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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,337 3,411 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs in London 17.93% 19.88% 22.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.51% 44.12% 48.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,673 2,429 3,684
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,016 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,630 7,732 8,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 43.20% 45.06% 47.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,676 5,147 7,502
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 0 452 £76,500 +5.52% 229
West London +2 54 £73,250 +1.03% 75
North London +18 25 £75,000 -6.25% 16
East London -13 24 £34,000 -32.00% 69
South London +15 23 £65,000 +5.44% 36
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
1 168 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 144 (6.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.41%) Confluence
6 19 (0.81%) Apache
7 18 (0.77%) CMS
8 15 (0.64%) IIS
9 6 (0.26%) Appian
9 6 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 6 (0.26%) Moodle
10 5 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.34%) Maya
5 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.086%) Trello
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 59 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.64%) Endur
4 11 (0.47%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.086%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.043%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.043%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.043%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 841 (35.99%) AWS
2 468 (20.03%) GCP
3 404 (17.29%) Microsoft 365
4 387 (16.56%) Power Platform
5 337 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
6 244 (10.44%) Entra ID
7 160 (6.85%) SaaS
8 156 (6.68%) GitHub
9 139 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 135 (5.78%) Power Automate
11 126 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
12 117 (5.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 114 (4.88%) Serverless
14 113 (4.84%) PowerApps
15 107 (4.58%) PaaS
16 102 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 71 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
18 68 (2.91%) Snowflake
19 66 (2.82%) Azure AI
20 61 (2.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 225 (9.63%) Firewall
2 119 (5.09%) WAN
3 118 (5.05%) VPN
4 109 (4.66%) DNS
5 100 (4.28%) LAN
6 76 (3.25%) DHCP
7 74 (3.17%) TCP/IP
8 73 (3.12%) Network Security
9 60 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (1.93%) SD-WAN
10 45 (1.93%) Wireless
11 39 (1.67%) Internet
12 35 (1.50%) VLAN
12 35 (1.50%) VoIP
13 23 (0.98%) BGP
13 23 (0.98%) OSPF
14 20 (0.86%) SAN
15 15 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.56%) Wireshark
17 12 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (11.47%) Power BI
2 231 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 179 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (5.99%) Data Lake
5 124 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 109 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 90 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 88 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 81 (3.47%) Metadata
10 74 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (2.35%) Big Data
12 43 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 41 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.71%) MySQL
15 39 (1.67%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.16%) Tableau
18 24 (1.03%) BigQuery
19 22 (0.94%) DynamoDB
20 20 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 198 (8.47%) Git
2 106 (4.54%) JIRA
3 71 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.84%) GitLab
5 40 (1.71%) Visual Studio
6 23 (0.98%) MLflow
7 22 (0.94%) Postman
7 22 (0.94%) Selenium
8 16 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.64%) JMeter
10 14 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
12 11 (0.47%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 745 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 720 (30.81%) Finance
3 285 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (9.80%) Law
5 181 (7.74%) Banking
6 176 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 141 (6.03%) Retail
8 116 (4.96%) Legal
9 112 (4.79%) Marketing
10 72 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 64 (2.74%) Financial Institution
12 61 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
15 44 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 31 (1.33%) Games
17 31 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 31 (1.33%) Retail Banking
18 28 (1.20%) Billing
Job Titles
1 432 (18.49%) Senior
2 344 (14.72%) Developer
3 318 (13.61%) Lead
4 296 (12.67%) Architect
5 188 (8.04%) Analyst
6 184 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 136 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
8 117 (5.01%) Support Engineer
9 103 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 100 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 86 (3.68%) Senior Developer
13 83 (3.55%) Data Architect
14 77 (3.29%) .NET Developer
15 75 (3.21%) IT Support
15 75 (3.21%) Support Analyst
16 70 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 66 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
18 62 (2.65%) Security Engineer
19 55 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (11.77%) .NET
2 186 (7.96%) React
3 132 (5.65%) REST
4 108 (4.62%) .NET Core
4 108 (4.62%) HTML
5 105 (4.49%) AngularJS
6 98 (4.19%) RESTful
7 94 (4.02%) CSS
8 93 (3.98%) Kafka
9 89 (3.81%) Node.js
10 72 (3.08%) ASP.NET
11 71 (3.04%) Vue
12 61 (2.61%) .NET Framework
13 57 (2.44%) PySpark
14 54 (2.31%) Web Services
15 50 (2.14%) OAuth
16 48 (2.05%) Middleware
17 46 (1.97%) YAML
18 45 (1.93%) ASP.NET MVC
18 45 (1.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 216 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 108 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 104 (4.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 97 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 76 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 68 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 65 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 53 (2.27%) Low-Code
9 53 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 51 (2.18%) AI Agents
11 50 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 36 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 35 (1.50%) Reinsurance
17 31 (1.33%) Private Cloud
17 31 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 391 (16.73%) Windows
2 181 (7.74%) Windows Server
3 169 (7.23%) Linux
4 63 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 42 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 37 (1.58%) Unix
7 32 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 29 (1.24%) Android
9 27 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.90%) VMS
11 14 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.26%) CentOS
15 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.21%) Solaris
17 3 (0.13%) SUSE
18 2 (0.086%) HPUX
18 2 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (30.34%) DevOps
2 650 (27.81%) Agile
3 601 (25.72%) CI/CD
4 497 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
5 469 (20.07%) AI
6 410 (17.54%) Analytics
7 309 (13.22%) Mentoring
8 291 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 287 (12.28%) Computer Science
10 282 (12.07%) Roadmaps
11 280 (11.98%) Data Modelling
12 277 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
13 272 (11.64%) Microservices
14 254 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 253 (10.83%) Machine Learning
16 252 (10.78%) Software Engineering
17 246 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
18 244 (10.44%) ETL
19 225 (9.63%) Migration
20 224 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 645 (27.60%) Python
2 598 (25.59%) SQL
3 308 (13.18%) C#
4 281 (12.02%) PowerShell
5 252 (10.78%) JavaScript
6 142 (6.08%) Java
7 137 (5.86%) TypeScript
8 66 (2.82%) Bash
9 47 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 44 (1.88%) Bicep
11 34 (1.45%) Scala
12 32 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 31 (1.33%) Go
14 27 (1.16%) R
15 20 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.64%) C++
17 15 (0.64%) Rust
18 12 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 418 (17.89%) Degree
2 205 (8.77%) Azure Certification
3 200 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 130 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 121 (5.18%) Security Cleared
6 111 (4.75%) AWS Certification
7 107 (4.58%) Master's Degree
8 86 (3.68%) SC Cleared
9 73 (3.12%) CISSP
10 63 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.75%) CCNP
12 32 (1.37%) CISM
13 30 (1.28%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 28 (1.20%) PMI Certification
16 26 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 26 (1.11%) CCNA
17 24 (1.03%) MCSE
17 24 (1.03%) PhD
18 23 (0.98%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.87%) GDPR
2 162 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 126 (5.39%) QA
4 121 (5.18%) NIST
5 108 (4.62%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.54%) SLA
7 35 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.20%) EU AI Act
8 28 (1.20%) NCSC
9 24 (1.03%) HIPAA
10 23 (0.98%) PSD2
11 22 (0.94%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.94%) Solvency II
12 18 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.60%) PMO
15 11 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.34%) EMIR
16 8 (0.34%) GRC
16 8 (0.34%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 324 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 226 (9.67%) Docker
3 91 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.60%) Firmware
7 14 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.51%) vSphere
9 11 (0.47%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.30%) NFS
11 6 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.21%) XenApp
13 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.17%) KVM
13 4 (0.17%) Postfix
13 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.13%) zsh
15 2 (0.086%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 277 (11.85%) Kubernetes
1 277 (11.85%) Terraform
2 204 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 126 (5.39%) Ansible
4 52 (2.23%) SCCM
5 46 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.67%) Grafana
8 19 (0.81%) Argo
9 17 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.47%) Autotask
11 11 (0.47%) CASB
11 11 (0.47%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.43%) SCOM
13 8 (0.34%) Puppet
14 7 (0.30%) Rancher
15 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 993 (42.49%) Microsoft
2 216 (9.24%) Databricks
3 159 (6.80%) VMware
4 125 (5.35%) Cisco
5 100 (4.28%) Google
6 90 (3.85%) Oracle
7 68 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 67 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.52%) SAP
10 49 (2.10%) Salesforce
11 41 (1.75%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.63%) Meraki
13 36 (1.54%) SolarWinds
14 33 (1.41%) OpenAI
15 31 (1.33%) Informatica
16 30 (1.28%) Citrix
17 24 (1.03%) CheckPoint
17 24 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
17 24 (1.03%) Splunk
18 22 (0.94%) MuleSoft