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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,877 2,548 4,600
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.45% 19.95% 19.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.16% 45.02% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,041 1,943 3,790
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,513
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.02% -8.44%

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 7,163 5,660 10,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.98% 44.32% 43.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,621 4,106 8,156
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 0 663 £80,000 +6.67% 240
West London +3 78 £60,000 +33.33% 39
South London +14 45 £80,000 +29.78% 10
East London -15 22 £32,250 -62.06% 47
North London -1 10 £57,500 +27.78% 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
1 184 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 135 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.90%) Confluence
6 17 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.52%) Apache
8 13 (0.45%) Appian
9 12 (0.42%) CMS
10 11 (0.38%) WordPress
11 7 (0.24%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) Camunda
12 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
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
Applications
1 50 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.28%) PlantUML
6 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.49%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Shopify
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.035%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 977 (33.96%) AWS
2 565 (19.64%) GCP
3 498 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
4 405 (14.08%) Power Platform
5 337 (11.71%) Entra ID
6 335 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (6.71%) GitHub
8 180 (6.26%) SaaS
9 162 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 151 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 132 (4.59%) Azure AI
12 118 (4.10%) PaaS
13 116 (4.03%) Serverless
14 109 (3.79%) Power Automate
15 106 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 97 (3.37%) Snowflake
17 94 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
18 88 (3.06%) PowerApps
19 79 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
20 78 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 306 (10.64%) Firewall
2 176 (6.12%) VPN
3 172 (5.98%) DNS
4 150 (5.21%) WAN
5 145 (5.04%) DHCP
6 127 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
7 106 (3.68%) Network Security
8 98 (3.41%) TCP/IP
9 94 (3.27%) LAN
10 80 (2.78%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.95%) VLAN
12 50 (1.74%) SAN
13 47 (1.63%) Internet
14 31 (1.08%) VoIP
15 30 (1.04%) Wireless
16 26 (0.90%) WLAN
17 24 (0.83%) Broadband
17 24 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
18 23 (0.80%) BGP
19 22 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (9.84%) Power BI
2 277 (9.63%) SQL Server
3 146 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 142 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 87 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 69 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 69 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (2.12%) Tableau
9 59 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 52 (1.81%) MongoDB
11 51 (1.77%) Big Data
11 51 (1.77%) Metadata
12 45 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 38 (1.32%) Delta Lake
14 31 (1.08%) Pinecone
15 25 (0.87%) MySQL
15 25 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 24 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 182 (6.33%) Git
2 95 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.54%) JIRA
4 64 (2.22%) GitLab
5 52 (1.81%) MLflow
6 32 (1.11%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 20 (0.70%) Chocolatey
10 18 (0.63%) Selenium
11 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.49%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.45%) Vite
13 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 864 (30.03%) Finance
2 787 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 296 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.89%) Banking
5 169 (5.87%) Law
6 118 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 100 (3.48%) Legal
9 87 (3.02%) Retail
10 60 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 59 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (1.63%) Marketing
14 46 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.46%) Financial Institution
16 40 (1.39%) Front Office
17 34 (1.18%) Multimedia
18 33 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.90%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 560 (19.46%) Senior
2 382 (13.28%) Architect
2 382 (13.28%) Lead
3 286 (9.94%) Developer
4 251 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
5 211 (7.33%) Analyst
6 182 (6.33%) Data Engineer
7 143 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 140 (4.87%) Software Engineer
9 114 (3.96%) Support Engineer
10 112 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 112 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 105 (3.65%) Consultant
12 102 (3.55%) Security Engineer
13 99 (3.44%) Azure Architect
13 99 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 90 (3.13%) IT Engineer
15 88 (3.06%) Network Engineer
16 83 (2.88%) Data Architect
17 81 (2.82%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (9.42%) .NET
2 166 (5.77%) React
3 124 (4.31%) REST
4 107 (3.72%) Kafka
5 103 (3.58%) RESTful
6 97 (3.37%) CSS
7 95 (3.30%) OAuth
8 92 (3.20%) HTML
9 84 (2.92%) Node.js
10 67 (2.33%) LangChain
11 64 (2.22%) .NET Core
12 59 (2.05%) PySpark
13 57 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 57 (1.98%) TensorFlow
14 51 (1.77%) Django
14 51 (1.77%) SAML
15 42 (1.46%) OpenID
16 39 (1.36%) scikit-learn
16 39 (1.36%) Spring
17 37 (1.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 264 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 91 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 87 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 65 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 64 (2.22%) AI Agents
12 59 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
13 58 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
14 54 (1.88%) Onboarding
15 49 (1.70%) Low-Code
16 41 (1.43%) Algorithms
16 41 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.36%) Cyberattack
18 38 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
18 38 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 406 (14.11%) Windows
2 165 (5.74%) Windows Server
3 164 (5.70%) Linux
4 87 (3.02%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 37 (1.29%) Mac OS
6 37 (1.29%) Unix
7 34 (1.18%) Android
8 33 (1.15%) VMS
9 30 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.31%) CentOS
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.14%) SUSE
16 3 (0.10%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (27.60%) DevOps
2 667 (23.18%) CI/CD
3 610 (21.20%) AI
4 566 (19.67%) Agile
5 454 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
6 444 (15.43%) Analytics
7 400 (13.90%) Mentoring
8 393 (13.66%) Roadmaps
9 378 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 373 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 343 (11.92%) Cybersecurity
12 312 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
13 297 (10.32%) Data Engineering
14 280 (9.73%) Machine Learning
15 275 (9.56%) Data Modelling
15 275 (9.56%) Software Engineering
16 274 (9.52%) Computer Science
17 260 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
18 249 (8.65%) Migration
19 245 (8.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 745 (25.90%) Python
2 643 (22.35%) SQL
3 324 (11.26%) PowerShell
4 271 (9.42%) C#
5 236 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 163 (5.67%) Java
7 149 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.58%) Bash
9 66 (2.29%) Bicep
10 62 (2.16%) Go
11 42 (1.46%) R
12 40 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.90%) C++
15 24 (0.83%) Scala
16 16 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.52%) Rust
18 14 (0.49%) C
19 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 399 (13.87%) Degree
2 297 (10.32%) Azure Certification
3 207 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 196 (6.81%) Security Cleared
5 135 (4.69%) SC Cleared
6 126 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 121 (4.21%) CISSP
8 90 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 82 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
10 62 (2.16%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.98%) CEH
12 47 (1.63%) CISM
13 43 (1.49%) CCNP
14 42 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
14 42 (1.46%) DV Cleared
15 41 (1.43%) CCNA
16 40 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 32 (1.11%) PMI Certification
18 31 (1.08%) PMP
19 29 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (5.98%) GDPR
3 165 (5.74%) NIST
4 146 (5.07%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.06%) SLA
6 85 (2.95%) QA
7 45 (1.56%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.36%) NCSC
10 37 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 33 (1.15%) SOC 2
12 32 (1.11%) GRC
13 20 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.66%) HIPAA
14 19 (0.66%) PMO
14 19 (0.66%) Solvency II
15 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.56%) EU AI Act
17 13 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 394 (13.69%) Active Directory
2 244 (8.48%) Docker
3 99 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.94%) vSphere
8 10 (0.35%) Firmware
9 9 (0.31%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.070%) Postfix
14 1 (0.035%) NLBS
14 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 366 (12.72%) Terraform
2 321 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 233 (8.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.48%) Ansible
5 64 (2.22%) SCCM
6 58 (2.02%) Grafana
7 50 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (1.60%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 8 (0.28%) CASB
16 7 (0.24%) Nagios
16 7 (0.24%) VxRail
17 5 (0.17%) Control-M
17 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,168 (40.60%) Microsoft
2 289 (10.05%) Databricks
3 186 (6.47%) VMware
4 154 (5.35%) Google
5 129 (4.48%) Cisco
6 84 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.47%) Palo Alto
9 61 (2.12%) Oracle
10 55 (1.91%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
12 48 (1.67%) Meraki
13 45 (1.56%) Dell
14 42 (1.46%) ForeScout
15 41 (1.43%) Salesforce
15 41 (1.43%) SolarWinds
16 40 (1.39%) SAP
16 40 (1.39%) Splunk
17 38 (1.32%) Foundry
17 38 (1.32%) iManage