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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,421 3,053 4,382
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.47% 19.82% 21.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.86% 44.32% 46.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,747 2,102 3,819
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,450
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,406 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +4.11% -2.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,925 6,888 9,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.31% 44.72% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 4,353 7,841
10th Percentile £37,463 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 0 537 £77,500 +3.33% 251
West London +14 62 £65,000 - 55
East London -7 22 £33,000 -42.11% 57
North London +17 20 £75,000 -6.25% 3
South London +11 16 £46,000 -25.38% 49
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
1 182 (7.52%) SharePoint
2 149 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.24%) Confluence
6 15 (0.62%) Apache
7 14 (0.58%) Appian
7 14 (0.58%) IIS
8 8 (0.33%) CMS
9 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Moodle
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.29%) Maya
7 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.083%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.87%) Endur
3 20 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.37%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.25%) Shopify
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.083%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.083%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.083%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.041%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.041%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 855 (35.32%) AWS
2 462 (19.08%) GCP
3 429 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
4 396 (16.36%) Power Platform
5 356 (14.70%) Azure DevOps
6 266 (10.99%) Entra ID
7 179 (7.39%) GitHub
8 163 (6.73%) SaaS
9 150 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.62%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.63%) PowerApps
12 109 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
13 108 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 105 (4.34%) PaaS
15 104 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 93 (3.84%) Serverless
17 84 (3.47%) Azure AI
18 74 (3.06%) Snowflake
19 71 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
20 64 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 252 (10.41%) Firewall
2 160 (6.61%) VPN
3 137 (5.66%) WAN
4 133 (5.49%) DNS
5 108 (4.46%) DHCP
6 94 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
7 88 (3.63%) LAN
7 88 (3.63%) TCP/IP
8 67 (2.77%) SD-WAN
9 55 (2.27%) Network Security
10 52 (2.15%) Internet
11 45 (1.86%) VLAN
12 42 (1.73%) Wireless
13 32 (1.32%) SAN
14 31 (1.28%) VoIP
15 23 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
16 22 (0.91%) BGP
16 22 (0.91%) OSPF
17 18 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
18 13 (0.54%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (11.32%) Power BI
2 242 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 176 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (6.40%) Data Lake
5 108 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 99 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 83 (3.43%) MongoDB
8 76 (3.14%) Metadata
9 69 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (2.52%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.11%) Big Data
12 49 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.53%) Tableau
15 33 (1.36%) MySQL
16 32 (1.32%) Hadoop
17 24 (0.99%) Pinecone
18 22 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 21 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 195 (8.05%) Git
2 94 (3.88%) JIRA
3 76 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.86%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.69%) GitLab
6 36 (1.49%) MLflow
7 32 (1.32%) Postman
8 24 (0.99%) Selenium
9 20 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 16 (0.66%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.58%) JMeter
13 10 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.37%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.33%) Chocolatey
16 7 (0.29%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.29%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 739 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 736 (30.40%) Finance
3 287 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (8.22%) Law
5 185 (7.64%) Banking
6 125 (5.16%) Legal
7 123 (5.08%) Retail
8 119 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 91 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 75 (3.10%) Marketing
11 64 (2.64%) Financial Institution
12 54 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 52 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 44 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (1.49%) Multimedia
17 35 (1.45%) Retail Banking
18 30 (1.24%) Manufacturing
19 27 (1.12%) Games
Job Titles
1 458 (18.92%) Senior
2 315 (13.01%) Developer
3 296 (12.23%) Architect
4 283 (11.69%) Lead
5 188 (7.77%) Analyst
6 183 (7.56%) Data Engineer
7 172 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
8 124 (5.12%) Support Engineer
9 116 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 101 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 90 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 87 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
13 86 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
14 77 (3.18%) Data Architect
15 71 (2.93%) IT Support
15 71 (2.93%) Network Engineer
15 71 (2.93%) Senior Developer
16 69 (2.85%) IT Engineer
16 69 (2.85%) Support Analyst
17 68 (2.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (10.16%) .NET
2 152 (6.28%) REST
3 147 (6.07%) React
4 108 (4.46%) HTML
5 102 (4.21%) CSS
6 100 (4.13%) RESTful
7 82 (3.39%) .NET Core
8 78 (3.22%) Node.js
9 74 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 74 (3.06%) OAuth
10 65 (2.68%) Kafka
11 54 (2.23%) Vue
12 50 (2.07%) ASP.NET
12 50 (2.07%) Web Services
13 48 (1.98%) PySpark
13 48 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 48 (1.98%) SOAP
14 46 (1.90%) LangChain
15 43 (1.78%) Django
15 43 (1.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 194 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 105 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 81 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (3.10%) Security Posture
8 67 (2.77%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.73%) Low-Code
10 57 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 55 (2.27%) Data Centre
12 52 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.98%) Data Structures
14 46 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.57%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.53%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.32%) Virtual Team
19 31 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
20 30 (1.24%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 372 (15.37%) Windows
2 175 (7.23%) Windows Server
3 149 (6.15%) Linux
4 75 (3.10%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 42 (1.73%) Unix
7 35 (1.45%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.36%) VMS
9 30 (1.24%) Android
10 29 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.41%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.33%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.17%) CentOS
16 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Solaris
16 3 (0.12%) SUSE
17 2 (0.083%) Kali Linux
18 1 (0.041%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (28.29%) DevOps
2 616 (25.44%) CI/CD
3 546 (22.55%) Agile
4 534 (22.06%) AI
5 481 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (17.80%) Analytics
7 307 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
8 302 (12.47%) Roadmaps
9 300 (12.39%) Mentoring
10 298 (12.31%) Computer Science
11 297 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 278 (11.48%) Data Modelling
13 277 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
14 270 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 266 (10.99%) Microservices
16 256 (10.57%) Machine Learning
17 238 (9.83%) ETL
18 234 (9.67%) Software Engineering
19 230 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
20 214 (8.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 638 (26.35%) Python
2 579 (23.92%) SQL
3 295 (12.19%) PowerShell
4 269 (11.11%) C#
5 252 (10.41%) JavaScript
6 123 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 122 (5.04%) Java
8 73 (3.02%) Bash
9 58 (2.40%) Bicep
10 42 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.49%) Go
11 36 (1.49%) R
12 35 (1.45%) Scala
13 29 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 29 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (0.74%) C++
15 15 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.54%) Rust
17 12 (0.50%) PHP
18 10 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 428 (17.68%) Degree
2 223 (9.21%) Azure Certification
3 216 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 147 (6.07%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 100 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 99 (4.09%) Master's Degree
9 97 (4.01%) CISSP
10 55 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.78%) CISM
12 39 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 39 (1.61%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 36 (1.49%) CCNP
14 36 (1.49%) PMI Certification
15 28 (1.16%) ISTQB
15 28 (1.16%) PMP
16 26 (1.07%) CEH
17 24 (0.99%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 186 (7.68%) GDPR
3 143 (5.91%) NIST
4 137 (5.66%) Data Quality
5 90 (3.72%) QA
6 53 (2.19%) SLA
7 39 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 34 (1.40%) NCSC
9 29 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 28 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.16%) EU AI Act
11 25 (1.03%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.95%) PSD2
13 22 (0.91%) Solvency II
14 21 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 21 (0.87%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.58%) PMO
16 12 (0.50%) ISO 22301
17 10 (0.41%) GRC
18 8 (0.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 346 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 242 (10.00%) Docker
3 85 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 29 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.66%) Firmware
7 16 (0.66%) vSphere
8 12 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.33%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.21%) KVM
11 4 (0.17%) Postfix
12 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.12%) ISA Server
12 3 (0.12%) NFS
12 3 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.083%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.041%) vCloud
14 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 305 (12.60%) Terraform
2 272 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 217 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 113 (4.67%) Ansible
5 58 (2.40%) SCCM
6 53 (2.19%) Grafana
7 48 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.78%) Argo
11 16 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.66%) CASB
12 8 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.33%) SCOM
13 7 (0.29%) Kibana
13 7 (0.29%) Rancher
14 6 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.25%) VxRail
15 5 (0.21%) Istio
15 5 (0.21%) linkerd
Vendors
1 995 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.97%) Databricks
3 166 (6.86%) VMware
4 117 (4.83%) Cisco
5 107 (4.42%) Google
6 78 (3.22%) Oracle
7 73 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.93%) Palo Alto
9 56 (2.31%) Fortinet
10 55 (2.27%) OpenAI
11 50 (2.07%) SAP
12 46 (1.90%) Salesforce
13 40 (1.65%) Meraki
14 36 (1.49%) SolarWinds
15 33 (1.36%) CheckPoint
15 33 (1.36%) Informatica
16 27 (1.12%) Citrix
16 27 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.12%) Dynatrace
17 25 (1.03%) Foundry