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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,152 2,460 3,754
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.06% 20.56% 19.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.29% 44.52% 44.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 1,759 2,760
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
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 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,400
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.85% -0.95%

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 8,452 5,526 8,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.02% 46.18% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,689 3,811 6,033
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,520
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 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 2 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 +1 429 £85,000 +6.25% 238
West London +3 94 £69,119 +32.67% 100
South London -4 39 £90,000 +38.46% 22
East London -11 17 £75,000 +76.47% 30
North London -9 10 £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 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.94%) Confluence
5 42 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
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 53 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
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%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (33.88%) AWS
2 640 (20.30%) GCP
3 527 (16.72%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (13.20%) Azure DevOps
5 415 (13.17%) Power Platform
6 378 (11.99%) Entra ID
7 209 (6.63%) SaaS
8 187 (5.93%) GitHub
9 166 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 161 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 159 (5.04%) Serverless
12 157 (4.98%) Azure AI
12 157 (4.98%) PaaS
13 153 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 140 (4.44%) Snowflake
15 119 (3.78%) Power Automate
16 118 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 112 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
18 101 (3.20%) PowerApps
19 100 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 304 (9.64%) Firewall
2 165 (5.23%) VPN
3 164 (5.20%) Network Security
4 156 (4.95%) DNS
5 119 (3.78%) DHCP
6 116 (3.68%) WAN
7 101 (3.20%) LAN
7 101 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
8 79 (2.51%) TCP/IP
9 75 (2.38%) VLAN
10 64 (2.03%) SD-WAN
11 57 (1.81%) Wireless
12 56 (1.78%) SAN
13 40 (1.27%) BGP
14 36 (1.14%) OSPF
15 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
17 17 (0.54%) WLAN
18 16 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (8.85%) Power BI
2 272 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 170 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 131 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.41%) Metadata
7 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 74 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (2.28%) Tableau
9 70 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.84%) Delta Lake
11 51 (1.62%) Relational Database
12 42 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
13 38 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
16 34 (1.08%) MySQL
17 31 (0.98%) Big Data
18 30 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (5.81%) Git
2 116 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 112 (3.55%) JIRA
4 69 (2.19%) GitLab
5 29 (0.92%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.44%) JUnit
9 14 (0.44%) Mockito
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 955 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 948 (30.08%) Finance
3 315 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (7.14%) Banking
4 225 (7.14%) Law
5 148 (4.70%) Legal
6 145 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 142 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.27%) Retail
9 69 (2.19%) Marketing
10 61 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (1.87%) Financial Institution
13 45 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (0.76%) Advertising
16 24 (0.76%) Front Office
17 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 586 (18.59%) Senior
2 554 (17.58%) Architect
3 392 (12.44%) Lead
4 332 (10.53%) Developer
5 287 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
6 194 (6.15%) Data Engineer
7 181 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.11%) Analyst
9 129 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (4.03%) Azure Architect
11 126 (4.00%) Consultant
12 122 (3.87%) Data Architect
13 116 (3.68%) Software Engineer
14 109 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 108 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
16 90 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
17 85 (2.70%) Network Engineer
17 85 (2.70%) Senior Developer
18 80 (2.54%) Security Engineer
19 74 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (14.72%) Terraform
2 313 (9.93%) .NET
3 179 (5.68%) REST
4 151 (4.79%) React
5 143 (4.54%) Kafka
6 101 (3.20%) RESTful
7 88 (2.79%) OAuth
7 88 (2.79%) Spring
8 87 (2.76%) LangChain
9 85 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 85 (2.70%) ASP.NET
10 84 (2.66%) Node.js
11 76 (2.41%) Spring Boot
12 75 (2.38%) PySpark
13 63 (2.00%) PyTorch
14 62 (1.97%) TensorFlow
15 57 (1.81%) HTML
16 55 (1.74%) CSS
17 53 (1.68%) OAuth2
18 51 (1.62%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 419 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 163 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 134 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 59 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 46 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 44 (1.40%) Data Structures
14 44 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
16 40 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
18 32 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 404 (12.82%) Windows
2 170 (5.39%) Linux
3 156 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 30 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.67%) Android
8 19 (0.60%) VMS
9 17 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (29.09%) DevOps
2 880 (27.92%) CI/CD
3 795 (25.22%) AI
4 679 (21.54%) Agile
5 531 (16.85%) Roadmaps
6 501 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 492 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 490 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 454 (14.40%) Analytics
10 444 (14.09%) Mentoring
11 374 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 346 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
12 346 (10.98%) Data Engineering
13 340 (10.79%) Machine Learning
14 315 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
15 312 (9.90%) Software Engineering
16 297 (9.42%) Migration
17 294 (9.33%) Microservices
18 292 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
19 286 (9.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 752 (23.86%) Python
2 655 (20.78%) SQL
3 329 (10.44%) C#
4 285 (9.04%) PowerShell
5 227 (7.20%) Java
6 200 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 158 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 90 (2.86%) Bash
9 87 (2.76%) Bicep
10 45 (1.43%) Scala
11 38 (1.21%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.67%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 397 (12.60%) Degree
2 285 (9.04%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.12%) Security Cleared
4 188 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.16%) CISSP
6 129 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 121 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 115 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 67 (2.13%) CISM
11 66 (2.09%) Master's Degree
12 62 (1.97%) CCNP
13 47 (1.49%) CCNA
14 41 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.11%) CEH
16 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.89%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.86%) CCIE
17 27 (0.86%) PMP
18 24 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.46%) GDPR
3 170 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 149 (4.73%) QA
5 126 (4.00%) NIST
6 86 (2.73%) SLA
7 63 (2.00%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (1.36%) GRC
10 29 (0.92%) NCSC
10 29 (0.92%) PMO
11 25 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 15 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 398 (12.63%) Active Directory
2 252 (7.99%) Docker
3 128 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 216 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 142 (4.51%) Ansible
4 75 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.71%) SCCM
6 53 (1.68%) Grafana
7 36 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.48%) Argo
9 15 (0.48%) Istio
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.38%) Nagios
12 11 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) CASB
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Packer
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,352 (42.89%) Microsoft
2 342 (10.85%) Databricks
3 188 (5.96%) VMware
4 163 (5.17%) Cisco
5 154 (4.89%) Google
6 84 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.47%) Oracle
9 74 (2.35%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.94%) Foundry
11 56 (1.78%) Splunk
12 52 (1.65%) Meraki
13 51 (1.62%) SAP
14 47 (1.49%) Salesforce
15 44 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.36%) Tenable
17 40 (1.27%) Fortinet
18 39 (1.24%) Zscaler
19 37 (1.17%) Dell
20 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace