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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,188 2,397 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.70% 20.09% 19.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.25% 43.84% 44.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,711 2,639
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,685
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,559 5,467 8,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.10% 45.82% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 3,755 5,715
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.76% -3.08%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 433 £85,000 +6.25% 456
West London -1 89 £72,500 +28.89% 102
South London -6 34 £90,000 +38.46% 33
East London -10 17 £75,000 +76.47% 40
North London -6 13 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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
1 204 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.98%) Confluence
5 39 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (1.00%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.35%) Camunda
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.094%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 58 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (32.62%) AWS
2 636 (19.95%) GCP
3 535 (16.78%) Microsoft 365
4 445 (13.96%) Power Platform
5 443 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
6 401 (12.58%) Entra ID
7 223 (6.99%) SaaS
8 183 (5.74%) GitHub
9 182 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 178 (5.58%) Serverless
11 167 (5.24%) Azure AI
12 164 (5.14%) PaaS
13 159 (4.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 157 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 144 (4.52%) Snowflake
16 127 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
17 124 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
18 123 (3.86%) Microsoft Copilot
18 123 (3.86%) Power Automate
19 105 (3.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.38%) Firewall
2 167 (5.24%) VPN
3 161 (5.05%) DNS
4 159 (4.99%) Network Security
5 125 (3.92%) DHCP
6 111 (3.48%) WAN
7 97 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (2.98%) LAN
9 81 (2.54%) TCP/IP
10 80 (2.51%) VLAN
11 61 (1.91%) SD-WAN
12 58 (1.82%) SAN
13 57 (1.79%) Wireless
14 40 (1.25%) BGP
15 37 (1.16%) OSPF
16 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.78%) Kerberos
18 18 (0.56%) SSL
19 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
20 14 (0.44%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (9.25%) Power BI
2 281 (8.81%) SQL Server
3 178 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 147 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 137 (4.30%) Data Lake
6 86 (2.70%) Metadata
7 76 (2.38%) Tableau
8 75 (2.35%) NoSQL
9 74 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 74 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
10 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 55 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.22%) Star Schema
14 37 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
16 31 (0.97%) MySQL
17 29 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
17 29 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 189 (5.93%) Git
2 118 (3.70%) JIRA
3 115 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.88%) GitLab
5 26 (0.82%) MLflow
6 23 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.50%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 985 (30.90%) Finance
2 976 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 317 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.09%) Law
5 225 (7.06%) Banking
6 163 (5.11%) Legal
7 147 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 144 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.36%) Retail
10 76 (2.38%) Marketing
11 69 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 29 (0.91%) Front Office
16 28 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (0.60%) Advertising
17 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 593 (18.60%) Senior
2 565 (17.72%) Architect
3 392 (12.30%) Lead
4 352 (11.04%) Developer
5 291 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
6 204 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 189 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
8 155 (4.86%) Analyst
9 134 (4.20%) Consultant
9 134 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 126 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 125 (3.92%) Azure Architect
12 122 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 117 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 98 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 94 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
16 90 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 86 (2.70%) Senior Developer
18 84 (2.63%) Network Engineer
19 71 (2.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (14.52%) Terraform
2 322 (10.10%) .NET
3 200 (6.27%) REST
4 165 (5.18%) React
5 131 (4.11%) Kafka
6 107 (3.36%) RESTful
7 91 (2.85%) OAuth
8 89 (2.79%) LangChain
9 88 (2.76%) ASP.NET
9 88 (2.76%) Node.js
9 88 (2.76%) Spring
10 85 (2.67%) .NET Core
11 78 (2.45%) PySpark
11 78 (2.45%) Spring Boot
12 62 (1.94%) PyTorch
13 61 (1.91%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.69%) .NET Framework
14 54 (1.69%) AngularJS
14 54 (1.69%) LangGraph
14 54 (1.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 433 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 168 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 108 (3.39%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 102 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 96 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 64 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 61 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 54 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 54 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 48 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
12 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 41 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
15 41 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 39 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 401 (12.58%) Windows
2 166 (5.21%) Linux
3 161 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.35%) CentOS
12 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 937 (29.39%) DevOps
2 910 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 863 (27.07%) AI
4 692 (21.71%) Agile
5 540 (16.94%) Roadmaps
6 518 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
7 501 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 501 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 469 (14.71%) Analytics
9 444 (13.93%) Mentoring
10 403 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 360 (11.29%) Data Engineering
12 359 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
13 347 (10.88%) Machine Learning
14 336 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
15 335 (10.51%) Software Engineering
16 313 (9.82%) Migration
17 309 (9.69%) Data Modelling
18 307 (9.63%) Microservices
19 288 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 753 (23.62%) Python
2 672 (21.08%) SQL
3 348 (10.92%) C#
4 286 (8.97%) PowerShell
5 224 (7.03%) Java
6 194 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.24%) TypeScript
8 91 (2.85%) Bicep
9 84 (2.63%) Bash
10 51 (1.60%) Scala
11 31 (0.97%) Go
12 30 (0.94%) R
13 25 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.69%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 399 (12.52%) Degree
2 266 (8.34%) Azure Certification
3 265 (8.31%) Security Cleared
4 194 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.11%) CISSP
6 125 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 109 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
9 72 (2.26%) CISM
10 66 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 57 (1.79%) CCNP
12 45 (1.41%) CCNA
13 35 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
14 28 (0.88%) PhD
15 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 27 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.82%) PMP
17 25 (0.78%) CCSP
17 25 (0.78%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.30%) GDPR
3 168 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 148 (4.64%) QA
5 121 (3.80%) NIST
6 81 (2.54%) SLA
7 61 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 51 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 400 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 249 (7.81%) Docker
3 130 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.53%) vSphere
8 13 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 4 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.031%) HDFS
14 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 328 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 219 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 135 (4.23%) Ansible
4 80 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.63%) SCCM
6 49 (1.54%) Grafana
7 33 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 11 (0.35%) CASB
11 11 (0.35%) Nagios
12 10 (0.31%) QRadar
13 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.25%) Istio
14 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.22%) Puppet
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,391 (43.63%) Microsoft
2 331 (10.38%) Databricks
3 192 (6.02%) VMware
4 165 (5.18%) Google
5 162 (5.08%) Cisco
6 82 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.45%) Oracle
8 77 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 72 (2.26%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.98%) Foundry
11 55 (1.73%) Salesforce
12 54 (1.69%) Splunk
13 52 (1.63%) SAP
14 48 (1.51%) Meraki
15 42 (1.32%) Zscaler
16 41 (1.29%) Fortinet
16 41 (1.29%) Tenable
17 37 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.16%) Dell
18 34 (1.07%) Dynatrace