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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,176 2,524 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.45% 20.65% 18.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.85% 44.83% 44.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,824 2,862
10th Percentile £46,925 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.18%

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 8,391 5,630 8,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.54% 46.07% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,628 3,945 6,333
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £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 7 August 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 7 August 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 0 502 £85,000 +9.68% 287
West London +2 100 £70,000 +55.56% 59
South London +6 42 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -17 16 £53,750 +8.59% 30
North London -8 10 £60,000 -14.29% 16
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
1 200 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 83 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.61%) Confluence
5 46 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.76%) Apache
7 22 (0.69%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
9 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.31%) WordPress
12 9 (0.28%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Maya
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.47%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Endur
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,074 (33.82%) AWS
2 637 (20.06%) GCP
3 533 (16.78%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.19%) Power Platform
5 390 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
6 387 (12.19%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.71%) SaaS
8 187 (5.89%) GitHub
9 167 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 161 (5.07%) PaaS
11 158 (4.97%) Serverless
12 150 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 148 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 142 (4.47%) Azure AI
15 140 (4.41%) Snowflake
16 113 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
17 110 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
18 108 (3.40%) Power Automate
19 99 (3.12%) IaaS
20 93 (2.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 321 (10.11%) Firewall
2 169 (5.32%) VPN
3 168 (5.29%) Network Security
4 166 (5.23%) DNS
5 135 (4.25%) WAN
6 127 (4.00%) DHCP
7 114 (3.59%) LAN
7 114 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
8 94 (2.96%) TCP/IP
9 73 (2.30%) VLAN
10 70 (2.20%) SD-WAN
11 51 (1.61%) SAN
12 49 (1.54%) Wireless
13 45 (1.42%) BGP
14 41 (1.29%) OSPF
15 32 (1.01%) Kerberos
16 25 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
17 23 (0.72%) WLAN
18 22 (0.69%) VoIP
19 17 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (9.10%) Power BI
2 278 (8.75%) SQL Server
3 164 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 142 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 125 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (2.52%) Tableau
8 75 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 69 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 68 (2.14%) Metadata
11 55 (1.73%) Delta Lake
12 50 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 42 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.20%) Big Data
17 37 (1.16%) MySQL
18 35 (1.10%) BigQuery
18 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 32 (1.01%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 179 (5.64%) Git
2 112 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 102 (3.21%) JIRA
4 73 (2.30%) GitLab
5 31 (0.98%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Chocolatey
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Postman
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.38%) Eclipse
10 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
10 11 (0.35%) Mockito
11 10 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 959 (30.20%) Finance
2 935 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 309 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (6.93%) Banking
5 212 (6.68%) Law
6 139 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 132 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 130 (4.09%) Legal
9 102 (3.21%) Retail
10 59 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.86%) Marketing
11 53 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 44 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.07%) Front Office
16 31 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (0.88%) Advertising
18 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.54%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 594 (18.70%) Senior
2 537 (16.91%) Architect
3 428 (13.48%) Lead
4 327 (10.30%) Developer
5 281 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
6 194 (6.11%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
8 170 (5.35%) Analyst
9 130 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.94%) Consultant
11 121 (3.81%) Software Engineer
12 118 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.62%) Azure Architect
14 111 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
15 97 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 94 (2.96%) Network Engineer
17 90 (2.83%) Security Engineer
18 85 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
19 84 (2.64%) IT Engineer
20 81 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (10.01%) .NET
2 167 (5.26%) React
3 152 (4.79%) REST
4 133 (4.19%) Kafka
5 98 (3.09%) Node.js
6 96 (3.02%) OAuth
7 92 (2.90%) RESTful
8 88 (2.77%) Spring
9 86 (2.71%) .NET Core
10 85 (2.68%) LangChain
11 78 (2.46%) ASP.NET
12 75 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 74 (2.33%) PySpark
14 61 (1.92%) PyTorch
15 59 (1.86%) CSS
16 58 (1.83%) TensorFlow
17 57 (1.79%) HTML
18 55 (1.73%) OAuth2
19 50 (1.57%) OpenID
20 47 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 415 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 147 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 129 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.24%) Security Posture
5 102 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 96 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 78 (2.46%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 64 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 62 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
14 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (1.45%) Data Structures
16 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
17 40 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
17 40 (1.26%) Low-Code
18 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 424 (13.35%) Windows
2 189 (5.95%) Linux
3 162 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.76%) Unix
8 23 (0.72%) VMS
9 22 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.66%) Android
11 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.38%) CentOS
14 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (29.00%) DevOps
2 869 (27.36%) CI/CD
3 742 (23.36%) AI
4 695 (21.88%) Agile
5 516 (16.25%) Roadmaps
6 499 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 483 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
8 476 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 472 (14.86%) Mentoring
10 458 (14.42%) Analytics
11 355 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
12 344 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 336 (10.58%) Data Engineering
14 330 (10.39%) Machine Learning
15 315 (9.92%) Software Engineering
16 296 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
17 294 (9.26%) Microservices
18 290 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
19 289 (9.10%) Migration
20 282 (8.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 760 (23.93%) Python
2 646 (20.34%) SQL
3 331 (10.42%) C#
4 300 (9.45%) PowerShell
5 213 (6.71%) Java
5 213 (6.71%) JavaScript
6 169 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 99 (3.12%) Bash
8 87 (2.74%) Bicep
9 42 (1.32%) Go
10 38 (1.20%) Scala
11 29 (0.91%) R
12 24 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 21 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.60%) C++
14 19 (0.60%) RPG
15 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
15 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 388 (12.22%) Degree
2 295 (9.29%) Azure Certification
3 262 (8.25%) Security Cleared
4 198 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.16%) CISSP
6 127 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 115 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.02%) CCNP
11 61 (1.92%) CISM
12 56 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.70%) CCNA
14 47 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
15 44 (1.39%) CEH
16 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) CCIE
17 26 (0.82%) PMP
18 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.48%) GDPR
3 164 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 145 (4.57%) QA
5 131 (4.12%) NIST
6 93 (2.93%) SLA
7 62 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 29 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.79%) NCSC
13 22 (0.69%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 415 (13.07%) Active Directory
2 259 (8.15%) Docker
3 129 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.094%) Firmware
10 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.031%) NLBS
12 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 470 (14.80%) Terraform
2 350 (11.02%) Kubernetes
3 215 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 159 (5.01%) Ansible
5 68 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.70%) Grafana
6 54 (1.70%) SCCM
7 39 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 11 (0.35%) Argo
14 9 (0.28%) QRadar
15 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.22%) CASB
16 7 (0.22%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,342 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 344 (10.83%) Databricks
3 197 (6.20%) VMware
4 166 (5.23%) Cisco
5 153 (4.82%) Google
6 89 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 78 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 77 (2.42%) Oracle
10 57 (1.79%) SAP
11 56 (1.76%) Foundry
12 55 (1.73%) Meraki
13 54 (1.70%) Splunk
14 53 (1.67%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.45%) Fortinet
16 45 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
17 42 (1.32%) Tenable
18 41 (1.29%) Dell
19 39 (1.23%) iManage
20 38 (1.20%) Dynatrace