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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,250 3,497 4,616
As % of all permanent jobs in London 19.20% 19.85% 22.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.97% 43.95% 47.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 2,477 4,024
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £115,000 £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 5,236 7,956 9,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.68% 45.15% 47.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,593 5,311 8,351
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £97,500 £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% -2.34%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 0 445 £77,500 +6.90% 412
West London -1 47 £57,500 -20.69% 77
South London +11 32 £65,000 -7.14% 33
North London +4 25 £75,000 +21.95% 18
East London -11 16 £42,500 -14.57% 72
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
1 157 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 146 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.47%) Confluence
6 27 (1.20%) CMS
7 24 (1.07%) Apache
8 14 (0.62%) IIS
9 8 (0.36%) Moodle
10 7 (0.31%) nginx
11 5 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
12 4 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.13%) JBoss
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.089%) Drupal
Applications
1 39 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.36%) Maya
4 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.22%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.53%) SAP IBP
4 10 (0.44%) Endur
5 8 (0.36%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.27%) Shopify
8 5 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
10 2 (0.089%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.089%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.044%) Lorenzo
11 1 (0.044%) Markit EDM
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.044%) SAP CX
11 1 (0.044%) Siebel CRM
11 1 (0.044%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 766 (34.04%) AWS
2 443 (19.69%) GCP
3 377 (16.76%) Microsoft 365
3 377 (16.76%) Power Platform
4 326 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 230 (10.22%) Entra ID
6 156 (6.93%) SaaS
7 144 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 139 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
9 127 (5.64%) GitHub
10 123 (5.47%) Power Automate
11 120 (5.33%) Serverless
12 112 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 106 (4.71%) PowerApps
14 103 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 98 (4.36%) PaaS
16 78 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
17 63 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
18 60 (2.67%) Snowflake
19 59 (2.62%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 222 (9.87%) Firewall
2 129 (5.73%) VPN
3 127 (5.64%) WAN
4 114 (5.07%) DNS
5 105 (4.67%) LAN
6 77 (3.42%) Network Security
7 71 (3.16%) TCP/IP
8 61 (2.71%) DHCP
9 52 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (2.04%) SD-WAN
11 45 (2.00%) Wireless
12 38 (1.69%) VLAN
13 36 (1.60%) BGP
14 35 (1.56%) OSPF
15 31 (1.38%) VoIP
16 21 (0.93%) MPLS
17 20 (0.89%) SAN
18 19 (0.84%) Internet
19 17 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
20 14 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (11.38%) Power BI
2 224 (9.96%) SQL Server
3 169 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 128 (5.69%) NoSQL
6 101 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 98 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 93 (4.13%) Relational Database
9 83 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
10 82 (3.64%) Metadata
11 54 (2.40%) Big Data
12 42 (1.87%) MySQL
13 41 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 39 (1.73%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
16 33 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 25 (1.11%) Tableau
18 24 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 21 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 165 (7.33%) Git
2 96 (4.27%) JIRA
3 63 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 48 (2.13%) GitLab
5 28 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.84%) MLflow
7 18 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
8 17 (0.76%) Selenium
8 17 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.67%) Postman
10 13 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 11 (0.49%) JMeter
13 9 (0.40%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.27%) Maven
16 5 (0.22%) JUnit
16 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 721 (32.04%) Finance
2 710 (31.56%) Social Skills
3 292 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (10.31%) Law
5 221 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (8.04%) Banking
7 103 (4.58%) Legal
8 102 (4.53%) Marketing
9 93 (4.13%) Retail
10 92 (4.09%) Public Sector
11 49 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 48 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 45 (2.00%) Back Office
14 31 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.33%) Games
16 29 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (1.24%) Front Office
17 28 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 439 (19.51%) Senior
2 345 (15.33%) Developer
3 280 (12.44%) Architect
4 268 (11.91%) Lead
5 179 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 177 (7.87%) Analyst
7 146 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
8 105 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 103 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 100 (4.44%) Support Engineer
11 94 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
12 88 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 83 (3.69%) Data Architect
14 76 (3.38%) .NET Developer
15 74 (3.29%) IT Support
16 70 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 68 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
18 64 (2.84%) Support Analyst
19 60 (2.67%) Consultant
20 56 (2.49%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (12.71%) .NET
2 192 (8.53%) React
3 117 (5.20%) .NET Core
3 117 (5.20%) REST
4 116 (5.16%) AngularJS
5 94 (4.18%) HTML
6 92 (4.09%) Kafka
7 81 (3.60%) Node.js
8 79 (3.51%) RESTful
9 76 (3.38%) CSS
10 74 (3.29%) .NET Framework
11 73 (3.24%) ASP.NET
11 73 (3.24%) PySpark
12 68 (3.02%) Vue
13 55 (2.44%) Web Services
14 47 (2.09%) ASP.NET MVC
15 44 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
15 44 (1.96%) Django
15 44 (1.96%) YAML
16 43 (1.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 211 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 109 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 102 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 95 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 73 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 66 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 66 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 60 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 55 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 53 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
10 50 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 48 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 46 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.96%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.87%) Reinsurance
15 40 (1.78%) Private Cloud
16 39 (1.73%) Low-Code
17 38 (1.69%) AI Agents
17 38 (1.69%) Virtual Team
18 26 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 395 (17.56%) Windows
2 182 (8.09%) Windows Server
3 167 (7.42%) Linux
4 58 (2.58%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.47%) Unix
7 32 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 29 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.20%) Android
10 26 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.67%) VMS
13 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.31%) CentOS
14 7 (0.31%) Solaris
15 5 (0.22%) HPUX
16 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 2 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (30.49%) Agile
2 684 (30.40%) DevOps
3 597 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 499 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
5 399 (17.73%) AI
6 360 (16.00%) Analytics
7 308 (13.69%) Mentoring
8 269 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 268 (11.91%) Data Modelling
10 260 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
10 260 (11.56%) Roadmaps
10 260 (11.56%) Software Engineering
11 254 (11.29%) Microservices
12 251 (11.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 249 (11.07%) Migration
14 222 (9.87%) ETL
15 217 (9.64%) ITIL
16 216 (9.60%) Computer Science
17 210 (9.33%) Machine Learning
18 208 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 638 (28.36%) Python
2 636 (28.27%) SQL
3 303 (13.47%) C#
4 266 (11.82%) PowerShell
5 223 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 139 (6.18%) Java
7 138 (6.13%) TypeScript
8 66 (2.93%) Bash
9 61 (2.71%) T-SQL
10 38 (1.69%) Scala
11 35 (1.56%) Bicep
12 25 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 25 (1.11%) Go
12 25 (1.11%) R
13 24 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.76%) Rust
15 15 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 353 (15.69%) Degree
2 189 (8.40%) Azure Certification
3 133 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 120 (5.33%) Security Cleared
6 97 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 84 (3.73%) SC Cleared
8 78 (3.47%) Master's Degree
9 74 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (2.13%) CISSP
11 45 (2.00%) CCNP
12 37 (1.64%) CCNA
13 27 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 23 (1.02%) CCIE
14 23 (1.02%) PhD
14 23 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.93%) CISM
16 20 (0.89%) DV Cleared
16 20 (0.89%) MCSE
17 16 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.27%) GDPR
2 136 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 127 (5.64%) QA
4 99 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 99 (4.40%) NIST
5 37 (1.64%) SLA
6 29 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.02%) NCSC
8 16 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.49%) PMO
10 10 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.31%) EMIR
11 7 (0.31%) GRC
11 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.22%) WCAG
13 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 336 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 199 (8.84%) Docker
3 114 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.58%) Firmware
9 11 (0.49%) BitLocker
10 10 (0.44%) vSphere
11 9 (0.40%) NFS
12 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.27%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.22%) ISA Server
13 5 (0.22%) XenApp
13 5 (0.22%) zsh
14 4 (0.18%) ProxySG
15 3 (0.13%) KVM
16 2 (0.089%) Terminal Server
17 1 (0.044%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 284 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 249 (11.07%) Terraform
3 194 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 119 (5.29%) Ansible
5 54 (2.40%) SCCM
5 54 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
6 38 (1.69%) Grafana
6 38 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (0.71%) SCOM
9 14 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.58%) Argo
11 12 (0.53%) Puppet
12 11 (0.49%) Autotask
12 11 (0.49%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.31%) CASB
13 7 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 959 (42.62%) Microsoft
2 231 (10.27%) Databricks
3 176 (7.82%) VMware
4 140 (6.22%) Cisco
5 91 (4.04%) Google
5 91 (4.04%) Oracle
6 65 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.58%) SAP
8 57 (2.53%) Meraki
8 57 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 53 (2.36%) SolarWinds
10 42 (1.87%) Citrix
11 41 (1.82%) Fortinet
12 38 (1.69%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.33%) CheckPoint
14 28 (1.24%) IBM
15 26 (1.16%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.16%) Splunk
16 25 (1.11%) Informatica
16 25 (1.11%) Okta