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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,017 2,432 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.19% 19.91% 19.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.74% 44.51% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,139 1,803 3,741
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
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 £113,750 £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 7,405 5,464 10,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.84% 44.74% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,040 3,830 8,162
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,464 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 0 619 £82,500 +6.45% 195
West London +14 83 £60,000 +41.18% 44
South London +22 46 £80,000 +23.08% 8
East London -6 21 £31,500 -64.00% 35
North London +2 9 £55,000 +10.00% 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
1 191 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 127 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.16%) Confluence
6 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.56%) Apache
8 15 (0.50%) CMS
9 11 (0.36%) WordPress
10 9 (0.30%) Appian
11 8 (0.27%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 6 (0.20%) IIS
13 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) 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
15 3 (0.099%) Mule
Applications
1 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.50%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.033%) Maya
8 1 (0.033%) Notion
8 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Endur
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.066%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 981 (32.52%) AWS
2 578 (19.16%) GCP
3 510 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
4 369 (12.23%) Power Platform
5 362 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 359 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 203 (6.73%) SaaS
8 195 (6.46%) GitHub
9 144 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 143 (4.74%) PaaS
11 136 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 135 (4.47%) Serverless
13 129 (4.28%) Azure AI
14 116 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
16 101 (3.35%) Snowflake
17 99 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 98 (3.25%) Power Automate
19 95 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
20 94 (3.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.47%) Firewall
2 183 (6.07%) VPN
3 171 (5.67%) DNS
4 162 (5.37%) WAN
5 139 (4.61%) DHCP
6 135 (4.47%) Network Security
7 126 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
8 111 (3.68%) LAN
9 93 (3.08%) TCP/IP
10 89 (2.95%) SD-WAN
11 64 (2.12%) VLAN
12 56 (1.86%) SAN
13 43 (1.43%) BGP
14 39 (1.29%) OSPF
15 38 (1.26%) Wireless
16 32 (1.06%) WLAN
17 30 (0.99%) VoIP
18 29 (0.96%) Internet
19 28 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
20 25 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 249 (8.25%) Power BI
3 129 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 65 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 63 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (2.06%) Tableau
9 59 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 54 (1.79%) Metadata
12 46 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 46 (1.52%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.46%) Big Data
14 41 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 32 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (0.89%) MySQL
17 26 (0.86%) Pinecone
17 26 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (5.97%) Git
2 99 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.59%) JIRA
4 77 (2.55%) GitLab
5 44 (1.46%) MLflow
6 28 (0.93%) Postman
7 22 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.63%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.40%) Vite
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.30%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 935 (30.99%) Finance
2 825 (27.35%) Social Skills
3 289 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.36%) Banking
5 176 (5.83%) Law
6 129 (4.28%) Public Sector
7 124 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.41%) Legal
9 75 (2.49%) Retail
10 60 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.16%) Front Office
15 32 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.03%) Marketing
17 27 (0.89%) Advertising
18 21 (0.70%) Investment Banking
18 21 (0.70%) Multimedia
19 20 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 580 (19.22%) Senior
2 457 (15.15%) Architect
3 396 (13.13%) Lead
4 299 (9.91%) Developer
5 276 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
6 182 (6.03%) Analyst
7 168 (5.57%) Data Engineer
8 161 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 146 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
10 129 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.08%) Consultant
12 112 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 106 (3.51%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 101 (3.35%) IT Engineer
15 101 (3.35%) Security Engineer
16 99 (3.28%) Network Engineer
16 99 (3.28%) Support Engineer
17 95 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
18 87 (2.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (9.94%) .NET
2 165 (5.47%) React
3 136 (4.51%) REST
4 116 (3.84%) Kafka
5 104 (3.45%) OAuth
6 88 (2.92%) RESTful
7 79 (2.62%) Node.js
8 75 (2.49%) CSS
8 75 (2.49%) LangChain
9 74 (2.45%) .NET Core
10 68 (2.25%) HTML
10 68 (2.25%) PySpark
11 64 (2.12%) Spring
12 58 (1.92%) PyTorch
13 57 (1.89%) TensorFlow
14 56 (1.86%) ASP.NET
14 56 (1.86%) SAML
15 54 (1.79%) Spring Boot
16 49 (1.62%) OpenID
17 44 (1.46%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 332 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 126 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 108 (3.58%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 68 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
9 64 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 62 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 60 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (1.39%) Low-Code
14 42 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.33%) Cyberattack
16 34 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 32 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 418 (13.85%) Windows
2 167 (5.54%) Linux
3 164 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 38 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.16%) VMS
7 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.93%) Unix
8 28 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (0.70%) Android
11 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.30%) CentOS
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
17 1 (0.033%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (28.24%) DevOps
2 757 (25.09%) CI/CD
3 632 (20.95%) AI
4 597 (19.79%) Agile
5 459 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
6 445 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 444 (14.72%) Roadmaps
8 424 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 424 (14.05%) Mentoring
9 419 (13.89%) Analytics
10 319 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
11 313 (10.37%) Data Engineering
12 293 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 287 (9.51%) Business Intelligence
14 279 (9.25%) Software Engineering
15 271 (8.98%) Machine Learning
16 268 (8.88%) Data Modelling
17 263 (8.72%) Microservices
18 259 (8.58%) Migration
19 232 (7.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 737 (24.43%) Python
2 619 (20.52%) SQL
3 335 (11.10%) PowerShell
4 294 (9.74%) C#
5 225 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 168 (5.57%) Java
7 159 (5.27%) TypeScript
8 112 (3.71%) Bash
9 76 (2.52%) Bicep
10 49 (1.62%) Go
11 35 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 33 (1.09%) R
14 21 (0.70%) C++
14 21 (0.70%) Scala
15 15 (0.50%) Rust
16 13 (0.43%) RPG
16 13 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.36%) C
17 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (12.36%) Degree
2 293 (9.71%) Azure Certification
3 231 (7.66%) Security Cleared
4 170 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 150 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (4.18%) CISSP
7 123 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 112 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (2.55%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.86%) CCNP
11 55 (1.82%) CCNA
12 54 (1.79%) CISM
13 51 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 50 (1.66%) CEH
15 45 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 36 (1.19%) DV Cleared
17 32 (1.06%) CCIE
18 27 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 26 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (5.24%) NIST
3 152 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 150 (4.97%) GDPR
5 110 (3.65%) QA
6 93 (3.08%) SLA
7 56 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.29%) NCSC
10 35 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 34 (1.13%) GRC
12 31 (1.03%) PMO
13 28 (0.93%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.27%) COBIT
19 8 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 418 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 243 (8.05%) Docker
3 121 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.03%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.066%) Xen
11 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
12 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 422 (13.99%) Terraform
2 328 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 217 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 137 (4.54%) Ansible
5 61 (2.02%) SCCM
6 57 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 55 (1.82%) Grafana
8 45 (1.49%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.33%) Kibana
14 9 (0.30%) Argo
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
15 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 8 (0.27%) Nagios
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,217 (40.34%) Microsoft
2 301 (9.98%) Databricks
3 198 (6.56%) VMware
4 148 (4.91%) Cisco
5 130 (4.31%) Google
6 92 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.75%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 63 (2.09%) Oracle
10 53 (1.76%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.72%) Foundry
12 50 (1.66%) Meraki
12 50 (1.66%) SAP
12 50 (1.66%) Splunk
13 47 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
14 46 (1.52%) Dynatrace
15 44 (1.46%) SolarWinds
16 42 (1.39%) Dell
17 40 (1.33%) Salesforce
18 38 (1.26%) ForeScout