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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,179 2,520 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.35% 20.77% 18.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.70% 45.17% 44.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 1,815 2,833
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,575 £110,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,432 5,579 8,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.42% 45.97% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,650 3,889 6,262
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,903 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 0 486 £85,000 +9.68% 237
West London 0 100 £70,000 +48.94% 61
South London -1 40 £80,000 +23.08% 24
East London -17 17 £75,000 +51.52% 31
North London -7 9 £60,000 -14.29% 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
1 199 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 121 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 56 (1.76%) Confluence
5 46 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 25 (0.79%) Apache
6 25 (0.79%) CMS
7 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 15 (0.47%) Camunda
7 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
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%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) 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%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (34.13%) AWS
2 647 (20.35%) GCP
3 527 (16.58%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (12.99%) Power Platform
5 394 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
6 371 (11.67%) Entra ID
7 212 (6.67%) SaaS
8 190 (5.98%) GitHub
9 166 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 160 (5.03%) PaaS
11 159 (5.00%) Serverless
12 153 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 151 (4.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 147 (4.62%) Azure AI
15 146 (4.59%) Snowflake
16 115 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
17 113 (3.55%) Power Automate
18 112 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
19 97 (3.05%) IaaS
19 97 (3.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 316 (9.94%) Firewall
2 167 (5.25%) VPN
3 164 (5.16%) Network Security
4 160 (5.03%) DNS
5 132 (4.15%) WAN
6 123 (3.87%) DHCP
7 111 (3.49%) LAN
7 111 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
8 88 (2.77%) TCP/IP
9 74 (2.33%) VLAN
10 70 (2.20%) SD-WAN
11 54 (1.70%) SAN
12 51 (1.60%) Wireless
13 43 (1.35%) BGP
14 39 (1.23%) OSPF
15 29 (0.91%) Kerberos
16 26 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
17 22 (0.69%) WLAN
18 19 (0.60%) VoIP
19 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 280 (8.81%) Power BI
3 165 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.37%) Data Lake
5 124 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (2.55%) Tableau
8 76 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 70 (2.20%) Metadata
9 70 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 55 (1.73%) Delta Lake
11 51 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 48 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 42 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.16%) Big Data
16 36 (1.13%) MySQL
17 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.07%) BigQuery
19 32 (1.01%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 179 (5.63%) Git
2 113 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 109 (3.43%) JIRA
4 72 (2.26%) GitLab
5 33 (1.04%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.41%) Mockito
8 13 (0.41%) Postman
9 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.28%) Maven
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 956 (30.07%) Finance
2 946 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 316 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.05%) Banking
5 217 (6.83%) Law
6 147 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 142 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 135 (4.25%) Legal
9 105 (3.30%) Retail
10 67 (2.11%) Marketing
11 59 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.98%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.79%) Advertising
19 18 (0.57%) Investment Banking
20 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 598 (18.81%) Senior
2 541 (17.02%) Architect
3 423 (13.31%) Lead
4 333 (10.47%) Developer
5 278 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
6 194 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 177 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.28%) Analyst
9 128 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.93%) Consultant
11 120 (3.77%) Azure Architect
11 120 (3.77%) Software Engineer
12 119 (3.74%) Data Architect
13 106 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 98 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 94 (2.96%) Network Engineer
16 87 (2.74%) Security Engineer
17 85 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.58%) IT Engineer
19 81 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (10.03%) .NET
2 166 (5.22%) React
3 158 (4.97%) REST
4 136 (4.28%) Kafka
5 97 (3.05%) Node.js
6 94 (2.96%) RESTful
7 92 (2.89%) OAuth
8 91 (2.86%) LangChain
9 89 (2.80%) Spring
10 86 (2.71%) .NET Core
11 81 (2.55%) ASP.NET
12 77 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 74 (2.33%) PySpark
14 64 (2.01%) PyTorch
15 62 (1.95%) TensorFlow
16 59 (1.86%) CSS
17 58 (1.82%) HTML
18 55 (1.73%) OAuth2
19 50 (1.57%) LangGraph
20 49 (1.54%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 426 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 132 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 98 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 98 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 84 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 69 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 66 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 63 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 50 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
13 46 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 46 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 40 (1.26%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 35 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 420 (13.21%) Windows
2 186 (5.85%) Linux
3 159 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
7 21 (0.66%) Unix
7 21 (0.66%) VMS
7 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.35%) CentOS
11 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.094%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.031%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (29.16%) DevOps
2 881 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 770 (24.22%) AI
4 702 (22.08%) Agile
5 527 (16.58%) Roadmaps
6 500 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 487 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
8 480 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 468 (14.72%) Mentoring
10 455 (14.31%) Analytics
11 361 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
13 343 (10.79%) Machine Learning
14 340 (10.70%) Data Engineering
15 323 (10.16%) Software Engineering
16 301 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
17 297 (9.34%) Microservices
18 294 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
19 293 (9.22%) Migration
20 284 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 761 (23.94%) Python
2 642 (20.20%) SQL
3 336 (10.57%) C#
4 294 (9.25%) PowerShell
5 219 (6.89%) Java
6 211 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 166 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.02%) Bash
9 88 (2.77%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
11 40 (1.26%) Scala
12 28 (0.88%) R
13 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.60%) C++
14 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.60%) RPG
15 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
16 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 400 (12.58%) Degree
2 295 (9.28%) Azure Certification
3 265 (8.34%) Security Cleared
4 197 (6.20%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 130 (4.09%) CISSP
7 119 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
8 116 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 68 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 65 (2.04%) CCNP
11 63 (1.98%) CISM
12 58 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 53 (1.67%) CCNA
14 46 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
15 43 (1.35%) CEH
16 29 (0.91%) DV Cleared
17 28 (0.88%) PMP
18 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.85%) CCIE
19 25 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.63%) GDPR
3 168 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 147 (4.62%) QA
5 134 (4.22%) NIST
6 89 (2.80%) SLA
7 65 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 402 (12.65%) Active Directory
2 256 (8.05%) Docker
3 128 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 466 (14.66%) Terraform
2 342 (10.76%) Kubernetes
3 207 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (4.91%) Ansible
5 69 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (1.73%) Grafana
7 52 (1.64%) SCCM
8 41 (1.29%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) Argo
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) CASB
14 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
15 6 (0.19%) Control-M
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,339 (42.12%) Microsoft
2 347 (10.92%) Databricks
3 199 (6.26%) VMware
4 166 (5.22%) Cisco
5 158 (4.97%) Google
6 86 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 85 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 80 (2.52%) Oracle
9 78 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.86%) Foundry
11 55 (1.73%) Meraki
11 55 (1.73%) SAP
12 54 (1.70%) Salesforce
12 54 (1.70%) Splunk
13 46 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
14 44 (1.38%) Fortinet
15 41 (1.29%) Tenable
16 40 (1.26%) Dell
17 38 (1.20%) iManage
18 36 (1.13%) Dynatrace