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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,883 2,538 4,590
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.24% 19.91% 19.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.73% 45.01% 45.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,049 1,939 3,775
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,000
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 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,030
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.88% -9.19%

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 7,256 5,639 10,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.85% 44.24% 43.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,689 4,111 8,156
10th Percentile £41,222 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -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 5 May 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 5 May 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 0 657 £80,000 +6.67% 330
West London -1 76 £60,000 +33.33% 47
South London +16 45 £80,000 +29.78% 9
East London -12 23 £32,500 -61.76% 50
North London -4 10 £57,500 +21.05% 10
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
1 183 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 132 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.90%) Confluence
6 18 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.52%) Apache
8 12 (0.42%) Appian
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.24%) IIS
10 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 49 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.28%) PlantUML
6 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.035%) Maya
8 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.45%) Endur
3 9 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Shopify
8 2 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.069%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 963 (33.40%) AWS
2 561 (19.46%) GCP
3 498 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
4 401 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 343 (11.90%) Entra ID
6 335 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (6.69%) GitHub
8 184 (6.38%) SaaS
9 161 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 125 (4.34%) Azure AI
12 123 (4.27%) PaaS
13 121 (4.20%) Serverless
14 107 (3.71%) Power Automate
15 106 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 100 (3.47%) Snowflake
17 95 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
18 88 (3.05%) PowerApps
19 81 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
19 81 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.79%) Firewall
2 180 (6.24%) VPN
3 171 (5.93%) DNS
4 153 (5.31%) WAN
5 143 (4.96%) DHCP
6 127 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
7 112 (3.88%) Network Security
8 97 (3.36%) LAN
9 96 (3.33%) TCP/IP
10 84 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.94%) VLAN
12 51 (1.77%) SAN
13 45 (1.56%) Internet
14 33 (1.14%) Wireless
15 30 (1.04%) VoIP
16 29 (1.01%) WLAN
17 26 (0.90%) BGP
18 25 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.83%) Broadband
19 24 (0.83%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (9.64%) Power BI
2 270 (9.37%) SQL Server
3 142 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.82%) Data Lake
5 87 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 70 (2.43%) NoSQL
7 68 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (2.12%) Tableau
9 57 (1.98%) BigQuery
10 54 (1.87%) MongoDB
11 52 (1.80%) Big Data
12 50 (1.73%) Metadata
13 44 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 43 (1.49%) Relational Database
15 38 (1.32%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.08%) Pinecone
17 25 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.87%) MySQL
18 24 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 179 (6.21%) Git
2 98 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 72 (2.50%) JIRA
4 65 (2.25%) GitLab
5 52 (1.80%) MLflow
6 31 (1.08%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.69%) Chocolatey
8 20 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.66%) Selenium
10 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.45%) Vite
12 12 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 858 (29.76%) Finance
2 776 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 293 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (7.39%) Banking
5 170 (5.90%) Law
6 118 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 110 (3.82%) Public Sector
8 93 (3.23%) Legal
9 75 (2.60%) Retail
10 57 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 52 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.32%) Front Office
16 37 (1.28%) Marketing
17 33 (1.14%) Multimedia
18 30 (1.04%) Telecoms
19 25 (0.87%) Advertising
20 24 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 562 (19.49%) Senior
2 395 (13.70%) Architect
3 370 (12.83%) Lead
4 284 (9.85%) Developer
5 256 (8.88%) Azure Engineer
6 206 (7.15%) Analyst
7 181 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 147 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 137 (4.75%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (3.82%) Support Engineer
13 108 (3.75%) Consultant
14 100 (3.47%) Azure Architect
14 100 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
15 99 (3.43%) Security Engineer
16 92 (3.19%) Network Engineer
17 91 (3.16%) IT Engineer
18 86 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
19 85 (2.95%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (9.50%) .NET
2 166 (5.76%) React
3 124 (4.30%) REST
4 109 (3.78%) Kafka
5 97 (3.36%) RESTful
6 93 (3.23%) CSS
6 93 (3.23%) OAuth
7 88 (3.05%) HTML
8 82 (2.84%) Node.js
9 66 (2.29%) LangChain
10 65 (2.25%) .NET Core
11 60 (2.08%) PySpark
12 56 (1.94%) PyTorch
12 56 (1.94%) TensorFlow
13 52 (1.80%) SAML
14 50 (1.73%) Django
15 43 (1.49%) OpenID
16 39 (1.35%) scikit-learn
16 39 (1.35%) Spring
17 37 (1.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 270 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 93 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 87 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 76 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 70 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 64 (2.22%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 60 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
12 55 (1.91%) Onboarding
13 54 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (1.60%) Low-Code
15 42 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.39%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.35%) Cyberattack
17 39 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 405 (14.05%) Windows
2 164 (5.69%) Linux
3 160 (5.55%) Windows Server
4 86 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 40 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 33 (1.14%) Android
7 33 (1.14%) Unix
7 33 (1.14%) VMS
8 29 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.35%) CentOS
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.14%) SUSE
16 2 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.069%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (27.68%) DevOps
2 678 (23.52%) CI/CD
3 598 (20.74%) AI
4 560 (19.42%) Agile
5 444 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
6 433 (15.02%) Analytics
7 398 (13.81%) Mentoring
8 397 (13.77%) Roadmaps
9 393 (13.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 373 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 334 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
12 309 (10.72%) Business Intelligence
13 297 (10.30%) Data Engineering
14 273 (9.47%) Software Engineering
15 270 (9.37%) Data Modelling
16 265 (9.19%) Machine Learning
17 262 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 255 (8.84%) Computer Science
19 250 (8.67%) Migration
20 241 (8.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 739 (25.63%) Python
2 631 (21.89%) SQL
3 323 (11.20%) PowerShell
4 275 (9.54%) C#
5 233 (8.08%) JavaScript
6 161 (5.58%) Java
7 146 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.57%) Bash
9 69 (2.39%) Bicep
10 59 (2.05%) Go
11 41 (1.42%) R
12 40 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.90%) C++
15 24 (0.83%) Scala
16 15 (0.52%) Rust
17 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.45%) C
19 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (13.35%) Degree
2 299 (10.37%) Azure Certification
3 202 (7.01%) Security Cleared
4 189 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (4.82%) SC Cleared
6 127 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 119 (4.13%) CISSP
8 88 (3.05%) AWS Certification
8 88 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
9 56 (1.94%) CEH
10 51 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 45 (1.56%) CCNP
11 45 (1.56%) CISM
12 43 (1.49%) CCNA
13 42 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
13 42 (1.46%) DV Cleared
14 39 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 33 (1.14%) PMI Certification
16 32 (1.11%) PMP
17 29 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (5.58%) NIST
3 158 (5.48%) GDPR
4 147 (5.10%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.05%) SLA
6 85 (2.95%) QA
7 44 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 44 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 38 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 37 (1.28%) NCSC
10 34 (1.18%) GRC
11 33 (1.14%) SOC 2
12 21 (0.73%) PMO
13 20 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 12 (0.42%) ISO 22301
17 11 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 11 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 395 (13.70%) Active Directory
2 240 (8.32%) Docker
3 102 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.97%) vSphere
8 11 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.35%) Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.035%) NLBS
14 1 (0.035%) Postfix
14 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 380 (13.18%) Terraform
2 323 (11.20%) Kubernetes
3 232 (8.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.41%) Ansible
5 66 (2.29%) SCCM
6 57 (1.98%) Grafana
7 52 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 30 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) CASB
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 5 (0.17%) Control-M
16 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,164 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 288 (9.99%) Databricks
3 188 (6.52%) VMware
4 141 (4.89%) Google
5 134 (4.65%) Cisco
6 85 (2.95%) OpenAI
7 84 (2.91%) ServiceNow
8 74 (2.57%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.98%) Oracle
10 56 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
12 49 (1.70%) Meraki
13 43 (1.49%) Dell
13 43 (1.49%) SAP
14 42 (1.46%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.46%) SolarWinds
15 40 (1.39%) Foundry
15 40 (1.39%) Salesforce
16 39 (1.35%) Splunk
17 37 (1.28%) iManage