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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,761 2,494 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.24% 19.42% 20.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.41% 44.12% 45.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 1,955 3,854
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,018 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,016 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 6,833 5,653 9,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.71% 44.03% 44.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,395 4,129 8,152
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 April 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 April 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 +1 629 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +9 76 £65,000 +32.65% 45
South London +34 42 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -14 25 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +12 13 £60,000 +41.18% 9
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
1 177 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 143 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.94%) Confluence
6 14 (0.51%) Apache
6 14 (0.51%) Appian
6 14 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.47%) WordPress
8 10 (0.36%) CMS
8 10 (0.36%) IIS
9 8 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.22%) Camunda
10 6 (0.22%) Moodle
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.072%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.072%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.036%) Maya
9 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.76%) Endur
3 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.29%) Shopify
4 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.072%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.036%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.036%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.036%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.036%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 979 (35.46%) AWS
2 555 (20.10%) GCP
3 489 (17.71%) Microsoft 365
4 422 (15.28%) Power Platform
5 322 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
6 308 (11.16%) Entra ID
7 201 (7.28%) GitHub
8 191 (6.92%) SaaS
9 159 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 149 (5.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 123 (4.45%) Power Automate
12 118 (4.27%) Azure AI
13 117 (4.24%) PaaS
14 105 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.73%) Serverless
16 100 (3.62%) PowerApps
17 95 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
17 95 (3.44%) Snowflake
18 74 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
19 72 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 301 (10.90%) Firewall
2 173 (6.27%) VPN
3 168 (6.08%) DNS
4 152 (5.51%) WAN
5 144 (5.22%) DHCP
6 125 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (3.88%) TCP/IP
8 94 (3.40%) LAN
9 86 (3.11%) Network Security
10 82 (2.97%) SD-WAN
11 59 (2.14%) Internet
12 53 (1.92%) VLAN
13 42 (1.52%) SAN
14 33 (1.20%) Wireless
15 32 (1.16%) VoIP
16 25 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
18 23 (0.83%) WLAN
19 22 (0.80%) Broadband
20 21 (0.76%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (10.90%) Power BI
2 266 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 157 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (5.65%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 74 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
9 63 (2.28%) Tableau
10 61 (2.21%) BigQuery
11 60 (2.17%) Metadata
12 54 (1.96%) MongoDB
13 50 (1.81%) Relational Database
13 50 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (1.59%) Big Data
15 35 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 28 (1.01%) MySQL
18 27 (0.98%) Pinecone
19 24 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 195 (7.06%) Git
2 93 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.86%) JIRA
4 62 (2.25%) GitLab
5 51 (1.85%) MLflow
6 35 (1.27%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.20%) Postman
8 21 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 19 (0.69%) Selenium
10 18 (0.65%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.51%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.36%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.29%) JMeter
16 8 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 822 (29.77%) Finance
2 790 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 284 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (8.48%) Banking
5 182 (6.59%) Law
6 118 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (4.13%) Retail
8 106 (3.84%) Legal
9 98 (3.55%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.21%) Marketing
13 51 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 43 (1.56%) Multimedia
17 40 (1.45%) Front Office
18 37 (1.34%) Telecoms
19 33 (1.20%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 542 (19.63%) Senior
2 365 (13.22%) Lead
3 364 (13.18%) Architect
4 298 (10.79%) Developer
5 224 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.68%) Analyst
7 172 (6.23%) Data Engineer
8 130 (4.71%) Support Engineer
9 126 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 122 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
12 109 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 101 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 94 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 92 (3.33%) IT Support
16 87 (3.15%) IT Engineer
17 85 (3.08%) Data Architect
18 83 (3.01%) Consultant
19 82 (2.97%) Network Engineer
20 81 (2.93%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (9.34%) .NET
2 168 (6.08%) React
3 128 (4.64%) REST
4 109 (3.95%) CSS
5 105 (3.80%) RESTful
6 103 (3.73%) HTML
7 98 (3.55%) Kafka
8 92 (3.33%) Node.js
9 87 (3.15%) OAuth
10 70 (2.54%) .NET Core
11 61 (2.21%) LangChain
12 58 (2.10%) PyTorch
13 57 (2.06%) Django
13 57 (2.06%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.96%) PySpark
15 48 (1.74%) SAML
16 41 (1.48%) SOAP
17 38 (1.38%) AngularJS
17 38 (1.38%) scikit-learn
18 37 (1.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 247 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 98 (3.55%) Security Posture
4 93 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 82 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (2.64%) Data Structures
7 73 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 62 (2.25%) AI Agents
10 59 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 57 (2.06%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.06%) Low-Code
12 53 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
13 51 (1.85%) Onboarding
14 49 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.48%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.41%) Cyberattack
18 31 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 411 (14.89%) Windows
2 171 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 166 (6.01%) Linux
4 86 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.70%) Unix
6 44 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.23%) VMS
9 30 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.98%) Android
11 21 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.25%) CentOS
15 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (27.09%) DevOps
2 648 (23.47%) CI/CD
3 589 (21.33%) AI
4 564 (20.43%) Agile
5 464 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (15.97%) Analytics
7 391 (14.16%) Mentoring
8 358 (12.97%) Roadmaps
9 354 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 341 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
11 330 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 310 (11.23%) Business Intelligence
13 306 (11.08%) Computer Science
14 283 (10.25%) Data Modelling
15 277 (10.03%) Machine Learning
16 276 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 254 (9.20%) Microservices
18 251 (9.09%) Data Engineering
19 248 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
20 241 (8.73%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 727 (26.33%) Python
2 636 (23.04%) SQL
3 324 (11.73%) PowerShell
4 261 (9.45%) C#
5 256 (9.27%) JavaScript
6 146 (5.29%) Java
7 136 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.73%) Bash
9 57 (2.06%) Bicep
10 56 (2.03%) Go
11 45 (1.63%) R
12 37 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.83%) C++
15 21 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.76%) Scala
16 16 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.54%) Rust
18 13 (0.47%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 410 (14.85%) Degree
2 281 (10.18%) Azure Certification
3 234 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 183 (6.63%) Security Cleared
5 140 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 127 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 116 (4.20%) CISSP
8 102 (3.69%) AWS Certification
9 76 (2.75%) Master's Degree
10 73 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
11 53 (1.92%) CEH
12 50 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 45 (1.63%) CISM
13 45 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 41 (1.48%) CCNP
15 36 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.27%) CCNA
17 32 (1.16%) PMI Certification
18 31 (1.12%) PMP
19 27 (0.98%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (7.10%) GDPR
2 187 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.08%) NIST
4 140 (5.07%) Data Quality
5 82 (2.97%) QA
5 82 (2.97%) SLA
6 40 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 40 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 39 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 34 (1.23%) NCSC
9 33 (1.20%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.05%) EU AI Act
11 27 (0.98%) GRC
11 27 (0.98%) Solvency II
12 25 (0.91%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.83%) PSD2
14 21 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 21 (0.76%) PMO
15 17 (0.62%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 385 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 250 (9.05%) Docker
3 93 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.10%) Hyper-V
5 57 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.94%) vSphere
8 11 (0.40%) Firmware
9 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.036%) NLBS
13 1 (0.036%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.036%) Xen
Systems Management
1 341 (12.35%) Terraform
2 303 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 241 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.60%) Ansible
5 60 (2.17%) SCCM
6 59 (2.14%) Grafana
7 52 (1.88%) Prometheus
8 44 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.65%) Argo
12 13 (0.47%) Istio
13 12 (0.43%) CASB
14 10 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.33%) Kibana
16 8 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
17 7 (0.25%) VxRail
18 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 6 (0.22%) Nagios
19 5 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1,118 (40.49%) Microsoft
2 263 (9.53%) Databricks
3 189 (6.85%) VMware
4 159 (5.76%) Google
5 127 (4.60%) Cisco
6 82 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 70 (2.54%) OpenAI
9 63 (2.28%) Fortinet
10 62 (2.25%) Oracle
11 50 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
12 46 (1.67%) Dell
13 45 (1.63%) SAP
14 44 (1.59%) Salesforce
15 42 (1.52%) Meraki
16 40 (1.45%) Splunk
17 35 (1.27%) CyberArk
17 35 (1.27%) SolarWinds
18 34 (1.23%) iManage
19 33 (1.20%) Dynatrace