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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,580 2,727 4,426
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.78% 19.30% 20.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.02% 43.70% 45.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,853 1,973 3,835
10th Percentile £42,550 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

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 6,289 6,240 9,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.47% 44.16% 45.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,067 4,179 8,047
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +1 605 £77,500 +3.33% 289
West London +12 67 £67,500 +29.19% 50
South London +17 23 £47,500 -20.83% 38
East London -9 22 £32,000 -60.62% 43
North London +19 18 £73,750 -7.81% 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
1 186 (7.21%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.05%) Confluence
6 16 (0.62%) Apache
7 15 (0.58%) Appian
8 11 (0.43%) IIS
9 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.19%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) Camunda
13 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.12%) Maya
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.97%) Endur
3 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.078%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.078%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.078%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 885 (34.30%) AWS
2 497 (19.26%) GCP
3 464 (17.98%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (16.01%) Power Platform
5 341 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
6 293 (11.36%) Entra ID
7 196 (7.60%) SaaS
8 186 (7.21%) GitHub
9 152 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 135 (5.23%) Power Automate
11 123 (4.77%) PaaS
12 107 (4.15%) PowerApps
13 104 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 104 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 104 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
14 100 (3.88%) Serverless
15 84 (3.26%) Azure AI
16 74 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
17 68 (2.64%) Snowflake
18 65 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 282 (10.93%) Firewall
2 171 (6.63%) VPN
3 158 (6.12%) DNS
4 155 (6.01%) WAN
5 132 (5.12%) DHCP
6 113 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
7 104 (4.03%) TCP/IP
8 95 (3.68%) LAN
9 79 (3.06%) SD-WAN
10 64 (2.48%) Network Security
11 54 (2.09%) Internet
11 54 (2.09%) VLAN
12 40 (1.55%) SAN
13 38 (1.47%) Wireless
14 36 (1.40%) VoIP
15 26 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
16 25 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
17 24 (0.93%) BGP
17 24 (0.93%) OSPF
18 21 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (11.47%) Power BI
2 259 (10.04%) SQL Server
3 162 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
4 146 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 103 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (3.18%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 64 (2.48%) Metadata
10 56 (2.17%) Relational Database
11 53 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 50 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.86%) Big Data
14 45 (1.74%) Tableau
15 38 (1.47%) BigQuery
16 30 (1.16%) MySQL
17 28 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.89%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.89%) Hadoop
18 23 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 184 (7.13%) Git
2 85 (3.29%) JIRA
3 84 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.98%) GitLab
5 39 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 37 (1.43%) MLflow
7 33 (1.28%) Postman
8 19 (0.74%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.66%) Selenium
10 13 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.47%) Chocolatey
12 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.39%) JMeter
13 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.31%) Vite
15 7 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 786 (30.47%) Finance
2 758 (29.38%) Social Skills
3 275 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (7.91%) Banking
5 196 (7.60%) Law
6 122 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (4.42%) Legal
8 109 (4.22%) Retail
9 99 (3.84%) Public Sector
10 67 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (2.56%) Marketing
12 58 (2.25%) Financial Institution
13 56 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.74%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.40%) Retail Banking
18 34 (1.32%) Front Office
18 34 (1.32%) Multimedia
19 26 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 496 (19.22%) Senior
2 329 (12.75%) Lead
3 324 (12.56%) Architect
4 314 (12.17%) Developer
5 208 (8.06%) Analyst
6 193 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
7 176 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 127 (4.92%) Support Engineer
9 124 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 94 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 91 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
14 86 (3.33%) IT Support
15 85 (3.29%) Network Engineer
16 80 (3.10%) IT Engineer
16 80 (3.10%) Senior Developer
17 76 (2.95%) Security Engineer
18 75 (2.91%) Data Architect
19 73 (2.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (10.08%) .NET
2 167 (6.47%) React
3 141 (5.47%) REST
4 104 (4.03%) RESTful
5 103 (3.99%) CSS
6 100 (3.88%) HTML
7 89 (3.45%) Node.js
7 89 (3.45%) OAuth
8 78 (3.02%) .NET Core
9 69 (2.67%) Kafka
10 51 (1.98%) AngularJS
11 50 (1.94%) Django
11 50 (1.94%) SAML
12 47 (1.82%) PySpark
13 46 (1.78%) SOAP
14 42 (1.63%) LangChain
15 41 (1.59%) Web Services
16 40 (1.55%) PyTorch
17 39 (1.51%) Vue
18 38 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 214 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 85 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 62 (2.40%) Low-Code
11 59 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
12 56 (2.17%) Data Centre
12 56 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 56 (2.17%) Onboarding
13 45 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
13 45 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.51%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.43%) Public Cloud
16 33 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
16 33 (1.28%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 387 (15.00%) Windows
2 176 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 150 (5.81%) Linux
4 82 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.94%) Unix
6 43 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.28%) VMS
9 31 (1.20%) Android
10 29 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.19%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.078%) Solaris
19 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (27.87%) DevOps
2 641 (24.84%) CI/CD
3 553 (21.43%) Agile
4 546 (21.16%) AI
5 460 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (16.90%) Analytics
7 353 (13.68%) Mentoring
8 323 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 322 (12.48%) Cybersecurity
10 303 (11.74%) Roadmaps
11 301 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
11 301 (11.67%) Computer Science
11 301 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 278 (10.78%) Data Modelling
13 275 (10.66%) Software Engineering
14 266 (10.31%) Microservices
15 233 (9.03%) Machine Learning
16 228 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 226 (8.76%) ETL
18 218 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 664 (25.74%) Python
2 586 (22.71%) SQL
3 309 (11.98%) PowerShell
4 272 (10.54%) C#
5 254 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 137 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 126 (4.88%) Java
8 89 (3.45%) Bash
9 55 (2.13%) Bicep
10 43 (1.67%) Go
11 41 (1.59%) T-SQL
12 35 (1.36%) R
13 34 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 26 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.89%) Scala
16 18 (0.70%) C++
17 16 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.58%) Rust
19 12 (0.47%) PHP
20 10 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 412 (15.97%) Degree
2 245 (9.50%) Azure Certification
3 227 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (6.51%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 118 (4.57%) SC Cleared
7 109 (4.22%) CISSP
8 100 (3.88%) AWS Certification
9 82 (3.18%) Master's Degree
10 57 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.78%) CISM
12 39 (1.51%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.47%) CEH
14 37 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 34 (1.32%) CCNP
16 33 (1.28%) PMI Certification
17 29 (1.12%) CCNA
17 29 (1.12%) PMP
18 28 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
19 24 (0.93%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 175 (6.78%) GDPR
3 158 (6.12%) NIST
4 131 (5.08%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.29%) QA
6 67 (2.60%) SLA
7 40 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 35 (1.36%) NCSC
10 33 (1.28%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.09%) SOC 2
12 27 (1.05%) EU AI Act
13 24 (0.93%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.89%) PSD2
14 23 (0.89%) Solvency II
15 18 (0.70%) GRC
16 15 (0.58%) ISO 22301
17 13 (0.50%) PMO
18 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 372 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 251 (9.73%) Docker
3 93 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.89%) vSphere
7 14 (0.54%) Firmware
8 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.23%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.16%) KVM
10 4 (0.16%) Postfix
11 2 (0.078%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.078%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.078%) NFS
11 2 (0.078%) XenApp
12 1 (0.039%) NLBS
12 1 (0.039%) vCloud
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 320 (12.40%) Terraform
2 293 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 229 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (4.81%) Ansible
5 60 (2.33%) SCCM
6 58 (2.25%) Grafana
7 53 (2.05%) Prometheus
8 38 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.12%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.78%) Argo
12 14 (0.54%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.27%) VxRail
15 6 (0.23%) Control-M
15 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.23%) SCOM
16 5 (0.19%) Istio
16 5 (0.19%) linkerd
16 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,030 (39.92%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.60%) Databricks
3 184 (7.13%) VMware
4 135 (5.23%) Google
5 120 (4.65%) Cisco
6 77 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.87%) Palo Alto
8 67 (2.60%) Oracle
9 60 (2.33%) Fortinet
10 59 (2.29%) OpenAI
11 47 (1.82%) Meraki
11 47 (1.82%) SAP
12 45 (1.74%) Salesforce
13 37 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
13 37 (1.43%) SolarWinds
14 35 (1.36%) CheckPoint
15 32 (1.24%) Informatica
16 31 (1.20%) Dell
17 29 (1.12%) Commvault
18 28 (1.09%) Dynatrace