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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,189 2,320 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.30% 19.64% 19.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.09% 43.18% 44.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,661 2,523
10th Percentile £48,250 £42,500 £46,603
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 £112,500 £112,000 £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 8,598 5,373 8,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.16% 45.49% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,714 3,675 5,507
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,682
25th Percentile £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.36%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +1 403 £85,000 +9.68% 423
West London -1 88 £77,500 +37.78% 99
South London -12 24 £80,000 +23.08% 29
East London -7 21 £55,500 +30.59% 25
North London -7 14 £60,000 -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
1 209 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 135 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.98%) Confluence
5 33 (1.03%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.34%) Camunda
11 8 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (32.30%) AWS
2 649 (20.35%) GCP
3 548 (17.18%) Microsoft 365
4 475 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
5 448 (14.05%) Power Platform
6 436 (13.67%) Entra ID
7 229 (7.18%) SaaS
8 209 (6.55%) GitHub
9 193 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 191 (5.99%) Serverless
11 170 (5.33%) PaaS
12 152 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 146 (4.58%) Azure AI
14 134 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
15 133 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 132 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 132 (4.14%) Power Automate
17 128 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 122 (3.83%) Snowflake
19 115 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 295 (9.25%) Firewall
2 170 (5.33%) DNS
3 163 (5.11%) VPN
4 154 (4.83%) Network Security
5 128 (4.01%) DHCP
6 103 (3.23%) WAN
7 89 (2.79%) LAN
7 89 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
8 85 (2.67%) TCP/IP
9 80 (2.51%) VLAN
10 55 (1.72%) SAN
11 54 (1.69%) Wireless
12 52 (1.63%) SD-WAN
13 39 (1.22%) BGP
14 35 (1.10%) OSPF
15 29 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.85%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.56%) SSL
18 16 (0.50%) DMARC
19 14 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (9.09%) Power BI
2 261 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 176 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 126 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 99 (3.10%) Metadata
7 79 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.04%) Tableau
11 54 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 52 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.10%) Data Vault
16 34 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 32 (1.00%) MySQL
18 31 (0.97%) Big Data
19 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
19 27 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 181 (5.68%) Git
2 125 (3.92%) JIRA
3 114 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 61 (1.91%) GitLab
5 29 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 14 (0.44%) JUnit
7 14 (0.44%) Mockito
7 14 (0.44%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.34%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.34%) Maven
10 10 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 1,013 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 995 (31.20%) Finance
3 311 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (7.24%) Law
5 219 (6.87%) Banking
6 174 (5.46%) Legal
7 154 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 145 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.36%) Retail
10 84 (2.63%) Marketing
11 74 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.94%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.00%) Front Office
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.63%) Advertising
20 19 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 597 (18.72%) Senior
2 568 (17.81%) Architect
3 397 (12.45%) Lead
4 364 (11.41%) Developer
5 285 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (6.49%) Data Engineer
7 185 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 163 (5.11%) Analyst
9 145 (4.55%) Consultant
10 138 (4.33%) Software Engineer
11 123 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 120 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 114 (3.57%) Azure Architect
13 114 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 101 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
15 99 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
16 98 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 90 (2.82%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.41%) Network Engineer
19 72 (2.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (15.08%) Terraform
2 304 (9.53%) .NET
3 221 (6.93%) REST
4 162 (5.08%) React
5 118 (3.70%) Kafka
6 115 (3.61%) RESTful
7 96 (3.01%) OAuth
8 91 (2.85%) Spring
9 90 (2.82%) Node.js
10 87 (2.73%) LangChain
11 86 (2.70%) ASP.NET
12 82 (2.57%) Spring Boot
13 80 (2.51%) .NET Core
14 79 (2.48%) PySpark
15 62 (1.94%) LangGraph
16 59 (1.85%) OAuth2
17 55 (1.72%) JSON
18 54 (1.69%) AngularJS
19 52 (1.63%) .NET Framework
19 52 (1.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 427 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 156 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 122 (3.83%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 102 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 94 (2.95%) Security Posture
9 73 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 66 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 45 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
14 43 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 39 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 36 (1.13%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
19 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 401 (12.57%) Windows
2 171 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 164 (5.14%) Linux
4 47 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.82%) 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 11 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (30.20%) DevOps
2 941 (29.51%) CI/CD
3 858 (26.90%) AI
4 681 (21.35%) Agile
5 531 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
6 520 (16.31%) Roadmaps
7 517 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 514 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 479 (15.02%) Analytics
10 442 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 438 (13.73%) Mentoring
12 356 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
13 348 (10.91%) Software Engineering
14 344 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
15 339 (10.63%) Data Engineering
16 326 (10.22%) Machine Learning
17 320 (10.03%) Migration
18 315 (9.88%) Microservices
19 309 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
20 306 (9.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 768 (24.08%) Python
2 667 (20.92%) SQL
3 334 (10.47%) C#
4 298 (9.34%) PowerShell
5 217 (6.80%) Java
6 194 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 166 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 104 (3.26%) Bicep
9 85 (2.67%) Bash
10 54 (1.69%) Scala
11 41 (1.29%) R
12 29 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 28 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 28 (0.88%) Go
14 22 (0.69%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 412 (12.92%) Degree
2 282 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 254 (7.96%) Azure Certification
4 213 (6.68%) SC Cleared
5 139 (4.36%) CISSP
6 127 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 94 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
8 76 (2.38%) CISM
9 73 (2.29%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 46 (1.44%) CCNP
12 42 (1.32%) CCNA
13 34 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
14 33 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
14 33 (1.03%) PhD
15 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
16 25 (0.78%) PMP
17 24 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 23 (0.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.14%) GDPR
4 149 (4.67%) QA
5 117 (3.67%) NIST
6 72 (2.26%) SLA
7 61 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.25%) GRC
10 31 (0.97%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 15 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 408 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 272 (8.53%) Docker
3 125 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 11 (0.34%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
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%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.031%) Xen
14 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 340 (10.66%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (4.39%) Ansible
4 84 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 61 (1.91%) Grafana
6 46 (1.44%) SCCM
7 35 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.88%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CASB
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 11 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.28%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) Puppet
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,390 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 296 (9.28%) Databricks
3 186 (5.83%) VMware
4 175 (5.49%) Google
5 152 (4.77%) Cisco
6 80 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.38%) Oracle
9 65 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.91%) Foundry
11 57 (1.79%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.79%) SAP
12 51 (1.60%) Splunk
13 45 (1.41%) Zscaler
14 44 (1.38%) Meraki
15 40 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
16 38 (1.19%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 33 (1.03%) Citrix
18 33 (1.03%) Tenable