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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,170 2,470 3,754
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.15% 20.53% 19.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.42% 44.50% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 1,764 2,796
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 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.33% +0.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -2.61%

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 8,472 5,550 8,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.14% 46.12% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,705 3,828 6,146
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 28 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 28 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 +1 446 £85,000 +6.25% 245
West London +2 100 £70,000 +42.28% 106
South London 0 41 £90,000 +38.46% 23
East London -10 17 £75,000 +63.04% 30
North London -8 12 £60,000 -20.00% 8
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 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.89%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.91%) Apache
7 23 (0.73%) CMS
8 16 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 9 (0.28%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.50%) 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 43 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Maximo
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,071 (33.79%) AWS
2 644 (20.32%) GCP
3 534 (16.85%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.22%) Power Platform
5 412 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 380 (11.99%) Entra ID
7 210 (6.62%) SaaS
8 185 (5.84%) GitHub
9 164 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 163 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 159 (5.02%) PaaS
12 158 (4.98%) Serverless
13 156 (4.92%) Azure AI
14 154 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 142 (4.48%) Snowflake
16 119 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
17 116 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
17 116 (3.66%) Power Automate
18 101 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
19 99 (3.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 310 (9.78%) Firewall
2 169 (5.33%) VPN
3 164 (5.17%) Network Security
4 156 (4.92%) DNS
5 121 (3.82%) WAN
6 120 (3.79%) DHCP
7 105 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
8 103 (3.25%) LAN
9 81 (2.56%) TCP/IP
10 77 (2.43%) VLAN
11 66 (2.08%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.77%) SAN
13 55 (1.74%) Wireless
14 41 (1.29%) BGP
15 37 (1.17%) OSPF
16 28 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
17 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
18 18 (0.57%) WLAN
19 17 (0.54%) SSL
20 16 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.83%) Power BI
2 270 (8.52%) SQL Server
3 171 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 127 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (2.40%) Tableau
8 75 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.30%) Metadata
10 69 (2.18%) NoSQL
11 58 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 52 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 46 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.14%) Star Schema
17 35 (1.10%) Data Vault
18 34 (1.07%) MySQL
19 33 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
20 31 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 182 (5.74%) Git
2 114 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 110 (3.47%) JIRA
4 70 (2.21%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) 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%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 959 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 953 (30.06%) Finance
3 313 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.07%) Banking
4 224 (7.07%) Law
5 144 (4.54%) Legal
5 144 (4.54%) Public Sector
6 142 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (3.25%) Retail
8 70 (2.21%) Marketing
9 61 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (0.88%) Front Office
16 25 (0.79%) Advertising
17 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 587 (18.52%) Senior
2 551 (17.38%) Architect
3 404 (12.74%) Lead
4 332 (10.47%) Developer
5 287 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.15%) Data Engineer
7 182 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.08%) Analyst
9 132 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (4.07%) Azure Architect
11 125 (3.94%) Consultant
12 121 (3.82%) Data Architect
13 118 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 107 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 104 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 90 (2.84%) Network Engineer
17 89 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
18 84 (2.65%) Senior Developer
19 83 (2.62%) Security Engineer
20 75 (2.37%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (14.64%) Terraform
2 310 (9.78%) .NET
3 175 (5.52%) REST
4 155 (4.89%) React
5 145 (4.57%) Kafka
6 95 (3.00%) RESTful
7 90 (2.84%) LangChain
7 90 (2.84%) OAuth
8 89 (2.81%) Spring
9 87 (2.74%) Node.js
10 83 (2.62%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.56%) .NET Core
12 77 (2.43%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.37%) PySpark
14 66 (2.08%) PyTorch
15 65 (2.05%) TensorFlow
16 56 (1.77%) HTML
17 55 (1.74%) CSS
18 53 (1.67%) OAuth2
19 50 (1.58%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 162 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 100 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 92 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 86 (2.71%) AI Agents
8 67 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 63 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 62 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.39%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
15 38 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.07%) Low-Code
17 32 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 410 (12.93%) Windows
2 172 (5.43%) Linux
3 160 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 32 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
8 17 (0.54%) Unix
8 17 (0.54%) VMS
8 17 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.38%) CentOS
11 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.032%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (28.93%) DevOps
2 873 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 794 (25.05%) AI
4 687 (21.67%) Agile
5 531 (16.75%) Roadmaps
6 496 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
7 491 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 491 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 455 (14.35%) Mentoring
9 454 (14.32%) Analytics
10 370 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 347 (10.95%) Data Engineering
11 347 (10.95%) Machine Learning
12 346 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
13 313 (9.87%) Software Engineering
14 312 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
15 296 (9.34%) Migration
16 295 (9.31%) Microservices
17 289 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
18 287 (9.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 756 (23.85%) Python
2 652 (20.57%) SQL
3 327 (10.32%) C#
4 290 (9.15%) PowerShell
5 227 (7.16%) Java
6 200 (6.31%) JavaScript
7 162 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 93 (2.93%) Bash
9 90 (2.84%) Bicep
10 45 (1.42%) Scala
11 38 (1.20%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.66%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 16 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 400 (12.62%) Degree
2 291 (9.18%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 188 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 129 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.01%) CISSP
7 124 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 114 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 68 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 65 (2.05%) CISM
10 65 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 63 (1.99%) CCNP
12 48 (1.51%) CCNA
13 42 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.14%) CEH
15 31 (0.98%) PMP
16 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 26 (0.82%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.62%) GDPR
3 168 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 147 (4.64%) QA
5 126 (3.97%) NIST
6 87 (2.74%) SLA
7 64 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 33 (1.04%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) NCSC
12 25 (0.79%) 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 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 404 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 254 (8.01%) Docker
3 129 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.63%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Firmware
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 333 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 144 (4.54%) Ansible
4 74 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.70%) Grafana
5 54 (1.70%) SCCM
6 37 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 34 (1.07%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.47%) Argo
9 14 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (0.44%) Istio
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.38%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) CASB
12 9 (0.28%) QRadar
13 6 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (0.19%) Packer
13 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,359 (42.87%) Microsoft
2 345 (10.88%) Databricks
3 192 (6.06%) VMware
4 163 (5.14%) Cisco
5 149 (4.70%) Google
6 85 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 80 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 79 (2.49%) Oracle
9 77 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 62 (1.96%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 51 (1.61%) Meraki
12 51 (1.61%) SAP
13 47 (1.48%) Salesforce
14 45 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.36%) Tenable
16 42 (1.32%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.23%) Dell
18 38 (1.20%) Zscaler
19 35 (1.10%) Dynatrace