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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,912 2,369 4,587
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.97% 19.73% 19.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.04% 44.66% 44.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,064 1,769 3,736
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,150 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,000 £56,750
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 £114,625 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,273 5,305 10,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.89% 44.18% 43.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,860 3,793 8,067
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 25 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 25 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 0 650 £82,500 +6.45% 237
West London +10 76 £60,000 +41.18% 30
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 10
East London -11 22 £87,500 +2.94% 29
North London +3 12 £55,000 +10.00% 10
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 121 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.06%) Confluence
6 19 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.55%) Apache
8 13 (0.45%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 10 (0.34%) Appian
11 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.14%) Moodle
14 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 48 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.41%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.034%) Maya
8 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.38%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) Shopify
9 2 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.034%) Maximo
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.034%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.034%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 951 (32.66%) AWS
2 551 (18.92%) GCP
3 499 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 375 (12.88%) Power Platform
5 352 (12.09%) Entra ID
6 349 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
7 192 (6.59%) GitHub
8 191 (6.56%) SaaS
9 154 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 144 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 135 (4.64%) PaaS
12 125 (4.29%) Azure AI
12 125 (4.29%) Serverless
13 110 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 98 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
15 97 (3.33%) Power Automate
15 97 (3.33%) Snowflake
16 91 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
17 88 (3.02%) IaaS
18 84 (2.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 319 (10.95%) Firewall
2 184 (6.32%) VPN
3 174 (5.98%) DNS
4 157 (5.39%) WAN
5 144 (4.95%) DHCP
6 131 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
7 125 (4.29%) Network Security
8 102 (3.50%) LAN
9 90 (3.09%) TCP/IP
10 88 (3.02%) SD-WAN
11 62 (2.13%) VLAN
12 57 (1.96%) SAN
13 36 (1.24%) Internet
13 36 (1.24%) Wireless
14 35 (1.20%) BGP
15 33 (1.13%) WLAN
16 31 (1.06%) OSPF
16 31 (1.06%) VoIP
17 27 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 255 (8.76%) Power BI
3 134 (4.60%) Data Lake
4 132 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 61 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (2.09%) Tableau
8 58 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 56 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 53 (1.82%) Big Data
11 51 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 49 (1.68%) Metadata
13 45 (1.55%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.37%) Delta Lake
16 28 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.96%) Pinecone
17 27 (0.93%) MySQL
18 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (6.18%) Git
2 97 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 72 (2.47%) JIRA
4 69 (2.37%) GitLab
5 49 (1.68%) MLflow
6 27 (0.93%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.72%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.62%) Selenium
10 15 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Vite
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 884 (30.36%) Finance
2 785 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 295 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (7.28%) Banking
5 169 (5.80%) Law
6 117 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 94 (3.23%) Legal
8 68 (2.34%) Retail
9 56 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 41 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.30%) Front Office
15 31 (1.06%) Marketing
16 27 (0.93%) Multimedia
17 22 (0.76%) Advertising
17 22 (0.76%) Retail Banking
18 18 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 563 (19.33%) Senior
2 431 (14.80%) Architect
3 368 (12.64%) Lead
4 280 (9.62%) Developer
5 269 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (6.32%) Analyst
7 170 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 153 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 128 (4.40%) Software Engineer
9 128 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 119 (4.09%) Consultant
11 109 (3.74%) Azure Architect
12 107 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 106 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
14 101 (3.47%) IT Engineer
14 101 (3.47%) Support Engineer
15 98 (3.37%) Network Engineer
16 93 (3.19%) Security Engineer
17 91 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
18 83 (2.85%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (9.72%) .NET
2 162 (5.56%) React
3 127 (4.36%) REST
4 107 (3.67%) Kafka
5 98 (3.37%) OAuth
6 82 (2.82%) CSS
7 79 (2.71%) RESTful
8 75 (2.58%) HTML
9 72 (2.47%) Node.js
9 72 (2.47%) PySpark
10 66 (2.27%) LangChain
11 65 (2.23%) .NET Core
12 56 (1.92%) SAML
13 53 (1.82%) PyTorch
14 52 (1.79%) TensorFlow
15 51 (1.75%) Spring
16 45 (1.55%) Django
16 45 (1.55%) OpenID
17 42 (1.44%) ASP.NET
18 41 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 287 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 91 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 86 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 82 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 69 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 69 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 63 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
8 63 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 61 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 61 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 60 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 49 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.41%) Low-Code
14 39 (1.34%) Cyberattack
14 39 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (1.30%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (14.18%) Windows
2 163 (5.60%) Linux
3 161 (5.53%) Windows Server
4 77 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.20%) VMS
6 33 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 30 (1.03%) Unix
7 30 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (0.86%) Android
8 25 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.31%) CentOS
13 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.069%) SUSE
16 1 (0.034%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (27.82%) DevOps
2 712 (24.45%) CI/CD
3 595 (20.43%) AI
4 566 (19.44%) Agile
5 445 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
6 425 (14.59%) Analytics
7 415 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 413 (14.18%) Roadmaps
9 406 (13.94%) Mentoring
10 391 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 311 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
12 301 (10.34%) Data Engineering
13 286 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
14 277 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 270 (9.27%) Software Engineering
16 264 (9.07%) Data Modelling
17 256 (8.79%) Migration
18 254 (8.72%) Machine Learning
19 243 (8.34%) Microservices
20 223 (7.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 732 (25.14%) Python
2 607 (20.84%) SQL
3 332 (11.40%) PowerShell
4 279 (9.58%) C#
5 221 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 166 (5.70%) Java
7 148 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 99 (3.40%) Bash
9 72 (2.47%) Bicep
10 49 (1.68%) Go
11 37 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 37 (1.27%) R
12 31 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.82%) Scala
14 21 (0.72%) C++
15 15 (0.52%) Rust
16 12 (0.41%) C
16 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 366 (12.57%) Degree
2 297 (10.20%) Azure Certification
3 220 (7.55%) Security Cleared
4 156 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 156 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 120 (4.12%) CISSP
5 120 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 102 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 52 (1.79%) CEH
9 50 (1.72%) CCNP
10 49 (1.68%) CCNA
11 48 (1.65%) CISM
12 45 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 43 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.24%) DV Cleared
15 33 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 31 (1.06%) PMI Certification
17 30 (1.03%) CCIE
17 30 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 150 (5.15%) NIST
3 147 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 145 (4.98%) GDPR
5 90 (3.09%) QA
6 89 (3.06%) SLA
7 51 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.30%) NCSC
10 34 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 33 (1.13%) GRC
12 30 (1.03%) SOC 2
13 28 (0.96%) PMO
14 20 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 19 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 10 (0.34%) ISO 22301
17 10 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 408 (14.01%) Active Directory
2 234 (8.04%) Docker
3 114 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (1.03%) vSphere
8 13 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.31%) Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.069%) Xen
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 394 (13.53%) Terraform
2 314 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 220 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 128 (4.40%) Ansible
5 65 (2.23%) SCCM
6 55 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.85%) Grafana
8 42 (1.44%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 29 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.45%) Istio
12 12 (0.41%) Argo
13 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 8 (0.27%) CASB
16 7 (0.24%) Nagios
16 7 (0.24%) QRadar
16 7 (0.24%) VxRail
17 6 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,180 (40.52%) Microsoft
2 299 (10.27%) Databricks
3 194 (6.66%) VMware
4 142 (4.88%) Cisco
5 126 (4.33%) Google
6 86 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 76 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 61 (2.09%) Oracle
10 56 (1.92%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.82%) SAP
12 50 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
13 49 (1.68%) Meraki
14 47 (1.61%) Foundry
15 45 (1.55%) Salesforce
16 43 (1.48%) Dynatrace
17 42 (1.44%) SolarWinds
17 42 (1.44%) Splunk
18 41 (1.41%) Dell
19 40 (1.37%) ForeScout