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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,960 2,383 4,608
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.09% 19.82% 19.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.04% 44.63% 44.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,094 1,773 3,726
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,688
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -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 7,392 5,339 10,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.19% 44.40% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,928 3,774 8,084
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,199 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 0 627 £82,500 +6.45% 317
West London +9 81 £60,000 +41.18% 40
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 9
East London -8 21 £32,500 -62.32% 39
North London +3 11 £55,000 +10.00% 13
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
1 187 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 124 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.15%) Confluence
6 18 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.54%) Apache
8 13 (0.44%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 8 (0.27%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.17%) IIS
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 48 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.034%) Maya
9 1 (0.034%) Notion
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.27%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.068%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.034%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 965 (32.60%) AWS
2 567 (19.16%) GCP
3 503 (16.99%) Microsoft 365
4 368 (12.43%) Power Platform
5 354 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 353 (11.93%) Entra ID
7 197 (6.66%) SaaS
8 189 (6.39%) GitHub
9 145 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 136 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 135 (4.56%) PaaS
12 134 (4.53%) Serverless
13 125 (4.22%) Azure AI
14 115 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
16 97 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
16 97 (3.28%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.28%) Snowflake
17 91 (3.07%) IaaS
18 88 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.68%) Firewall
2 180 (6.08%) VPN
3 172 (5.81%) DNS
4 157 (5.30%) WAN
5 140 (4.73%) DHCP
6 128 (4.32%) Network Security
7 125 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
8 106 (3.58%) LAN
9 91 (3.07%) TCP/IP
10 85 (2.87%) SD-WAN
11 61 (2.06%) VLAN
12 57 (1.93%) SAN
13 38 (1.28%) BGP
14 35 (1.18%) Wireless
15 34 (1.15%) OSPF
16 32 (1.08%) WLAN
17 30 (1.01%) Internet
17 30 (1.01%) VoIP
18 26 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
19 25 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 251 (8.48%) Power BI
3 128 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.16%) Data Lake
5 95 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 63 (2.13%) Tableau
7 61 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 59 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 57 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 56 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 52 (1.76%) Metadata
12 50 (1.69%) BigQuery
13 47 (1.59%) Big Data
14 45 (1.52%) Relational Database
15 41 (1.39%) Delta Lake
16 40 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 31 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (0.91%) MySQL
19 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 25 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 178 (6.01%) Git
2 98 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 74 (2.50%) GitLab
3 74 (2.50%) JIRA
4 44 (1.49%) MLflow
5 27 (0.91%) Postman
6 24 (0.81%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.64%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.54%) Selenium
9 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.37%) Vite
12 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 910 (30.74%) Finance
2 810 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 292 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (7.47%) Banking
5 173 (5.84%) Law
6 121 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 99 (3.34%) Legal
8 68 (2.30%) Retail
9 57 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.15%) Front Office
14 33 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.01%) Marketing
16 25 (0.84%) Advertising
17 23 (0.78%) Multimedia
18 20 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 568 (19.19%) Senior
2 445 (15.03%) Architect
3 390 (13.18%) Lead
4 286 (9.66%) Developer
5 273 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 181 (6.11%) Analyst
7 168 (5.68%) Data Engineer
8 158 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 139 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (4.32%) Software Engineer
11 123 (4.16%) Consultant
12 110 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 106 (3.58%) Azure Architect
14 102 (3.45%) IT Engineer
14 102 (3.45%) Support Engineer
15 100 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.34%) Security Engineer
17 96 (3.24%) Network Engineer
18 87 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
19 85 (2.87%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (9.66%) .NET
2 162 (5.47%) React
3 132 (4.46%) REST
4 114 (3.85%) Kafka
5 99 (3.34%) OAuth
6 84 (2.84%) RESTful
7 77 (2.60%) CSS
8 75 (2.53%) Node.js
9 72 (2.43%) LangChain
10 70 (2.36%) HTML
10 70 (2.36%) PySpark
11 69 (2.33%) .NET Core
12 60 (2.03%) Spring
13 56 (1.89%) PyTorch
14 55 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 53 (1.79%) SAML
16 50 (1.69%) Spring Boot
17 48 (1.62%) ASP.NET
18 46 (1.55%) OpenID
19 45 (1.52%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 313 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 125 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 102 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 88 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 70 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 64 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 63 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 63 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 59 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 43 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.35%) Cyberattack
14 37 (1.25%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 411 (13.89%) Windows
2 162 (5.47%) Linux
3 158 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 36 (1.22%) VMS
6 32 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 28 (0.95%) Unix
7 28 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.78%) Android
10 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.30%) CentOS
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
17 1 (0.034%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (28.28%) DevOps
2 735 (24.83%) CI/CD
3 618 (20.88%) AI
4 578 (19.53%) Agile
5 456 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
6 433 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 427 (14.43%) Roadmaps
8 420 (14.19%) Mentoring
9 416 (14.05%) Analytics
10 413 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 317 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
12 309 (10.44%) Data Engineering
13 285 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
14 282 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 274 (9.26%) Software Engineering
16 264 (8.92%) Data Modelling
17 263 (8.89%) Machine Learning
18 256 (8.65%) Migration
19 253 (8.55%) Microservices
20 229 (7.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 731 (24.70%) Python
2 606 (20.47%) SQL
3 338 (11.42%) PowerShell
4 286 (9.66%) C#
5 224 (7.57%) JavaScript
6 164 (5.54%) Java
7 152 (5.14%) TypeScript
8 107 (3.61%) Bash
9 78 (2.64%) Bicep
10 48 (1.62%) Go
11 37 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.18%) R
13 31 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.78%) Scala
15 20 (0.68%) C++
16 15 (0.51%) Rust
17 12 (0.41%) RPG
17 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.37%) C
18 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (12.70%) Degree
2 293 (9.90%) Azure Certification
3 226 (7.64%) Security Cleared
4 163 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 153 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 125 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (4.12%) CISSP
8 106 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.72%) CCNA
10 51 (1.72%) CCNP
10 51 (1.72%) CEH
11 50 (1.69%) CISM
12 49 (1.66%) Master's Degree
13 46 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.22%) DV Cleared
15 30 (1.01%) CCIE
16 29 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 27 (0.91%) CompTIA CySA+
17 27 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (5.20%) NIST
3 149 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 143 (4.83%) GDPR
5 101 (3.41%) QA
6 91 (3.07%) SLA
7 55 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.32%) NCSC
10 34 (1.15%) PCI DSS
11 32 (1.08%) GRC
12 30 (1.01%) PMO
13 28 (0.95%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.30%) ISO 22301
18 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 407 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 235 (7.94%) Docker
3 116 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.05%) vSphere
8 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.24%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 2 (0.068%) Xen
12 2 (0.068%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 409 (13.82%) Terraform
2 319 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 217 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 131 (4.43%) Ansible
5 61 (2.06%) SCCM
6 56 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 55 (1.86%) Grafana
8 42 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.41%) Istio
12 11 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.34%) Argo
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.27%) CASB
16 7 (0.24%) Control-M
16 7 (0.24%) Nagios
16 7 (0.24%) QRadar
16 7 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,187 (40.10%) Microsoft
2 302 (10.20%) Databricks
3 193 (6.52%) VMware
4 144 (4.86%) Cisco
5 129 (4.36%) Google
6 89 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.80%) OpenAI
8 71 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 60 (2.03%) Oracle
10 55 (1.86%) Fortinet
11 50 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
11 50 (1.69%) Foundry
12 49 (1.66%) Meraki
12 49 (1.66%) SAP
13 46 (1.55%) Splunk
14 43 (1.45%) Dynatrace
14 43 (1.45%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.42%) Dell
16 40 (1.35%) Salesforce
17 39 (1.32%) ForeScout