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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,118 2,408 3,728
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.63% 20.24% 19.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.16% 44.08% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 1,715 2,660
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,713
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 £92,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,975 £112,500 £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 8,390 5,463 8,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.99% 45.92% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,643 3,754 5,768
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,625 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +1 426 £85,000 +6.25% 384
West London -1 88 £72,500 +31.82% 101
South London -1 34 £90,000 +38.46% 41
East London -15 13 £75,000 +76.47% 44
North London -9 11 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 198 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 117 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.96%) Confluence
5 38 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.96%) Apache
7 22 (0.71%) CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Mule
9 12 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 8 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 56 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.71%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.80%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Endur
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (32.94%) AWS
2 622 (19.95%) GCP
3 520 (16.68%) Microsoft 365
4 427 (13.69%) Power Platform
5 425 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
6 384 (12.32%) Entra ID
7 211 (6.77%) SaaS
8 176 (5.64%) GitHub
9 174 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (5.26%) Serverless
11 163 (5.23%) Azure AI
12 158 (5.07%) PaaS
13 155 (4.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 154 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 138 (4.43%) Snowflake
16 121 (3.88%) Power Automate
17 119 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 116 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
19 115 (3.69%) Microsoft Copilot
20 104 (3.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 297 (9.53%) Firewall
2 166 (5.32%) VPN
3 160 (5.13%) Network Security
4 156 (5.00%) DNS
5 120 (3.85%) DHCP
6 112 (3.59%) WAN
7 97 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (3.05%) LAN
9 79 (2.53%) TCP/IP
10 78 (2.50%) VLAN
11 61 (1.96%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.80%) SAN
12 56 (1.80%) Wireless
13 40 (1.28%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 30 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.80%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.55%) SSL
18 15 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (9.14%) Power BI
2 269 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 172 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 136 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (2.60%) Metadata
7 75 (2.41%) Tableau
8 73 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
10 71 (2.28%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.80%) Delta Lake
12 52 (1.67%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (1.19%) Star Schema
15 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
15 36 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
15 36 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (0.96%) MySQL
17 29 (0.93%) Big Data
17 29 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 183 (5.87%) Git
2 114 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 114 (3.66%) JIRA
3 61 (1.96%) GitLab
4 24 (0.77%) MLflow
5 21 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 17 (0.55%) Selenium
7 15 (0.48%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.45%) JUnit
8 14 (0.45%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.29%) Eclipse
12 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 958 (30.72%) Finance
2 957 (30.69%) Social Skills
3 309 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.18%) Banking
5 223 (7.15%) Law
6 154 (4.94%) Legal
7 143 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 142 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 104 (3.34%) Retail
10 75 (2.41%) Marketing
11 63 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.89%) Financial Institution
13 40 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 30 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (0.90%) Front Office
17 20 (0.64%) Advertising
18 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 576 (18.47%) Senior
2 549 (17.61%) Architect
3 381 (12.22%) Lead
4 340 (10.90%) Developer
5 288 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.35%) Data Engineer
7 183 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
8 154 (4.94%) Analyst
9 128 (4.11%) Consultant
9 128 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 124 (3.98%) Azure Architect
12 119 (3.82%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 101 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 91 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
16 85 (2.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 85 (2.73%) Network Engineer
17 82 (2.63%) Senior Developer
18 73 (2.34%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (14.53%) Terraform
2 310 (9.94%) .NET
3 188 (6.03%) REST
4 155 (4.97%) React
5 133 (4.27%) Kafka
6 101 (3.24%) RESTful
7 88 (2.82%) LangChain
7 88 (2.82%) OAuth
8 87 (2.79%) ASP.NET
8 87 (2.79%) Spring
9 86 (2.76%) Node.js
10 82 (2.63%) .NET Core
11 77 (2.47%) Spring Boot
12 76 (2.44%) PySpark
13 62 (1.99%) PyTorch
14 61 (1.96%) TensorFlow
15 54 (1.73%) LangGraph
16 53 (1.70%) OAuth2
17 51 (1.64%) .NET Framework
17 51 (1.64%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 97 (3.11%) AI Agents
8 92 (2.95%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 60 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 52 (1.67%) Public Cloud
13 48 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
14 46 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.31%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
18 38 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
19 36 (1.15%) Low-Code
20 31 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 390 (12.51%) Windows
2 163 (5.23%) Linux
3 153 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 40 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 18 (0.58%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
9 14 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.35%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (29.09%) DevOps
2 876 (28.09%) CI/CD
3 827 (26.52%) AI
4 673 (21.58%) Agile
5 529 (16.97%) Roadmaps
6 505 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
7 486 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 478 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 453 (14.53%) Analytics
10 433 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 380 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
13 347 (11.13%) Data Engineering
14 337 (10.81%) Machine Learning
15 329 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
16 320 (10.26%) Software Engineering
17 301 (9.65%) Migration
18 296 (9.49%) Microservices
19 295 (9.46%) Data Modelling
20 282 (9.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 740 (23.73%) Python
2 653 (20.94%) SQL
3 333 (10.68%) C#
4 274 (8.79%) PowerShell
5 222 (7.12%) Java
6 190 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 163 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 86 (2.76%) Bicep
9 84 (2.69%) Bash
10 50 (1.60%) Scala
11 36 (1.15%) Go
12 29 (0.93%) R
13 24 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.71%) C++
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.45%) VBA
19 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
20 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 390 (12.51%) Degree
2 263 (8.43%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.21%) Security Cleared
4 187 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 128 (4.11%) CISSP
6 125 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 109 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.21%) CISM
10 67 (2.15%) Master's Degree
11 58 (1.86%) CCNP
12 56 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 46 (1.48%) CCNA
14 37 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (0.90%) CEH
16 27 (0.87%) PhD
17 26 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.83%) PMP
18 24 (0.77%) DV Cleared
18 24 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.36%) GDPR
2 167 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 149 (4.78%) QA
4 121 (3.88%) NIST
5 79 (2.53%) SLA
6 62 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 51 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.28%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) NCSC
10 27 (0.87%) PMO
11 22 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 390 (12.51%) Active Directory
2 247 (7.92%) Docker
3 125 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.51%) vSphere
8 13 (0.42%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Firmware
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 320 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 131 (4.20%) Ansible
4 78 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 50 (1.60%) SCCM
6 49 (1.57%) Grafana
7 33 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.51%) Argo
10 14 (0.45%) Istio
11 13 (0.42%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.32%) CASB
13 10 (0.32%) QRadar
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Nessus
16 5 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,352 (43.36%) Microsoft
2 329 (10.55%) Databricks
3 186 (5.97%) VMware
4 163 (5.23%) Cisco
5 160 (5.13%) Google
6 81 (2.60%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.47%) Oracle
8 74 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 73 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 59 (1.89%) Foundry
11 52 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 52 (1.67%) Splunk
12 50 (1.60%) Meraki
12 50 (1.60%) SAP
13 42 (1.35%) Fortinet
14 41 (1.31%) Zscaler
15 40 (1.28%) Tenable
16 39 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
17 36 (1.15%) Dell
18 33 (1.06%) Dynatrace