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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,710 2,484 4,539
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.40% 19.24% 20.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.65% 43.77% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 1,949 3,855
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,173 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,150 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £63,247 £64,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -1.18% +7.52% -8.42%

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 6,667 5,675 9,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.89% 43.96% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,295 4,121 8,110
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 26 March 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 March 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 +1 630 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +9 75 £65,000 +32.65% 45
South London +31 38 £70,000 +16.67% 22
East London -9 27 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +17 14 £66,250 +55.88% 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
1 183 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 146 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.96%) Confluence
6 15 (0.55%) Appian
7 14 (0.52%) Apache
8 13 (0.48%) WordPress
9 12 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.41%) IIS
11 9 (0.33%) CMS
12 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.22%) Moodle
14 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.11%) SAS
17 2 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 52 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.037%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.037%) Maya
9 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.81%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.037%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.037%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 960 (35.42%) AWS
2 543 (20.04%) GCP
3 490 (18.08%) Microsoft 365
4 426 (15.72%) Power Platform
5 324 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 302 (11.14%) Entra ID
7 199 (7.34%) GitHub
8 192 (7.08%) SaaS
9 157 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 126 (4.65%) Power Automate
12 119 (4.39%) PaaS
13 106 (3.91%) Azure AI
14 103 (3.80%) Serverless
15 100 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (3.69%) PowerApps
16 92 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
17 87 (3.21%) Snowflake
18 73 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
19 69 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 300 (11.07%) Firewall
2 174 (6.42%) VPN
3 165 (6.09%) DNS
4 152 (5.61%) WAN
5 142 (5.24%) DHCP
6 121 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 108 (3.99%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.54%) LAN
9 81 (2.99%) Network Security
10 80 (2.95%) SD-WAN
11 60 (2.21%) Internet
12 54 (1.99%) VLAN
13 41 (1.51%) SAN
14 34 (1.25%) VoIP
14 34 (1.25%) Wireless
15 27 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (0.81%) Broadband
18 20 (0.74%) BGP
18 20 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (11.44%) Power BI
2 268 (9.89%) SQL Server
3 165 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
4 158 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 104 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
9 62 (2.29%) Tableau
10 61 (2.25%) Metadata
11 59 (2.18%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.03%) MongoDB
13 53 (1.96%) Relational Database
14 50 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (1.81%) Big Data
16 32 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 28 (1.03%) MySQL
19 25 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
20 24 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 194 (7.16%) Git
2 90 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.03%) JIRA
4 59 (2.18%) GitLab
5 50 (1.85%) MLflow
6 36 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.14%) Postman
8 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.66%) Chocolatey
10 17 (0.63%) Selenium
10 17 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.30%) Vite
18 7 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 800 (29.52%) Finance
2 781 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 287 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (8.27%) Banking
5 182 (6.72%) Law
6 120 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.06%) Retail
8 105 (3.87%) Legal
9 98 (3.62%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 61 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 61 (2.25%) Marketing
12 51 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 48 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.59%) Multimedia
15 39 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.40%) Front Office
17 33 (1.22%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 538 (19.85%) Senior
2 354 (13.06%) Lead
3 353 (13.03%) Architect
4 291 (10.74%) Developer
5 216 (7.97%) Analyst
6 215 (7.93%) Azure Engineer
7 174 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 129 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 123 (4.54%) Software Engineer
10 117 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 116 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 104 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
13 93 (3.43%) IT Support
14 92 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 85 (3.14%) IT Engineer
16 84 (3.10%) Data Architect
17 82 (3.03%) Consultant
17 82 (3.03%) Network Engineer
18 76 (2.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (9.26%) .NET
2 161 (5.94%) React
3 126 (4.65%) REST
4 109 (4.02%) CSS
5 103 (3.80%) HTML
5 103 (3.80%) RESTful
6 101 (3.73%) Kafka
7 90 (3.32%) OAuth
8 88 (3.25%) Node.js
9 72 (2.66%) .NET Core
10 57 (2.10%) LangChain
11 55 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 54 (1.99%) Django
12 54 (1.99%) TensorFlow
13 53 (1.96%) PySpark
14 47 (1.73%) SAML
15 41 (1.51%) SOAP
16 40 (1.48%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.37%) scikit-learn
17 37 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 244 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.84%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.58%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 79 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 79 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 71 (2.62%) Data Structures
7 70 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (2.29%) AI Agents
9 60 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 58 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 57 (2.10%) Data Centre
12 55 (2.03%) Low-Code
13 52 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
14 51 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
15 49 (1.81%) Onboarding
16 42 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.44%) Algorithms
18 38 (1.40%) Cyberattack
19 32 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 416 (15.35%) Windows
2 177 (6.53%) Windows Server
3 168 (6.20%) Linux
4 88 (3.25%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.92%) Unix
6 45 (1.66%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.25%) VMS
8 33 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (1.14%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (1.00%) Android
11 19 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.26%) CentOS
15 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.15%) SUSE
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (27.05%) DevOps
2 641 (23.65%) CI/CD
3 571 (21.07%) AI
4 548 (20.22%) Agile
5 461 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (16.49%) Analytics
7 381 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 346 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 338 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
10 333 (12.29%) Roadmaps
11 320 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 317 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
13 308 (11.37%) Computer Science
14 289 (10.66%) Data Modelling
15 271 (10.00%) Software Engineering
16 263 (9.70%) Machine Learning
17 256 (9.45%) Microservices
18 241 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 239 (8.82%) ITIL
20 235 (8.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 723 (26.68%) Python
2 629 (23.21%) SQL
3 320 (11.81%) PowerShell
4 255 (9.41%) C#
5 247 (9.11%) JavaScript
6 141 (5.20%) Java
7 131 (4.83%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.69%) Bash
9 55 (2.03%) Bicep
10 53 (1.96%) Go
11 45 (1.66%) R
12 38 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.77%) Scala
16 20 (0.74%) C++
17 15 (0.55%) Rust
18 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
20 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 410 (15.13%) Degree
2 277 (10.22%) Azure Certification
3 236 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 180 (6.64%) Security Cleared
5 146 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 127 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 115 (4.24%) CISSP
8 104 (3.84%) AWS Certification
9 76 (2.80%) Master's Degree
10 73 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (1.88%) CEH
12 50 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 45 (1.66%) CISM
14 44 (1.62%) DV Cleared
15 42 (1.55%) CCNP
16 35 (1.29%) CCNA
16 35 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.14%) PMI Certification
18 30 (1.11%) PMP
19 29 (1.07%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.31%) GDPR
2 189 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 169 (6.24%) NIST
4 136 (5.02%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.17%) QA
6 79 (2.92%) SLA
7 41 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.40%) Accessibility
10 35 (1.29%) NCSC
11 33 (1.22%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.07%) EU AI Act
13 27 (1.00%) Solvency II
14 24 (0.89%) GRC
14 24 (0.89%) HIPAA
15 23 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.85%) PSD2
16 21 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 19 (0.70%) PMO
18 17 (0.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 386 (14.24%) Active Directory
2 254 (9.37%) Docker
3 93 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 46 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.92%) vSphere
8 11 (0.41%) Firmware
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
10 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.037%) NLBS
13 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.037%) Xen
13 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 328 (12.10%) Terraform
2 302 (11.14%) Kubernetes
3 242 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.69%) Ansible
5 66 (2.44%) SCCM
6 60 (2.21%) Grafana
7 53 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 41 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.63%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.44%) CASB
14 9 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.33%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 7 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.22%) Nagios
18 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,088 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 248 (9.15%) Databricks
3 188 (6.94%) VMware
4 153 (5.65%) Google
5 130 (4.80%) Cisco
6 85 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 77 (2.84%) Palo Alto
8 65 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 63 (2.32%) Fortinet
10 62 (2.29%) Oracle
11 49 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.81%) Dell
12 46 (1.70%) Meraki
13 43 (1.59%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.55%) SAP
15 39 (1.44%) Splunk
16 35 (1.29%) CheckPoint
16 35 (1.29%) SolarWinds
17 34 (1.25%) Dynatrace
18 33 (1.22%) CyberArk