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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,181 2,346 3,761
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.38% 19.80% 19.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.00% 43.45% 44.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,681 2,601
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,500 £46,575
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 £93,750 £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 8,598 5,399 8,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.47% 45.56% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 3,700 5,655
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%

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 26 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 26 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 +1 408 £85,000 +9.68% 434
West London -1 89 £76,250 +35.56% 102
South London -9 27 £85,000 +30.77% 27
East London -9 20 £75,000 +76.47% 27
North London -6 14 £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
1 206 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 132 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 62 (1.95%) Confluence
5 33 (1.04%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 10 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
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%) Kentico
15 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 61 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) 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%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 48 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (32.19%) AWS
2 635 (19.96%) GCP
3 544 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
4 462 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
5 438 (13.77%) Power Platform
6 428 (13.45%) Entra ID
7 226 (7.10%) SaaS
8 203 (6.38%) GitHub
9 187 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 181 (5.69%) Serverless
11 165 (5.19%) PaaS
12 156 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 155 (4.87%) Azure AI
14 138 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
16 131 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
17 129 (4.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 129 (4.06%) Snowflake
18 126 (3.96%) Power Automate
19 110 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 292 (9.18%) Firewall
2 165 (5.19%) DNS
3 162 (5.09%) VPN
4 157 (4.94%) Network Security
5 126 (3.96%) DHCP
6 106 (3.33%) WAN
7 93 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (2.83%) LAN
9 82 (2.58%) TCP/IP
10 77 (2.42%) VLAN
11 55 (1.73%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.70%) SAN
12 54 (1.70%) Wireless
13 40 (1.26%) BGP
14 36 (1.13%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.57%) SSL
18 16 (0.50%) DMARC
19 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (8.93%) Power BI
2 262 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 169 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 151 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 125 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 94 (2.96%) Metadata
7 78 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 72 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 65 (2.04%) Tableau
10 55 (1.73%) Relational Database
11 52 (1.63%) Delta Lake
12 41 (1.29%) Star Schema
13 35 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.07%) Data Vault
14 34 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 32 (1.01%) Big Data
15 32 (1.01%) MySQL
16 27 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
17 26 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 183 (5.75%) Git
2 121 (3.80%) JIRA
3 114 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.85%) GitLab
5 28 (0.88%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.57%) MLflow
7 15 (0.47%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 11 (0.35%) 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 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 996 (31.31%) Finance
3 307 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.14%) Law
5 223 (7.01%) Banking
6 166 (5.22%) Legal
7 157 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 144 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 108 (3.40%) Retail
10 84 (2.64%) Marketing
11 72 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 37 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 33 (1.04%) Front Office
17 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.63%) Advertising
19 18 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 587 (18.45%) Senior
2 570 (17.92%) Architect
3 394 (12.39%) Lead
4 363 (11.41%) Developer
5 287 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
6 206 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 189 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
8 160 (5.03%) Analyst
9 140 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 135 (4.24%) Consultant
11 124 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (3.74%) Azure Architect
13 118 (3.71%) Data Architect
14 117 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 99 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
16 96 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 96 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
17 86 (2.70%) Senior Developer
18 81 (2.55%) Network Engineer
19 70 (2.20%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (14.81%) Terraform
2 312 (9.81%) .NET
3 214 (6.73%) REST
4 166 (5.22%) React
5 119 (3.74%) Kafka
6 111 (3.49%) RESTful
7 94 (2.96%) OAuth
8 92 (2.89%) Spring
9 91 (2.86%) Node.js
10 88 (2.77%) ASP.NET
11 85 (2.67%) LangChain
12 82 (2.58%) Spring Boot
13 81 (2.55%) .NET Core
14 78 (2.45%) PySpark
15 60 (1.89%) LangGraph
16 58 (1.82%) OAuth2
17 54 (1.70%) JSON
18 53 (1.67%) .NET Framework
18 53 (1.67%) AngularJS
19 51 (1.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.36%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 154 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 117 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 102 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 94 (2.96%) Security Posture
9 71 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 66 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
16 42 (1.32%) Public Cloud
17 40 (1.26%) Data Structures
18 37 (1.16%) Low-Code
19 35 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
20 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 396 (12.45%) Windows
2 165 (5.19%) Windows Server
3 161 (5.06%) Linux
4 46 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.31%) CentOS
12 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (29.80%) DevOps
2 926 (29.11%) CI/CD
3 858 (26.97%) AI
4 685 (21.53%) Agile
5 527 (16.57%) Roadmaps
6 525 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 512 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 503 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 471 (14.81%) Analytics
10 440 (13.83%) Mentoring
11 437 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 347 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
13 345 (10.85%) Software Engineering
14 342 (10.75%) Data Engineering
15 337 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
16 329 (10.34%) Machine Learning
17 323 (10.15%) Migration
18 312 (9.81%) Microservices
19 305 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
20 303 (9.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 757 (23.80%) Python
2 661 (20.78%) SQL
3 340 (10.69%) C#
4 293 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 222 (6.98%) Java
6 197 (6.19%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.25%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.14%) Bicep
9 85 (2.67%) Bash
10 54 (1.70%) Scala
11 40 (1.26%) R
12 29 (0.91%) Go
13 26 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 23 (0.72%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 409 (12.86%) Degree
2 280 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 260 (8.17%) Azure Certification
4 209 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 135 (4.24%) CISSP
6 126 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 123 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 96 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.33%) CISM
10 71 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 47 (1.48%) CCNP
13 44 (1.38%) CCNA
14 33 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.97%) PhD
17 27 (0.85%) PMP
18 26 (0.82%) DV Cleared
19 24 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 159 (5.00%) GDPR
4 149 (4.68%) QA
5 115 (3.62%) NIST
6 74 (2.33%) SLA
7 60 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.26%) GRC
10 32 (1.01%) NCSC
11 29 (0.91%) PMO
12 25 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 6 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 404 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 263 (8.27%) Docker
3 124 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.53%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.19%) 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
1 335 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 220 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 135 (4.24%) Ansible
4 85 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 59 (1.85%) Grafana
6 47 (1.48%) SCCM
7 34 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.57%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 9 (0.28%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) Puppet
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,388 (43.63%) Microsoft
2 307 (9.65%) Databricks
3 183 (5.75%) VMware
4 174 (5.47%) Google
5 155 (4.87%) Cisco
6 79 (2.48%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.42%) Oracle
9 67 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.92%) Foundry
11 58 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.76%) SAP
13 50 (1.57%) Splunk
14 45 (1.41%) Meraki
15 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
16 40 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.16%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 34 (1.07%) Tenable
19 33 (1.04%) Citrix