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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,184 2,496 3,697
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.30% 20.58% 18.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.53% 44.72% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,791 2,819
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,625 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £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 8,483 5,581 8,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.44% 46.02% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,690 3,880 6,209
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,997
25th Percentile £59,813 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 19 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 19 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 +1 476 £85,000 +9.68% 176
West London +4 101 £70,000 +48.94% 43
South London +2 41 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -14 17 £75,000 +51.52% 33
North London -4 13 £60,000 -17.24% 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
1 199 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 56 (1.76%) Confluence
5 45 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.85%) Apache
7 25 (0.79%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.31%) WordPress
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 52 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.57%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
9 2 (0.063%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.031%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,082 (33.98%) AWS
2 648 (20.35%) GCP
3 535 (16.80%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (13.07%) Power Platform
5 397 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
6 377 (11.84%) Entra ID
7 215 (6.75%) SaaS
8 187 (5.87%) GitHub
9 167 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (5.12%) Serverless
11 159 (4.99%) PaaS
12 157 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 155 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 148 (4.65%) Azure AI
15 142 (4.46%) Snowflake
16 119 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 116 (3.64%) Power Automate
18 115 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
19 99 (3.11%) PowerApps
20 98 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 315 (9.89%) Firewall
2 169 (5.31%) VPN
3 166 (5.21%) Network Security
4 161 (5.06%) DNS
5 126 (3.96%) WAN
6 123 (3.86%) DHCP
7 108 (3.39%) LAN
7 108 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
8 88 (2.76%) TCP/IP
9 75 (2.36%) VLAN
10 67 (2.10%) SD-WAN
11 57 (1.79%) SAN
12 53 (1.66%) Wireless
13 42 (1.32%) BGP
14 38 (1.19%) OSPF
15 28 (0.88%) Kerberos
16 27 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
17 20 (0.63%) WLAN
18 17 (0.53%) SSL
18 17 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 276 (8.67%) Power BI
3 164 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (4.40%) Data Lake
5 127 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 79 (2.48%) Tableau
8 76 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.23%) Metadata
10 68 (2.14%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 53 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 47 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.16%) MySQL
17 36 (1.13%) Big Data
18 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
19 32 (1.01%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 182 (5.72%) Git
2 113 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.33%) JIRA
4 73 (2.29%) GitLab
5 33 (1.04%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Maven
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 962 (30.21%) Finance
2 952 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 318 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (6.97%) Banking
5 216 (6.78%) Law
6 147 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 142 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 138 (4.33%) Legal
9 104 (3.27%) Retail
10 71 (2.23%) Marketing
11 58 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.04%) Front Office
16 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.79%) Advertising
18 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 590 (18.53%) Senior
2 552 (17.34%) Architect
3 427 (13.41%) Lead
4 329 (10.33%) Developer
5 283 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 183 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 165 (5.18%) Analyst
9 130 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (3.99%) Consultant
11 124 (3.89%) Azure Architect
12 120 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 119 (3.74%) Data Architect
14 107 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
15 101 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 91 (2.86%) Network Engineer
17 87 (2.73%) Security Engineer
18 86 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
19 79 (2.48%) IT Engineer
20 78 (2.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (10.02%) .NET
2 166 (5.21%) React
3 162 (5.09%) REST
4 138 (4.33%) Kafka
5 96 (3.02%) Node.js
6 95 (2.98%) RESTful
7 91 (2.86%) LangChain
8 90 (2.83%) OAuth
9 89 (2.80%) Spring
10 88 (2.76%) .NET Core
11 83 (2.61%) ASP.NET
12 77 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.36%) PySpark
14 66 (2.07%) PyTorch
15 64 (2.01%) TensorFlow
16 58 (1.82%) CSS
16 58 (1.82%) HTML
17 54 (1.70%) OAuth2
18 51 (1.60%) Blazor
19 49 (1.54%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 156 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 98 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 95 (2.98%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.70%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
14 45 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
16 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
17 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 421 (13.22%) Windows
2 184 (5.78%) Linux
3 161 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
8 20 (0.63%) Unix
8 20 (0.63%) VMS
9 19 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.094%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.031%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (28.86%) DevOps
2 880 (27.64%) CI/CD
3 775 (24.34%) AI
4 699 (21.95%) Agile
5 526 (16.52%) Roadmaps
6 503 (15.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 496 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 485 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 467 (14.67%) Mentoring
10 457 (14.35%) Analytics
11 361 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 343 (10.77%) Data Engineering
12 343 (10.77%) Machine Learning
13 342 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
14 318 (9.99%) Software Engineering
15 303 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
16 300 (9.42%) Microservices
17 295 (9.27%) Migration
18 294 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
19 286 (8.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 762 (23.93%) Python
2 644 (20.23%) SQL
3 337 (10.58%) C#
4 300 (9.42%) PowerShell
5 222 (6.97%) Java
6 212 (6.66%) JavaScript
7 168 (5.28%) TypeScript
8 99 (3.11%) Bash
9 90 (2.83%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
10 41 (1.29%) Scala
11 27 (0.85%) R
12 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.60%) C++
13 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (0.60%) RPG
14 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
16 12 (0.38%) Rust
16 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 402 (12.63%) Degree
2 297 (9.33%) Azure Certification
3 260 (8.17%) Security Cleared
4 192 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (3.99%) CISSP
7 119 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.01%) CCNP
11 63 (1.98%) CISM
12 61 (1.92%) Master's Degree
13 51 (1.60%) CCNA
14 45 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
15 41 (1.29%) CEH
16 29 (0.91%) PMP
17 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
18 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.82%) CCIE
19 26 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 181 (5.68%) GDPR
3 167 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 149 (4.68%) QA
5 130 (4.08%) NIST
6 89 (2.80%) SLA
7 65 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.26%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 406 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 258 (8.10%) Docker
3 128 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 470 (14.76%) Terraform
2 341 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 213 (6.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (4.90%) Ansible
5 70 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.76%) Grafana
7 55 (1.73%) SCCM
8 41 (1.29%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.44%) Argo
12 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 13 (0.41%) Istio
12 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.38%) Nagios
14 9 (0.28%) QRadar
15 8 (0.25%) CASB
16 7 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
17 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,352 (42.46%) Microsoft
2 348 (10.93%) Databricks
3 197 (6.19%) VMware
4 164 (5.15%) Cisco
5 153 (4.81%) Google
6 86 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 84 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 81 (2.54%) Oracle
9 77 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.85%) Foundry
11 56 (1.76%) Splunk
12 54 (1.70%) SAP
13 52 (1.63%) Meraki
14 49 (1.54%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.35%) Fortinet
17 42 (1.32%) Tenable
18 40 (1.26%) Dell
19 37 (1.16%) iManage
20 36 (1.13%) Zscaler