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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,064 2,517 4,549
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.98% 20.26% 18.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.54% 44.81% 44.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 1,853 3,637
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
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 £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,205 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.49% +3.68% -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 7,749 5,617 10,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.36% 45.21% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,242 3,993 8,081
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £121,250
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 4 July 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 4 July 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 0 575 £82,500 +6.45% 369
West London +11 90 £70,000 +55.56% 59
South London +20 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -6 19 £32,500 -58.06% 31
North London -1 9 £55,000 -18.52% 4
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
1 196 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 64 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.31%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 10 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.26%) Camunda
12 7 (0.23%) Mule
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
14 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
14 5 (0.16%) IIS
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
15 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 44 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.65%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.033%) Houdini
8 1 (0.033%) Maya
8 1 (0.033%) Notion
8 1 (0.033%) NUKE
8 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.065%) Shopify
8 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 992 (32.38%) AWS
2 584 (19.06%) GCP
3 526 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 393 (12.83%) Power Platform
5 380 (12.40%) Entra ID
6 363 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (6.98%) SaaS
8 190 (6.20%) GitHub
9 159 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 147 (4.80%) PaaS
11 145 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 141 (4.60%) Serverless
13 140 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 133 (4.34%) Azure AI
15 111 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
15 111 (3.62%) Snowflake
16 109 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
17 105 (3.43%) Power Automate
18 96 (3.13%) IaaS
19 95 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 313 (10.22%) Firewall
2 177 (5.78%) VPN
3 172 (5.61%) DNS
4 154 (5.03%) Network Security
5 143 (4.67%) WAN
6 139 (4.54%) DHCP
7 122 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.52%) LAN
9 90 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 75 (2.45%) SD-WAN
11 70 (2.28%) VLAN
12 52 (1.70%) SAN
13 44 (1.44%) BGP
14 40 (1.31%) OSPF
14 40 (1.31%) Wireless
15 28 (0.91%) VoIP
16 27 (0.88%) Kerberos
16 27 (0.88%) WLAN
17 24 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
18 21 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (8.65%) Power BI
2 259 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 148 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
4 128 (4.18%) Data Lake
5 110 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 71 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 63 (2.06%) Tableau
9 60 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 59 (1.93%) Metadata
11 56 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.44%) Delta Lake
12 44 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 41 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 39 (1.27%) Big Data
16 35 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (1.01%) MySQL
18 29 (0.95%) Star Schema
19 27 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (5.81%) Git
2 104 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.55%) JIRA
4 74 (2.42%) GitLab
5 34 (1.11%) MLflow
6 22 (0.72%) Postman
7 20 (0.65%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
9 15 (0.49%) Selenium
9 15 (0.49%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.36%) Vite
11 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 939 (30.65%) Finance
2 861 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 271 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (6.95%) Banking
5 180 (5.87%) Law
6 125 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 112 (3.66%) Legal
9 80 (2.61%) Retail
10 54 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 42 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.14%) Front Office
15 32 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Advertising
16 31 (1.01%) Marketing
17 23 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.59%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.49%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 593 (19.35%) Senior
2 495 (16.16%) Architect
3 414 (13.51%) Lead
4 306 (9.99%) Developer
5 269 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 177 (5.78%) Analyst
7 171 (5.58%) Data Engineer
8 168 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
9 154 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 126 (4.11%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.01%) Consultant
12 114 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 107 (3.49%) Azure Architect
14 104 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 103 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 100 (3.26%) Data Architect
17 95 (3.10%) IT Engineer
18 89 (2.90%) Network Engineer
19 88 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
20 85 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (10.08%) .NET
2 171 (5.58%) React
3 137 (4.47%) REST
4 121 (3.95%) Kafka
5 105 (3.43%) OAuth
6 98 (3.20%) Node.js
7 90 (2.94%) RESTful
8 78 (2.55%) .NET Core
9 76 (2.48%) Spring
10 75 (2.45%) LangChain
11 67 (2.19%) PySpark
12 66 (2.15%) ASP.NET
12 66 (2.15%) Spring Boot
13 60 (1.96%) CSS
14 58 (1.89%) HTML
14 58 (1.89%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.86%) SAML
16 56 (1.83%) OpenID
16 56 (1.83%) TensorFlow
17 45 (1.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 376 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.66%) Security Posture
4 96 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 96 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 78 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 65 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 62 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
12 50 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.40%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.17%) Cyberattack
17 34 (1.11%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 416 (13.58%) Windows
2 172 (5.61%) Linux
3 160 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.14%) Mac OS
6 31 (1.01%) VMS
7 26 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 26 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.72%) Unix
9 19 (0.62%) Android
10 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.33%) CentOS
13 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (28.59%) DevOps
2 801 (26.14%) CI/CD
3 648 (21.15%) AI
4 628 (20.50%) Agile
5 468 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 465 (15.18%) Roadmaps
7 450 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 447 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 440 (14.36%) Mentoring
10 420 (13.71%) Analytics
11 316 (10.31%) Data Engineering
12 315 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
13 304 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
14 301 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 300 (9.79%) Software Engineering
16 283 (9.24%) Machine Learning
17 278 (9.07%) Microservices
18 267 (8.71%) Data Modelling
19 260 (8.49%) Migration
20 251 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 731 (23.86%) Python
2 618 (20.17%) SQL
3 323 (10.54%) PowerShell
4 307 (10.02%) C#
5 222 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 181 (5.91%) Java
7 173 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.46%) Bash
9 78 (2.55%) Bicep
10 43 (1.40%) Go
11 34 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 23 (0.75%) R
13 23 (0.75%) Scala
14 21 (0.69%) C++
15 18 (0.59%) RPG
16 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.42%) Rust
18 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (12.17%) Degree
2 283 (9.24%) Azure Certification
3 243 (7.93%) Security Cleared
4 176 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 143 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.14%) CISSP
7 115 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 112 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.25%) AWS Certification
10 58 (1.89%) CCNP
11 55 (1.80%) CCNA
12 54 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 53 (1.73%) CISM
14 48 (1.57%) CEH
15 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
17 30 (0.98%) CCIE
18 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.85%) GIAC
19 26 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 162 (5.29%) GDPR
3 157 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 155 (5.06%) NIST
5 132 (4.31%) QA
6 90 (2.94%) SLA
7 58 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.31%) GRC
10 33 (1.08%) NCSC
10 33 (1.08%) PMO
11 32 (1.04%) SOC 2
12 27 (0.88%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 18 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.26%) COBIT
17 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 424 (13.84%) Active Directory
2 243 (7.93%) Docker
3 122 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.88%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.065%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.065%) Xen
11 1 (0.033%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 445 (14.52%) Terraform
2 329 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 222 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (4.80%) Ansible
5 63 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 59 (1.93%) SCCM
7 52 (1.70%) Grafana
8 40 (1.31%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 8 (0.26%) QRadar
15 7 (0.23%) CloudHub
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,260 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 309 (10.08%) Databricks
3 196 (6.40%) VMware
4 144 (4.70%) Cisco
5 128 (4.18%) Google
6 92 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.32%) Oracle
8 71 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.86%) Foundry
10 51 (1.66%) Splunk
11 49 (1.60%) SAP
12 47 (1.53%) Meraki
13 45 (1.47%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.40%) Fortinet
15 42 (1.37%) SolarWinds
16 41 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
16 41 (1.34%) Dell
16 41 (1.34%) Dynatrace
17 40 (1.31%) Tenable