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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,017 2,458 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 20.20% 18.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.50% 44.81% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,148 1,820 3,747
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,375
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 £114,125 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,450 5,485 10,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.71% 45.07% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,088 3,870 8,214
10th Percentile £42,175 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 0 607 £82,500 +6.45% 167
West London +15 84 £65,000 +52.94% 53
South London +24 48 £80,000 +23.08% 5
East London -6 21 £32,500 -62.32% 35
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 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
1 192 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 123 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.23%) Confluence
6 18 (0.60%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.50%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 8 (0.27%) Appian
9 8 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.20%) Camunda
11 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.17%) IIS
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
13 3 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.56%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.066%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.066%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 977 (32.38%) AWS
2 578 (19.16%) GCP
3 515 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
4 380 (12.60%) Power Platform
5 367 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 357 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
7 204 (6.76%) SaaS
8 190 (6.30%) GitHub
9 152 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 144 (4.77%) PaaS
11 141 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 134 (4.44%) Serverless
13 130 (4.31%) Azure AI
14 122 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 102 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
15 102 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
15 102 (3.38%) Snowflake
16 100 (3.31%) Power Automate
17 99 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
18 94 (3.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.34%) Firewall
2 179 (5.93%) VPN
3 168 (5.57%) DNS
4 152 (5.04%) WAN
5 139 (4.61%) Network Security
6 137 (4.54%) DHCP
7 120 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (3.55%) LAN
9 89 (2.95%) TCP/IP
10 83 (2.75%) SD-WAN
11 63 (2.09%) VLAN
12 53 (1.76%) SAN
13 42 (1.39%) BGP
14 38 (1.26%) OSPF
15 35 (1.16%) Wireless
16 31 (1.03%) VoIP
17 29 (0.96%) WLAN
18 26 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.80%) Broadband
19 24 (0.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 253 (8.39%) Power BI
3 136 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 128 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 103 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 63 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 63 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (2.06%) Tableau
8 60 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 56 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
9 56 (1.86%) Metadata
10 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 42 (1.39%) Big Data
12 42 (1.39%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (0.89%) MySQL
16 26 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (5.93%) Git
2 102 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.59%) JIRA
4 75 (2.49%) GitLab
5 42 (1.39%) MLflow
6 29 (0.96%) Postman
7 22 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.60%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
9 16 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.36%) Vite
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 936 (31.02%) Finance
2 836 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 280 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (7.26%) Banking
5 177 (5.87%) Law
6 124 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 120 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (3.51%) Legal
9 73 (2.42%) Retail
10 60 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.16%) Front Office
15 31 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (0.96%) Marketing
17 27 (0.89%) Advertising
18 21 (0.70%) Investment Banking
19 19 (0.63%) Retail Banking
20 16 (0.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 580 (19.22%) Senior
2 468 (15.51%) Architect
3 404 (13.39%) Lead
4 300 (9.94%) Developer
5 274 (9.08%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.90%) Analyst
7 164 (5.44%) Data Engineer
8 160 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 150 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.01%) Consultant
12 112 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 107 (3.55%) Azure Architect
14 102 (3.38%) Security Engineer
15 101 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.28%) IT Engineer
17 94 (3.12%) Data Architect
18 93 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
18 93 (3.08%) Support Engineer
19 91 (3.02%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (9.91%) .NET
2 166 (5.50%) React
3 134 (4.44%) REST
4 116 (3.84%) Kafka
5 104 (3.45%) OAuth
6 87 (2.88%) RESTful
7 86 (2.85%) Node.js
8 77 (2.55%) LangChain
9 75 (2.49%) .NET Core
10 72 (2.39%) CSS
11 69 (2.29%) Spring
12 68 (2.25%) PySpark
13 66 (2.19%) HTML
14 60 (1.99%) PyTorch
15 59 (1.96%) Spring Boot
16 58 (1.92%) TensorFlow
17 57 (1.89%) SAML
18 56 (1.86%) ASP.NET
19 51 (1.69%) OpenID
20 44 (1.46%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 348 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 125 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.61%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 85 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.29%) AI Agents
9 67 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 63 (2.09%) Management Information System
11 62 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
11 62 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 44 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.39%) Low-Code
17 40 (1.33%) Cyberattack
18 35 (1.16%) Algorithms
19 33 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 416 (13.79%) Windows
2 168 (5.57%) Linux
3 159 (5.27%) Windows Server
4 70 (2.32%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 34 (1.13%) VMS
7 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.80%) Unix
10 21 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.63%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.30%) CentOS
14 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (28.24%) DevOps
2 764 (25.32%) CI/CD
3 640 (21.21%) AI
4 610 (20.22%) Agile
5 457 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (14.85%) Roadmaps
7 445 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 430 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 421 (13.95%) Analytics
9 421 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 316 (10.47%) Data Engineering
11 314 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
12 295 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 294 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
14 285 (9.45%) Software Engineering
15 278 (9.21%) Machine Learning
16 270 (8.95%) Data Modelling
17 264 (8.75%) Microservices
18 253 (8.39%) Migration
19 238 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 725 (24.03%) Python
2 614 (20.35%) SQL
3 330 (10.94%) PowerShell
4 291 (9.65%) C#
5 220 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 172 (5.70%) Java
7 162 (5.37%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.61%) Bash
9 78 (2.59%) Bicep
10 44 (1.46%) Go
11 37 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 28 (0.93%) R
14 23 (0.76%) Scala
15 22 (0.73%) C++
16 15 (0.50%) Rust
17 14 (0.46%) RPG
18 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.40%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 367 (12.16%) Degree
2 286 (9.48%) Azure Certification
3 235 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 173 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 146 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.21%) CISSP
7 116 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 110 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 72 (2.39%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.86%) CISM
11 55 (1.82%) CCNP
12 54 (1.79%) CCNA
13 51 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 49 (1.62%) CEH
15 46 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) DV Cleared
17 31 (1.03%) CCIE
18 26 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.86%) PMP
19 25 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (5.27%) NIST
3 155 (5.14%) GDPR
4 150 (4.97%) Data Quality
5 117 (3.88%) QA
6 91 (3.02%) SLA
7 57 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.29%) NCSC
10 35 (1.16%) GRC
10 35 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 31 (1.03%) PMO
12 29 (0.96%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.27%) COBIT
18 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 418 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 239 (7.92%) Docker
3 121 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 29 (0.96%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.17%) KVM
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 2 (0.066%) Xen
11 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
12 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 427 (14.15%) Terraform
2 327 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 221 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (4.61%) Ansible
5 63 (2.09%) SCCM
6 57 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.79%) Grafana
8 43 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.30%) Argo
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.30%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
14 8 (0.27%) Nagios
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,218 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 308 (10.21%) Databricks
3 194 (6.43%) VMware
4 142 (4.71%) Cisco
5 129 (4.28%) Google
6 90 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.78%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 66 (2.19%) Oracle
10 54 (1.79%) Foundry
11 48 (1.59%) Splunk
12 47 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 47 (1.56%) Meraki
12 47 (1.56%) SAP
13 45 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.43%) Dynatrace
15 42 (1.39%) Dell
15 42 (1.39%) SolarWinds
16 39 (1.29%) Salesforce
17 37 (1.23%) ForeScout