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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,602 2,612 4,491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.47% 19.23% 20.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.52% 43.58% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 1,960 3,862
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £55,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

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 6,422 5,993 9,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.19% 44.12% 45.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,150 4,148 8,153
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,238 £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 £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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +1 601 £77,500 +3.33% 348
West London +10 72 £67,059 +36.86% 51
South London +23 29 £38,500 -34.47% 25
East London -6 26 £31,250 -63.24% 53
North London +19 15 £72,500 +61.11% 12
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 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 143 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (1.00%) Confluence
6 15 (0.58%) Appian
7 14 (0.54%) Apache
8 13 (0.50%) WordPress
9 12 (0.46%) IIS
9 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.35%) CMS
11 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.23%) Camunda
12 6 (0.23%) Moodle
13 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 46 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.96%) Endur
3 8 (0.31%) Shopify
4 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.077%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.077%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.077%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.038%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.038%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 908 (34.90%) AWS
2 507 (19.49%) GCP
3 470 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (15.99%) Power Platform
5 330 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
6 293 (11.26%) Entra ID
7 198 (7.61%) GitHub
8 192 (7.38%) SaaS
9 153 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 131 (5.03%) Power Automate
11 122 (4.69%) PaaS
12 114 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 103 (3.96%) PowerApps
14 101 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 101 (3.88%) Serverless
15 100 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
16 86 (3.31%) Azure AI
17 74 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
18 69 (2.65%) Snowflake
19 66 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 293 (11.26%) Firewall
2 173 (6.65%) VPN
3 160 (6.15%) DNS
4 155 (5.96%) WAN
5 134 (5.15%) DHCP
6 116 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 105 (4.04%) TCP/IP
8 95 (3.65%) LAN
9 82 (3.15%) SD-WAN
10 73 (2.81%) Network Security
11 65 (2.50%) Internet
12 50 (1.92%) VLAN
13 38 (1.46%) SAN
14 36 (1.38%) VoIP
15 35 (1.35%) Wireless
16 27 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.85%) BGP
18 22 (0.85%) OSPF
19 21 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (11.61%) Power BI
2 261 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 157 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (5.69%) Data Lake
5 100 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 80 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 59 (2.27%) Metadata
9 58 (2.23%) MongoDB
10 55 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
11 53 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 52 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 49 (1.88%) Tableau
14 47 (1.81%) Big Data
15 46 (1.77%) BigQuery
16 31 (1.19%) MySQL
17 28 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 26 (1.00%) Delta Lake
19 23 (0.88%) Pinecone
20 21 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 189 (7.26%) Git
2 88 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.15%) JIRA
4 58 (2.23%) GitLab
5 42 (1.61%) MLflow
6 38 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.23%) Postman
8 20 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
10 17 (0.65%) Selenium
11 14 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.50%) Chocolatey
12 13 (0.50%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.35%) JMeter
14 9 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.31%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 777 (29.86%) Finance
2 766 (29.44%) Social Skills
3 273 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (8.03%) Banking
5 187 (7.19%) Law
6 116 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 109 (4.19%) Retail
8 99 (3.80%) Legal
8 99 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 69 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 65 (2.50%) Marketing
11 58 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
12 57 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 51 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.73%) Multimedia
15 44 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
16 39 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 35 (1.35%) Front Office
18 34 (1.31%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 503 (19.33%) Senior
2 337 (12.95%) Lead
3 331 (12.72%) Architect
4 301 (11.57%) Developer
5 211 (8.11%) Analyst
6 194 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
7 169 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 125 (4.80%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 117 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 99 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 96 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (3.38%) IT Support
15 85 (3.27%) Network Engineer
16 81 (3.11%) Security Engineer
17 79 (3.04%) IT Engineer
18 77 (2.96%) Senior Developer
19 76 (2.92%) Data Architect
20 73 (2.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (9.57%) .NET
2 157 (6.03%) React
3 132 (5.07%) REST
4 113 (4.34%) CSS
5 107 (4.11%) HTML
6 103 (3.96%) RESTful
7 87 (3.34%) OAuth
8 83 (3.19%) Node.js
9 80 (3.07%) Kafka
10 71 (2.73%) .NET Core
11 51 (1.96%) Django
12 49 (1.88%) PySpark
13 48 (1.84%) SAML
14 45 (1.73%) LangChain
15 43 (1.65%) SOAP
16 42 (1.61%) AngularJS
16 42 (1.61%) PyTorch
17 41 (1.58%) TensorFlow
18 37 (1.42%) Swagger
18 37 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 224 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 105 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 95 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.34%) Security Posture
5 78 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 78 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 73 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (2.57%) Data Structures
8 63 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 60 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 57 (2.19%) Low-Code
11 56 (2.15%) Data Centre
12 54 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (2.00%) Onboarding
14 49 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
15 46 (1.77%) Public Cloud
16 45 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.46%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.31%) Cyberattack
19 33 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 397 (15.26%) Windows
2 177 (6.80%) Windows Server
3 156 (6.00%) Linux
4 84 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 52 (2.00%) Unix
6 44 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.31%) VMS
8 31 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 28 (1.08%) Android
11 18 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.23%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.077%) Solaris
18 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (27.86%) DevOps
2 641 (24.63%) CI/CD
3 543 (20.87%) Agile
4 536 (20.60%) AI
5 452 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
6 433 (16.64%) Analytics
7 372 (14.30%) Mentoring
8 337 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 329 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
10 307 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
11 306 (11.76%) Computer Science
11 306 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 301 (11.57%) Roadmaps
13 277 (10.65%) Data Modelling
14 269 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 262 (10.07%) Microservices
16 234 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 233 (8.95%) Machine Learning
18 223 (8.57%) ITIL
19 220 (8.46%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 680 (26.13%) Python
2 595 (22.87%) SQL
3 316 (12.14%) PowerShell
4 257 (9.88%) C#
5 250 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 130 (5.00%) Java
7 126 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 94 (3.61%) Bash
9 57 (2.19%) Bicep
10 46 (1.77%) R
11 44 (1.69%) Go
12 39 (1.50%) T-SQL
13 37 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.73%) C++
15 19 (0.73%) Scala
16 16 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.58%) Rust
18 13 (0.50%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 415 (15.95%) Degree
2 261 (10.03%) Azure Certification
3 234 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 176 (6.76%) Security Cleared
5 149 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 123 (4.73%) SC Cleared
7 109 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 109 (4.19%) CISSP
8 82 (3.15%) Master's Degree
9 61 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 50 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 45 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.69%) CEH
12 44 (1.69%) CISM
13 36 (1.38%) CCNP
13 36 (1.38%) PMI Certification
14 35 (1.35%) PMP
15 31 (1.19%) CCNA
16 28 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
17 27 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (6.99%) GDPR
3 165 (6.34%) NIST
4 131 (5.03%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.31%) QA
6 71 (2.73%) SLA
7 40 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 40 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 36 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 36 (1.38%) NCSC
9 30 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 27 (1.04%) EU AI Act
11 25 (0.96%) Solvency II
12 24 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 24 (0.92%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.88%) PSD2
14 21 (0.81%) GRC
15 19 (0.73%) PMO
16 17 (0.65%) ISO 22301
17 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 372 (14.30%) Active Directory
2 251 (9.65%) Docker
3 92 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.96%) vSphere
8 14 (0.54%) Firmware
9 11 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.038%) NFS
13 1 (0.038%) NLBS
13 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.038%) Xen
13 1 (0.038%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 323 (12.41%) Terraform
2 294 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 229 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 126 (4.84%) Ansible
5 61 (2.34%) Grafana
5 61 (2.34%) SCCM
6 55 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 26 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (0.69%) Argo
11 12 (0.46%) CASB
12 8 (0.31%) Kibana
12 8 (0.31%) VxRail
13 7 (0.27%) Istio
13 7 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.23%) Control-M
14 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,033 (39.70%) Microsoft
2 210 (8.07%) Databricks
3 186 (7.15%) VMware
4 140 (5.38%) Google
5 123 (4.73%) Cisco
6 82 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.84%) Palo Alto
8 65 (2.50%) Oracle
9 59 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 57 (2.19%) Fortinet
11 46 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
11 46 (1.77%) Salesforce
12 45 (1.73%) Meraki
13 43 (1.65%) SAP
14 38 (1.46%) Dell
15 36 (1.38%) SolarWinds
16 34 (1.31%) CheckPoint
17 33 (1.27%) Splunk
18 31 (1.19%) Commvault
18 31 (1.19%) Informatica