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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,061 2,461 4,607
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.05% 20.18% 19.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.87% 44.75% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 1,820 3,691
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,678 5,499 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.25% 45.10% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,201 3,894 8,139
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 0 592 £82,500 +6.45% 152
West London +8 87 £69,559 +54.58% 52
South London +20 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -4 20 £32,500 -61.76% 37
North London +1 9 £55,000 -18.52% 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
1 197 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 127 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 63 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.27%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.52%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.23%) Appian
12 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 6 (0.20%) Mule
13 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.16%) IIS
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%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 46 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.62%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.065%) Shopify
8 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 997 (32.57%) AWS
2 588 (19.21%) GCP
3 525 (17.15%) Microsoft 365
4 396 (12.94%) Power Platform
5 373 (12.19%) Entra ID
6 365 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (6.99%) SaaS
8 190 (6.21%) GitHub
9 158 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 146 (4.77%) PaaS
11 137 (4.48%) Serverless
12 133 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 132 (4.31%) Azure AI
14 111 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
15 109 (3.56%) Snowflake
16 107 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
17 104 (3.40%) Power Automate
18 100 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
19 96 (3.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 313 (10.23%) Firewall
2 176 (5.75%) VPN
3 172 (5.62%) DNS
4 152 (4.97%) Network Security
5 149 (4.87%) WAN
6 141 (4.61%) DHCP
7 124 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
8 110 (3.59%) LAN
9 90 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 78 (2.55%) SD-WAN
11 67 (2.19%) VLAN
12 53 (1.73%) SAN
13 44 (1.44%) BGP
14 40 (1.31%) OSPF
15 38 (1.24%) Wireless
16 30 (0.98%) VoIP
17 28 (0.91%) WLAN
18 26 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.78%) Kerberos
20 22 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (8.72%) Power BI
2 262 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.25%) Data Lake
5 108 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 63 (2.06%) Tableau
9 60 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 58 (1.89%) Metadata
11 45 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.44%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.40%) BigQuery
13 43 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.31%) Big Data
15 34 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (0.98%) MySQL
17 27 (0.88%) Star Schema
18 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (5.91%) Git
2 105 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 77 (2.52%) JIRA
4 76 (2.48%) GitLab
5 37 (1.21%) MLflow
6 25 (0.82%) Postman
7 22 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.59%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.49%) Selenium
11 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.36%) Vite
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 946 (30.90%) Finance
2 855 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 275 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (7.19%) Banking
5 180 (5.88%) Law
6 124 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 113 (3.69%) Legal
9 76 (2.48%) Retail
10 56 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.14%) Front Office
15 33 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Advertising
17 30 (0.98%) Marketing
18 21 (0.69%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.62%) Investment Banking
20 15 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 588 (19.21%) Senior
2 490 (16.01%) Architect
3 416 (13.59%) Lead
4 304 (9.93%) Developer
5 270 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.82%) Analyst
7 166 (5.42%) Data Engineer
8 165 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.95%) Consultant
12 114 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.53%) Azure Architect
14 104 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 104 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 98 (3.20%) Data Architect
15 98 (3.20%) IT Engineer
16 91 (2.97%) Network Engineer
16 91 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
17 90 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (9.93%) .NET
2 166 (5.42%) React
3 135 (4.41%) REST
4 117 (3.82%) Kafka
5 103 (3.36%) OAuth
6 93 (3.04%) Node.js
7 88 (2.87%) RESTful
8 79 (2.58%) LangChain
9 78 (2.55%) .NET Core
10 74 (2.42%) Spring
11 68 (2.22%) PySpark
12 64 (2.09%) Spring Boot
13 62 (2.03%) ASP.NET
13 62 (2.03%) CSS
14 60 (1.96%) PyTorch
15 59 (1.93%) HTML
16 58 (1.89%) TensorFlow
17 55 (1.80%) SAML
18 51 (1.67%) OpenID
19 44 (1.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 361 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 132 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.66%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 92 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 68 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 66 (2.16%) AI Agents
11 63 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 60 (1.96%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
14 48 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
15 46 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
16 44 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
17 43 (1.40%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.21%) Cyberattack
19 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
20 32 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 417 (13.62%) Windows
2 171 (5.59%) Linux
3 159 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.05%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.75%) Unix
9 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.62%) Android
11 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.33%) CentOS
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (28.62%) DevOps
2 794 (25.94%) CI/CD
3 651 (21.27%) AI
4 631 (20.61%) Agile
5 463 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 463 (15.13%) Roadmaps
6 457 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 443 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 433 (14.15%) Mentoring
9 425 (13.88%) Analytics
10 317 (10.36%) Data Engineering
11 311 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
12 308 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
13 302 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 297 (9.70%) Software Engineering
15 281 (9.18%) Machine Learning
16 275 (8.98%) Microservices
17 269 (8.79%) Data Modelling
18 254 (8.30%) Migration
19 246 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 736 (24.04%) Python
2 624 (20.39%) SQL
3 327 (10.68%) PowerShell
4 298 (9.74%) C#
5 221 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 176 (5.75%) Java
7 169 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 107 (3.50%) Bash
9 79 (2.58%) Bicep
10 43 (1.40%) Go
11 35 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (0.78%) R
14 23 (0.75%) Scala
15 21 (0.69%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) RPG
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (12.28%) Degree
2 284 (9.28%) Azure Certification
3 245 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 179 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 149 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.21%) CISSP
7 115 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
8 112 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 68 (2.22%) AWS Certification
10 58 (1.89%) CCNP
11 56 (1.83%) CISM
12 55 (1.80%) CCNA
13 54 (1.76%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.57%) CEH
15 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
17 31 (1.01%) CCIE
18 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.85%) GIAC
20 25 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.26%) GDPR
3 157 (5.13%) NIST
4 153 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 128 (4.18%) QA
6 91 (2.97%) SLA
7 57 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.27%) GRC
10 36 (1.18%) NCSC
11 33 (1.08%) PMO
12 31 (1.01%) PCI DSS
12 31 (1.01%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 420 (13.72%) Active Directory
2 245 (8.00%) Docker
3 122 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.91%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.065%) Xen
11 1 (0.033%) NLBS
11 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 443 (14.47%) Terraform
2 331 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 223 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (4.70%) Ansible
5 62 (2.03%) SCCM
6 61 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 53 (1.73%) Grafana
8 41 (1.34%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 8 (0.26%) Kibana
14 8 (0.26%) QRadar
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,251 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 313 (10.23%) Databricks
3 195 (6.37%) VMware
4 145 (4.74%) Cisco
5 128 (4.18%) Google
6 95 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.32%) Oracle
8 71 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.80%) Foundry
10 51 (1.67%) Splunk
11 49 (1.60%) SAP
12 48 (1.57%) Meraki
13 45 (1.47%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 43 (1.40%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
15 42 (1.37%) Dell
15 42 (1.37%) Salesforce
16 38 (1.24%) Tenable