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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,064 2,492 4,582
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.97% 20.22% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.62% 44.82% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,205 1,839 3,668
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 £62,205 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.49% +3.68% -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 7,734 5,560 10,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.25% 45.12% 42.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,247 3,948 8,113
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 £122,325 £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 2 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 2 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 0 584 £82,500 +6.45% 406
West London +11 88 £69,119 +53.60% 63
South London +22 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -5 19 £32,500 -61.76% 29
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 4
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
1 196 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 63 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.31%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.55%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.26%) Camunda
11 7 (0.23%) Appian
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 45 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.65%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.033%) Houdini
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) NUKE
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
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%) 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 GRC
9 1 (0.033%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 992 (32.38%) AWS
2 586 (19.13%) GCP
3 529 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
4 395 (12.89%) Power Platform
5 378 (12.34%) Entra ID
6 364 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (6.98%) SaaS
8 191 (6.23%) GitHub
9 158 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (4.83%) PaaS
11 145 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 139 (4.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 137 (4.47%) Serverless
14 135 (4.41%) Azure AI
15 109 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
15 109 (3.56%) Snowflake
16 108 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
17 105 (3.43%) Power Automate
18 98 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
19 95 (3.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.15%) Firewall
2 176 (5.74%) VPN
3 171 (5.58%) DNS
4 154 (5.03%) Network Security
5 144 (4.70%) WAN
6 141 (4.60%) DHCP
7 121 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (3.49%) LAN
9 90 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 75 (2.45%) SD-WAN
11 69 (2.25%) VLAN
12 52 (1.70%) SAN
13 43 (1.40%) BGP
14 39 (1.27%) OSPF
14 39 (1.27%) Wireless
15 29 (0.95%) VoIP
16 27 (0.88%) Kerberos
16 27 (0.88%) WLAN
17 24 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
18 21 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (8.75%) Power BI
2 263 (8.58%) SQL Server
3 146 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 109 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 63 (2.06%) Tableau
9 58 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 57 (1.86%) Metadata
11 44 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.34%) BigQuery
14 40 (1.31%) Big Data
15 35 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (0.98%) MySQL
17 28 (0.91%) Star Schema
18 26 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 178 (5.81%) Git
2 104 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 77 (2.51%) JIRA
4 74 (2.42%) GitLab
5 37 (1.21%) MLflow
6 23 (0.75%) Postman
7 21 (0.69%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.42%) Selenium
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) Vite
12 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.33%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 946 (30.87%) Finance
2 860 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 271 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (7.02%) Banking
5 181 (5.91%) Law
6 121 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 111 (3.62%) Legal
9 76 (2.48%) Retail
10 55 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 42 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
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
1 591 (19.29%) Senior
2 494 (16.12%) Architect
3 415 (13.54%) Lead
4 304 (9.92%) Developer
5 269 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.81%) Analyst
7 168 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 167 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 154 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.08%) Software Engineer
11 122 (3.98%) Consultant
12 116 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 109 (3.56%) Azure Architect
14 105 (3.43%) Security Engineer
15 104 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.23%) Data Architect
17 96 (3.13%) IT Engineer
18 89 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
19 88 (2.87%) Network Engineer
20 87 (2.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (10.05%) .NET
2 168 (5.48%) React
3 137 (4.47%) REST
4 119 (3.88%) Kafka
5 106 (3.46%) OAuth
6 96 (3.13%) Node.js
7 90 (2.94%) RESTful
8 80 (2.61%) .NET Core
9 77 (2.51%) LangChain
10 74 (2.42%) Spring
11 67 (2.19%) PySpark
12 66 (2.15%) ASP.NET
13 64 (2.09%) Spring Boot
14 62 (2.02%) CSS
15 60 (1.96%) PyTorch
16 59 (1.93%) HTML
17 58 (1.89%) TensorFlow
18 57 (1.86%) SAML
19 55 (1.80%) OpenID
20 44 (1.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 368 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 132 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 93 (3.04%) Data Centre
4 93 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
5 77 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 73 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 66 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 62 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
12 49 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.37%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.17%) Cyberattack
16 34 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 417 (13.61%) Windows
2 172 (5.61%) Linux
3 160 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 65 (2.12%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.04%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.72%) Unix
9 19 (0.62%) Android
9 19 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.33%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (28.36%) DevOps
2 795 (25.95%) CI/CD
3 653 (21.31%) AI
4 629 (20.53%) Agile
5 463 (15.11%) Roadmaps
6 460 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 454 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
8 444 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 431 (14.07%) Mentoring
10 427 (13.94%) Analytics
11 318 (10.38%) Data Engineering
12 315 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
13 305 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
14 302 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 294 (9.60%) Software Engineering
16 285 (9.30%) Machine Learning
17 275 (8.98%) Microservices
18 269 (8.78%) Data Modelling
19 258 (8.42%) Migration
20 248 (8.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 729 (23.79%) Python
2 620 (20.23%) SQL
3 325 (10.61%) PowerShell
4 304 (9.92%) C#
5 223 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 178 (5.81%) Java
7 172 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.46%) Bash
9 77 (2.51%) Bicep
10 43 (1.40%) Go
11 34 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 24 (0.78%) R
14 22 (0.72%) Scala
15 21 (0.69%) C++
16 17 (0.55%) 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
1 374 (12.21%) Degree
2 284 (9.27%) Azure Certification
3 242 (7.90%) Security Cleared
4 175 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 144 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.14%) CISSP
7 114 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 112 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.25%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.86%) CCNP
11 54 (1.76%) CCNA
11 54 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 53 (1.73%) CISM
13 48 (1.57%) CEH
14 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.98%) CCIE
17 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.85%) GIAC
19 25 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (5.22%) GDPR
3 155 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 154 (5.03%) NIST
5 129 (4.21%) QA
6 91 (2.97%) SLA
7 57 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.27%) GRC
10 33 (1.08%) NCSC
10 33 (1.08%) PMO
10 33 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 27 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 18 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 8 (0.26%) COBIT
16 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 423 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 243 (7.93%) Docker
3 122 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.88%) 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
Systems Management
1 439 (14.33%) Terraform
2 326 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 222 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (4.80%) Ansible
5 63 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 59 (1.93%) SCCM
7 52 (1.70%) Grafana
8 40 (1.31%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 23 (0.75%) 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%) QRadar
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 7 (0.23%) Kibana
16 6 (0.20%) CloudHub
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,260 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 313 (10.22%) Databricks
3 194 (6.33%) VMware
4 142 (4.63%) Cisco
5 129 (4.21%) Google
6 92 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.35%) Oracle
8 72 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 58 (1.89%) Foundry
10 51 (1.66%) Splunk
11 48 (1.57%) SAP
12 47 (1.53%) Meraki
13 43 (1.40%) Fortinet
13 43 (1.40%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
14 42 (1.37%) SolarWinds
15 41 (1.34%) Dell
15 41 (1.34%) Dynatrace
16 40 (1.31%) Tenable