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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,187 2,530 3,679
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.43% 20.61% 18.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.79% 44.91% 44.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,836 2,848
10th Percentile £47,250 £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 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,625 £111,625 £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 8,433 5,634 8,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.53% 45.89% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 5,645 3,956 6,295
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £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 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% - -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 10 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 10 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 0 502 £85,000 +9.68% 273
West London +1 101 £70,000 +55.56% 57
South London +2 41 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -16 16 £53,750 +8.59% 34
North London -8 10 £60,000 -14.29% 16
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 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 84 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 53 (1.66%) Confluence
5 47 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 25 (0.78%) Apache
7 22 (0.69%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
9 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.31%) WordPress
12 9 (0.28%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Maya
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
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 1,084 (34.01%) AWS
2 646 (20.27%) GCP
3 531 (16.66%) Microsoft 365
4 421 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 389 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
6 383 (12.02%) Entra ID
7 215 (6.75%) SaaS
8 185 (5.80%) GitHub
9 165 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 161 (5.05%) Serverless
11 159 (4.99%) PaaS
12 150 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 150 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 142 (4.46%) Azure AI
14 141 (4.42%) Snowflake
15 112 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
16 110 (3.45%) Power Automate
17 98 (3.07%) IaaS
18 95 (2.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 323 (10.13%) Firewall
2 170 (5.33%) Network Security
3 169 (5.30%) VPN
4 165 (5.18%) DNS
5 136 (4.27%) WAN
6 126 (3.95%) DHCP
7 115 (3.61%) LAN
8 113 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
9 94 (2.95%) TCP/IP
10 72 (2.26%) VLAN
11 71 (2.23%) SD-WAN
12 51 (1.60%) Wireless
13 50 (1.57%) SAN
14 45 (1.41%) BGP
15 41 (1.29%) OSPF
16 32 (1.00%) Kerberos
17 26 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
18 23 (0.72%) WLAN
19 20 (0.63%) VoIP
20 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (9.07%) Power BI
2 277 (8.69%) SQL Server
3 163 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.42%) Data Lake
5 126 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (2.57%) Tableau
8 75 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.23%) NoSQL
10 69 (2.17%) Metadata
11 55 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 50 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.51%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
16 39 (1.22%) Big Data
17 37 (1.16%) MySQL
18 35 (1.10%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 32 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 178 (5.59%) Git
2 111 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 104 (3.26%) JIRA
4 73 (2.29%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.47%) Postman
9 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.38%) Eclipse
11 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 11 (0.35%) Mockito
12 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 965 (30.28%) Finance
2 936 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 310 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (6.90%) Banking
5 216 (6.78%) Law
6 143 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 138 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 134 (4.20%) Legal
9 102 (3.20%) Retail
10 61 (1.91%) Marketing
11 58 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 56 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.10%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 28 (0.88%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 17 (0.53%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 595 (18.67%) Senior
2 540 (16.94%) Architect
3 432 (13.56%) Lead
4 331 (10.39%) Developer
5 280 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
6 197 (6.18%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
8 170 (5.33%) Analyst
9 130 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.92%) Consultant
11 122 (3.83%) Software Engineer
12 119 (3.73%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.58%) Azure Architect
14 109 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 97 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 97 (3.04%) Network Engineer
16 90 (2.82%) Security Engineer
17 85 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
18 83 (2.60%) IT Engineer
19 81 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (9.98%) .NET
2 166 (5.21%) React
3 153 (4.80%) REST
4 136 (4.27%) Kafka
5 97 (3.04%) Node.js
6 96 (3.01%) OAuth
7 94 (2.95%) RESTful
8 89 (2.79%) Spring
9 87 (2.73%) LangChain
10 86 (2.70%) .NET Core
11 78 (2.45%) ASP.NET
12 76 (2.38%) Spring Boot
13 73 (2.29%) PySpark
14 64 (2.01%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.91%) TensorFlow
16 57 (1.79%) CSS
17 56 (1.76%) HTML
18 55 (1.73%) OAuth2
19 50 (1.57%) OpenID
20 47 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.12%) Cloud Native
2 149 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 133 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 103 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 97 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 80 (2.51%) AI Agents
8 68 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 64 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 62 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 50 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 49 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
14 46 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
17 40 (1.26%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 421 (13.21%) Windows
2 189 (5.93%) Linux
3 162 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 49 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.75%) Unix
8 23 (0.72%) VMS
9 22 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.66%) Android
11 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.38%) CentOS
14 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.031%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (28.74%) DevOps
2 867 (27.20%) CI/CD
3 751 (23.56%) AI
4 700 (21.96%) Agile
5 520 (16.32%) Roadmaps
6 498 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 482 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 478 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 473 (14.84%) Mentoring
10 458 (14.37%) Analytics
11 355 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
12 347 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 338 (10.61%) Data Engineering
14 334 (10.48%) Machine Learning
15 317 (9.95%) Software Engineering
16 298 (9.35%) Microservices
17 296 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
18 295 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
19 287 (9.01%) Migration
20 282 (8.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 764 (23.97%) Python
2 649 (20.36%) SQL
3 332 (10.42%) C#
4 299 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 217 (6.81%) Java
6 214 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 98 (3.07%) Bash
9 87 (2.73%) Bicep
10 42 (1.32%) Go
11 38 (1.19%) Scala
12 29 (0.91%) R
13 24 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.60%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
16 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 392 (12.30%) Degree
2 294 (9.22%) Azure Certification
3 263 (8.25%) Security Cleared
4 198 (6.21%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.17%) CISSP
6 127 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
8 114 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.01%) CCNP
11 62 (1.95%) CISM
12 56 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.69%) CCNA
14 47 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
15 43 (1.35%) CEH
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.82%) CCIE
18 26 (0.82%) PMP
19 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (6.34%) Data Quality
2 175 (5.49%) GDPR
3 168 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 145 (4.55%) QA
5 134 (4.20%) NIST
6 92 (2.89%) SLA
7 63 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 29 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.78%) NCSC
13 22 (0.69%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 412 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 263 (8.25%) Docker
3 128 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.094%) Firmware
10 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.031%) NLBS
12 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 469 (14.72%) Terraform
2 352 (11.04%) Kubernetes
3 213 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 158 (4.96%) Ansible
5 70 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.69%) Grafana
7 53 (1.66%) SCCM
8 39 (1.22%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Argo
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.22%) CASB
15 7 (0.22%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,342 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 346 (10.86%) Databricks
3 196 (6.15%) VMware
4 168 (5.27%) Cisco
5 155 (4.86%) Google
6 89 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 78 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 77 (2.42%) Oracle
10 57 (1.79%) Meraki
10 57 (1.79%) SAP
11 56 (1.76%) Foundry
12 54 (1.69%) Splunk
13 53 (1.66%) Salesforce
14 46 (1.44%) Fortinet
15 45 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
16 41 (1.29%) Dell
16 41 (1.29%) Tenable
17 39 (1.22%) iManage
18 37 (1.16%) Dynatrace