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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,865 2,571 4,609
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.64% 19.96% 19.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.30% 44.89% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,033 1,967 3,805
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

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 7,110 5,727 10,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.33% 44.47% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,579 4,151 8,187
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 23 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 23 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 0 649 £80,000 +6.67% 239
West London +1 82 £60,000 +33.33% 39
South London +19 45 £80,000 +29.78% 12
East London -14 25 £32,000 -62.35% 50
North London 0 11 £60,000 +33.33% 7
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 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 140 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.91%) Confluence
6 18 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.56%) Apache
8 15 (0.52%) WordPress
9 13 (0.45%) Appian
9 13 (0.45%) CMS
10 8 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 52 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.24%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.52%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.070%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 988 (34.49%) AWS
2 559 (19.51%) GCP
3 501 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
4 406 (14.17%) Power Platform
5 337 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 336 (11.73%) Entra ID
7 197 (6.88%) GitHub
8 179 (6.25%) SaaS
9 163 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 137 (4.78%) Azure AI
12 118 (4.12%) PaaS
13 114 (3.98%) Serverless
14 109 (3.80%) Power Automate
15 102 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 100 (3.49%) Snowflake
17 94 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 87 (3.04%) PowerApps
19 79 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
20 76 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (10.79%) Firewall
2 176 (6.14%) VPN
3 174 (6.07%) DNS
4 153 (5.34%) WAN
5 149 (5.20%) DHCP
6 129 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
7 102 (3.56%) Network Security
8 100 (3.49%) TCP/IP
9 97 (3.39%) LAN
10 81 (2.83%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.95%) VLAN
12 55 (1.92%) Internet
13 48 (1.68%) SAN
14 32 (1.12%) Wireless
15 31 (1.08%) VoIP
16 26 (0.91%) WLAN
17 25 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.84%) Broadband
19 23 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
20 22 (0.77%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (9.91%) Power BI
2 275 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 144 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (4.99%) Data Lake
5 87 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 71 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 68 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 63 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 61 (2.13%) Tableau
10 59 (2.06%) BigQuery
11 52 (1.82%) Big Data
12 51 (1.78%) Metadata
12 51 (1.78%) MongoDB
13 46 (1.61%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.08%) Pinecone
17 26 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
19 23 (0.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 191 (6.67%) Git
2 94 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.62%) JIRA
4 64 (2.23%) GitLab
5 52 (1.82%) MLflow
6 33 (1.15%) Postman
7 24 (0.84%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 19 (0.66%) Chocolatey
10 18 (0.63%) Selenium
11 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
14 11 (0.38%) Vite
15 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) JMeter
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 866 (30.23%) Finance
2 791 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 289 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (8.27%) Banking
5 174 (6.07%) Law
6 120 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 105 (3.66%) Legal
9 100 (3.49%) Retail
10 63 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 63 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (1.92%) Marketing
12 50 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.54%) Financial Institution
15 41 (1.43%) Multimedia
16 40 (1.40%) Front Office
17 33 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.94%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 553 (19.30%) Senior
2 393 (13.72%) Lead
3 379 (13.23%) Architect
4 286 (9.98%) Developer
5 250 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
6 211 (7.36%) Analyst
7 180 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 137 (4.78%) Software Engineer
9 135 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 119 (4.15%) Support Engineer
11 115 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (3.60%) Consultant
13 103 (3.60%) Security Engineer
14 97 (3.39%) Azure Architect
14 97 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 90 (3.14%) IT Engineer
16 87 (3.04%) Network Engineer
17 83 (2.90%) Data Architect
17 83 (2.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (9.35%) .NET
2 166 (5.79%) React
3 126 (4.40%) REST
4 105 (3.66%) CSS
4 105 (3.66%) Kafka
5 104 (3.63%) RESTful
6 100 (3.49%) HTML
7 94 (3.28%) OAuth
8 83 (2.90%) Node.js
9 65 (2.27%) LangChain
10 63 (2.20%) .NET Core
11 57 (1.99%) PyTorch
11 57 (1.99%) TensorFlow
12 56 (1.95%) PySpark
13 51 (1.78%) SAML
14 50 (1.75%) Django
15 41 (1.43%) OpenID
16 39 (1.36%) scikit-learn
17 38 (1.33%) Spring
18 37 (1.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 265 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.35%) Security Posture
4 90 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 86 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 63 (2.20%) Public Cloud
11 60 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 60 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 55 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
13 54 (1.88%) Low-Code
14 52 (1.82%) Onboarding
15 41 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 41 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.36%) Cyberattack
17 38 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 35 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 410 (14.31%) Windows
2 166 (5.79%) Windows Server
3 158 (5.51%) Linux
4 89 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 39 (1.36%) Mac OS
7 37 (1.29%) Unix
8 34 (1.19%) Android
8 34 (1.19%) VMS
9 32 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 28 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.28%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.14%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (27.43%) DevOps
2 660 (23.04%) CI/CD
3 611 (21.33%) AI
4 560 (19.55%) Agile
5 448 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (15.60%) Analytics
7 404 (14.10%) Mentoring
8 391 (13.65%) Roadmaps
9 372 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 365 (12.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 350 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
12 313 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
13 288 (10.05%) Data Engineering
14 287 (10.02%) Computer Science
15 286 (9.98%) Machine Learning
16 275 (9.60%) Software Engineering
17 272 (9.49%) Data Modelling
18 255 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
19 246 (8.59%) Migration
20 245 (8.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 738 (25.76%) Python
2 635 (22.16%) SQL
3 326 (11.38%) PowerShell
4 268 (9.35%) C#
5 247 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 162 (5.65%) Java
7 148 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 101 (3.53%) Bash
9 68 (2.37%) Bicep
10 60 (2.09%) Go
11 45 (1.57%) R
12 37 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.87%) C++
15 23 (0.80%) Scala
16 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.49%) Rust
17 13 (0.45%) C
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 408 (14.24%) Degree
2 303 (10.58%) Azure Certification
3 218 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 187 (6.53%) Security Cleared
5 135 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (4.47%) SC Cleared
7 121 (4.22%) CISSP
8 99 (3.46%) AWS Certification
9 80 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
10 72 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.88%) CEH
12 49 (1.71%) CISM
13 47 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 45 (1.57%) DV Cleared
15 43 (1.50%) CCNP
16 40 (1.40%) CCNA
16 40 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 30 (1.05%) PMP
19 29 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (6.42%) GDPR
2 180 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 165 (5.76%) NIST
4 141 (4.92%) Data Quality
5 87 (3.04%) SLA
6 84 (2.93%) QA
7 44 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 42 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 37 (1.29%) NCSC
11 33 (1.15%) SOC 2
12 32 (1.12%) GRC
13 26 (0.91%) HIPAA
13 26 (0.91%) Solvency II
14 23 (0.80%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 20 (0.70%) PSD2
17 19 (0.66%) PMO
18 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 401 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 245 (8.55%) Docker
3 97 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.94%) vSphere
8 11 (0.38%) Firmware
9 9 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.10%) Postfix
13 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.035%) NLBS
14 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 356 (12.43%) Terraform
2 311 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 240 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (4.33%) Ansible
5 64 (2.23%) SCCM
6 55 (1.92%) Grafana
7 51 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (1.64%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) CASB
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.21%) Nagios
17 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,171 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 282 (9.84%) Databricks
3 184 (6.42%) VMware
4 158 (5.51%) Google
5 130 (4.54%) Cisco
6 81 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.76%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 61 (2.13%) Oracle
10 57 (1.99%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.64%) Meraki
13 46 (1.61%) Dell
14 42 (1.47%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.47%) SAP
15 40 (1.40%) SolarWinds
16 38 (1.33%) Salesforce
16 38 (1.33%) Splunk
17 37 (1.29%) Foundry
17 37 (1.29%) iManage