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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,166 2,484 3,748
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.12% 20.59% 19.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.46% 44.55% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,777 2,759
10th Percentile £47,625 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,400
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.85% -0.95%

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 8,451 5,576 8,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.03% 46.21% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,688 3,848 6,027
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,013 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +6.69% -2.44% -5.38%

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 31 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 31 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 +1 443 £85,000 +6.25% 182
West London +5 98 £70,000 +34.36% 104
South London -1 40 £90,000 +38.46% 18
East London -9 17 £75,000 +76.47% 31
North London -7 11 £60,000 -20.00% 8
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
1 194 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 119 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 93 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.93%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.95%) Apache
7 23 (0.73%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 9 (0.28%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
7 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
7 2 (0.063%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Maximo
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (33.73%) AWS
2 640 (20.21%) GCP
3 530 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
4 418 (13.20%) Power Platform
5 412 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
6 379 (11.97%) Entra ID
7 210 (6.63%) SaaS
8 184 (5.81%) GitHub
9 167 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 158 (4.99%) PaaS
12 157 (4.96%) Serverless
13 156 (4.93%) Azure AI
14 154 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 142 (4.49%) Snowflake
16 118 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
17 116 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
17 116 (3.66%) Power Automate
18 101 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
19 99 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 309 (9.76%) Firewall
2 169 (5.34%) VPN
3 165 (5.21%) Network Security
4 157 (4.96%) DNS
5 121 (3.82%) DHCP
6 119 (3.76%) WAN
7 103 (3.25%) LAN
7 103 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
8 81 (2.56%) TCP/IP
9 77 (2.43%) VLAN
10 65 (2.05%) SD-WAN
11 57 (1.80%) Wireless
12 56 (1.77%) SAN
13 41 (1.30%) BGP
14 37 (1.17%) OSPF
15 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.57%) WLAN
18 17 (0.54%) SSL
19 16 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.84%) Power BI
2 270 (8.53%) SQL Server
3 172 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 127 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.40%) Metadata
6 76 (2.40%) Tableau
7 75 (2.37%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
9 68 (2.15%) NoSQL
10 59 (1.86%) Delta Lake
11 51 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 46 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 44 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
15 36 (1.14%) Star Schema
16 34 (1.07%) MySQL
17 33 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 181 (5.72%) Git
2 113 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 111 (3.51%) JIRA
4 68 (2.15%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 958 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 954 (30.13%) Finance
3 314 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (7.20%) Law
5 226 (7.14%) Banking
6 146 (4.61%) Public Sector
7 144 (4.55%) Legal
8 143 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.25%) Retail
10 70 (2.21%) Marketing
11 61 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.83%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.79%) Advertising
17 25 (0.79%) Front Office
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 14 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 589 (18.60%) Senior
2 557 (17.59%) Architect
3 396 (12.51%) Lead
4 329 (10.39%) Developer
5 285 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.16%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.09%) Analyst
9 130 (4.11%) Azure Architect
10 129 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 125 (3.95%) Consultant
12 123 (3.89%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.63%) Software Engineer
14 106 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 106 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 89 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
16 88 (2.78%) Network Engineer
17 85 (2.68%) Senior Developer
18 82 (2.59%) Security Engineer
19 75 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (14.62%) Terraform
2 310 (9.79%) .NET
3 179 (5.65%) REST
4 149 (4.71%) React
5 146 (4.61%) Kafka
6 96 (3.03%) RESTful
7 90 (2.84%) LangChain
7 90 (2.84%) OAuth
8 88 (2.78%) Spring
9 83 (2.62%) ASP.NET
10 82 (2.59%) .NET Core
10 82 (2.59%) Node.js
11 76 (2.40%) PySpark
11 76 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 66 (2.08%) PyTorch
13 65 (2.05%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.71%) HTML
15 53 (1.67%) OAuth2
16 52 (1.64%) CSS
17 50 (1.58%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 67 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 62 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 52 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
13 44 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
15 39 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.07%) Low-Code
17 32 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 409 (12.92%) Windows
2 171 (5.40%) Linux
3 159 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
8 18 (0.57%) VMS
9 17 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (28.87%) DevOps
2 872 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 799 (25.24%) AI
4 683 (21.57%) Agile
5 535 (16.90%) Roadmaps
6 494 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 491 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 489 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 455 (14.37%) Analytics
10 449 (14.18%) Mentoring
11 370 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (10.99%) Data Engineering
13 347 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
14 346 (10.93%) Machine Learning
15 313 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
16 307 (9.70%) Software Engineering
17 295 (9.32%) Migration
18 294 (9.29%) Microservices
19 291 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
20 289 (9.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 755 (23.85%) Python
2 656 (20.72%) SQL
3 327 (10.33%) C#
4 289 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 226 (7.14%) Java
6 194 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 157 (4.96%) TypeScript
8 91 (2.87%) Bash
9 90 (2.84%) Bicep
10 46 (1.45%) Scala
11 37 (1.17%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.66%) C++
15 20 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
20 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 401 (12.67%) Degree
2 292 (9.22%) Azure Certification
3 258 (8.15%) Security Cleared
4 190 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 129 (4.07%) CISSP
6 128 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 125 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 68 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 66 (2.08%) CISM
11 65 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 62 (1.96%) CCNP
13 49 (1.55%) CCNA
14 42 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (1.17%) CEH
16 31 (0.98%) PMP
17 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 28 (0.88%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.82%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.50%) GDPR
3 168 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 147 (4.64%) QA
5 125 (3.95%) NIST
6 87 (2.75%) SLA
7 64 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.33%) GRC
10 33 (1.04%) PMO
11 29 (0.92%) NCSC
12 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 402 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 253 (7.99%) Docker
3 129 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.63%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Firmware
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 333 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 214 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 143 (4.52%) Ansible
4 77 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
5 55 (1.74%) SCCM
6 53 (1.67%) Grafana
7 36 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 33 (1.04%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Argo
10 14 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) CASB
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Packer
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,358 (42.89%) Microsoft
2 346 (10.93%) Databricks
3 191 (6.03%) VMware
4 164 (5.18%) Cisco
5 150 (4.74%) Google
6 85 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 80 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.46%) Oracle
9 75 (2.37%) Palo Alto
10 62 (1.96%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 52 (1.64%) Meraki
13 51 (1.61%) SAP
14 47 (1.48%) Salesforce
15 43 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.36%) Tenable
16 41 (1.30%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.23%) Dell
18 38 (1.20%) Zscaler
19 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace