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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,344 3,440 4,398
As % of all permanent jobs in London 19.06% 19.79% 22.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.14% 44.13% 47.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 2,430 3,833
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,475 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,434 7,795 9,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.19% 44.85% 47.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,711 5,138 7,837
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,611 £60,000 £56,250
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 £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 0 443 £80,000 +10.34% 1,412
West London +6 53 £74,000 +2.07% 111
South London +18 26 £65,000 -10.34% 40
North London +12 26 £75,000 +21.95% 14
East London -3 22 £34,000 -31.66% 83
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
1 163 (6.95%) SharePoint
2 152 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 82 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.41%) Confluence
6 23 (0.98%) CMS
7 20 (0.85%) Apache
8 15 (0.64%) IIS
9 7 (0.30%) nginx
10 6 (0.26%) WordPress
11 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (0.21%) Moodle
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
12 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.13%) Appian
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.34%) Maya
5 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.21%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.51%) Endur
4 11 (0.47%) SAP IBP
5 8 (0.34%) Shopify
6 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
10 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.085%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.085%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.043%) Lorenzo
11 1 (0.043%) Markit EDM
11 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.043%) Siebel CRM
11 1 (0.043%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 828 (35.32%) AWS
2 456 (19.45%) GCP
3 394 (16.81%) Microsoft 365
4 385 (16.42%) Power Platform
5 334 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
6 242 (10.32%) Entra ID
7 163 (6.95%) SaaS
8 146 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 141 (6.02%) GitHub
10 136 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
11 127 (5.42%) Power Automate
12 118 (5.03%) Serverless
13 114 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 110 (4.69%) PowerApps
15 107 (4.56%) PaaS
16 106 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 78 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
18 66 (2.82%) Snowflake
19 60 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
20 59 (2.52%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 223 (9.51%) Firewall
2 125 (5.33%) WAN
3 124 (5.29%) VPN
4 120 (5.12%) DNS
5 110 (4.69%) LAN
6 76 (3.24%) TCP/IP
7 75 (3.20%) DHCP
8 70 (2.99%) Network Security
9 54 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (1.92%) SD-WAN
10 45 (1.92%) Wireless
11 37 (1.58%) VLAN
12 34 (1.45%) VoIP
13 30 (1.28%) BGP
13 30 (1.28%) OSPF
14 28 (1.19%) Internet
15 20 (0.85%) SAN
16 17 (0.73%) MPLS
17 16 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (11.05%) Power BI
2 237 (10.11%) SQL Server
3 178 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (5.55%) Data Lake
5 128 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 105 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 97 (4.14%) MongoDB
8 95 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
10 80 (3.41%) Metadata
11 55 (2.35%) Big Data
12 44 (1.88%) MySQL
13 43 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 41 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (1.66%) Hadoop
16 32 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
17 26 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 25 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 25 (1.07%) Tableau
19 22 (0.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 182 (7.76%) Git
2 101 (4.31%) JIRA
3 65 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.18%) GitLab
5 36 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 20 (0.85%) Selenium
7 18 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
7 18 (0.77%) Postman
8 17 (0.73%) MLflow
8 17 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (0.55%) JMeter
12 12 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (0.26%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 748 (31.91%) Finance
2 727 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 293 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (10.37%) Law
5 217 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 204 (8.70%) Banking
7 137 (5.84%) Retail
8 126 (5.38%) Marketing
9 114 (4.86%) Legal
10 91 (3.88%) Public Sector
11 58 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (2.43%) Financial Institution
13 51 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 38 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 37 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
16 35 (1.49%) Back Office
17 32 (1.37%) Games
17 32 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 30 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
19 29 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 440 (18.77%) Senior
2 353 (15.06%) Developer
3 324 (13.82%) Lead
4 292 (12.46%) Architect
5 184 (7.85%) Data Engineer
6 182 (7.76%) Analyst
7 147 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 107 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 106 (4.52%) Software Engineer
9 106 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 99 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (3.92%) Senior Developer
12 85 (3.63%) Data Architect
13 77 (3.28%) IT Support
14 76 (3.24%) .NET Developer
15 73 (3.11%) Support Analyst
16 72 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
17 65 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
18 59 (2.52%) Consultant
19 53 (2.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (12.24%) .NET
2 195 (8.32%) React
3 124 (5.29%) REST
4 121 (5.16%) AngularJS
5 112 (4.78%) .NET Core
6 98 (4.18%) HTML
7 92 (3.92%) Kafka
8 89 (3.80%) RESTful
9 83 (3.54%) CSS
10 82 (3.50%) Node.js
11 72 (3.07%) Vue
12 71 (3.03%) ASP.NET
13 68 (2.90%) .NET Framework
14 67 (2.86%) PySpark
15 57 (2.43%) Web Services
16 47 (2.01%) YAML
17 46 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
18 45 (1.92%) Django
18 45 (1.92%) Middleware
19 44 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 215 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 106 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 90 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 76 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 74 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 66 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 65 (2.77%) Public Cloud
9 63 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
10 52 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
11 50 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 49 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 48 (2.05%) Low-Code
14 46 (1.96%) Algorithms
15 43 (1.83%) Private Cloud
16 41 (1.75%) AI Agents
17 39 (1.66%) Virtual Team
18 37 (1.58%) Reinsurance
19 33 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 405 (17.28%) Windows
2 190 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 178 (7.59%) Linux
4 59 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 41 (1.75%) Unix
6 40 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.49%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.32%) Android
9 30 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (0.68%) VMS
13 8 (0.34%) CentOS
13 8 (0.34%) Solaris
14 7 (0.30%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.21%) HPUX
17 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
18 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (30.38%) DevOps
2 683 (29.14%) Agile
3 614 (26.19%) CI/CD
4 511 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
5 448 (19.11%) AI
6 402 (17.15%) Analytics
7 328 (13.99%) Mentoring
8 288 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 277 (11.82%) Data Modelling
10 268 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 268 (11.43%) Software Engineering
11 266 (11.35%) Roadmaps
12 264 (11.26%) Microservices
13 259 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 254 (10.84%) Computer Science
15 247 (10.54%) Migration
16 242 (10.32%) Machine Learning
17 233 (9.94%) ETL
18 229 (9.77%) ITIL
19 220 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 661 (28.20%) Python
2 627 (26.75%) SQL
3 308 (13.14%) C#
4 276 (11.77%) PowerShell
5 240 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 148 (6.31%) Java
7 141 (6.02%) TypeScript
8 68 (2.90%) Bash
9 56 (2.39%) T-SQL
10 41 (1.75%) Bicep
11 39 (1.66%) Scala
12 33 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 27 (1.15%) R
13 27 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 26 (1.11%) Go
15 23 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.73%) Rust
17 14 (0.60%) PHP
18 11 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 393 (16.77%) Degree
2 204 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 169 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 134 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 122 (5.20%) Security Cleared
6 106 (4.52%) AWS Certification
7 105 (4.48%) Master's Degree
8 87 (3.71%) SC Cleared
9 72 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (2.47%) CISSP
11 47 (2.01%) CCNP
12 37 (1.58%) CCNA
13 29 (1.24%) CISM
13 29 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 27 (1.15%) DV Cleared
15 24 (1.02%) CCIE
16 23 (0.98%) MCSE
16 23 (0.98%) PhD
17 21 (0.90%) PMI Certification
18 19 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (7.59%) GDPR
2 152 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 129 (5.50%) QA
4 109 (4.65%) NIST
5 102 (4.35%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.49%) SLA
7 33 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.19%) EU AI Act
8 28 (1.19%) NCSC
9 26 (1.11%) HIPAA
10 23 (0.98%) PSD2
10 23 (0.98%) Solvency II
11 17 (0.73%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.47%) PMO
14 8 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.30%) EMIR
15 7 (0.30%) GRC
16 5 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 347 (14.80%) Active Directory
2 216 (9.22%) Docker
3 103 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.47%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.43%) vSphere
11 9 (0.38%) NFS
12 6 (0.26%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.21%) ISA Server
13 5 (0.21%) KVM
13 5 (0.21%) XenApp
13 5 (0.21%) zsh
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.085%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 286 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 265 (11.31%) Terraform
3 208 (8.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 125 (5.33%) Ansible
5 53 (2.26%) SCCM
6 51 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (1.79%) Grafana
8 41 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.60%) Argo
11 13 (0.55%) SCOM
12 11 (0.47%) Autotask
12 11 (0.47%) Kubeflow
12 11 (0.47%) Puppet
13 9 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.38%) CASB
14 6 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.26%) WSUS
15 5 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 994 (42.41%) Microsoft
2 238 (10.15%) Databricks
3 169 (7.21%) VMware
4 136 (5.80%) Cisco
5 104 (4.44%) Google
6 94 (4.01%) Oracle
7 67 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 59 (2.52%) SAP
10 49 (2.09%) SolarWinds
11 44 (1.88%) Meraki
12 43 (1.83%) Salesforce
13 41 (1.75%) Fortinet
14 35 (1.49%) Citrix
15 30 (1.28%) IBM
15 30 (1.28%) Informatica
16 29 (1.24%) Splunk
17 27 (1.15%) OpenAI
18 26 (1.11%) CheckPoint
19 25 (1.07%) Foundry