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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,167 2,492 3,719
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.19% 20.56% 19.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.37% 44.64% 44.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,322 1,793 2,794
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,918
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.51% -3.53%

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 8,475 5,582 8,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.29% 46.04% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,685 3,877 6,165
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,502 £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 £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 24 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 24 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 +1 461 £85,000 +8.97% 217
West London +4 99 £70,000 +42.86% 92
South London -2 42 £85,000 +30.77% 11
East London -13 17 £75,000 +63.04% 34
North London -5 13 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 192 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.86%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 25 (0.79%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.32%) WordPress
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.71%) 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 42 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.66%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,070 (33.79%) AWS
2 638 (20.15%) GCP
3 528 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 415 (13.10%) Power Platform
5 406 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
6 375 (11.84%) Entra ID
7 209 (6.60%) SaaS
8 185 (5.84%) GitHub
9 166 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 165 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 160 (5.05%) Serverless
12 155 (4.89%) PaaS
13 153 (4.83%) Azure AI
13 153 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 140 (4.42%) Snowflake
15 118 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 114 (3.60%) Power Automate
17 113 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
18 99 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
19 97 (3.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 312 (9.85%) Firewall
2 168 (5.30%) VPN
3 166 (5.24%) Network Security
4 155 (4.89%) DNS
5 124 (3.92%) WAN
6 119 (3.76%) DHCP
7 107 (3.38%) LAN
8 105 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
9 85 (2.68%) TCP/IP
10 75 (2.37%) VLAN
11 66 (2.08%) SD-WAN
12 55 (1.74%) SAN
12 55 (1.74%) Wireless
13 41 (1.29%) BGP
14 37 (1.17%) OSPF
15 28 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.85%) Kerberos
17 19 (0.60%) WLAN
18 18 (0.57%) VoIP
19 17 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (8.71%) Power BI
1 276 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 168 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 128 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 77 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
5 77 (2.43%) Tableau
6 75 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 72 (2.27%) Metadata
8 68 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 58 (1.83%) Delta Lake
10 51 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 48 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.17%) MySQL
15 35 (1.11%) Star Schema
16 34 (1.07%) Big Data
16 34 (1.07%) Data Vault
17 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 181 (5.72%) Git
2 110 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.35%) JIRA
4 70 (2.21%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 13 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.22%) Vite
16 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 958 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 955 (30.15%) Finance
3 314 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.07%) Banking
5 221 (6.98%) Law
6 145 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 143 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 142 (4.48%) Legal
9 103 (3.25%) Retail
10 70 (2.21%) Marketing
11 60 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.74%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (0.92%) Front Office
18 25 (0.79%) Advertising
19 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
20 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 584 (18.44%) Senior
2 551 (17.40%) Architect
3 414 (13.07%) Lead
4 328 (10.36%) Developer
5 282 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
6 197 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 185 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
8 162 (5.12%) Analyst
9 130 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 126 (3.98%) Azure Architect
11 123 (3.88%) Consultant
12 120 (3.79%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.60%) Software Engineer
14 105 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 100 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 91 (2.87%) Network Engineer
17 88 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
18 87 (2.75%) Security Engineer
19 81 (2.56%) Senior Developer
20 77 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (14.65%) Terraform
2 318 (10.04%) .NET
3 170 (5.37%) REST
4 155 (4.89%) React
5 142 (4.48%) Kafka
6 96 (3.03%) RESTful
7 90 (2.84%) LangChain
8 89 (2.81%) OAuth
9 88 (2.78%) Node.js
9 88 (2.78%) Spring
10 86 (2.72%) .NET Core
11 84 (2.65%) ASP.NET
12 77 (2.43%) PySpark
13 76 (2.40%) Spring Boot
14 66 (2.08%) PyTorch
15 64 (2.02%) TensorFlow
16 55 (1.74%) HTML
17 54 (1.71%) CSS
17 54 (1.71%) OAuth2
18 51 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 421 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 159 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 94 (2.97%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 60 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 52 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 45 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
15 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 408 (12.88%) Windows
2 177 (5.59%) Linux
3 159 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Android
8 19 (0.60%) Unix
8 19 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.54%) VMS
10 15 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (28.92%) DevOps
2 873 (27.57%) CI/CD
3 781 (24.66%) AI
4 690 (21.79%) Agile
5 530 (16.74%) Roadmaps
6 493 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
7 490 (15.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 489 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 457 (14.43%) Mentoring
10 453 (14.30%) Analytics
11 366 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 346 (10.93%) Data Engineering
13 345 (10.89%) Machine Learning
14 343 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
15 316 (9.98%) Software Engineering
16 305 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
17 299 (9.44%) Microservices
18 294 (9.28%) Migration
19 289 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
19 289 (9.13%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 760 (24.00%) Python
2 651 (20.56%) SQL
3 334 (10.55%) C#
4 289 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 223 (7.04%) Java
6 202 (6.38%) JavaScript
7 160 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 95 (3.00%) Bash
9 91 (2.87%) Bicep
10 45 (1.42%) Scala
11 38 (1.20%) Go
12 29 (0.92%) R
13 24 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
18 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 403 (12.72%) Degree
2 293 (9.25%) Azure Certification
3 255 (8.05%) Security Cleared
4 189 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.07%) CISSP
7 121 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 115 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.02%) CISM
11 63 (1.99%) CCNP
11 63 (1.99%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.55%) CCNA
13 43 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 39 (1.23%) CEH
15 29 (0.92%) PMP
16 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.85%) CCIE
16 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.59%) GDPR
3 167 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 147 (4.64%) QA
5 127 (4.01%) NIST
6 87 (2.75%) SLA
7 64 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 400 (12.63%) Active Directory
2 252 (7.96%) Docker
3 127 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.69%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 334 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 210 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 148 (4.67%) Ansible
4 71 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 55 (1.74%) Grafana
6 50 (1.58%) SCCM
7 38 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Argo
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) CASB
15 6 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
15 6 (0.19%) Packer
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,352 (42.69%) Microsoft
2 349 (11.02%) Databricks
3 192 (6.06%) VMware
4 163 (5.15%) Cisco
5 151 (4.77%) Google
6 86 (2.72%) OpenAI
7 80 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 79 (2.49%) Oracle
9 77 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 60 (1.89%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 53 (1.67%) SAP
13 52 (1.64%) Meraki
14 50 (1.58%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
16 42 (1.33%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.33%) Tenable
17 39 (1.23%) Dell
18 37 (1.17%) Zscaler
19 34 (1.07%) iManage