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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,545 2,639 4,489
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.46% 19.17% 20.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.53% 43.43% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 1,987 3,854
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £55,168
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,307
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.48% -10.30%

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 6,280 6,077 9,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.14% 44.15% 45.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,061 4,215 8,143
10th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +1 599 £77,500 +3.33% 289
West London +14 69 £70,000 +42.86% 51
South London +22 25 £47,500 -20.83% 23
East London -6 21 £32,000 -62.35% 51
North London +18 16 £73,750 +18.00% 14
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
1 186 (7.31%) SharePoint
2 145 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.06%) Confluence
6 15 (0.59%) Apache
6 15 (0.59%) Appian
7 11 (0.43%) IIS
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.31%) CMS
10 6 (0.24%) Moodle
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 4 (0.16%) Camunda
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.079%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 46 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.079%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 45 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.98%) Endur
3 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
3 7 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.079%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.079%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.039%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.039%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 869 (34.15%) AWS
2 488 (19.17%) GCP
3 467 (18.35%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (16.23%) Power Platform
5 329 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (11.47%) Entra ID
7 192 (7.54%) SaaS
8 183 (7.19%) GitHub
9 150 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 132 (5.19%) Power Automate
11 123 (4.83%) PaaS
12 110 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 104 (4.09%) PowerApps
14 102 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
15 99 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 97 (3.81%) Serverless
17 82 (3.22%) Azure AI
18 73 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
19 69 (2.71%) Snowflake
20 66 (2.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 286 (11.24%) Firewall
2 173 (6.80%) VPN
3 159 (6.25%) DNS
4 153 (6.01%) WAN
5 133 (5.23%) DHCP
6 114 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
7 104 (4.09%) TCP/IP
8 94 (3.69%) LAN
9 80 (3.14%) SD-WAN
10 67 (2.63%) Network Security
11 54 (2.12%) Internet
12 51 (2.00%) VLAN
13 38 (1.49%) SAN
14 36 (1.41%) VoIP
15 35 (1.38%) Wireless
16 26 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.86%) BGP
18 22 (0.86%) OSPF
19 21 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (11.79%) Power BI
2 257 (10.10%) SQL Server
3 159 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 146 (5.74%) Data Lake
5 98 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 59 (2.32%) Metadata
8 59 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 53 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 52 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 49 (1.93%) Tableau
13 45 (1.77%) Big Data
14 44 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 28 (1.10%) MySQL
16 27 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.94%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.90%) Pinecone
19 21 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 179 (7.03%) Git
2 82 (3.22%) JIRA
3 81 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.93%) GitLab
5 42 (1.65%) MLflow
6 38 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.26%) Postman
8 19 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.75%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.67%) Selenium
10 13 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.47%) Chocolatey
12 11 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.35%) JMeter
14 9 (0.35%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 763 (29.98%) Finance
2 747 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 270 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (7.94%) Banking
5 185 (7.27%) Law
6 121 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (4.24%) Retail
8 102 (4.01%) Legal
9 96 (3.77%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (2.55%) Marketing
12 59 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
13 56 (2.20%) Financial Institution
14 51 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
16 41 (1.61%) Telecoms
17 35 (1.38%) Retail Banking
18 34 (1.34%) Front Office
18 34 (1.34%) Multimedia
19 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 495 (19.45%) Senior
2 322 (12.65%) Lead
3 318 (12.50%) Architect
4 299 (11.75%) Developer
5 209 (8.21%) Analyst
6 190 (7.47%) Azure Engineer
7 171 (6.72%) Data Engineer
8 123 (4.83%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 96 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
13 92 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
14 86 (3.38%) IT Support
15 84 (3.30%) Network Engineer
16 78 (3.06%) Security Engineer
16 78 (3.06%) Senior Developer
17 77 (3.03%) IT Engineer
18 72 (2.83%) Data Architect
18 72 (2.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (9.71%) .NET
2 159 (6.25%) React
3 132 (5.19%) REST
4 103 (4.05%) CSS
5 100 (3.93%) RESTful
6 97 (3.81%) HTML
7 86 (3.38%) OAuth
8 83 (3.26%) Node.js
9 74 (2.91%) Kafka
10 70 (2.75%) .NET Core
11 49 (1.93%) Django
12 48 (1.89%) SAML
13 46 (1.81%) LangChain
13 46 (1.81%) PySpark
14 45 (1.77%) PyTorch
15 44 (1.73%) TensorFlow
16 43 (1.69%) SOAP
17 42 (1.65%) AngularJS
18 37 (1.45%) Web Services
19 35 (1.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 220 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 103 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.34%) Security Posture
5 78 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 66 (2.59%) Data Structures
8 62 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 58 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 57 (2.24%) Low-Code
11 55 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 55 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
12 52 (2.04%) Onboarding
13 47 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
14 45 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.30%) Cyberattack
18 32 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 390 (15.32%) Windows
2 177 (6.95%) Windows Server
3 151 (5.93%) Linux
4 83 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 51 (2.00%) Unix
6 44 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 32 (1.26%) VMS
8 31 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 30 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (1.10%) Android
10 28 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.20%) CentOS
16 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.079%) Solaris
18 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (27.94%) DevOps
2 628 (24.68%) CI/CD
3 533 (20.94%) Agile
4 531 (20.86%) AI
5 447 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
6 430 (16.90%) Analytics
7 347 (13.63%) Mentoring
8 325 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 318 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 303 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
11 298 (11.71%) Computer Science
12 295 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 290 (11.39%) Roadmaps
14 277 (10.88%) Data Modelling
15 262 (10.29%) Software Engineering
16 253 (9.94%) Microservices
17 233 (9.16%) Machine Learning
18 226 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
19 223 (8.76%) ETL
20 216 (8.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 660 (25.93%) Python
2 586 (23.03%) SQL
3 311 (12.22%) PowerShell
4 257 (10.10%) C#
5 240 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 126 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 122 (4.79%) Java
8 89 (3.50%) Bash
9 57 (2.24%) Bicep
10 44 (1.73%) Go
11 40 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 36 (1.41%) R
13 26 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.83%) Scala
15 18 (0.71%) C++
16 15 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.55%) Rust
18 11 (0.43%) PHP
18 11 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 407 (15.99%) Degree
2 241 (9.47%) Azure Certification
3 228 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (6.64%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 119 (4.68%) SC Cleared
7 108 (4.24%) CISSP
8 99 (3.89%) AWS Certification
9 80 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 57 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.73%) CISM
12 40 (1.57%) CEH
12 40 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 34 (1.34%) PMI Certification
15 33 (1.30%) CCNP
15 33 (1.30%) PMP
16 28 (1.10%) CCNA
17 26 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (0.98%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (7.03%) GDPR
3 159 (6.25%) NIST
4 128 (5.03%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.30%) QA
6 67 (2.63%) SLA
7 40 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 36 (1.41%) NCSC
8 36 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 28 (1.10%) SOC 2
10 27 (1.06%) EU AI Act
11 24 (0.94%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.90%) PSD2
12 23 (0.90%) Solvency II
13 17 (0.67%) GRC
13 17 (0.67%) PMO
14 16 (0.63%) ISO 22301
15 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 371 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 246 (9.67%) Docker
3 92 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.36%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.90%) vSphere
8 14 (0.55%) Firmware
9 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.20%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.16%) KVM
11 4 (0.16%) Postfix
12 2 (0.079%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.039%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.039%) NFS
13 1 (0.039%) NLBS
13 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.039%) Xen
13 1 (0.039%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 312 (12.26%) Terraform
2 286 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 229 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 120 (4.72%) Ansible
5 60 (2.36%) SCCM
6 57 (2.24%) Grafana
7 52 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 38 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.10%) FortiGate
10 25 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (0.75%) Argo
12 13 (0.51%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.28%) Istio
14 7 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.28%) VxRail
15 6 (0.24%) Control-M
15 6 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.24%) SCOM
16 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,012 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 202 (7.94%) Databricks
3 184 (7.23%) VMware
4 135 (5.30%) Google
5 118 (4.64%) Cisco
6 76 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 73 (2.87%) Palo Alto
8 65 (2.55%) Oracle
9 58 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 58 (2.28%) OpenAI
10 45 (1.77%) Meraki
10 45 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 42 (1.65%) SAP
12 40 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
13 38 (1.49%) Dell
14 36 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 34 (1.34%) CheckPoint
16 31 (1.22%) Informatica
17 30 (1.18%) Commvault
18 28 (1.10%) Dynatrace