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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,080 2,554 4,340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.84% 20.46% 18.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.78% 45.02% 44.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 1,877 3,449
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,836 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £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 £114,250 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.98%

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 7,942 5,673 9,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.69% 45.45% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,301 4,036 7,709
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 £122,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 0 558 £83,000 +7.10% 159
West London +10 90 £70,000 +55.56% 53
South London +14 47 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -12 18 £32,500 -55.17% 35
North London -1 8 £55,000 -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
1 195 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 128 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 68 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (1.36%) Confluence
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
7 17 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 11 (0.36%) Camunda
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Mule
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
11 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
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
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Endur
6 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (32.69%) AWS
2 590 (19.16%) GCP
3 527 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
4 402 (13.05%) Power Platform
5 385 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 364 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (6.92%) SaaS
8 185 (6.01%) GitHub
9 160 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 147 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 147 (4.77%) PaaS
10 147 (4.77%) Serverless
11 139 (4.51%) Azure AI
12 114 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 113 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 106 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
15 101 (3.28%) Power Automate
16 95 (3.08%) IaaS
17 89 (2.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.19%) Firewall
2 179 (5.81%) VPN
3 175 (5.68%) DNS
4 156 (5.06%) Network Security
5 141 (4.58%) WAN
6 139 (4.51%) DHCP
7 120 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
8 111 (3.60%) LAN
9 91 (2.95%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.37%) SD-WAN
11 69 (2.24%) VLAN
12 50 (1.62%) SAN
13 45 (1.46%) BGP
14 42 (1.36%) Wireless
15 41 (1.33%) OSPF
16 29 (0.94%) Kerberos
16 29 (0.94%) VoIP
17 26 (0.84%) WLAN
18 22 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.83%) Power BI
2 256 (8.31%) SQL Server
3 153 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 112 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 69 (2.24%) Tableau
8 67 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 61 (1.98%) Metadata
9 61 (1.98%) NoSQL
10 52 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 43 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 42 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 40 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 39 (1.27%) Big Data
15 38 (1.23%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (1.04%) MySQL
18 31 (1.01%) Star Schema
19 28 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 171 (5.55%) Git
2 109 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.79%) JIRA
4 73 (2.37%) GitLab
5 33 (1.07%) MLflow
6 22 (0.71%) Postman
7 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 15 (0.49%) Selenium
9 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.29%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) JMeter
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
General
1 934 (30.32%) Finance
2 880 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (6.95%) Banking
5 184 (5.97%) Law
6 128 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 118 (3.83%) Legal
8 117 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 79 (2.56%) Retail
10 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.40%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.17%) Front Office
15 31 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.01%) Marketing
16 30 (0.97%) Advertising
17 25 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 589 (19.12%) Senior
2 509 (16.53%) Architect
3 418 (13.57%) Lead
4 305 (9.90%) Developer
5 273 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
7 174 (5.65%) Analyst
8 173 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 150 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (4.12%) Consultant
11 118 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 118 (3.83%) Software Engineer
12 112 (3.64%) Azure Architect
13 103 (3.34%) Data Architect
14 101 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 98 (3.18%) Security Engineer
16 93 (3.02%) IT Engineer
17 88 (2.86%) IT Support
18 86 (2.79%) Network Engineer
19 85 (2.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (9.90%) .NET
2 171 (5.55%) React
3 141 (4.58%) REST
4 121 (3.93%) Kafka
5 106 (3.44%) OAuth
6 100 (3.25%) Node.js
7 87 (2.82%) RESTful
8 80 (2.60%) Spring
9 77 (2.50%) .NET Core
10 73 (2.37%) LangChain
11 70 (2.27%) Spring Boot
12 67 (2.18%) ASP.NET
13 65 (2.11%) PySpark
14 58 (1.88%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.85%) OpenID
16 56 (1.82%) CSS
17 54 (1.75%) HTML
17 54 (1.75%) SAML
17 54 (1.75%) TensorFlow
18 50 (1.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 385 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 135 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 100 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 80 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.01%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.82%) Data Structures
13 55 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
15 48 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.30%) Low-Code
18 36 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
19 33 (1.07%) Cyberattack
20 31 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 427 (13.86%) Windows
2 182 (5.91%) Linux
3 163 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 31 (1.01%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 19 (0.62%) Android
11 18 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.32%) CentOS
13 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (28.60%) DevOps
2 808 (26.23%) CI/CD
3 663 (21.53%) AI
4 640 (20.78%) Agile
5 476 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 473 (15.36%) Roadmaps
7 459 (14.90%) Mentoring
8 454 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 453 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 419 (13.60%) Analytics
11 323 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
12 322 (10.45%) Data Engineering
13 304 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
14 299 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 294 (9.55%) Software Engineering
16 286 (9.29%) Machine Learning
17 277 (8.99%) Microservices
18 269 (8.73%) Data Modelling
19 265 (8.60%) Migration
20 258 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 752 (24.42%) Python
2 623 (20.23%) SQL
3 318 (10.32%) PowerShell
4 313 (10.16%) C#
5 219 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 190 (6.17%) Java
7 172 (5.58%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.57%) Bash
9 80 (2.60%) Bicep
10 41 (1.33%) Go
11 30 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 30 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 25 (0.81%) Scala
13 21 (0.68%) C++
13 21 (0.68%) R
14 19 (0.62%) RPG
15 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.39%) Rust
16 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 369 (11.98%) Degree
2 281 (9.12%) Azure Certification
3 255 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 184 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (4.25%) CISSP
7 118 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
8 106 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 70 (2.27%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.95%) CCNP
11 57 (1.85%) CISM
12 55 (1.79%) CCNA
13 54 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.56%) CEH
14 48 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.97%) CCIE
17 29 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.84%) GIAC
19 25 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 162 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 161 (5.23%) GDPR
4 151 (4.90%) NIST
5 138 (4.48%) QA
6 91 (2.95%) SLA
7 59 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.30%) GRC
10 36 (1.17%) PMO
11 31 (1.01%) NCSC
12 30 (0.97%) SOC 2
13 25 (0.81%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 428 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 240 (7.79%) Docker
3 124 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.065%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) NLBS
14 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 448 (14.55%) Terraform
2 328 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 222 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 148 (4.81%) Ansible
5 63 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (1.85%) Grafana
7 55 (1.79%) SCCM
8 43 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.45%) Istio
12 13 (0.42%) Argo
13 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.29%) CloudHub
14 9 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,282 (41.62%) Microsoft
2 312 (10.13%) Databricks
3 196 (6.36%) VMware
4 147 (4.77%) Cisco
5 129 (4.19%) Google
6 90 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.44%) Oracle
9 73 (2.37%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.92%) Foundry
11 51 (1.66%) SAP
11 51 (1.66%) Splunk
12 47 (1.53%) Meraki
13 46 (1.49%) Salesforce
14 44 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.40%) Dell
15 43 (1.40%) Fortinet
16 40 (1.30%) Dynatrace
16 40 (1.30%) Tenable
17 38 (1.23%) iManage