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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,178 2,321 3,700
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.26% 19.62% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.06% 43.20% 44.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,661 2,546
10th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £46,538
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,576 5,373 8,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.09% 45.43% 44.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,700 3,669 5,552
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £59,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +1.56%

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 October 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 October 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 +1 400 £85,000 +9.68% 394
West London -2 88 £77,500 +37.78% 98
South London -13 24 £80,000 +23.08% 30
East London -7 21 £55,500 +30.59% 27
North London -7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 8
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
1 209 (6.58%) SharePoint
2 136 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.01%) Confluence
5 33 (1.04%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.69%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 8 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.72%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.094%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.031%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.031%) Endur
9 1 (0.031%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (32.28%) AWS
2 644 (20.26%) GCP
3 546 (17.18%) Microsoft 365
4 474 (14.92%) Azure DevOps
5 449 (14.13%) Power Platform
6 437 (13.75%) Entra ID
7 229 (7.21%) SaaS
8 209 (6.58%) GitHub
9 192 (6.04%) Serverless
10 190 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 171 (5.38%) PaaS
12 150 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 148 (4.66%) Azure AI
14 135 (4.25%) Microsoft Copilot
15 133 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 132 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
17 130 (4.09%) Power Automate
18 126 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 123 (3.87%) Snowflake
20 114 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 293 (9.22%) Firewall
2 168 (5.29%) DNS
3 163 (5.13%) VPN
4 154 (4.85%) Network Security
5 127 (4.00%) DHCP
6 103 (3.24%) WAN
7 89 (2.80%) LAN
7 89 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
8 85 (2.67%) TCP/IP
9 78 (2.45%) VLAN
10 54 (1.70%) SAN
10 54 (1.70%) Wireless
11 52 (1.64%) SD-WAN
12 39 (1.23%) BGP
13 35 (1.10%) OSPF
14 29 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
15 27 (0.85%) Kerberos
16 18 (0.57%) SSL
17 16 (0.50%) DMARC
18 14 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (9.16%) Power BI
2 260 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 176 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 123 (3.87%) Data Lake
6 99 (3.12%) Metadata
7 81 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.30%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.05%) Tableau
11 55 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 50 (1.57%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.10%) Data Vault
16 33 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 32 (1.01%) MySQL
18 31 (0.98%) Big Data
19 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
20 25 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 182 (5.73%) Git
2 126 (3.96%) JIRA
3 115 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.95%) GitLab
5 30 (0.94%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 14 (0.44%) JUnit
7 14 (0.44%) Mockito
7 14 (0.44%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 10 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,009 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 988 (31.09%) Finance
3 310 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (7.21%) Law
5 214 (6.73%) Banking
6 174 (5.48%) Legal
7 153 (4.81%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.37%) Retail
10 84 (2.64%) Marketing
11 74 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 32 (1.01%) Front Office
17 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.63%) Advertising
18 20 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 594 (18.69%) Senior
2 569 (17.90%) Architect
3 393 (12.37%) Lead
4 361 (11.36%) Developer
5 282 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
6 206 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 186 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
8 163 (5.13%) Analyst
9 143 (4.50%) Consultant
10 137 (4.31%) Software Engineer
11 123 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 120 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 116 (3.65%) Azure Architect
14 113 (3.56%) Data Architect
15 100 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
16 98 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
17 97 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 90 (2.83%) Senior Developer
19 77 (2.42%) Network Engineer
20 73 (2.30%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (15.17%) Terraform
2 304 (9.57%) .NET
3 222 (6.99%) REST
4 164 (5.16%) React
5 118 (3.71%) Kafka
6 115 (3.62%) RESTful
7 96 (3.02%) OAuth
8 90 (2.83%) Node.js
8 90 (2.83%) Spring
9 87 (2.74%) LangChain
10 86 (2.71%) ASP.NET
11 82 (2.58%) Spring Boot
12 80 (2.52%) .NET Core
13 77 (2.42%) PySpark
14 63 (1.98%) LangGraph
15 59 (1.86%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.76%) JSON
17 54 (1.70%) AngularJS
18 52 (1.64%) .NET Framework
19 51 (1.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 155 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 126 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 101 (3.18%) Data Centre
8 93 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 73 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
15 42 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 35 (1.10%) Low-Code
19 34 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
19 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 399 (12.56%) Windows
2 171 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 164 (5.16%) Linux
4 47 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 11 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 958 (30.14%) DevOps
2 941 (29.61%) CI/CD
3 860 (27.06%) AI
4 678 (21.33%) Agile
5 529 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
6 518 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 513 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 513 (16.14%) Roadmaps
8 477 (15.01%) Analytics
9 445 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 435 (13.69%) Mentoring
11 355 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
12 348 (10.95%) Software Engineering
13 342 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
14 336 (10.57%) Data Engineering
15 323 (10.16%) Machine Learning
16 321 (10.10%) Migration
17 314 (9.88%) Microservices
18 312 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
19 307 (9.66%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 770 (24.23%) Python
2 664 (20.89%) SQL
3 332 (10.45%) C#
4 300 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 214 (6.73%) Java
6 194 (6.10%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 104 (3.27%) Bicep
9 85 (2.67%) Bash
10 54 (1.70%) Scala
11 41 (1.29%) R
12 28 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.82%) Go
14 21 (0.66%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 409 (12.87%) Degree
2 282 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 256 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 213 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 140 (4.41%) CISSP
6 129 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 127 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 94 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (2.36%) CISM
10 74 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 55 (1.73%) AWS Certification
12 46 (1.45%) CCNP
13 42 (1.32%) CCNA
14 35 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 33 (1.04%) PhD
17 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.79%) PMP
19 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.16%) GDPR
4 147 (4.63%) QA
5 117 (3.68%) NIST
6 72 (2.27%) SLA
7 61 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.23%) GRC
10 31 (0.98%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 15 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.19%) COBIT
16 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.19%) PSD2
16 6 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 408 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 275 (8.65%) Docker
3 123 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.70%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.47%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.031%) HDFS
14 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.031%) Xen
14 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 341 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 218 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (4.44%) Ansible
4 85 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 61 (1.92%) Grafana
6 48 (1.51%) SCCM
7 35 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.53%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CASB
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.28%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) Puppet
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,388 (43.68%) Microsoft
2 294 (9.25%) Databricks
3 183 (5.76%) VMware
4 172 (5.41%) Google
5 151 (4.75%) Cisco
6 81 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.39%) Oracle
9 64 (2.01%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.98%) Foundry
11 58 (1.83%) Salesforce
12 57 (1.79%) SAP
13 51 (1.60%) Splunk
14 45 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 44 (1.38%) Meraki
16 39 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
17 38 (1.20%) Dynatrace
18 36 (1.13%) Fortinet
19 33 (1.04%) Tenable
20 32 (1.01%) Citrix