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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,702 2,476 4,540
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.42% 19.12% 20.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.63% 43.60% 45.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 1,941 3,857
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £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 £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,538 £64,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -2.29% +7.52% -8.42%

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 6,650 5,679 9,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.95% 43.86% 44.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,110 8,126
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,213 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £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 25 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 25 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 +1 632 £78,750 +5.00% 306
West London +11 74 £65,000 +32.65% 49
South London +28 38 £70,000 +16.67% 24
East London -8 27 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +15 14 £66,250 +55.88% 8
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
1 181 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 146 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.93%) Confluence
6 15 (0.56%) Appian
7 14 (0.52%) Apache
8 13 (0.48%) WordPress
9 12 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.41%) IIS
11 9 (0.33%) CMS
12 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.22%) Moodle
14 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.11%) SAS
17 2 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 51 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.037%) Maya
9 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.85%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) 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
1 962 (35.60%) AWS
2 549 (20.32%) GCP
3 488 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
4 426 (15.77%) Power Platform
5 322 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
6 303 (11.21%) Entra ID
7 199 (7.36%) GitHub
8 193 (7.14%) SaaS
9 156 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 127 (4.70%) Power Automate
12 118 (4.37%) PaaS
13 102 (3.77%) Azure AI
13 102 (3.77%) Serverless
14 100 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
14 100 (3.70%) PowerApps
15 95 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
16 85 (3.15%) Snowflake
17 72 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
18 70 (2.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 300 (11.10%) Firewall
2 175 (6.48%) VPN
3 165 (6.11%) DNS
4 154 (5.70%) WAN
5 142 (5.26%) DHCP
6 123 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
7 108 (4.00%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.55%) LAN
9 82 (3.03%) Network Security
9 82 (3.03%) SD-WAN
10 61 (2.26%) Internet
11 54 (2.00%) VLAN
12 41 (1.52%) SAN
13 35 (1.30%) VoIP
13 35 (1.30%) Wireless
14 27 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
15 26 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
16 22 (0.81%) Broadband
17 21 (0.78%) BGP
18 20 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (11.47%) Power BI
2 266 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 165 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (5.77%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 77 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 77 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 62 (2.29%) Metadata
9 61 (2.26%) Tableau
10 59 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 55 (2.04%) MongoDB
12 54 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 50 (1.85%) Big Data
13 50 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.07%) MySQL
16 28 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 25 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
18 24 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 194 (7.18%) Git
2 89 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.03%) JIRA
4 58 (2.15%) GitLab
5 51 (1.89%) MLflow
6 39 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.15%) Postman
8 21 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.63%) Chocolatey
10 17 (0.63%) Selenium
11 16 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.30%) JMeter
17 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 804 (29.76%) Finance
2 781 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 291 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (8.25%) Banking
5 185 (6.85%) Law
6 121 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.11%) Retail
8 104 (3.85%) Legal
9 98 (3.63%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.29%) Marketing
12 61 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (1.96%) Financial Institution
14 48 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.59%) Multimedia
17 38 (1.41%) Telecoms
18 37 (1.37%) Front Office
19 34 (1.26%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 537 (19.87%) Senior
2 354 (13.10%) Lead
3 352 (13.03%) Architect
4 288 (10.66%) Developer
5 217 (8.03%) Analyst
6 211 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
7 174 (6.44%) Data Engineer
8 131 (4.85%) Support Engineer
9 125 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 115 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 94 (3.48%) IT Support
15 91 (3.37%) Security Engineer
16 86 (3.18%) IT Engineer
17 84 (3.11%) Data Architect
18 82 (3.03%) Network Engineer
19 80 (2.96%) Consultant
20 74 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (9.22%) .NET
2 162 (6.00%) React
3 129 (4.77%) REST
4 109 (4.03%) CSS
5 103 (3.81%) HTML
5 103 (3.81%) RESTful
6 100 (3.70%) Kafka
7 88 (3.26%) Node.js
7 88 (3.26%) OAuth
8 72 (2.66%) .NET Core
9 57 (2.11%) LangChain
10 54 (2.00%) Django
10 54 (2.00%) PyTorch
11 53 (1.96%) TensorFlow
12 51 (1.89%) PySpark
13 47 (1.74%) SAML
14 43 (1.59%) SOAP
15 40 (1.48%) AngularJS
16 37 (1.37%) Swagger
16 37 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 106 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 99 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (3.55%) Security Posture
5 82 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 71 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 70 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 62 (2.29%) AI Agents
10 61 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 58 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
12 57 (2.11%) Data Centre
13 55 (2.04%) Low-Code
14 51 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
14 51 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 49 (1.81%) Onboarding
16 44 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.48%) Algorithms
18 38 (1.41%) Cyberattack
19 32 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 415 (15.36%) Windows
2 178 (6.59%) Windows Server
3 166 (6.14%) Linux
4 89 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.92%) Unix
6 45 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.26%) VMS
8 32 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 27 (1.00%) Android
11 19 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.26%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.15%) SUSE
17 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (27.13%) DevOps
2 646 (23.91%) CI/CD
3 570 (21.10%) AI
4 555 (20.54%) Agile
5 463 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 450 (16.65%) Analytics
7 384 (14.21%) Mentoring
8 346 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 339 (12.55%) Cybersecurity
10 332 (12.29%) Roadmaps
11 319 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 316 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
13 312 (11.55%) Computer Science
14 289 (10.70%) Data Modelling
15 273 (10.10%) Software Engineering
16 261 (9.66%) Machine Learning
17 260 (9.62%) Microservices
18 244 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 240 (8.88%) ITIL
20 234 (8.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 721 (26.68%) Python
2 624 (23.09%) SQL
3 322 (11.92%) PowerShell
4 252 (9.33%) C#
5 248 (9.18%) JavaScript
6 139 (5.14%) Java
7 130 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.70%) Bash
9 53 (1.96%) Bicep
10 52 (1.92%) Go
11 45 (1.67%) R
12 38 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 20 (0.74%) C++
15 20 (0.74%) Scala
16 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.52%) Rust
17 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 417 (15.43%) Degree
2 277 (10.25%) Azure Certification
3 237 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 178 (6.59%) Security Cleared
5 146 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 125 (4.63%) SC Cleared
7 113 (4.18%) CISSP
8 107 (3.96%) AWS Certification
9 79 (2.92%) Master's Degree
10 71 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (1.89%) CEH
12 50 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 44 (1.63%) CISM
14 43 (1.59%) CCNP
14 43 (1.59%) DV Cleared
15 35 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (1.26%) CCNA
17 33 (1.22%) PMI Certification
18 32 (1.18%) PMP
19 30 (1.11%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (7.29%) GDPR
2 189 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 169 (6.25%) NIST
4 136 (5.03%) Data Quality
5 87 (3.22%) QA
6 79 (2.92%) SLA
7 41 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.33%) Accessibility
10 35 (1.30%) NCSC
11 33 (1.22%) SOC 2
12 29 (1.07%) EU AI Act
13 26 (0.96%) Solvency II
14 24 (0.89%) GRC
14 24 (0.89%) HIPAA
15 23 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 23 (0.85%) PSD2
16 21 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 19 (0.70%) PMO
18 17 (0.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 386 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 255 (9.44%) Docker
3 93 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.96%) vSphere
8 12 (0.44%) Firmware
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.074%) 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
1 330 (12.21%) Terraform
2 303 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 243 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.77%) Ansible
5 67 (2.48%) SCCM
6 60 (2.22%) Grafana
7 51 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.63%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.44%) CASB
14 9 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 7 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.19%) linkerd
18 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,076 (39.82%) Microsoft
2 240 (8.88%) Databricks
3 186 (6.88%) VMware
4 152 (5.63%) Google
5 131 (4.85%) Cisco
6 84 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.92%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 63 (2.33%) Oracle
10 62 (2.29%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.81%) Dell
12 46 (1.70%) Meraki
13 44 (1.63%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.59%) SAP
15 36 (1.33%) Splunk
16 35 (1.30%) CheckPoint
16 35 (1.30%) SolarWinds
17 33 (1.22%) CyberArk
17 33 (1.22%) Dynatrace