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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,783 2,528 4,595
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.14% 19.59% 20.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.35% 44.46% 45.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,988 1,975 3,858
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,083 £56,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 6,897 5,686 10,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.51% 44.07% 44.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,451 4,155 8,193
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 April 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 April 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 +1 630 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +9 77 £62,500 +27.55% 45
South London +28 42 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East London -13 25 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +11 13 £60,000 +41.18% 9
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
1 180 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 142 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.93%) Confluence
6 15 (0.54%) Apache
7 14 (0.50%) Appian
7 14 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 14 (0.50%) WordPress
8 11 (0.40%) CMS
9 10 (0.36%) IIS
10 8 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) Camunda
11 6 (0.22%) Moodle
12 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.036%) Maya
10 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.68%) Endur
3 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.29%) Shopify
4 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.072%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.072%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.036%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.036%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.036%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 978 (35.14%) AWS
2 556 (19.98%) GCP
3 494 (17.75%) Microsoft 365
4 425 (15.27%) Power Platform
5 326 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
6 313 (11.25%) Entra ID
7 199 (7.15%) GitHub
8 189 (6.79%) SaaS
9 161 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 148 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 123 (4.42%) Power Automate
12 119 (4.28%) Azure AI
13 116 (4.17%) PaaS
14 107 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
15 105 (3.77%) Serverless
16 100 (3.59%) PowerApps
17 99 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
18 94 (3.38%) Snowflake
19 75 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
20 73 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 303 (10.89%) Firewall
2 171 (6.14%) VPN
3 167 (6.00%) DNS
4 151 (5.43%) WAN
5 143 (5.14%) DHCP
6 126 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (3.84%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.45%) LAN
9 89 (3.20%) Network Security
10 83 (2.98%) SD-WAN
11 56 (2.01%) Internet
12 54 (1.94%) VLAN
13 42 (1.51%) SAN
14 33 (1.19%) Wireless
15 31 (1.11%) VoIP
16 25 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
18 23 (0.83%) WLAN
19 22 (0.79%) Broadband
20 21 (0.75%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (10.78%) Power BI
2 269 (9.67%) SQL Server
3 155 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (5.53%) Data Lake
5 99 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 74 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 63 (2.26%) Tableau
10 60 (2.16%) BigQuery
11 58 (2.08%) Metadata
12 54 (1.94%) MongoDB
13 51 (1.83%) Relational Database
13 51 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 45 (1.62%) Big Data
15 35 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 29 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 27 (0.97%) MySQL
17 27 (0.97%) Pinecone
18 24 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (6.86%) Git
2 93 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.84%) JIRA
4 62 (2.23%) GitLab
5 51 (1.83%) MLflow
6 34 (1.22%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.19%) Postman
8 21 (0.75%) Eclipse
9 19 (0.68%) Selenium
10 18 (0.65%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.50%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.36%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.29%) JMeter
16 8 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 825 (29.64%) Finance
2 790 (28.39%) Social Skills
3 284 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (8.44%) Banking
5 186 (6.68%) Law
6 120 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (4.13%) Retail
8 108 (3.88%) Legal
9 102 (3.67%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
11 62 (2.23%) Marketing
12 51 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 48 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.47%) Multimedia
15 40 (1.44%) Front Office
16 36 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.15%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 548 (19.69%) Senior
2 373 (13.40%) Lead
3 369 (13.26%) Architect
4 297 (10.67%) Developer
5 228 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
6 213 (7.65%) Analyst
7 174 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 128 (4.60%) Support Engineer
9 127 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 111 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 109 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
13 100 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 96 (3.45%) Security Engineer
15 91 (3.27%) IT Support
16 87 (3.13%) IT Engineer
17 85 (3.05%) Azure Architect
17 85 (3.05%) Consultant
17 85 (3.05%) Data Architect
18 83 (2.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (9.38%) .NET
2 167 (6.00%) React
3 130 (4.67%) REST
4 107 (3.84%) RESTful
5 106 (3.81%) CSS
6 101 (3.63%) HTML
7 100 (3.59%) Kafka
8 90 (3.23%) Node.js
9 88 (3.16%) OAuth
10 69 (2.48%) .NET Core
11 62 (2.23%) LangChain
12 58 (2.08%) PyTorch
13 57 (2.05%) Django
13 57 (2.05%) TensorFlow
14 55 (1.98%) PySpark
15 49 (1.76%) SAML
16 40 (1.44%) SOAP
17 38 (1.37%) AngularJS
17 38 (1.37%) OpenID
17 38 (1.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 251 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 93 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 82 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 72 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 71 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 66 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 62 (2.23%) AI Agents
11 59 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
12 58 (2.08%) Data Centre
13 57 (2.05%) Low-Code
14 53 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
15 52 (1.87%) Onboarding
16 48 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
17 45 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
18 40 (1.44%) Algorithms
19 39 (1.40%) Cyberattack
20 32 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (14.84%) Windows
2 171 (6.14%) Windows Server
3 166 (5.96%) Linux
4 85 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.69%) Unix
6 44 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 34 (1.22%) VMS
7 34 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (0.97%) Android
10 21 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.25%) CentOS
15 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (27.13%) DevOps
2 654 (23.50%) CI/CD
3 590 (21.20%) AI
4 564 (20.27%) Agile
5 465 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (15.92%) Analytics
7 388 (13.94%) Mentoring
8 361 (12.97%) Roadmaps
9 358 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 339 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
11 335 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 313 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
13 303 (10.89%) Computer Science
14 285 (10.24%) Data Modelling
15 280 (10.06%) Machine Learning
16 278 (9.99%) Software Engineering
17 254 (9.13%) Data Engineering
18 253 (9.09%) Microservices
19 251 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
20 240 (8.62%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 728 (26.16%) Python
2 638 (22.92%) SQL
3 327 (11.75%) PowerShell
4 266 (9.56%) C#
5 254 (9.13%) JavaScript
6 147 (5.28%) Java
7 138 (4.96%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.70%) Bash
9 59 (2.12%) Bicep
10 57 (2.05%) Go
11 44 (1.58%) R
12 37 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 33 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.79%) C++
14 22 (0.79%) Scala
15 20 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.61%) Rust
17 16 (0.57%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.47%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 409 (14.70%) Degree
2 279 (10.03%) Azure Certification
3 231 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 184 (6.61%) Security Cleared
5 138 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 119 (4.28%) CISSP
8 99 (3.56%) AWS Certification
9 73 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
9 73 (2.62%) Master's Degree
10 54 (1.94%) CEH
11 48 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 46 (1.65%) CISM
13 45 (1.62%) DV Cleared
14 41 (1.47%) CCNP
15 36 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.26%) CCNA
17 30 (1.08%) PMI Certification
18 29 (1.04%) PMP
19 27 (0.97%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.11%) GDPR
2 188 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.04%) NIST
4 142 (5.10%) Data Quality
5 83 (2.98%) QA
6 82 (2.95%) SLA
7 41 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (1.26%) NCSC
10 33 (1.19%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.04%) EU AI Act
12 27 (0.97%) GRC
12 27 (0.97%) Solvency II
13 25 (0.90%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.83%) PSD2
15 22 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 21 (0.75%) PMO
17 17 (0.61%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 388 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 252 (9.05%) Docker
3 93 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 57 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (0.93%) vSphere
7 10 (0.36%) Firmware
8 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.18%) KVM
10 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.036%) NLBS
12 1 (0.036%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.036%) Xen
Systems Management
1 345 (12.40%) Terraform
2 308 (11.07%) Kubernetes
3 243 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.56%) Ansible
5 59 (2.12%) Grafana
5 59 (2.12%) SCCM
6 51 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 45 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.57%) Argo
11 13 (0.47%) Istio
12 12 (0.43%) CASB
13 10 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.32%) Kibana
15 8 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.25%) VxRail
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.22%) Nagios
18 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,128 (40.53%) Microsoft
2 265 (9.52%) Databricks
3 191 (6.86%) VMware
4 157 (5.64%) Google
5 128 (4.60%) Cisco
6 83 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 71 (2.55%) OpenAI
9 63 (2.26%) Oracle
10 62 (2.23%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
12 46 (1.65%) Dell
13 45 (1.62%) SAP
14 44 (1.58%) Salesforce
15 43 (1.55%) Meraki
16 41 (1.47%) Splunk
17 36 (1.29%) CyberArk
17 36 (1.29%) SolarWinds
18 35 (1.26%) iManage
19 33 (1.19%) Foundry