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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,944 2,367 4,629
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 19.76% 19.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.95% 44.59% 44.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,081 1,769 3,743
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,850
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,370 5,308 10,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.20% 44.31% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,911 3,771 8,114
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 0 625 £82,500 +6.45% 325
West London +9 80 £60,000 +41.18% 39
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 10
East London -10 20 £63,750 -25.00% 40
North London +4 11 £55,000 +10.00% 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
1 185 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 122 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.15%) Confluence
6 18 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.54%) Apache
8 13 (0.44%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 8 (0.27%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.17%) IIS
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 47 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.48%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.034%) Maya
9 1 (0.034%) Notion
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.27%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.068%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.034%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 964 (32.74%) AWS
2 566 (19.23%) GCP
3 498 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
4 369 (12.53%) Power Platform
5 353 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
6 350 (11.89%) Entra ID
7 198 (6.73%) SaaS
8 190 (6.45%) GitHub
9 144 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 136 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 135 (4.59%) PaaS
12 132 (4.48%) Serverless
13 121 (4.11%) Azure AI
14 114 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
16 97 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
16 97 (3.29%) Power Automate
17 96 (3.26%) Snowflake
18 92 (3.13%) IaaS
19 88 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.73%) Firewall
2 180 (6.11%) VPN
3 170 (5.77%) DNS
4 157 (5.33%) WAN
5 138 (4.69%) DHCP
6 127 (4.31%) Network Security
7 125 (4.25%) Wi-Fi
8 106 (3.60%) LAN
9 90 (3.06%) TCP/IP
10 86 (2.92%) SD-WAN
11 61 (2.07%) VLAN
12 57 (1.94%) SAN
13 39 (1.32%) BGP
14 35 (1.19%) OSPF
14 35 (1.19%) Wireless
15 33 (1.12%) WLAN
16 30 (1.02%) Internet
16 30 (1.02%) VoIP
17 27 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
18 26 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 252 (8.56%) Power BI
3 128 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 95 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 63 (2.14%) Tableau
7 61 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 60 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 57 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 56 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 51 (1.73%) Metadata
12 50 (1.70%) BigQuery
13 47 (1.60%) Big Data
14 45 (1.53%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.36%) Delta Lake
15 40 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (0.92%) MySQL
18 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 25 (0.85%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 178 (6.05%) Git
2 99 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 74 (2.51%) GitLab
4 73 (2.48%) JIRA
5 44 (1.49%) MLflow
6 27 (0.92%) Postman
7 23 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.65%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.58%) Selenium
10 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.37%) Vite
13 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 904 (30.71%) Finance
2 803 (27.28%) Social Skills
3 293 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (7.40%) Banking
5 170 (5.77%) Law
6 122 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 98 (3.33%) Legal
8 68 (2.31%) Retail
9 57 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.15%) Front Office
14 33 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.02%) Marketing
16 25 (0.85%) Advertising
17 23 (0.78%) Multimedia
18 21 (0.71%) Retail Banking
19 20 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 562 (19.09%) Senior
2 443 (15.05%) Architect
3 386 (13.11%) Lead
4 288 (9.78%) Developer
5 271 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (6.05%) Analyst
7 167 (5.67%) Data Engineer
8 158 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 138 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (4.25%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.18%) Consultant
12 110 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 105 (3.57%) Azure Architect
14 101 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 101 (3.43%) IT Engineer
15 100 (3.40%) Support Engineer
16 99 (3.36%) Security Engineer
17 97 (3.29%) Network Engineer
18 87 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
19 84 (2.85%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (9.71%) .NET
2 162 (5.50%) React
3 133 (4.52%) REST
4 113 (3.84%) Kafka
5 100 (3.40%) OAuth
6 83 (2.82%) RESTful
7 78 (2.65%) CSS
8 75 (2.55%) Node.js
9 71 (2.41%) HTML
10 70 (2.38%) LangChain
11 69 (2.34%) .NET Core
11 69 (2.34%) PySpark
12 60 (2.04%) Spring
13 55 (1.87%) PyTorch
14 54 (1.83%) SAML
14 54 (1.83%) TensorFlow
15 50 (1.70%) Spring Boot
16 48 (1.63%) ASP.NET
17 46 (1.56%) OpenID
18 45 (1.53%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 310 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 101 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 89 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 69 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 65 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 64 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 63 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 62 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 59 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
13 48 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.39%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.36%) Cyberattack
17 38 (1.29%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 408 (13.86%) Windows
2 162 (5.50%) Linux
3 157 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 72 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.22%) VMS
6 34 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 32 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.99%) Unix
9 28 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.78%) Android
12 17 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
13 16 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.31%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
19 1 (0.034%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (28.36%) DevOps
2 732 (24.86%) CI/CD
3 612 (20.79%) AI
4 577 (19.60%) Agile
5 451 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (14.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 423 (14.37%) Roadmaps
8 419 (14.23%) Mentoring
9 412 (13.99%) Analytics
10 410 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 312 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
12 306 (10.39%) Data Engineering
13 283 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
14 280 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 270 (9.17%) Software Engineering
16 264 (8.97%) Data Modelling
17 260 (8.83%) Machine Learning
18 256 (8.70%) Migration
19 252 (8.56%) Microservices
20 228 (7.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 725 (24.63%) Python
2 606 (20.58%) SQL
3 336 (11.41%) PowerShell
4 285 (9.68%) C#
5 226 (7.68%) JavaScript
6 165 (5.60%) Java
7 152 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.60%) Bash
9 77 (2.62%) Bicep
10 48 (1.63%) Go
11 36 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 36 (1.22%) R
12 31 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.75%) Scala
14 20 (0.68%) C++
15 15 (0.51%) Rust
16 12 (0.41%) RPG
16 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.37%) C
17 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 374 (12.70%) Degree
2 292 (9.92%) Azure Certification
3 227 (7.71%) Security Cleared
4 164 (5.57%) SC Cleared
5 153 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 120 (4.08%) CISSP
8 105 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (2.65%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.73%) CCNA
10 51 (1.73%) CCNP
10 51 (1.73%) CEH
11 49 (1.66%) CISM
12 48 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 43 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.22%) DV Cleared
15 30 (1.02%) CCIE
16 29 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 27 (0.92%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 152 (5.16%) NIST
3 148 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 141 (4.79%) GDPR
5 100 (3.40%) QA
6 89 (3.02%) SLA
7 55 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.32%) NCSC
10 34 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 32 (1.09%) GRC
12 30 (1.02%) PMO
13 28 (0.95%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.31%) ISO 22301
18 9 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 404 (13.72%) Active Directory
2 234 (7.95%) Docker
3 115 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.05%) vSphere
8 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.24%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 2 (0.068%) Xen
12 2 (0.068%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 408 (13.86%) Terraform
2 318 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 215 (7.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 130 (4.42%) Ansible
5 61 (2.07%) SCCM
6 56 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 55 (1.87%) Grafana
8 42 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.12%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.41%) Istio
12 10 (0.34%) Argo
12 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.31%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 7 (0.24%) Control-M
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,177 (39.98%) Microsoft
2 300 (10.19%) Databricks
3 192 (6.52%) VMware
4 145 (4.93%) Cisco
5 130 (4.42%) Google
6 89 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.75%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 60 (2.04%) Oracle
10 56 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 50 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
11 50 (1.70%) Meraki
11 50 (1.70%) SAP
12 48 (1.63%) Foundry
13 45 (1.53%) Splunk
14 44 (1.49%) Dynatrace
14 44 (1.49%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.43%) Dell
16 41 (1.39%) Salesforce
17 39 (1.32%) ForeScout