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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,525 2,935 4,395
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.03% 19.74% 20.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.07% 44.03% 45.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,824 2,050 3,823
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 6,148 6,666 9,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.04% 44.83% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,980 4,292 8,028
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £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 £99,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 0 581 £77,500 +3.33% 279
West London +9 65 £63,750 +6.25% 50
South London +18 23 £46,000 -23.33% 35
East London -7 22 £32,000 -47.33% 47
North London +15 18 £75,000 -6.25% 13
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
1 181 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 146 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.11%) Confluence
6 17 (0.67%) Apache
7 15 (0.59%) Appian
8 11 (0.44%) IIS
9 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.20%) Moodle
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.079%) Umbraco
Applications
1 48 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Maya
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.079%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.99%) Endur
3 12 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.24%) Shopify
4 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.12%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.079%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.040%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.040%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.040%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 872 (34.53%) AWS
2 485 (19.21%) GCP
3 449 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 407 (16.12%) Power Platform
5 351 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (11.41%) Entra ID
7 190 (7.52%) SaaS
8 187 (7.41%) GitHub
9 153 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 137 (5.43%) Power Automate
11 117 (4.63%) PaaS
12 110 (4.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 108 (4.28%) PowerApps
14 105 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 105 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
15 101 (4.00%) Serverless
16 84 (3.33%) Azure AI
17 71 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
18 67 (2.65%) Snowflake
19 65 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 271 (10.73%) Firewall
2 167 (6.61%) VPN
3 152 (6.02%) DNS
4 147 (5.82%) WAN
5 127 (5.03%) DHCP
6 111 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
7 96 (3.80%) TCP/IP
8 92 (3.64%) LAN
9 75 (2.97%) SD-WAN
10 58 (2.30%) Network Security
11 55 (2.18%) Internet
12 51 (2.02%) VLAN
13 39 (1.54%) Wireless
14 37 (1.47%) SAN
14 37 (1.47%) VoIP
15 26 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
16 25 (0.99%) BGP
16 25 (0.99%) OSPF
17 24 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
18 20 (0.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (11.52%) Power BI
2 255 (10.10%) SQL Server
3 170 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 102 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 74 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 67 (2.65%) Metadata
9 65 (2.57%) MongoDB
10 54 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 52 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 49 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.90%) Big Data
14 40 (1.58%) Tableau
15 38 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 29 (1.15%) MySQL
17 27 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.95%) Hadoop
18 24 (0.95%) Pinecone
19 21 (0.83%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 186 (7.37%) Git
2 85 (3.37%) JIRA
3 80 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.90%) GitLab
5 41 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 38 (1.50%) MLflow
7 34 (1.35%) Postman
8 19 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.71%) Selenium
9 18 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.44%) Chocolatey
11 11 (0.44%) JMeter
12 9 (0.36%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.32%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 772 (30.57%) Finance
2 738 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 275 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (8.08%) Law
5 196 (7.76%) Banking
6 119 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 119 (4.71%) Legal
7 111 (4.40%) Retail
8 96 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 66 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 66 (2.61%) Marketing
10 61 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 53 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
13 48 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 46 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.47%) Retail Banking
16 36 (1.43%) Multimedia
17 26 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (0.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 486 (19.25%) Senior
2 317 (12.55%) Architect
3 314 (12.44%) Developer
4 303 (12.00%) Lead
5 199 (7.88%) Analyst
6 187 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 179 (7.09%) Data Engineer
8 128 (5.07%) Support Engineer
9 122 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 116 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 105 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 96 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 87 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 82 (3.25%) IT Support
15 80 (3.17%) Data Architect
15 80 (3.17%) Network Engineer
16 79 (3.13%) Senior Developer
17 76 (3.01%) IT Engineer
18 74 (2.93%) Support Analyst
19 69 (2.73%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (10.06%) .NET
2 154 (6.10%) React
3 144 (5.70%) REST
4 104 (4.12%) CSS
5 103 (4.08%) HTML
6 102 (4.04%) RESTful
7 87 (3.45%) OAuth
8 81 (3.21%) Node.js
9 75 (2.97%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.65%) Kafka
11 55 (2.18%) AngularJS
12 49 (1.94%) SAML
13 48 (1.90%) SOAP
14 47 (1.86%) Django
15 46 (1.82%) PySpark
16 45 (1.78%) Web Services
17 44 (1.74%) LangChain
18 41 (1.62%) Middleware
18 41 (1.62%) PyTorch
19 40 (1.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 204 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 100 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 85 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 73 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.57%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.53%) Low-Code
10 62 (2.46%) Data Structures
11 59 (2.34%) Data Centre
12 57 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
12 57 (2.26%) Onboarding
13 55 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
16 38 (1.50%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.47%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.27%) Virtual Team
19 31 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 372 (14.73%) Windows
2 171 (6.77%) Windows Server
3 145 (5.74%) Linux
4 78 (3.09%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.86%) Unix
6 41 (1.62%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 34 (1.35%) VMS
8 31 (1.23%) Android
9 28 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.36%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.20%) CentOS
14 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Solaris
15 3 (0.12%) SUSE
16 2 (0.079%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.040%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (28.04%) DevOps
2 631 (24.99%) CI/CD
3 549 (21.74%) AI
4 535 (21.19%) Agile
5 456 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 440 (17.43%) Analytics
7 340 (13.47%) Mentoring
8 313 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
9 311 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 302 (11.96%) Roadmaps
11 298 (11.80%) Computer Science
12 297 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
13 290 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 279 (11.05%) Data Modelling
15 263 (10.42%) Software Engineering
16 262 (10.38%) Microservices
17 242 (9.58%) Machine Learning
18 229 (9.07%) ETL
19 221 (8.75%) Data Pipeline
20 220 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 656 (25.98%) Python
2 582 (23.05%) SQL
3 302 (11.96%) PowerShell
4 268 (10.61%) C#
5 250 (9.90%) JavaScript
6 130 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 124 (4.91%) Java
8 84 (3.33%) Bash
9 53 (2.10%) Bicep
10 43 (1.70%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.66%) Go
12 38 (1.50%) R
13 32 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (1.11%) Scala
15 26 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.75%) C++
17 15 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.55%) Rust
19 12 (0.48%) PHP
20 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (16.51%) Degree
2 235 (9.31%) Azure Certification
3 221 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 162 (6.42%) Security Cleared
5 140 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 114 (4.51%) SC Cleared
7 106 (4.20%) AWS Certification
8 105 (4.16%) CISSP
9 87 (3.45%) Master's Degree
10 55 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.86%) CISM
12 40 (1.58%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.39%) CCNP
15 32 (1.27%) PMI Certification
15 32 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (1.23%) CEH
17 27 (1.07%) PMP
18 26 (1.03%) CCNA
19 25 (0.99%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (7.01%) GDPR
3 151 (5.98%) NIST
4 132 (5.23%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.37%) QA
6 64 (2.53%) SLA
7 38 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.39%) NCSC
9 34 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.31%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.11%) EU AI Act
12 27 (1.07%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.95%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.91%) PSD2
15 22 (0.87%) Solvency II
16 21 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.63%) GRC
18 14 (0.55%) ISO 22301
19 12 (0.48%) PMO
20 10 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 365 (14.46%) Active Directory
2 249 (9.86%) Docker
3 92 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.67%) vSphere
8 14 (0.55%) Firmware
9 10 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.079%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.079%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.079%) NFS
13 2 (0.079%) XenApp
14 1 (0.040%) NLBS
14 1 (0.040%) vCloud
14 1 (0.040%) Xen
Systems Management
1 321 (12.71%) Terraform
2 295 (11.68%) Kubernetes
3 223 (8.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 120 (4.75%) Ansible
5 56 (2.22%) Grafana
6 55 (2.18%) SCCM
7 49 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.79%) Argo
12 16 (0.63%) CASB
13 8 (0.32%) Kibana
14 6 (0.24%) Rancher
14 6 (0.24%) SCOM
14 6 (0.24%) VxRail
15 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.20%) Istio
15 5 (0.20%) linkerd
15 5 (0.20%) Mesos
Vendors
1 1,014 (40.16%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.92%) Databricks
3 175 (6.93%) VMware
4 129 (5.11%) Google
5 121 (4.79%) Cisco
6 77 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 75 (2.97%) Palo Alto
8 68 (2.69%) Oracle
9 59 (2.34%) Fortinet
9 59 (2.34%) OpenAI
10 50 (1.98%) Meraki
11 45 (1.78%) SAP
12 42 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 37 (1.47%) CheckPoint
13 37 (1.47%) SolarWinds
14 32 (1.27%) Informatica
15 31 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
16 29 (1.15%) Dell
16 29 (1.15%) Dynatrace
17 28 (1.11%) Splunk