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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,537 2,917 4,431
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.05% 19.72% 20.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.23% 44.04% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,832 2,052 3,858
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year - +6.53% -3.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 6,154 6,624 9,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.94% 44.78% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,984 4,296 8,087
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 0 584 £77,500 +3.33% 266
West London +10 66 £65,000 +8.33% 49
South London +16 23 £46,000 -23.33% 19
East London -5 22 £32,000 -47.33% 44
North London +16 18 £75,000 -6.25% 13
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
1 182 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 149 (5.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.10%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Apache
7 15 (0.59%) Appian
8 11 (0.43%) IIS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.20%) Moodle
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.12%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.079%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.99%) Endur
3 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.24%) Shopify
4 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.079%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.039%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.039%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 877 (34.57%) AWS
2 490 (19.31%) GCP
3 452 (17.82%) Microsoft 365
4 409 (16.12%) Power Platform
5 349 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (11.51%) Entra ID
7 195 (7.69%) SaaS
8 187 (7.37%) GitHub
9 154 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 137 (5.40%) Power Automate
11 119 (4.69%) PaaS
12 110 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 108 (4.26%) PowerApps
14 106 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 105 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
16 103 (4.06%) Serverless
17 83 (3.27%) Azure AI
18 72 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
19 67 (2.64%) Snowflake
20 64 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 270 (10.64%) Firewall
2 167 (6.58%) VPN
3 154 (6.07%) DNS
4 145 (5.72%) WAN
5 128 (5.05%) DHCP
6 110 (4.34%) Wi-Fi
7 98 (3.86%) TCP/IP
8 90 (3.55%) LAN
9 74 (2.92%) SD-WAN
10 58 (2.29%) Network Security
11 55 (2.17%) Internet
12 51 (2.01%) VLAN
13 38 (1.50%) SAN
13 38 (1.50%) Wireless
14 37 (1.46%) VoIP
15 26 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
16 25 (0.99%) BGP
16 25 (0.99%) OSPF
17 24 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
18 20 (0.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (11.55%) Power BI
2 258 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 171 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 158 (6.23%) Data Lake
5 102 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 76 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
8 69 (2.72%) Metadata
9 66 (2.60%) MongoDB
10 54 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 52 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 48 (1.89%) Big Data
12 48 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 41 (1.62%) Tableau
14 37 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 29 (1.14%) MySQL
16 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.95%) Hadoop
18 23 (0.91%) Pinecone
19 21 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 183 (7.21%) Git
2 86 (3.39%) JIRA
3 79 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.89%) GitLab
5 40 (1.58%) Visual Studio
6 38 (1.50%) MLflow
7 34 (1.34%) Postman
8 19 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.71%) Selenium
9 18 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.43%) Chocolatey
11 11 (0.43%) JMeter
12 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.35%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 776 (30.59%) Finance
2 740 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 275 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (8.00%) Law
5 197 (7.77%) Banking
6 119 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 118 (4.65%) Legal
8 111 (4.38%) Retail
9 97 (3.82%) Public Sector
10 66 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (2.60%) Marketing
11 62 (2.44%) Financial Institution
12 53 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 51 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (1.46%) Retail Banking
17 36 (1.42%) Multimedia
18 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 487 (19.20%) Senior
2 323 (12.73%) Architect
3 313 (12.34%) Developer
4 308 (12.14%) Lead
5 198 (7.80%) Analyst
6 188 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 180 (7.09%) Data Engineer
8 129 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 124 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 118 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 105 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 96 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
13 89 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
14 84 (3.31%) IT Support
15 82 (3.23%) Data Architect
16 80 (3.15%) Network Engineer
17 79 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 78 (3.07%) IT Engineer
19 73 (2.88%) Support Analyst
20 70 (2.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (10.09%) .NET
2 155 (6.11%) React
3 143 (5.64%) REST
4 103 (4.06%) CSS
5 102 (4.02%) HTML
5 102 (4.02%) RESTful
6 87 (3.43%) OAuth
7 81 (3.19%) Node.js
8 75 (2.96%) .NET Core
9 67 (2.64%) Kafka
10 54 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 49 (1.93%) SAML
12 47 (1.85%) Django
12 47 (1.85%) SOAP
13 46 (1.81%) PySpark
14 45 (1.77%) Web Services
15 42 (1.66%) LangChain
15 42 (1.66%) Middleware
16 40 (1.58%) PyTorch
16 40 (1.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 207 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 100 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 84 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 83 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 73 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 65 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 62 (2.44%) Data Structures
10 58 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 56 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
12 56 (2.21%) Onboarding
13 45 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
15 38 (1.50%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.46%) Algorithms
17 32 (1.26%) Virtual Team
18 31 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 377 (14.86%) Windows
2 172 (6.78%) Windows Server
3 149 (5.87%) Linux
4 78 (3.07%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.89%) Unix
6 41 (1.62%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.38%) VMS
8 34 (1.34%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.22%) Android
10 28 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.20%) CentOS
15 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Solaris
16 3 (0.12%) SUSE
17 1 (0.039%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (27.99%) DevOps
2 633 (24.95%) CI/CD
3 550 (21.68%) AI
4 536 (21.13%) Agile
5 457 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (17.46%) Analytics
7 342 (13.48%) Mentoring
8 316 (12.46%) Cybersecurity
9 312 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (11.98%) Roadmaps
11 299 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
12 297 (11.71%) Computer Science
13 294 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 280 (11.04%) Data Modelling
15 264 (10.41%) Software Engineering
16 263 (10.37%) Microservices
17 240 (9.46%) Machine Learning
18 230 (9.07%) ETL
19 223 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
20 221 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 656 (25.86%) Python
2 584 (23.02%) SQL
3 305 (12.02%) PowerShell
4 270 (10.64%) C#
5 250 (9.85%) JavaScript
6 128 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 123 (4.85%) Java
8 84 (3.31%) Bash
9 53 (2.09%) Bicep
10 43 (1.69%) Go
10 43 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.50%) R
12 33 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 28 (1.10%) Scala
14 26 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.75%) C++
16 15 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.55%) Rust
18 12 (0.47%) PHP
19 11 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (16.44%) Degree
2 238 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 221 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 164 (6.46%) Security Cleared
5 141 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 115 (4.53%) SC Cleared
7 107 (4.22%) AWS Certification
8 105 (4.14%) CISSP
9 87 (3.43%) Master's Degree
10 55 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.85%) CISM
12 40 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.38%) CCNP
15 32 (1.26%) CEH
15 32 (1.26%) PMI Certification
15 32 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 27 (1.06%) CCNA
16 27 (1.06%) PMP
17 24 (0.95%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (7.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (6.98%) GDPR
3 152 (5.99%) NIST
4 133 (5.24%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.31%) QA
6 64 (2.52%) SLA
7 39 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.38%) NCSC
9 34 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.30%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.10%) EU AI Act
12 27 (1.06%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.95%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.91%) PSD2
15 22 (0.87%) Solvency II
16 21 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.63%) GRC
18 14 (0.55%) ISO 22301
19 12 (0.47%) PMO
20 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 368 (14.51%) Active Directory
2 248 (9.78%) Docker
3 92 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.75%) vSphere
8 14 (0.55%) Firmware
9 10 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.079%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.079%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.079%) NFS
13 2 (0.079%) XenApp
14 1 (0.039%) vCloud
14 1 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 320 (12.61%) Terraform
2 294 (11.59%) Kubernetes
3 226 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 120 (4.73%) Ansible
5 56 (2.21%) Grafana
5 56 (2.21%) SCCM
6 51 (2.01%) Prometheus
7 40 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.02%) FortiGate
9 21 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.79%) Argo
11 15 (0.59%) CASB
12 8 (0.32%) Kibana
13 7 (0.28%) VxRail
14 6 (0.24%) SCOM
15 5 (0.20%) Control-M
15 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.20%) Istio
15 5 (0.20%) linkerd
15 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,023 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 203 (8.00%) Databricks
3 176 (6.94%) VMware
4 128 (5.05%) Google
5 121 (4.77%) Cisco
6 77 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 73 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 69 (2.72%) Oracle
9 58 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 58 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 48 (1.89%) Meraki
11 45 (1.77%) SAP
12 42 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 36 (1.42%) CheckPoint
13 36 (1.42%) SolarWinds
14 33 (1.30%) Informatica
15 31 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
16 30 (1.18%) Dell
17 29 (1.14%) Dynatrace
18 28 (1.10%) Splunk