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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,940 2,333 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.08% 19.71% 19.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.15% 44.56% 44.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 1,743 3,736
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,875 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 7,323 5,236 10,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.07% 44.23% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,907 3,741 8,067
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 0 644 £82,500 +6.45% 263
West London +11 75 £60,000 +41.18% 38
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 13
East London -13 20 £95,000 +11.76% 34
North London +3 12 £55,000 +10.00% 11
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
1 187 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 123 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.16%) Confluence
6 19 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.54%) Apache
8 14 (0.48%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 9 (0.31%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.14%) Moodle
15 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 49 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.44%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.034%) Maya
8 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.34%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) Shopify
9 2 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.034%) Maximo
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.034%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 963 (32.76%) AWS
2 563 (19.15%) GCP
3 500 (17.01%) Microsoft 365
4 375 (12.76%) Power Platform
5 353 (12.01%) Entra ID
6 350 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (6.67%) GitHub
8 193 (6.56%) SaaS
9 152 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 142 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 139 (4.73%) PaaS
12 127 (4.32%) Azure AI
13 126 (4.29%) Serverless
14 110 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 102 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
16 98 (3.33%) Power Automate
17 97 (3.30%) Snowflake
18 93 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
19 91 (3.10%) IaaS
20 88 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 320 (10.88%) Firewall
2 182 (6.19%) VPN
3 176 (5.99%) DNS
4 159 (5.41%) WAN
5 145 (4.93%) DHCP
6 130 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
7 123 (4.18%) Network Security
8 104 (3.54%) LAN
9 89 (3.03%) TCP/IP
10 88 (2.99%) SD-WAN
11 62 (2.11%) VLAN
12 58 (1.97%) SAN
13 36 (1.22%) BGP
13 36 (1.22%) Internet
13 36 (1.22%) Wireless
14 33 (1.12%) WLAN
15 32 (1.09%) OSPF
16 31 (1.05%) VoIP
17 27 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 253 (8.61%) Power BI
3 132 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.42%) Data Lake
5 93 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 65 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 61 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (2.07%) Tableau
8 58 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 56 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 51 (1.73%) Big Data
10 51 (1.73%) BigQuery
11 50 (1.70%) Metadata
12 45 (1.53%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 40 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (0.92%) MySQL
15 27 (0.92%) Pinecone
16 25 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 181 (6.16%) Git
2 97 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.48%) JIRA
4 70 (2.38%) GitLab
5 47 (1.60%) MLflow
6 27 (0.92%) Postman
7 22 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.71%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.58%) Selenium
10 15 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.37%) Vite
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 900 (30.61%) Finance
2 796 (27.07%) Social Skills
3 297 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (7.35%) Banking
5 167 (5.68%) Law
6 118 (4.01%) Public Sector
7 116 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (3.30%) Legal
9 69 (2.35%) Retail
10 56 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
15 37 (1.26%) Front Office
16 31 (1.05%) Marketing
17 26 (0.88%) Multimedia
18 23 (0.78%) Advertising
19 22 (0.75%) Retail Banking
20 20 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 568 (19.32%) Senior
2 439 (14.93%) Architect
3 381 (12.96%) Lead
4 286 (9.73%) Developer
5 270 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
6 185 (6.29%) Analyst
7 168 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 156 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 133 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (4.32%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.18%) Consultant
12 110 (3.74%) Azure Architect
13 108 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 107 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 101 (3.44%) IT Engineer
16 100 (3.40%) Support Engineer
17 99 (3.37%) Network Engineer
18 95 (3.23%) Security Engineer
19 91 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
20 86 (2.93%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (9.76%) .NET
2 158 (5.37%) React
3 131 (4.46%) REST
4 112 (3.81%) Kafka
5 101 (3.44%) OAuth
6 84 (2.86%) RESTful
7 81 (2.76%) CSS
8 75 (2.55%) Node.js
9 74 (2.52%) HTML
10 72 (2.45%) PySpark
11 66 (2.24%) .NET Core
11 66 (2.24%) LangChain
12 57 (1.94%) Spring
13 55 (1.87%) SAML
14 53 (1.80%) PyTorch
15 52 (1.77%) TensorFlow
16 46 (1.56%) Django
16 46 (1.56%) Spring Boot
17 45 (1.53%) OpenID
18 44 (1.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 294 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 93 (3.16%) Security Posture
4 87 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 85 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 69 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 66 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 64 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
10 64 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 63 (2.14%) AI Agents
12 59 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
13 50 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.36%) Low-Code
16 39 (1.33%) Cyberattack
16 39 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.26%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 413 (14.05%) Windows
2 167 (5.68%) Linux
3 159 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.62%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 34 (1.16%) VMS
6 33 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 31 (1.05%) Unix
8 30 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.82%) Android
11 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (0.37%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.31%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.068%) SUSE
18 1 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (27.96%) DevOps
2 723 (24.59%) CI/CD
3 605 (20.58%) AI
4 571 (19.42%) Agile
5 449 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
6 426 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 421 (14.32%) Roadmaps
8 419 (14.25%) Analytics
9 415 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 399 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 312 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
12 301 (10.24%) Data Engineering
13 285 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
14 277 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 269 (9.15%) Software Engineering
16 265 (9.01%) Data Modelling
17 263 (8.95%) Machine Learning
18 258 (8.78%) Migration
19 248 (8.44%) Microservices
20 220 (7.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 739 (25.14%) Python
2 605 (20.58%) SQL
3 337 (11.46%) PowerShell
4 281 (9.56%) C#
5 228 (7.76%) JavaScript
6 169 (5.75%) Java
7 148 (5.03%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.47%) Bash
9 76 (2.59%) Bicep
10 49 (1.67%) Go
11 37 (1.26%) R
12 36 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.82%) Scala
15 21 (0.71%) C++
16 15 (0.51%) Rust
17 12 (0.41%) C
17 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.34%) RPG
Qualifications
1 367 (12.48%) Degree
2 294 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 224 (7.62%) Security Cleared
4 160 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 156 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 120 (4.08%) CISSP
7 119 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 102 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
9 81 (2.76%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.73%) CCNP
10 51 (1.73%) CEH
11 49 (1.67%) CCNA
12 48 (1.63%) CISM
13 46 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (1.26%) DV Cleared
16 32 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 30 (1.02%) CCIE
18 29 (0.99%) PMI Certification
19 27 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 152 (5.17%) NIST
3 148 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 143 (4.86%) GDPR
5 95 (3.23%) QA
6 89 (3.03%) SLA
7 52 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.29%) NCSC
10 34 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 33 (1.12%) GRC
12 29 (0.99%) PMO
12 29 (0.99%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 19 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 9 (0.31%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 410 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 236 (8.03%) Docker
3 117 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.05%) vSphere
8 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.31%) Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.068%) Xen
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 406 (13.81%) Terraform
2 317 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 219 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 130 (4.42%) Ansible
5 65 (2.21%) SCCM
6 56 (1.90%) Grafana
6 56 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.09%) FortiGate
9 29 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.44%) Istio
11 12 (0.41%) Argo
12 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.31%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,188 (40.41%) Microsoft
2 300 (10.20%) Databricks
3 197 (6.70%) VMware
4 144 (4.90%) Cisco
5 128 (4.35%) Google
6 87 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.82%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 64 (2.18%) Oracle
10 57 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
12 50 (1.70%) Meraki
12 50 (1.70%) SAP
13 48 (1.63%) Foundry
14 44 (1.50%) Dynatrace
14 44 (1.50%) Salesforce
15 43 (1.46%) Splunk
16 42 (1.43%) SolarWinds
17 41 (1.39%) Dell
18 40 (1.36%) ForeScout