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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,542 2,786 4,452
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.83% 19.35% 20.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.04% 43.76% 45.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,831 2,000 3,863
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

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 6,194 6,367 9,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.57% 44.23% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,998 4,220 8,101
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £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 1 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 1 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 +1 595 £77,500 +3.33% 260
West London +11 65 £67,500 +21.62% 57
South London +18 22 £47,500 -20.83% 36
East London -10 22 £32,000 -60.62% 45
North London +17 17 £75,000 -6.25% 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
1 181 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 145 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.10%) 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%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 4 (0.16%) Camunda
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.079%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 44 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
6 3 (0.12%) Maya
7 2 (0.079%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.98%) Endur
3 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 7 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.079%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.079%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 880 (34.62%) AWS
2 491 (19.32%) GCP
3 452 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 407 (16.01%) Power Platform
5 340 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
6 285 (11.21%) Entra ID
7 196 (7.71%) SaaS
8 185 (7.28%) GitHub
9 150 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 135 (5.31%) Power Automate
11 121 (4.76%) PaaS
12 106 (4.17%) PowerApps
13 104 (4.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 104 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 103 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
15 101 (3.97%) Serverless
16 82 (3.23%) Azure AI
17 73 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
18 68 (2.68%) Snowflake
19 64 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 275 (10.82%) Firewall
2 167 (6.57%) VPN
3 156 (6.14%) DNS
4 149 (5.86%) WAN
5 130 (5.11%) DHCP
6 110 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
7 102 (4.01%) TCP/IP
8 92 (3.62%) LAN
9 76 (2.99%) SD-WAN
10 61 (2.40%) Network Security
11 54 (2.12%) Internet
12 53 (2.08%) VLAN
13 40 (1.57%) SAN
14 37 (1.46%) Wireless
15 36 (1.42%) VoIP
16 26 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 23 (0.90%) BGP
18 23 (0.90%) OSPF
19 21 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (11.53%) Power BI
2 259 (10.19%) SQL Server
3 162 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
4 147 (5.78%) Data Lake
5 103 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 82 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 80 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
8 67 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 64 (2.52%) Metadata
10 54 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 49 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 48 (1.89%) Big Data
13 44 (1.73%) Tableau
14 38 (1.49%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.18%) MySQL
16 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.90%) Hadoop
17 23 (0.90%) Pinecone
18 22 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 183 (7.20%) Git
2 85 (3.34%) JIRA
3 84 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.97%) GitLab
5 39 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 37 (1.46%) MLflow
7 33 (1.30%) 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%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.47%) Chocolatey
12 11 (0.43%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.39%) JMeter
13 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.31%) Vite
15 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 777 (30.57%) Finance
2 742 (29.19%) Social Skills
3 274 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (7.91%) Banking
5 194 (7.63%) Law
6 118 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (4.52%) Legal
8 109 (4.29%) Retail
9 98 (3.86%) Public Sector
10 67 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (2.56%) Marketing
12 59 (2.32%) Financial Institution
13 56 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 50 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 44 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.42%) Retail Banking
18 34 (1.34%) Multimedia
19 29 (1.14%) Front Office
20 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 488 (19.20%) Senior
2 321 (12.63%) Architect
3 318 (12.51%) Lead
4 306 (12.04%) Developer
5 204 (8.03%) Analyst
6 188 (7.40%) Azure Engineer
7 176 (6.92%) Data Engineer
8 125 (4.92%) Support Engineer
9 121 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 103 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 94 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
13 90 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (3.27%) IT Support
15 82 (3.23%) Network Engineer
16 78 (3.07%) IT Engineer
17 77 (3.03%) Senior Developer
18 75 (2.95%) Data Architect
19 72 (2.83%) Security Engineer
19 72 (2.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (10.15%) .NET
2 162 (6.37%) React
3 140 (5.51%) REST
4 104 (4.09%) RESTful
5 101 (3.97%) CSS
6 99 (3.89%) HTML
7 88 (3.46%) OAuth
8 85 (3.34%) Node.js
9 78 (3.07%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.64%) Kafka
11 50 (1.97%) AngularJS
11 50 (1.97%) Django
11 50 (1.97%) SAML
12 46 (1.81%) PySpark
12 46 (1.81%) SOAP
13 42 (1.65%) LangChain
14 41 (1.61%) Web Services
15 40 (1.57%) PyTorch
16 39 (1.53%) Vue
17 38 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 207 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 88 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
5 84 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 80 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 62 (2.44%) Low-Code
11 59 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
12 56 (2.20%) Data Centre
13 55 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
13 55 (2.16%) Onboarding
14 45 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
15 44 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.49%) Algorithms
16 38 (1.49%) Public Cloud
17 33 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 33 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 381 (14.99%) Windows
2 172 (6.77%) Windows Server
3 150 (5.90%) Linux
4 82 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.97%) Unix
6 42 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.30%) VMS
9 31 (1.22%) Android
10 28 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.20%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.079%) Solaris
19 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (28.05%) DevOps
2 635 (24.98%) CI/CD
3 541 (21.28%) Agile
4 539 (21.20%) AI
5 456 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
6 434 (17.07%) Analytics
7 341 (13.41%) Mentoring
8 317 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 315 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
10 301 (11.84%) Roadmaps
11 299 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
11 299 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 298 (11.72%) Computer Science
13 276 (10.86%) Data Modelling
14 268 (10.54%) Software Engineering
15 264 (10.39%) Microservices
16 230 (9.05%) Machine Learning
17 226 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
18 225 (8.85%) ETL
19 217 (8.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 654 (25.73%) Python
2 582 (22.90%) SQL
3 306 (12.04%) PowerShell
4 269 (10.58%) C#
5 249 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 133 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 125 (4.92%) Java
8 87 (3.42%) Bash
9 52 (2.05%) Bicep
10 43 (1.69%) Go
11 41 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 35 (1.38%) R
13 34 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 26 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.87%) Scala
16 18 (0.71%) C++
17 16 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.59%) Rust
19 12 (0.47%) PHP
20 10 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 407 (16.01%) Degree
2 237 (9.32%) Azure Certification
3 224 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 166 (6.53%) Security Cleared
5 135 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 116 (4.56%) SC Cleared
7 107 (4.21%) CISSP
8 101 (3.97%) AWS Certification
9 82 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 54 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.85%) CISM
12 39 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 36 (1.42%) CEH
15 33 (1.30%) CCNP
15 33 (1.30%) PMI Certification
16 29 (1.14%) PMP
17 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
18 27 (1.06%) CCNA
19 24 (0.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (6.77%) GDPR
3 156 (6.14%) NIST
4 128 (5.04%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.34%) QA
6 66 (2.60%) SLA
7 39 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.38%) NCSC
8 35 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 33 (1.30%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.06%) EU AI Act
10 27 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 24 (0.94%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.90%) PSD2
13 22 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.87%) Solvency II
14 18 (0.71%) GRC
15 15 (0.59%) ISO 22301
16 13 (0.51%) PMO
17 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 367 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 250 (9.83%) Docker
3 92 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.87%) vSphere
7 14 (0.55%) Firmware
8 12 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.16%) KVM
10 4 (0.16%) Postfix
11 2 (0.079%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.079%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.079%) NFS
11 2 (0.079%) XenApp
12 1 (0.039%) NLBS
12 1 (0.039%) vCloud
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 318 (12.51%) Terraform
2 292 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 223 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 123 (4.84%) Ansible
5 60 (2.36%) SCCM
6 57 (2.24%) Grafana
7 52 (2.05%) Prometheus
8 37 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.79%) Argo
12 14 (0.55%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.28%) VxRail
15 6 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.24%) SCOM
16 5 (0.20%) Control-M
16 5 (0.20%) linkerd
16 5 (0.20%) Rancher
16 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,014 (39.89%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.71%) Databricks
3 180 (7.08%) VMware
4 135 (5.31%) Google
5 118 (4.64%) Cisco
6 76 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 71 (2.79%) Palo Alto
8 67 (2.64%) Oracle
9 58 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 58 (2.28%) OpenAI
10 47 (1.85%) SAP
11 46 (1.81%) Meraki
12 45 (1.77%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.38%) CheckPoint
13 35 (1.38%) SolarWinds
14 34 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
15 32 (1.26%) Informatica
16 31 (1.22%) Dell
17 29 (1.14%) Commvault
18 28 (1.10%) Dynatrace