SQL
3 325 (10.32%) C#
4 300 (9.53%) PowerShell
5 216 (6.86%) JavaScript
6 210 (6.67%) Java
7 173 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 105 (3.33%) Bash
9 79 (2.51%) Bicep
10 43 (1.37%) Go
11 35 (1.11%) Scala
12 28 (0.89%) R
13 26 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.60%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 384 (12.19%) Degree
2 288 (9.15%) Azure Certification
3 263 (8.35%) Security Cleared
4 199 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.26%) CISSP
6 128 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 120 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.03%) CCNP
11 62 (1.97%) CISM
12 57 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.71%) CCNA
14 48 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
15 44 (1.40%) CEH
16 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.89%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.86%) CCIE
18 23 (0.73%) CCSP
18 23 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.43%) GDPR
3 165 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 142 (4.51%) QA
5 133 (4.22%) NIST
6 92 (2.92%) SLA
7 62 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.33%) GRC
10 35 (1.11%) PMO
11 29 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.89%) NCSC
13 24 (0.76%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 417 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 252 (8.00%) Docker
3 127 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 13 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.095%) Firmware
10 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.064%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 459 (14.58%) Terraform
2 344 (10.92%) Kubernetes
3 216 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (4.95%) Ansible
5 65 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.71%) Grafana
7 52 (1.65%) SCCM
8 40 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.41%) Nagios
12 12 (0.38%) Argo
12 12 (0.38%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.22%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) CASB
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,325 (42.08%) Microsoft
2 338 (10.73%) Databricks
3 196 (6.22%) VMware
4 158 (5.02%) Cisco
5 149 (4.73%) Google
6 88 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.64%) OpenAI
8 76 (2.41%) Oracle
8 76 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.78%) SAP
10 55 (1.75%) Foundry
10 55 (1.75%) Splunk
11 51 (1.62%) Meraki
11 51 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 45 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
12 45 (1.43%) Fortinet
13 43 (1.37%) Dell
14 41 (1.30%) Tenable
15 39 (1.24%) iManage
16 37 (1.17%) Dynatrace