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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,111 2,542 3,879
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.63% 20.65% 18.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.28% 44.79% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 1,850 3,047
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,400 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £58,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,128 5,676 8,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.60% 46.10% 42.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,449 4,029 6,793
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 0 523 £83,000 +7.10% 194
West London +2 95 £70,000 +55.56% 63
South London +1 47 £80,000 +23.08% 16
East London -13 17 £32,500 -36.27% 34
North London -6 8 £55,000 -21.43% 12
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
1 196 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 76 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.48%) Confluence
5 44 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.68%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 15 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.45%) Camunda
10 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.35%) Mule
12 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.32%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.13%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Endur
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.064%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.064%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (33.69%) AWS
2 622 (19.99%) GCP
3 528 (16.97%) Microsoft 365
4 406 (13.05%) Power Platform
5 377 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 374 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (6.85%) SaaS
8 187 (6.01%) GitHub
9 163 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 152 (4.89%) PaaS
11 150 (4.82%) Serverless
12 149 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 147 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (4.47%) Azure AI
15 126 (4.05%) Snowflake
16 116 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
17 107 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
18 104 (3.34%) Power Automate
19 97 (3.12%) IaaS
20 92 (2.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 313 (10.06%) Firewall
2 173 (5.56%) VPN
3 171 (5.50%) DNS
4 161 (5.18%) Network Security
5 135 (4.34%) DHCP
5 135 (4.34%) WAN
6 119 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
7 114 (3.66%) LAN
8 92 (2.96%) TCP/IP
9 71 (2.28%) VLAN
10 70 (2.25%) SD-WAN
11 50 (1.61%) SAN
12 47 (1.51%) BGP
13 45 (1.45%) Wireless
14 43 (1.38%) OSPF
15 30 (0.96%) Kerberos
16 28 (0.90%) VoIP
17 25 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.80%) WLAN
18 21 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (8.87%) Power BI
2 255 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 158 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.31%) Data Lake
5 113 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (2.48%) Tableau
8 69 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 66 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.09%) Metadata
11 51 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 50 (1.61%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.29%) Big Data
15 39 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.16%) BigQuery
17 35 (1.13%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.09%) MySQL
19 30 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 174 (5.59%) Git
2 111 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 93 (2.99%) JIRA
4 75 (2.41%) GitLab
5 34 (1.09%) MLflow
6 18 (0.58%) Postman
7 17 (0.55%) Selenium
8 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) JUnit
11 10 (0.32%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
14 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 943 (30.31%) Finance
2 891 (28.64%) Social Skills
3 286 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (6.98%) Banking
5 199 (6.40%) Law
6 134 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 123 (3.95%) Legal
8 121 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 88 (2.83%) Retail
10 53 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.13%) Front Office
13 35 (1.13%) Marketing
14 30 (0.96%) Advertising
14 30 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 28 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 590 (18.96%) Senior
2 522 (16.78%) Architect
3 432 (13.89%) Lead
4 318 (10.22%) Developer
5 271 (8.71%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (5.91%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 169 (5.43%) Analyst
9 140 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.02%) Consultant
11 122 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 114 (3.66%) Azure Architect
13 113 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 112 (3.60%) Data Architect
15 96 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 96 (3.09%) Security Engineer
16 89 (2.86%) IT Engineer
17 86 (2.76%) IT Support
18 84 (2.70%) Network Engineer
19 82 (2.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (10.09%) .NET
2 173 (5.56%) React
3 149 (4.79%) REST
4 133 (4.28%) Kafka
5 101 (3.25%) Node.js
6 100 (3.21%) OAuth
7 89 (2.86%) RESTful
8 88 (2.83%) Spring
9 81 (2.60%) .NET Core
10 79 (2.54%) LangChain
11 76 (2.44%) Spring Boot
12 73 (2.35%) ASP.NET
13 72 (2.31%) PySpark
14 60 (1.93%) PyTorch
15 56 (1.80%) CSS
15 56 (1.80%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.74%) HTML
16 54 (1.74%) OpenID
17 53 (1.70%) OAuth2
18 49 (1.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 405 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 142 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 120 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (3.38%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 90 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 86 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 72 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 55 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
13 53 (1.70%) Data Structures
14 52 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.32%) Low-Code
15 41 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
17 33 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 423 (13.60%) Windows
2 183 (5.88%) Linux
3 162 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.80%) VMS
6 25 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.77%) Unix
8 20 (0.64%) Android
9 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.35%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (28.83%) DevOps
2 835 (26.84%) CI/CD
3 709 (22.79%) AI
4 663 (21.31%) Agile
5 489 (15.72%) Roadmaps
6 482 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 475 (15.27%) Mentoring
8 461 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
9 453 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 430 (13.82%) Analytics
11 334 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
12 332 (10.67%) Data Engineering
13 320 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 307 (9.87%) Machine Learning
15 306 (9.84%) Software Engineering
16 300 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
17 288 (9.26%) Microservices
18 282 (9.06%) Data Modelling
19 271 (8.71%) Migration
19 271 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 751 (24.14%) Python
2 628 (20.19%) SQL
3 319 (10.25%) C#
4 303 (9.74%) PowerShell
5 218 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 201 (6.46%) Java
7 175 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 108 (3.47%) Bash
9 80 (2.57%) Bicep
10 42 (1.35%) Go
11 33 (1.06%) Scala
12 26 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (0.74%) R
15 20 (0.64%) C++
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.45%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 376 (12.09%) Degree
2 288 (9.26%) Azure Certification
3 258 (8.29%) Security Cleared
4 195 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 136 (4.37%) CISSP
6 127 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 120 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.12%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.06%) CCNP
11 60 (1.93%) CISM
12 56 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 55 (1.77%) CCNA
14 50 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.51%) CEH
16 30 (0.96%) DV Cleared
17 28 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.90%) CCIE
18 25 (0.80%) GIAC
19 23 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 163 (5.24%) GDPR
3 161 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 142 (4.56%) QA
5 137 (4.40%) NIST
6 93 (2.99%) SLA
7 61 (1.96%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.35%) GRC
10 35 (1.13%) PMO
11 30 (0.96%) PCI DSS
12 29 (0.93%) NCSC
13 25 (0.80%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 15 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (13.50%) Active Directory
2 246 (7.91%) Docker
3 126 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.77%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.096%) Firmware
10 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.064%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 452 (14.53%) Terraform
2 341 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 218 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (4.92%) Ansible
5 65 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.80%) Grafana
7 51 (1.64%) SCCM
8 42 (1.35%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.39%) Istio
11 12 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.35%) Argo
12 11 (0.35%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 8 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,306 (41.98%) Microsoft
2 329 (10.58%) Databricks
3 198 (6.36%) VMware
4 153 (4.92%) Cisco
5 138 (4.44%) Google
6 90 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.70%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 73 (2.35%) Oracle
10 56 (1.80%) Foundry
11 53 (1.70%) SAP
12 52 (1.67%) Splunk
13 50 (1.61%) Salesforce
14 48 (1.54%) Meraki
15 46 (1.48%) Fortinet
16 45 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
17 42 (1.35%) Dell
18 39 (1.25%) Dynatrace
18 39 (1.25%) Tenable
19 38 (1.22%) iManage