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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,190 2,383 3,777
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.58% 20.01% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.17% 43.64% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,320 1,698 2,631
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,575
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,583 5,460 8,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.86% 45.84% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,731 3,748 5,713
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,365 £99,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%

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 September 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 September 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 +1 422 £85,000 +9.68% 442
West London -1 88 £73,750 +31.11% 100
South London -7 28 £85,000 +30.77% 26
East London -12 17 £75,000 +76.47% 41
North London -5 13 £60,000 -20.00% 11
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
1 204 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.97%) Confluence
5 35 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 33 (1.03%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.34%) Camunda
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.031%) Endur
9 1 (0.031%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (32.38%) AWS
2 634 (19.87%) GCP
3 538 (16.87%) Microsoft 365
4 453 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
5 449 (14.08%) Power Platform
6 410 (12.85%) Entra ID
7 220 (6.90%) SaaS
8 194 (6.08%) GitHub
9 186 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 175 (5.49%) Serverless
11 165 (5.17%) PaaS
12 161 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 159 (4.98%) Azure AI
14 147 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (4.17%) Snowflake
16 129 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
17 128 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
18 127 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
19 125 (3.92%) Power Automate
20 107 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.37%) Firewall
2 165 (5.17%) VPN
3 162 (5.08%) DNS
4 155 (4.86%) Network Security
5 124 (3.89%) DHCP
6 109 (3.42%) WAN
7 96 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
8 92 (2.88%) LAN
9 81 (2.54%) TCP/IP
10 80 (2.51%) VLAN
11 58 (1.82%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.79%) SAN
13 55 (1.72%) Wireless
14 39 (1.22%) BGP
15 36 (1.13%) OSPF
16 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.78%) Kerberos
18 18 (0.56%) SSL
19 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
19 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (9.28%) Power BI
2 268 (8.40%) SQL Server
3 173 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 152 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 136 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 87 (2.73%) Metadata
7 75 (2.35%) NoSQL
8 74 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 73 (2.29%) Tableau
10 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 55 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.22%) Star Schema
14 37 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
16 34 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
17 33 (1.03%) Big Data
18 30 (0.94%) MySQL
19 28 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 190 (5.96%) Git
2 120 (3.76%) JIRA
3 116 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.85%) GitLab
5 25 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.72%) MLflow
7 16 (0.50%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.44%) JUnit
9 14 (0.44%) Mockito
10 11 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.34%) Maven
10 11 (0.34%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 989 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 982 (30.78%) Finance
3 316 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.21%) Law
5 220 (6.90%) Banking
6 164 (5.14%) Legal
7 148 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 144 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.35%) Retail
10 80 (2.51%) Marketing
11 69 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (0.97%) Front Office
17 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.60%) Advertising
18 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
19 18 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 590 (18.50%) Senior
2 562 (17.62%) Architect
3 393 (12.32%) Lead
4 359 (11.25%) Developer
5 296 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
6 205 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 187 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
8 158 (4.95%) Analyst
9 135 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 134 (4.20%) Consultant
11 127 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.79%) Azure Architect
13 118 (3.70%) Data Architect
14 117 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 98 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
16 97 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
17 95 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 87 (2.73%) Senior Developer
19 83 (2.60%) Network Engineer
20 71 (2.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (14.67%) Terraform
2 321 (10.06%) .NET
3 203 (6.36%) REST
4 165 (5.17%) React
5 127 (3.98%) Kafka
6 108 (3.39%) RESTful
7 93 (2.92%) OAuth
8 89 (2.79%) LangChain
8 89 (2.79%) Spring
9 88 (2.76%) ASP.NET
9 88 (2.76%) Node.js
10 82 (2.57%) .NET Core
11 79 (2.48%) Spring Boot
12 78 (2.45%) PySpark
13 59 (1.85%) PyTorch
14 58 (1.82%) LangGraph
14 58 (1.82%) TensorFlow
15 56 (1.76%) OAuth2
16 54 (1.69%) AngularJS
17 53 (1.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 432 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 121 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 112 (3.51%) AI Agents
6 104 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 104 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 92 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 66 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 59 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 55 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 47 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 47 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
15 39 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
15 39 (1.22%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
17 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 405 (12.70%) Windows
2 167 (5.24%) Linux
3 166 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 44 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (29.56%) DevOps
2 917 (28.75%) CI/CD
3 858 (26.90%) AI
4 684 (21.44%) Agile
5 528 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
6 524 (16.43%) Roadmaps
7 503 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 501 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 468 (14.67%) Analytics
10 443 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 412 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 359 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
13 348 (10.91%) Data Engineering
14 338 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
15 336 (10.53%) Machine Learning
16 330 (10.34%) Software Engineering
17 311 (9.75%) Migration
18 306 (9.59%) Data Modelling
19 304 (9.53%) Microservices
20 293 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 759 (23.79%) Python
2 667 (20.91%) SQL
3 347 (10.88%) C#
4 291 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 224 (7.02%) Java
6 196 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.24%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.01%) Bicep
9 85 (2.66%) Bash
10 54 (1.69%) Scala
11 36 (1.13%) R
12 29 (0.91%) Go
13 26 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.69%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 15 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
20 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 405 (12.70%) Degree
2 270 (8.46%) Azure Certification
2 270 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 198 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 135 (4.23%) CISSP
5 126 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 122 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 106 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 74 (2.32%) CISM
9 68 (2.13%) Master's Degree
10 55 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 54 (1.69%) CCNP
12 46 (1.44%) CCNA
13 35 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
14 28 (0.88%) PhD
14 28 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 26 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 26 (0.82%) PMP
16 25 (0.78%) CEH
17 24 (0.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 166 (5.20%) GDPR
4 147 (4.61%) QA
5 120 (3.76%) NIST
6 81 (2.54%) SLA
7 61 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 402 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 255 (7.99%) Docker
3 129 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 4 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.031%) HDFS
14 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 219 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 135 (4.23%) Ansible
4 81 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 51 (1.60%) Grafana
5 51 (1.60%) SCCM
6 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
8 18 (0.56%) Argo
9 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 12 (0.38%) CASB
11 10 (0.31%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 7 (0.22%) Puppet
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,384 (43.39%) Microsoft
2 324 (10.16%) Databricks
3 190 (5.96%) VMware
4 165 (5.17%) Google
5 157 (4.92%) Cisco
6 80 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.45%) Oracle
8 77 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 72 (2.26%) Palo Alto
10 63 (1.97%) Foundry
11 56 (1.76%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.72%) SAP
13 53 (1.66%) Splunk
14 47 (1.47%) Meraki
15 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
16 40 (1.25%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.22%) Tenable
18 37 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
19 34 (1.07%) Dell
19 34 (1.07%) Dynatrace