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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,732 2,504 4,561
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.24% 19.49% 20.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.44% 44.27% 45.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,964 3,864
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,663 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,016 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -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 6,755 5,656 9,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.69% 44.03% 44.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,352 4,139 8,153
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,342 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +1 626 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +7 75 £65,000 +32.65% 45
South London +31 42 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -8 27 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +12 13 £60,000 +41.18% 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
1 177 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 143 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.95%) Confluence
6 14 (0.51%) Apache
6 14 (0.51%) Appian
6 14 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.48%) WordPress
8 11 (0.40%) IIS
9 9 (0.33%) CMS
10 8 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) Camunda
11 6 (0.22%) Moodle
12 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.037%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.037%) Maya
9 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.77%) Endur
3 8 (0.29%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.073%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.073%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.073%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.037%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.037%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 967 (35.40%) AWS
2 548 (20.06%) GCP
3 487 (17.83%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (15.52%) Power Platform
5 318 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
6 300 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 200 (7.32%) GitHub
8 192 (7.03%) SaaS
9 156 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 144 (5.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 125 (4.58%) Power Automate
12 120 (4.39%) PaaS
13 117 (4.28%) Azure AI
14 104 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
15 102 (3.73%) Serverless
16 100 (3.66%) PowerApps
17 94 (3.44%) Snowflake
18 92 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
19 74 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
20 71 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 301 (11.02%) Firewall
2 174 (6.37%) VPN
3 166 (6.08%) DNS
4 155 (5.67%) WAN
5 143 (5.23%) DHCP
6 127 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (3.92%) TCP/IP
8 97 (3.55%) LAN
9 86 (3.15%) Network Security
10 83 (3.04%) SD-WAN
11 60 (2.20%) Internet
12 53 (1.94%) VLAN
13 41 (1.50%) SAN
14 35 (1.28%) Wireless
15 34 (1.24%) VoIP
16 27 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.81%) Broadband
19 21 (0.77%) BGP
19 21 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (11.24%) Power BI
2 267 (9.77%) SQL Server
3 161 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (5.67%) Data Lake
5 100 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 75 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.71%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 63 (2.31%) Tableau
10 60 (2.20%) Metadata
11 59 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 54 (1.98%) MongoDB
13 50 (1.83%) Relational Database
14 49 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 48 (1.76%) Big Data
16 33 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 28 (1.02%) MySQL
17 28 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 25 (0.92%) Pinecone
19 24 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (7.06%) Git
2 92 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.89%) JIRA
4 59 (2.16%) GitLab
5 51 (1.87%) MLflow
6 35 (1.28%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.17%) Postman
8 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.66%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.66%) Selenium
10 17 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.51%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.51%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.29%) Vite
17 7 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 805 (29.47%) Finance
2 780 (28.55%) Social Skills
3 284 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (8.38%) Banking
5 180 (6.59%) Law
6 121 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (4.03%) Retail
8 104 (3.81%) Legal
9 100 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.23%) Marketing
13 51 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 48 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.57%) Multimedia
17 39 (1.43%) Front Office
18 38 (1.39%) Telecoms
19 34 (1.24%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 536 (19.62%) Senior
2 362 (13.25%) Architect
3 361 (13.21%) Lead
4 294 (10.76%) Developer
5 222 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.76%) Analyst
7 171 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 131 (4.80%) Support Engineer
9 123 (4.50%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 109 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
13 102 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 94 (3.44%) IT Support
15 93 (3.40%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.15%) Data Architect
16 86 (3.15%) IT Engineer
16 86 (3.15%) Network Engineer
17 82 (3.00%) Consultant
18 80 (2.93%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (9.26%) .NET
2 166 (6.08%) React
3 125 (4.58%) REST
4 110 (4.03%) CSS
5 104 (3.81%) HTML
6 103 (3.77%) RESTful
7 100 (3.66%) Kafka
8 90 (3.29%) Node.js
9 87 (3.18%) OAuth
10 70 (2.56%) .NET Core
11 58 (2.12%) LangChain
12 56 (2.05%) PyTorch
13 55 (2.01%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.98%) Django
15 52 (1.90%) PySpark
16 47 (1.72%) SAML
17 40 (1.46%) SOAP
18 38 (1.39%) AngularJS
19 37 (1.35%) scikit-learn
19 37 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 246 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 106 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.55%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 81 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 71 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 64 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 61 (2.23%) AI Agents
11 57 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 55 (2.01%) Low-Code
13 52 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
14 51 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
15 50 (1.83%) Onboarding
16 42 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.43%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.43%) Cyberattack
18 32 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 409 (14.97%) Windows
2 174 (6.37%) Windows Server
3 166 (6.08%) Linux
4 85 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.83%) Unix
6 45 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (1.24%) VMS
9 33 (1.21%) Apple iOS
10 31 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 28 (1.02%) Android
12 21 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.26%) CentOS
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.15%) SUSE
18 2 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (26.94%) DevOps
2 643 (23.54%) CI/CD
3 584 (21.38%) AI
4 552 (20.20%) Agile
5 458 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (16.14%) Analytics
7 386 (14.13%) Mentoring
8 346 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 346 (12.66%) Roadmaps
9 339 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
10 323 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 314 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
12 307 (11.24%) Computer Science
13 286 (10.47%) Data Modelling
14 275 (10.07%) Machine Learning
15 270 (9.88%) Software Engineering
16 252 (9.22%) Microservices
17 245 (8.97%) Data Engineering
17 245 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 239 (8.75%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 722 (26.43%) Python
2 631 (23.10%) SQL
3 318 (11.64%) PowerShell
4 255 (9.33%) C#
5 254 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 144 (5.27%) Java
7 133 (4.87%) TypeScript
8 101 (3.70%) Bash
9 56 (2.05%) Bicep
10 54 (1.98%) Go
11 45 (1.65%) R
12 38 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 32 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.77%) C++
15 21 (0.77%) Scala
16 15 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.51%) Rust
18 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 408 (14.93%) Degree
2 282 (10.32%) Azure Certification
3 234 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 183 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 142 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 114 (4.17%) CISSP
8 101 (3.70%) AWS Certification
9 75 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (2.71%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.94%) CEH
12 50 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 44 (1.61%) CISM
13 44 (1.61%) DV Cleared
14 43 (1.57%) CCNP
15 37 (1.35%) CCNA
16 36 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
17 32 (1.17%) PMI Certification
18 31 (1.13%) PMP
19 29 (1.06%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (7.14%) GDPR
2 186 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.15%) NIST
4 137 (5.01%) Data Quality
5 82 (3.00%) SLA
6 80 (2.93%) QA
7 40 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 39 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (1.24%) NCSC
10 33 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.06%) EU AI Act
12 27 (0.99%) Solvency II
13 26 (0.95%) GRC
14 25 (0.92%) HIPAA
15 23 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.84%) PSD2
16 21 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.77%) PMO
17 17 (0.62%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 380 (13.91%) Active Directory
2 250 (9.15%) Docker
3 93 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.16%) Hyper-V
5 55 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.95%) vSphere
8 11 (0.40%) Firmware
9 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
10 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.037%) NLBS
13 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.037%) Xen
13 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 334 (12.23%) Terraform
2 301 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 242 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.65%) Ansible
5 62 (2.27%) SCCM
6 60 (2.20%) Grafana
7 53 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 41 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.62%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.44%) CASB
14 10 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.33%) Kibana
16 8 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
16 8 (0.29%) VxRail
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.22%) Nagios
18 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,096 (40.12%) Microsoft
2 258 (9.44%) Databricks
3 187 (6.84%) VMware
4 155 (5.67%) Google
5 131 (4.80%) Cisco
6 82 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.93%) Palo Alto
8 66 (2.42%) OpenAI
9 63 (2.31%) Fortinet
10 62 (2.27%) Oracle
11 49 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.79%) Dell
12 44 (1.61%) Meraki
13 43 (1.57%) SAP
14 42 (1.54%) Salesforce
15 39 (1.43%) Splunk
16 36 (1.32%) SolarWinds
17 34 (1.24%) CheckPoint
17 34 (1.24%) CyberArk
17 34 (1.24%) Dynatrace