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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,344 3,381 4,193
As % of all permanent jobs in London 17.73% 20.00% 22.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.30% 44.00% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 2,412 3,652
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,016 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -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 5,676 7,684 8,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 42.94% 45.46% 47.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,730 5,090 7,448
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,700
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 £120,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 11 December 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 11 December 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 0 456 £76,500 +5.52% 218
West London +1 52 £72,500 - 77
North London +18 25 £75,000 -6.25% 15
East London -11 25 £34,000 -31.31% 66
South London +11 22 £65,000 +5.44% 37
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
1 168 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 145 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.37%) Confluence
6 18 (0.77%) Apache
6 18 (0.77%) CMS
7 15 (0.64%) IIS
8 7 (0.30%) Appian
8 7 (0.30%) Moodle
9 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.34%) Maya
5 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.085%) Trello
9 1 (0.043%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 61 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.73%) Endur
4 11 (0.47%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.085%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.085%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.043%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.043%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 846 (36.09%) AWS
2 467 (19.92%) GCP
3 407 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
4 394 (16.81%) Power Platform
5 341 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
6 245 (10.45%) Entra ID
7 162 (6.91%) SaaS
8 158 (6.74%) GitHub
9 144 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.80%) Power Automate
11 127 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
12 117 (4.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 112 (4.78%) PaaS
13 112 (4.78%) PowerApps
14 108 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 108 (4.61%) Serverless
15 71 (3.03%) Snowflake
16 69 (2.94%) Azure AI
17 67 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
18 59 (2.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 229 (9.77%) Firewall
2 124 (5.29%) VPN
3 119 (5.08%) WAN
4 109 (4.65%) DNS
5 99 (4.22%) LAN
6 81 (3.46%) DHCP
7 72 (3.07%) TCP/IP
8 70 (2.99%) Network Security
9 66 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (1.92%) SD-WAN
10 45 (1.92%) Wireless
11 43 (1.83%) Internet
12 38 (1.62%) VLAN
13 36 (1.54%) VoIP
14 23 (0.98%) SAN
15 22 (0.94%) BGP
15 22 (0.94%) OSPF
16 17 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.55%) Wireshark
18 11 (0.47%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (11.56%) Power BI
2 234 (9.98%) SQL Server
3 180 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (6.14%) Data Lake
5 127 (5.42%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 91 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 85 (3.63%) Relational Database
9 80 (3.41%) Metadata
10 76 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (2.52%) Big Data
12 44 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.71%) Hadoop
14 40 (1.71%) MySQL
15 31 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 28 (1.19%) Tableau
17 23 (0.98%) DynamoDB
18 21 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 198 (8.45%) Git
2 104 (4.44%) JIRA
3 73 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 40 (1.71%) GitLab
6 26 (1.11%) MLflow
7 23 (0.98%) Selenium
8 22 (0.94%) Postman
9 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.64%) JMeter
10 14 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 12 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.34%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 746 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 719 (30.67%) Finance
3 288 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (9.26%) Law
5 170 (7.25%) Banking
6 159 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (5.93%) Retail
8 116 (4.95%) Legal
9 102 (4.35%) Marketing
10 75 (3.20%) Public Sector
11 64 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 61 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 45 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.32%) Retail Banking
17 30 (1.28%) Games
18 28 (1.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 429 (18.30%) Senior
2 350 (14.93%) Developer
3 306 (13.05%) Lead
4 295 (12.59%) Architect
5 185 (7.89%) Analyst
6 183 (7.81%) Data Engineer
7 137 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
8 118 (5.03%) Support Engineer
9 106 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 98 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (4.05%) Software Engineer
12 83 (3.54%) Senior Developer
13 82 (3.50%) Data Architect
14 76 (3.24%) .NET Developer
14 76 (3.24%) IT Support
15 74 (3.16%) Support Analyst
16 69 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 69 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
17 61 (2.60%) Security Engineer
18 57 (2.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (11.31%) .NET
2 179 (7.64%) React
3 134 (5.72%) REST
4 111 (4.74%) HTML
5 104 (4.44%) .NET Core
6 102 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 97 (4.14%) CSS
7 97 (4.14%) RESTful
8 89 (3.80%) Kafka
9 87 (3.71%) Node.js
10 72 (3.07%) ASP.NET
11 71 (3.03%) Vue
12 59 (2.52%) .NET Framework
13 56 (2.39%) PySpark
14 54 (2.30%) Web Services
15 49 (2.09%) OAuth
16 48 (2.05%) Middleware
17 45 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
17 45 (1.92%) PyTorch
17 45 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 207 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 106 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 101 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 75 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 65 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 54 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 54 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 52 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 47 (2.01%) Public Cloud
11 47 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (1.62%) Algorithms
14 36 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 34 (1.45%) Reinsurance
16 29 (1.24%) Virtual Team
17 28 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 388 (16.55%) Windows
2 182 (7.76%) Windows Server
3 167 (7.12%) Linux
4 66 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.83%) Mac OS
6 38 (1.62%) Unix
7 32 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 29 (1.24%) Android
9 27 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (0.94%) VMS
11 14 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.26%) CentOS
15 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.21%) Solaris
17 3 (0.13%) SUSE
18 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (30.33%) DevOps
2 640 (27.30%) Agile
3 598 (25.51%) CI/CD
4 493 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 475 (20.26%) AI
6 416 (17.75%) Analytics
7 309 (13.18%) Mentoring
8 292 (12.46%) Computer Science
8 292 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 282 (12.03%) Roadmaps
10 280 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
10 280 (11.95%) Data Modelling
11 270 (11.52%) Microservices
12 256 (10.92%) Machine Learning
13 251 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
14 249 (10.62%) ETL
15 248 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 245 (10.45%) Software Engineering
17 229 (9.77%) Data Pipeline
17 229 (9.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 642 (27.39%) Python
2 597 (25.47%) SQL
3 304 (12.97%) C#
4 279 (11.90%) PowerShell
5 258 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 140 (5.97%) Java
7 135 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 64 (2.73%) Bash
9 46 (1.96%) Bicep
10 45 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.49%) Scala
12 32 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 30 (1.28%) Go
14 28 (1.19%) R
15 21 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.73%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.64%) C++
18 14 (0.60%) Rust
19 12 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 421 (17.96%) Degree
2 211 (9.00%) Azure Certification
3 205 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 131 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 123 (5.25%) Security Cleared
6 111 (4.74%) AWS Certification
7 105 (4.48%) Master's Degree
8 89 (3.80%) SC Cleared
9 75 (3.20%) CISSP
10 63 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.71%) CCNP
12 32 (1.37%) CISM
12 32 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 29 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 29 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 25 (1.07%) CCNA
16 24 (1.02%) CCIE
17 23 (0.98%) PhD
17 23 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.76%) GDPR
2 159 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 123 (5.25%) QA
4 119 (5.08%) NIST
5 114 (4.86%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.54%) SLA
7 34 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.19%) EU AI Act
9 27 (1.15%) NCSC
10 24 (1.02%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.02%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.98%) PSD2
12 22 (0.94%) Solvency II
13 17 (0.73%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.60%) PMO
16 12 (0.51%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.34%) EMIR
17 8 (0.34%) GRC
17 8 (0.34%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 324 (13.82%) Active Directory
2 226 (9.64%) Docker
3 91 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.60%) Firmware
9 12 (0.51%) vSphere
10 11 (0.47%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.26%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.21%) XenApp
14 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.17%) KVM
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
15 3 (0.13%) zsh
16 2 (0.085%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 277 (11.82%) Terraform
2 269 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 204 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 122 (5.20%) Ansible
5 52 (2.22%) SCCM
6 43 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (1.71%) Prometheus
8 37 (1.58%) Grafana
9 19 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.73%) Argo
11 14 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.47%) Autotask
12 11 (0.47%) CASB
12 11 (0.47%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.38%) SCOM
14 7 (0.30%) Puppet
14 7 (0.30%) Rancher
15 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,002 (42.75%) Microsoft
2 215 (9.17%) Databricks
3 160 (6.83%) VMware
4 124 (5.29%) Cisco
5 98 (4.18%) Google
6 89 (3.80%) Oracle
7 68 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 67 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.56%) SAP
10 49 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 43 (1.83%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.66%) Meraki
13 34 (1.45%) Informatica
14 33 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 32 (1.37%) Citrix
15 32 (1.37%) OpenAI
16 26 (1.11%) CheckPoint
17 24 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
18 23 (0.98%) IBM
18 23 (0.98%) Splunk