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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,892 2,507 4,605
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.20% 19.80% 19.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.54% 44.80% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,046 1,902 3,791
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,050 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,063 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

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 7,314 5,596 10,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.90% 44.20% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,714 4,061 8,179
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 0 663 £80,000 +6.67% 292
West London -1 74 £60,000 +37.14% 45
South London +18 46 £80,000 +29.78% 11
East London -15 22 £87,500 +2.94% 44
North London -5 9 £60,000 +26.32% 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 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 127 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.93%) Confluence
6 18 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.52%) Apache
8 12 (0.41%) Appian
8 12 (0.41%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.24%) IIS
10 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.31%) PlantUML
6 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.45%) Endur
3 10 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.069%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.035%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 961 (33.23%) AWS
2 569 (19.67%) GCP
3 501 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
4 400 (13.83%) Power Platform
5 344 (11.89%) Entra ID
6 336 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.71%) GitHub
8 184 (6.36%) SaaS
9 159 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 144 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 128 (4.43%) PaaS
12 123 (4.25%) Serverless
13 122 (4.22%) Azure AI
14 110 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 106 (3.67%) Power Automate
16 99 (3.42%) Snowflake
17 98 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
18 90 (3.11%) PowerApps
19 85 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
20 83 (2.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 315 (10.89%) Firewall
2 182 (6.29%) VPN
3 167 (5.77%) DNS
4 157 (5.43%) WAN
5 137 (4.74%) DHCP
6 130 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
7 118 (4.08%) Network Security
8 100 (3.46%) LAN
9 94 (3.25%) TCP/IP
10 88 (3.04%) SD-WAN
11 55 (1.90%) VLAN
12 51 (1.76%) SAN
13 43 (1.49%) Internet
14 34 (1.18%) Wireless
15 31 (1.07%) WLAN
16 30 (1.04%) VoIP
17 29 (1.00%) BGP
18 26 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (0.90%) OSPF
19 25 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (9.58%) Power BI
2 267 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 139 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (4.74%) Data Lake
5 90 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 70 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 60 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 60 (2.07%) Tableau
10 57 (1.97%) BigQuery
11 52 (1.80%) Big Data
12 48 (1.66%) Metadata
13 44 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 43 (1.49%) Relational Database
15 38 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.07%) Pinecone
17 26 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (0.90%) MySQL
18 24 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 183 (6.33%) Git
2 99 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 74 (2.56%) JIRA
4 68 (2.35%) GitLab
5 51 (1.76%) MLflow
6 30 (1.04%) Postman
7 23 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.69%) Chocolatey
9 19 (0.66%) Selenium
9 19 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.48%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.45%) Vite
12 12 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 863 (29.84%) Finance
2 778 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 292 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (7.16%) Banking
5 172 (5.95%) Law
6 118 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 95 (3.28%) Legal
9 67 (2.32%) Retail
10 55 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 54 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.31%) Front Office
16 31 (1.07%) Marketing
16 31 (1.07%) Multimedia
17 25 (0.86%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.80%) Advertising
18 23 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 567 (19.61%) Senior
2 399 (13.80%) Architect
3 363 (12.55%) Lead
4 287 (9.92%) Developer
5 262 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
6 202 (6.98%) Analyst
7 176 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 149 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 134 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
11 111 (3.84%) Consultant
12 110 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 107 (3.70%) Support Engineer
14 100 (3.46%) Azure Architect
14 100 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 98 (3.39%) Security Engineer
16 92 (3.18%) Network Engineer
17 91 (3.15%) IT Engineer
18 90 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
19 82 (2.84%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (9.61%) .NET
2 168 (5.81%) React
3 126 (4.36%) REST
4 109 (3.77%) Kafka
5 93 (3.22%) RESTful
6 92 (3.18%) CSS
7 91 (3.15%) OAuth
8 87 (3.01%) HTML
9 79 (2.73%) Node.js
10 68 (2.35%) .NET Core
11 65 (2.25%) LangChain
12 64 (2.21%) PySpark
13 55 (1.90%) PyTorch
13 55 (1.90%) TensorFlow
14 52 (1.80%) SAML
15 50 (1.73%) Django
16 43 (1.49%) OpenID
17 39 (1.35%) ASP.NET
17 39 (1.35%) scikit-learn
18 38 (1.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 273 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 87 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 84 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 76 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 69 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 65 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.18%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 61 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
12 56 (1.94%) Onboarding
13 55 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (1.59%) Low-Code
15 43 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.38%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.35%) Cyberattack
18 38 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
19 36 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 407 (14.07%) Windows
2 170 (5.88%) Linux
3 155 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 86 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 39 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.21%) Unix
6 35 (1.21%) VMS
7 33 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 31 (1.07%) Android
9 29 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.41%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.35%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
18 1 (0.035%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (27.77%) DevOps
2 689 (23.82%) CI/CD
3 595 (20.57%) AI
4 567 (19.61%) Agile
5 437 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
6 428 (14.80%) Analytics
7 407 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 403 (13.93%) Roadmaps
9 397 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 380 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 325 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
12 306 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
13 294 (10.17%) Data Engineering
14 272 (9.41%) Software Engineering
15 269 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 268 (9.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 259 (8.96%) Machine Learning
18 256 (8.85%) Migration
19 245 (8.47%) Computer Science
20 240 (8.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 739 (25.55%) Python
2 632 (21.85%) SQL
3 330 (11.41%) PowerShell
4 278 (9.61%) C#
5 233 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 158 (5.46%) Java
7 149 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 105 (3.63%) Bash
9 72 (2.49%) Bicep
10 56 (1.94%) Go
11 40 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 40 (1.38%) R
12 30 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.90%) C++
14 23 (0.80%) Scala
15 15 (0.52%) Rust
16 14 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.45%) C
18 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 379 (13.11%) Degree
2 300 (10.37%) Azure Certification
3 208 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 180 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 144 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 123 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (4.22%) CISSP
8 90 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 86 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.01%) CEH
11 48 (1.66%) CISM
12 47 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 46 (1.59%) CCNP
14 44 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
15 43 (1.49%) CCNA
16 42 (1.45%) DV Cleared
17 37 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 36 (1.24%) PMI Certification
19 35 (1.21%) PMP
20 29 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.57%) NIST
3 151 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 151 (5.22%) GDPR
4 87 (3.01%) SLA
5 86 (2.97%) QA
6 46 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 37 (1.28%) NCSC
7 37 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 34 (1.18%) GRC
9 33 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 24 (0.83%) PMO
11 20 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 17 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 12 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 12 (0.41%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 397 (13.73%) Active Directory
2 238 (8.23%) Docker
3 107 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.97%) vSphere
8 12 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.35%) Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.069%) Xen
14 1 (0.035%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 392 (13.55%) Terraform
2 325 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 228 (7.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 130 (4.50%) Ansible
5 67 (2.32%) SCCM
6 57 (1.97%) Grafana
7 52 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 30 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (0.90%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) CASB
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.21%) Packer
16 6 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,174 (40.59%) Microsoft
2 289 (9.99%) Databricks
3 192 (6.64%) VMware
4 136 (4.70%) Cisco
5 134 (4.63%) Google
6 84 (2.90%) OpenAI
7 82 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.66%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.94%) Fortinet
10 55 (1.90%) Oracle
11 52 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
12 50 (1.73%) Meraki
13 44 (1.52%) SAP
14 42 (1.45%) Dell
14 42 (1.45%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.45%) SolarWinds
15 40 (1.38%) Foundry
15 40 (1.38%) Splunk
16 39 (1.35%) Salesforce
17 38 (1.31%) iManage