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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,172 2,518 3,713
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.46% 20.60% 18.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.87% 44.69% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 1,820 2,868
10th Percentile £47,300 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £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 £112,600 £112,000 £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 8,375 5,635 8,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.53% 46.09% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,625 3,951 6,355
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 6 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 6 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 0 505 £85,000 +9.68% 293
West London +1 100 £70,000 +55.56% 62
South London +4 42 £80,000 +23.08% 20
East London -18 16 £53,750 +8.59% 31
North London -9 10 £60,000 -14.29% 13
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 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 126 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 83 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 53 (1.67%) Confluence
5 46 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.76%) 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 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) 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 52 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.23%) 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
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.32%) 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 (0.095%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Endur
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,075 (33.89%) AWS
2 637 (20.08%) GCP
3 534 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (13.24%) Power Platform
5 389 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
6 384 (12.11%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.72%) SaaS
8 189 (5.96%) GitHub
9 165 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 159 (5.01%) PaaS
10 159 (5.01%) Serverless
11 149 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 148 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 142 (4.48%) Azure AI
14 139 (4.38%) Snowflake
15 114 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 110 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
16 110 (3.47%) Power Automate
17 98 (3.09%) IaaS
18 95 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 316 (9.96%) Firewall
2 168 (5.30%) VPN
3 166 (5.23%) DNS
3 166 (5.23%) Network Security
4 135 (4.26%) WAN
5 129 (4.07%) DHCP
6 115 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
7 114 (3.59%) LAN
8 93 (2.93%) TCP/IP
9 73 (2.30%) VLAN
10 70 (2.21%) SD-WAN
11 52 (1.64%) SAN
12 48 (1.51%) Wireless
13 45 (1.42%) BGP
14 41 (1.29%) OSPF
15 32 (1.01%) Kerberos
16 25 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
17 23 (0.73%) VoIP
17 23 (0.73%) WLAN
18 17 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (9.11%) Power BI
2 278 (8.76%) SQL Server
3 163 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 124 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 83 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (2.52%) Tableau
8 74 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 69 (2.18%) NoSQL
10 68 (2.14%) Metadata
11 54 (1.70%) Delta Lake
12 50 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 42 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.20%) Big Data
17 37 (1.17%) MySQL
18 35 (1.10%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 31 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 179 (5.64%) Git
2 113 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 104 (3.28%) JIRA
4 74 (2.33%) GitLab
5 33 (1.04%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Chocolatey
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Postman
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.35%) JUnit
9 11 (0.35%) Mockito
10 10 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 960 (30.26%) Finance
2 924 (29.13%) Social Skills
3 306 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (6.97%) Banking
5 208 (6.56%) Law
6 139 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 132 (4.16%) Legal
8 130 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.25%) Retail
10 60 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (1.73%) Marketing
12 53 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.07%) Front Office
17 30 (0.95%) Advertising
18 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 18 (0.57%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 596 (18.79%) Senior
2 536 (16.90%) Architect
3 429 (13.52%) Lead
4 327 (10.31%) Developer
5 279 (8.80%) Azure Engineer
6 193 (6.08%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
8 167 (5.26%) Analyst
9 129 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.94%) Consultant
11 120 (3.78%) Software Engineer
12 118 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.59%) Azure Architect
14 111 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
15 96 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 92 (2.90%) Network Engineer
17 90 (2.84%) Security Engineer
18 86 (2.71%) IT Engineer
19 85 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
20 81 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (10.09%) .NET
2 167 (5.26%) React
3 156 (4.92%) REST
4 135 (4.26%) Kafka
5 100 (3.15%) Node.js
6 98 (3.09%) OAuth
7 92 (2.90%) RESTful
8 89 (2.81%) Spring
9 86 (2.71%) LangChain
10 85 (2.68%) .NET Core
11 77 (2.43%) ASP.NET
11 77 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 73 (2.30%) PySpark
13 62 (1.95%) PyTorch
14 59 (1.86%) CSS
14 59 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 57 (1.80%) HTML
16 56 (1.77%) OAuth2
17 51 (1.61%) OpenID
18 47 (1.48%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 415 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 147 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 130 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (3.22%) Data Centre
4 102 (3.22%) Security Posture
5 100 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 95 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 80 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 68 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 63 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 61 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 57 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 51 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.32%) Low-Code
17 40 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
18 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 425 (13.40%) Windows
2 190 (5.99%) Linux
3 163 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.76%) Unix
7 23 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.69%) VMS
9 21 (0.66%) Android
10 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
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 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (29.07%) DevOps
2 872 (27.49%) CI/CD
3 737 (23.23%) AI
4 695 (21.91%) Agile
5 516 (16.27%) Roadmaps
6 499 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 479 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 474 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 474 (14.94%) Mentoring
9 453 (14.28%) Analytics
10 353 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
11 346 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 338 (10.66%) Data Engineering
13 328 (10.34%) Machine Learning
14 314 (9.90%) Software Engineering
15 296 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
16 295 (9.30%) Microservices
17 291 (9.17%) Migration
18 287 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
19 282 (8.89%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 759 (23.93%) Python
2 644 (20.30%) SQL
3 331 (10.44%) C#
4 299 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 214 (6.75%) JavaScript
6 212 (6.68%) Java
7 169 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.15%) Bash
9 84 (2.65%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
11 36 (1.13%) Scala
12 29 (0.91%) R
13 25 (0.79%) 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 13 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 385 (12.14%) Degree
2 294 (9.27%) Azure Certification
3 263 (8.29%) Security Cleared
4 199 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.19%) CISSP
6 125 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 113 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 63 (1.99%) CCNP
11 62 (1.95%) CISM
12 57 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 53 (1.67%) CCNA
14 47 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
15 44 (1.39%) CEH
16 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) CCIE
17 26 (0.82%) PMP
18 23 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.49%) GDPR
3 164 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 144 (4.54%) QA
5 131 (4.13%) NIST
6 93 (2.93%) SLA
7 62 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 29 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.82%) NCSC
13 22 (0.69%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.57%) 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%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 416 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 260 (8.20%) Docker
3 129 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.095%) Firmware
10 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.063%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 468 (14.75%) Terraform
2 351 (11.07%) Kubernetes
3 214 (6.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 159 (5.01%) Ansible
5 65 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.70%) Grafana
6 54 (1.70%) SCCM
7 39 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) Argo
11 12 (0.38%) Istio
11 12 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.38%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) QRadar
13 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
14 7 (0.22%) CASB
14 7 (0.22%) Control-M
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,338 (42.18%) Microsoft
2 340 (10.72%) Databricks
3 198 (6.24%) VMware
4 164 (5.17%) Cisco
5 151 (4.76%) Google
6 90 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 78 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 77 (2.43%) Oracle
10 57 (1.80%) SAP
11 56 (1.77%) Foundry
12 55 (1.73%) Splunk
13 54 (1.70%) Meraki
14 52 (1.64%) Salesforce
15 45 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
16 44 (1.39%) Fortinet
17 41 (1.29%) Dell
17 41 (1.29%) Tenable
18 39 (1.23%) iManage
19 38 (1.20%) Dynatrace