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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,143 2,454 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.02% 20.53% 19.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.23% 44.43% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 1,756 2,743
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £111,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -0.79%

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 8,443 5,523 8,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.97% 46.19% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 3,808 5,980
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £58,750
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 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,300 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,110 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -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 3 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 3 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 +1 431 £85,000 +6.25% 244
West London +4 93 £69,119 +25.67% 101
South London -4 38 £90,000 +38.46% 21
East London -11 17 £75,000 +76.47% 32
North London -6 10 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 196 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 121 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.91%) Confluence
5 39 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 23 (0.73%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) 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 (0.32%) 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 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 52 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.032%) Maximo
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.032%) Shopify
8 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (33.63%) AWS
2 629 (20.01%) GCP
3 526 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 411 (13.08%) Power Platform
6 377 (11.99%) Entra ID
7 211 (6.71%) SaaS
8 186 (5.92%) GitHub
9 168 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 159 (5.06%) Serverless
11 157 (5.00%) Azure AI
12 156 (4.96%) PaaS
13 155 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 153 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 137 (4.36%) Snowflake
16 118 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 117 (3.72%) Power Automate
18 112 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
19 101 (3.21%) Microsoft Copilot
20 100 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 301 (9.58%) Firewall
2 163 (5.19%) VPN
3 162 (5.15%) Network Security
4 155 (4.93%) DNS
5 119 (3.79%) DHCP
6 114 (3.63%) WAN
7 101 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
8 99 (3.15%) LAN
9 78 (2.48%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.42%) VLAN
11 62 (1.97%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.81%) SAN
12 57 (1.81%) Wireless
13 40 (1.27%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.80%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 16 (0.51%) VoIP
19 15 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (8.75%) Power BI
2 271 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 165 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (4.36%) Data Lake
5 134 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.42%) Metadata
7 73 (2.32%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 70 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.23%) Tableau
9 57 (1.81%) Delta Lake
10 51 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 39 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 39 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
15 33 (1.05%) MySQL
16 29 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 28 (0.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 185 (5.89%) Git
2 117 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 111 (3.53%) JIRA
4 69 (2.20%) GitLab
5 25 (0.80%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.48%) JUnit
8 15 (0.48%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 9 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 951 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 946 (30.10%) Finance
3 311 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.06%) Banking
5 221 (7.03%) Law
6 148 (4.71%) Legal
7 144 (4.58%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.28%) Retail
10 70 (2.23%) Marketing
11 61 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.88%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 31 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (0.76%) Front Office
17 23 (0.73%) Advertising
18 20 (0.64%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 578 (18.39%) Senior
2 552 (17.56%) Architect
3 390 (12.41%) Lead
4 332 (10.56%) Developer
5 290 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.20%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
8 159 (5.06%) Analyst
9 130 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (4.04%) Consultant
11 126 (4.01%) Azure Architect
12 122 (3.88%) Data Architect
13 118 (3.75%) Software Engineer
14 111 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 106 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
16 90 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
17 85 (2.70%) Network Engineer
18 84 (2.67%) Senior Developer
19 80 (2.55%) Security Engineer
20 76 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (14.67%) Terraform
2 314 (9.99%) .NET
3 181 (5.76%) REST
4 152 (4.84%) React
5 138 (4.39%) Kafka
6 101 (3.21%) RESTful
7 89 (2.83%) Spring
8 88 (2.80%) OAuth
9 85 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 85 (2.70%) ASP.NET
9 85 (2.70%) Node.js
10 84 (2.67%) LangChain
11 77 (2.45%) Spring Boot
12 75 (2.39%) PySpark
13 60 (1.91%) PyTorch
14 59 (1.88%) TensorFlow
15 58 (1.85%) HTML
16 56 (1.78%) CSS
17 53 (1.69%) OAuth2
18 52 (1.65%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 414 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 134 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.96%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 61 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.78%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 43 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
16 42 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
17 40 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
19 31 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 400 (12.73%) Windows
2 167 (5.31%) Linux
3 153 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.67%) Android
8 20 (0.64%) VMS
9 16 (0.51%) Unix
9 16 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (29.11%) DevOps
2 876 (27.87%) CI/CD
3 794 (25.26%) AI
4 678 (21.57%) Agile
5 526 (16.74%) Roadmaps
6 501 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 490 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 487 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 449 (14.29%) Analytics
10 442 (14.06%) Mentoring
11 374 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 342 (10.88%) Data Engineering
13 341 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
14 335 (10.66%) Machine Learning
15 316 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
16 313 (9.96%) Software Engineering
17 298 (9.48%) Migration
18 297 (9.45%) Microservices
19 292 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
20 285 (9.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 745 (23.70%) Python
2 651 (20.71%) SQL
3 329 (10.47%) C#
4 281 (8.94%) PowerShell
5 227 (7.22%) Java
6 198 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 159 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 89 (2.83%) Bash
9 86 (2.74%) Bicep
10 46 (1.46%) Scala
11 36 (1.15%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 24 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.67%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.45%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 394 (12.54%) Degree
2 284 (9.04%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.15%) Security Cleared
4 188 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.17%) CISSP
6 126 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 113 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 68 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 67 (2.13%) CISM
11 65 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 62 (1.97%) CCNP
13 47 (1.50%) CCNA
14 40 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.11%) CEH
16 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.86%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.86%) PMP
18 25 (0.80%) CCIE
19 24 (0.76%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (5.35%) GDPR
4 150 (4.77%) QA
5 125 (3.98%) NIST
6 84 (2.67%) SLA
7 62 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (1.37%) GRC
10 29 (0.92%) NCSC
10 29 (0.92%) PMO
11 25 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 395 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 250 (7.95%) Docker
3 127 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Firmware
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 329 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (4.45%) Ansible
4 76 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.69%) Grafana
5 53 (1.69%) SCCM
6 36 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.48%) Argo
9 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.41%) Istio
10 12 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.38%) Nagios
11 10 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.29%) CASB
12 9 (0.29%) QRadar
13 6 (0.19%) Packer
13 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,353 (43.05%) Microsoft
2 335 (10.66%) Databricks
3 188 (5.98%) VMware
4 163 (5.19%) Cisco
5 154 (4.90%) Google
6 83 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.45%) Oracle
9 74 (2.35%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.94%) Foundry
11 56 (1.78%) Splunk
12 52 (1.65%) Meraki
13 51 (1.62%) Salesforce
13 51 (1.62%) SAP
14 42 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
15 41 (1.30%) Tenable
16 40 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.24%) Zscaler
18 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace
19 33 (1.05%) Dell