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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,196 2,511 3,697
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.43% 20.59% 18.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.84% 44.94% 44.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,819 2,841
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.51%

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 8,445 5,587 8,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.50% 45.80% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,667 3,916 6,284
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,125 £43,075
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - -7.69%

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 11 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 11 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 0 500 £85,000 +9.68% 271
West London +2 101 £70,000 +55.56% 58
South London 0 39 £80,000 +23.08% 18
East London -17 17 £75,000 +51.52% 35
North London -9 9 £60,000 -14.29% 15
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
1 199 (6.23%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.72%) Confluence
5 46 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.75%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Maya
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.50%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.31%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (33.95%) AWS
2 647 (20.24%) GCP
3 529 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.11%) Power Platform
5 394 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
6 383 (11.98%) Entra ID
7 215 (6.73%) SaaS
8 186 (5.82%) GitHub
9 166 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (5.10%) PaaS
11 161 (5.04%) Serverless
12 151 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 151 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 145 (4.54%) Azure AI
14 143 (4.47%) Snowflake
15 116 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 111 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
17 110 (3.44%) Power Automate
18 99 (3.10%) IaaS
19 95 (2.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 321 (10.04%) Firewall
2 169 (5.29%) Network Security
2 169 (5.29%) VPN
3 164 (5.13%) DNS
4 134 (4.19%) WAN
5 125 (3.91%) DHCP
6 114 (3.57%) LAN
7 112 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
8 93 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 72 (2.25%) VLAN
10 70 (2.19%) SD-WAN
11 52 (1.63%) SAN
12 51 (1.60%) Wireless
13 44 (1.38%) BGP
14 40 (1.25%) OSPF
15 32 (1.00%) Kerberos
16 26 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
17 23 (0.72%) WLAN
18 20 (0.63%) VoIP
19 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (8.98%) Power BI
2 279 (8.73%) SQL Server
3 163 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 126 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (2.57%) Tableau
8 75 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 70 (2.19%) Metadata
9 70 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 54 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 50 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 50 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 43 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 39 (1.22%) Big Data
14 37 (1.16%) MySQL
15 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
16 34 (1.06%) BigQuery
17 31 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (5.60%) Git
2 110 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 107 (3.35%) JIRA
4 72 (2.25%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) Postman
9 12 (0.38%) Eclipse
10 11 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
10 11 (0.34%) Mockito
11 10 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) Maven
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 972 (30.41%) Finance
2 937 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 313 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (6.98%) Banking
5 217 (6.79%) Law
6 143 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 137 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 135 (4.22%) Legal
9 103 (3.22%) Retail
10 64 (2.00%) Marketing
11 58 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 42 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.10%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 28 (0.88%) Advertising
19 19 (0.59%) Investment Banking
20 17 (0.53%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 601 (18.80%) Senior
2 548 (17.15%) Architect
3 432 (13.52%) Lead
4 334 (10.45%) Developer
5 277 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 177 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
8 171 (5.35%) Analyst
9 129 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (3.88%) Consultant
11 121 (3.79%) Azure Architect
11 121 (3.79%) Software Engineer
12 120 (3.75%) Data Architect
13 108 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 97 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 95 (2.97%) Network Engineer
16 90 (2.82%) Security Engineer
17 83 (2.60%) IT Engineer
17 83 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
18 82 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (9.92%) .NET
2 168 (5.26%) React
3 154 (4.82%) REST
4 135 (4.22%) Kafka
5 98 (3.07%) Node.js
6 96 (3.00%) OAuth
7 93 (2.91%) RESTful
8 89 (2.78%) Spring
9 87 (2.72%) LangChain
10 86 (2.69%) .NET Core
11 78 (2.44%) ASP.NET
12 76 (2.38%) Spring Boot
13 73 (2.28%) PySpark
14 64 (2.00%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.91%) TensorFlow
16 58 (1.81%) CSS
17 57 (1.78%) HTML
18 55 (1.72%) OAuth2
19 49 (1.53%) OpenID
20 47 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 420 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 134 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.22%) Data Centre
6 101 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 97 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 80 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 70 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 62 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 54 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
15 44 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 43 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
17 42 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
18 40 (1.25%) Low-Code
19 34 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 421 (13.17%) Windows
2 190 (5.94%) Linux
3 161 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.75%) Unix
8 22 (0.69%) VMS
9 21 (0.66%) Android
9 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (28.91%) DevOps
2 874 (27.35%) CI/CD
3 760 (23.78%) AI
4 703 (22.00%) Agile
5 526 (16.46%) Roadmaps
6 502 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 482 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
8 477 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 470 (14.71%) Mentoring
10 460 (14.39%) Analytics
11 354 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
12 349 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 340 (10.64%) Data Engineering
14 338 (10.58%) Machine Learning
15 319 (9.98%) Software Engineering
16 298 (9.32%) Microservices
16 298 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
17 294 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
18 289 (9.04%) Migration
19 282 (8.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 762 (23.84%) Python
2 648 (20.28%) SQL
3 332 (10.39%) C#
4 299 (9.36%) PowerShell
5 219 (6.85%) Java
6 216 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 170 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 97 (3.04%) Bash
9 87 (2.72%) Bicep
10 41 (1.28%) Go
11 38 (1.19%) Scala
12 29 (0.91%) R
13 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.59%) C++
15 19 (0.59%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
16 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 402 (12.58%) Degree
2 296 (9.26%) Azure Certification
3 264 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 197 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.19%) CISSP
6 130 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 114 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.00%) CCNP
11 63 (1.97%) CISM
12 58 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.69%) CCNA
14 47 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
15 43 (1.35%) CEH
16 30 (0.94%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.84%) PMP
18 26 (0.81%) CCIE
19 24 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.54%) GDPR
3 168 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 144 (4.51%) QA
5 133 (4.16%) NIST
6 91 (2.85%) SLA
7 65 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.28%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.75%) NCSC
13 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 409 (12.80%) Active Directory
2 260 (8.14%) Docker
3 128 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Firmware
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.031%) NLBS
12 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 468 (14.64%) Terraform
2 352 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 211 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 159 (4.97%) Ansible
5 70 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 53 (1.66%) Grafana
6 53 (1.66%) SCCM
7 38 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.38%) Argo
11 12 (0.38%) Istio
11 12 (0.38%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) QRadar
13 8 (0.25%) CASB
13 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
14 7 (0.22%) Control-M
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,344 (42.05%) Microsoft
2 349 (10.92%) Databricks
3 196 (6.13%) VMware
4 168 (5.26%) Cisco
5 154 (4.82%) Google
6 89 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.63%) OpenAI
8 78 (2.44%) Oracle
8 78 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.78%) Foundry
9 57 (1.78%) SAP
10 56 (1.75%) Meraki
11 54 (1.69%) Splunk
12 53 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 45 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
13 45 (1.41%) Fortinet
14 41 (1.28%) Dell
14 41 (1.28%) Tenable
15 39 (1.22%) iManage
16 37 (1.16%) Dynatrace