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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,474 3,020 4,459
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 19.81% 21.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.06% 44.29% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 2,100 3,879
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.52% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £114,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 6,025 6,818 9,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.92% 44.72% 45.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,892 4,364 8,058
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 0 553 £77,500 +3.33% 299
West London +17 65 £63,750 - 59
East London -9 22 £32,000 -44.35% 41
South London +14 20 £46,000 -24.12% 28
North London +18 19 £75,000 +27.66% 7
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 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 147 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 56 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 35 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.13%) Confluence
6 16 (0.65%) Apache
7 15 (0.61%) Appian
8 12 (0.49%) IIS
9 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.16%) Moodle
13 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.93%) Endur
3 17 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.040%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 867 (35.04%) AWS
2 476 (19.24%) GCP
3 438 (17.70%) Microsoft 365
4 403 (16.29%) Power Platform
5 353 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
6 273 (11.03%) Entra ID
7 181 (7.32%) GitHub
8 171 (6.91%) SaaS
9 153 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 138 (5.58%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 112 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
12 112 (4.53%) PowerApps
13 104 (4.20%) PaaS
14 101 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 99 (4.00%) Serverless
16 87 (3.52%) Azure AI
17 70 (2.83%) Snowflake
18 67 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 258 (10.43%) Firewall
2 163 (6.59%) VPN
3 141 (5.70%) DNS
4 138 (5.58%) WAN
5 118 (4.77%) DHCP
6 100 (4.04%) Wi-Fi
7 89 (3.60%) TCP/IP
8 87 (3.52%) LAN
9 69 (2.79%) SD-WAN
10 55 (2.22%) Network Security
11 53 (2.14%) Internet
12 47 (1.90%) VLAN
13 40 (1.62%) Wireless
14 33 (1.33%) SAN
14 33 (1.33%) VoIP
15 26 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (0.93%) BGP
16 23 (0.93%) OSPF
17 21 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
18 18 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (11.28%) Power BI
2 245 (9.90%) SQL Server
3 173 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (6.27%) Data Lake
5 109 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 97 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 82 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
9 71 (2.87%) Metadata
10 60 (2.43%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
12 51 (2.06%) Big Data
13 50 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.50%) Tableau
15 31 (1.25%) MySQL
16 29 (1.17%) Hadoop
17 25 (1.01%) Pinecone
18 23 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 21 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 190 (7.68%) Git
2 83 (3.35%) JIRA
3 75 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 44 (1.78%) GitLab
6 36 (1.46%) MLflow
7 31 (1.25%) Postman
8 20 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 20 (0.81%) Selenium
9 18 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.49%) JMeter
13 9 (0.36%) Chocolatey
13 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.32%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.32%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.28%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 753 (30.44%) Finance
2 738 (29.83%) Social Skills
3 285 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (8.04%) Law
5 186 (7.52%) Banking
6 120 (4.85%) Legal
7 118 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 114 (4.61%) Retail
9 94 (3.80%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.91%) Marketing
11 63 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 59 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (2.14%) Telecoms
14 52 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 50 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.46%) Multimedia
18 35 (1.41%) Retail Banking
19 26 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
20 25 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 469 (18.96%) Senior
2 324 (13.10%) Developer
3 305 (12.33%) Architect
4 294 (11.88%) Lead
5 200 (8.08%) Analyst
6 182 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
7 181 (7.32%) Data Engineer
8 127 (5.13%) Support Engineer
9 122 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 112 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 94 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 91 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
14 79 (3.19%) Data Architect
15 75 (3.03%) IT Support
15 75 (3.03%) Senior Developer
16 73 (2.95%) IT Engineer
17 72 (2.91%) Network Engineer
17 72 (2.91%) Security Engineer
18 71 (2.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (10.35%) .NET
2 156 (6.31%) React
2 156 (6.31%) REST
3 106 (4.28%) HTML
4 102 (4.12%) RESTful
5 101 (4.08%) CSS
6 84 (3.40%) .NET Core
6 84 (3.40%) Node.js
7 80 (3.23%) OAuth
8 73 (2.95%) AngularJS
9 65 (2.63%) Kafka
10 52 (2.10%) Vue
10 52 (2.10%) Web Services
11 51 (2.06%) ASP.NET
12 50 (2.02%) SOAP
13 47 (1.90%) Django
13 47 (1.90%) LangChain
13 47 (1.90%) PySpark
14 45 (1.82%) PyTorch
15 44 (1.78%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 201 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 103 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 97 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 82 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 80 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 75 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.71%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.67%) Low-Code
10 58 (2.34%) Onboarding
11 56 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 55 (2.22%) Data Structures
13 53 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
14 44 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.58%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.54%) Algorithms
17 35 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
18 32 (1.29%) Virtual Team
19 31 (1.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 373 (15.08%) Windows
2 176 (7.11%) Windows Server
3 147 (5.94%) Linux
4 75 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 42 (1.70%) Unix
7 36 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.33%) VMS
9 30 (1.21%) Android
10 29 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.16%) CentOS
16 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Solaris
16 3 (0.12%) SUSE
17 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
18 1 (0.040%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (27.77%) DevOps
2 621 (25.10%) CI/CD
3 547 (22.11%) AI
4 545 (22.03%) Agile
5 473 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
6 433 (17.50%) Analytics
7 320 (12.93%) Mentoring
8 311 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
9 308 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 301 (12.17%) Roadmaps
11 299 (12.09%) Computer Science
12 287 (11.60%) Data Modelling
13 281 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
14 272 (10.99%) Microservices
15 271 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
16 252 (10.19%) Machine Learning
16 252 (10.19%) Software Engineering
17 237 (9.58%) ETL
18 230 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
19 223 (9.01%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 654 (26.43%) Python
2 589 (23.81%) SQL
3 292 (11.80%) PowerShell
4 275 (11.12%) C#
5 259 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 136 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 119 (4.81%) Java
8 80 (3.23%) Bash
9 57 (2.30%) Bicep
10 45 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.58%) Go
12 35 (1.41%) R
13 31 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (1.25%) Scala
14 29 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.77%) C++
16 15 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.57%) Rust
18 12 (0.49%) PHP
19 10 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 427 (17.26%) Degree
2 227 (9.18%) Azure Certification
3 220 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 153 (6.18%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 106 (4.28%) SC Cleared
8 103 (4.16%) CISSP
9 93 (3.76%) Master's Degree
10 57 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.82%) CISM
12 40 (1.62%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 36 (1.46%) CCNP
15 35 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 34 (1.37%) PMI Certification
17 29 (1.17%) CEH
18 27 (1.09%) PMP
19 26 (1.05%) CCIE
20 25 (1.01%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (7.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 184 (7.44%) GDPR
3 151 (6.10%) NIST
4 137 (5.54%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.56%) QA
6 60 (2.43%) SLA
7 39 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.46%) NCSC
9 31 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.21%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.13%) EU AI Act
12 26 (1.05%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.97%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.93%) PSD2
15 22 (0.89%) Solvency II
16 21 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.61%) GRC
18 13 (0.53%) ISO 22301
19 12 (0.49%) PMO
20 8 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 357 (14.43%) Active Directory
2 243 (9.82%) Docker
3 86 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.65%) vSphere
8 14 (0.57%) Firmware
9 10 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.12%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.12%) NFS
14 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.081%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.081%) XenApp
15 1 (0.040%) vCloud
15 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 306 (12.37%) Terraform
2 274 (11.08%) Kubernetes
3 222 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 112 (4.53%) Ansible
5 54 (2.18%) Grafana
5 54 (2.18%) SCCM
6 48 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 19 (0.77%) Argo
10 18 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.65%) CASB
12 8 (0.32%) Kibana
13 7 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.24%) Rancher
14 6 (0.24%) SCOM
14 6 (0.24%) VxRail
15 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.20%) Istio
15 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,008 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 197 (7.96%) Databricks
3 166 (6.71%) VMware
4 118 (4.77%) Cisco
5 112 (4.53%) Google
6 75 (3.03%) Oracle
7 73 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.83%) Palo Alto
9 61 (2.47%) OpenAI
10 56 (2.26%) Fortinet
11 47 (1.90%) SAP
12 46 (1.86%) Salesforce
13 42 (1.70%) Meraki
14 36 (1.46%) CheckPoint
14 36 (1.46%) SolarWinds
15 33 (1.33%) Informatica
16 29 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
17 28 (1.13%) Dell
18 27 (1.09%) Commvault
19 26 (1.05%) Splunk