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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,840 2,566 4,587
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.59% 19.86% 19.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.10% 44.86% 45.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,016 1,963 3,786
10th Percentile £44,688 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

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 7,083 5,720 10,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.39% 44.27% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,553 4,146 8,128
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,625 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 0 636 £80,000 +6.67% 282
West London +3 83 £60,000 +33.33% 48
South London +16 45 £80,000 +31.96% 10
East London -15 23 £31,250 -63.24% 47
North London +3 11 £60,000 +33.33% 6
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
1 180 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 140 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.92%) Confluence
6 17 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.56%) Apache
8 15 (0.53%) WordPress
9 14 (0.49%) Appian
10 12 (0.42%) CMS
11 8 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.21%) Camunda
12 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.21%) PlantUML
7 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Maya
9 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.53%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.070%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 980 (34.51%) AWS
2 558 (19.65%) GCP
3 492 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
4 407 (14.33%) Power Platform
5 330 (11.62%) Entra ID
6 328 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
7 196 (6.90%) GitHub
8 177 (6.23%) SaaS
9 164 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 137 (4.82%) Azure AI
12 117 (4.12%) PaaS
13 112 (3.94%) Serverless
14 108 (3.80%) Power Automate
15 104 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
16 102 (3.59%) Snowflake
17 89 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
18 86 (3.03%) PowerApps
19 79 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
20 75 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (10.88%) Firewall
2 173 (6.09%) DNS
3 172 (6.06%) VPN
4 152 (5.35%) WAN
5 149 (5.25%) DHCP
6 125 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
7 104 (3.66%) TCP/IP
8 100 (3.52%) Network Security
9 94 (3.31%) LAN
10 82 (2.89%) SD-WAN
11 55 (1.94%) Internet
11 55 (1.94%) VLAN
12 45 (1.58%) SAN
13 33 (1.16%) Wireless
14 31 (1.09%) VoIP
15 24 (0.85%) Broadband
15 24 (0.85%) WLAN
16 23 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (0.77%) BGP
18 21 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (10.07%) Power BI
2 275 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 146 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (5.04%) Data Lake
5 88 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 73 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 69 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 62 (2.18%) Tableau
10 59 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 51 (1.80%) Big Data
11 51 (1.80%) Metadata
11 51 (1.80%) MongoDB
12 46 (1.62%) Relational Database
13 45 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.06%) Pinecone
16 27 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.85%) MySQL
18 23 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (6.73%) Git
2 96 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.57%) JIRA
4 65 (2.29%) GitLab
5 52 (1.83%) MLflow
6 32 (1.13%) Postman
7 25 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 22 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.63%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.63%) Selenium
10 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.39%) Vite
14 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.28%) JMeter
15 8 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 849 (29.89%) Finance
2 790 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (8.35%) Banking
5 176 (6.20%) Law
6 120 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (3.77%) Legal
8 104 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 103 (3.63%) Retail
10 66 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (1.97%) Marketing
13 50 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.44%) Front Office
16 41 (1.44%) Multimedia
17 33 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.95%) Retail Banking
19 24 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 551 (19.40%) Senior
2 388 (13.66%) Lead
3 378 (13.31%) Architect
4 284 (10.00%) Developer
5 250 (8.80%) Azure Engineer
6 211 (7.43%) Analyst
7 178 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 135 (4.75%) Software Engineer
9 133 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 120 (4.23%) Support Engineer
11 116 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 116 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 102 (3.59%) Security Engineer
13 98 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
14 96 (3.38%) Azure Architect
15 95 (3.35%) Consultant
16 90 (3.17%) IT Engineer
17 88 (3.10%) Network Engineer
18 84 (2.96%) IT Support
19 83 (2.92%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (9.30%) .NET
2 163 (5.74%) React
3 127 (4.47%) REST
4 104 (3.66%) CSS
4 104 (3.66%) Kafka
5 103 (3.63%) RESTful
6 99 (3.49%) HTML
7 94 (3.31%) OAuth
8 83 (2.92%) Node.js
9 64 (2.25%) LangChain
10 61 (2.15%) .NET Core
11 57 (2.01%) PyTorch
11 57 (2.01%) TensorFlow
12 56 (1.97%) PySpark
13 52 (1.83%) Django
14 51 (1.80%) SAML
15 41 (1.44%) OpenID
16 38 (1.34%) scikit-learn
16 38 (1.34%) Spring
17 37 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 263 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.38%) Security Posture
4 89 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 85 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 65 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 63 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 59 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
12 58 (2.04%) AI Agents
13 56 (1.97%) Low-Code
14 54 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
15 52 (1.83%) Onboarding
16 42 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (1.44%) Algorithms
17 41 (1.44%) Cyberattack
18 38 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
19 34 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 412 (14.51%) Windows
2 168 (5.92%) Windows Server
3 161 (5.67%) Linux
4 87 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 41 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 40 (1.41%) Unix
7 39 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.20%) VMS
9 33 (1.16%) Android
10 32 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 27 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.25%) CentOS
16 5 (0.18%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.14%) SUSE
18 2 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (27.25%) DevOps
2 655 (23.06%) CI/CD
3 607 (21.37%) AI
4 559 (19.68%) Agile
5 453 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (15.77%) Analytics
7 402 (14.15%) Mentoring
8 386 (13.59%) Roadmaps
9 368 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 363 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 346 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
12 313 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
13 288 (10.14%) Computer Science
14 286 (10.07%) Machine Learning
15 284 (10.00%) Data Engineering
16 276 (9.72%) Software Engineering
17 275 (9.68%) Data Modelling
18 250 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
19 247 (8.70%) Microservices
20 240 (8.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 738 (25.99%) Python
2 636 (22.39%) SQL
3 330 (11.62%) PowerShell
4 266 (9.37%) C#
5 245 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 159 (5.60%) Java
7 145 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.59%) Bash
9 67 (2.36%) Bicep
10 60 (2.11%) Go
11 44 (1.55%) R
12 37 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.85%) C++
14 24 (0.85%) Scala
15 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.49%) Rust
17 13 (0.46%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.42%) C
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 406 (14.30%) Degree
2 303 (10.67%) Azure Certification
3 219 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 190 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 136 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 130 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 120 (4.23%) CISSP
8 97 (3.42%) AWS Certification
9 79 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
10 71 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.90%) CEH
12 49 (1.73%) CISM
13 47 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 45 (1.58%) DV Cleared
15 42 (1.48%) CCNP
16 40 (1.41%) CCNA
16 40 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 30 (1.06%) PMP
19 29 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.58%) GDPR
2 183 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.77%) NIST
4 141 (4.96%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.03%) SLA
6 81 (2.85%) QA
7 44 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 42 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.41%) PCI DSS
10 37 (1.30%) NCSC
11 34 (1.20%) SOC 2
12 30 (1.06%) GRC
13 26 (0.92%) HIPAA
13 26 (0.92%) Solvency II
14 25 (0.88%) EU AI Act
15 22 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 20 (0.70%) PSD2
18 19 (0.67%) PMO
19 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 396 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 243 (8.56%) Docker
3 93 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 40 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.95%) vSphere
8 11 (0.39%) Firmware
9 8 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
13 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 358 (12.61%) Terraform
2 309 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 240 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.47%) Ansible
5 63 (2.22%) SCCM
6 55 (1.94%) Grafana
7 48 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (1.65%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.60%) Argo
12 13 (0.46%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) CASB
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.32%) Kibana
15 7 (0.25%) VxRail
16 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.21%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) Mesos
Vendors
1 1,157 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 276 (9.72%) Databricks
3 182 (6.41%) VMware
4 158 (5.56%) Google
5 126 (4.44%) Cisco
6 81 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 77 (2.71%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.57%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.18%) Oracle
10 57 (2.01%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
12 46 (1.62%) Dell
13 45 (1.58%) Meraki
14 42 (1.48%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.48%) SAP
15 41 (1.44%) Splunk
16 40 (1.41%) Salesforce
17 38 (1.34%) SolarWinds
18 37 (1.30%) iManage
19 36 (1.27%) CyberArk