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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,170 2,437 3,786
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.80% 20.32% 19.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.22% 44.24% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,322 1,732 2,717
10th Percentile £48,025 £42,500 £46,658
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £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 8,516 5,509 8,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.38% 45.93% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 3,784 5,858
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,075 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,199 £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 £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%

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 11 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 11 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 +1 431 £85,000 +6.25% 268
West London 0 92 £70,809 +28.74% 91
South London -3 38 £90,000 +38.46% 27
East London -13 16 £75,000 +76.47% 42
North London -9 11 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.89%) Confluence
5 39 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.95%) Apache
7 23 (0.73%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.32%) WordPress
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 54 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Endur
9 1 (0.032%) Maximo
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (33.47%) AWS
2 638 (20.13%) GCP
3 530 (16.72%) Microsoft 365
4 426 (13.44%) Power Platform
5 425 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
6 388 (12.24%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.72%) SaaS
8 188 (5.93%) GitHub
9 174 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (5.17%) Serverless
11 162 (5.11%) Azure AI
12 158 (4.98%) PaaS
13 157 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 156 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 137 (4.32%) Snowflake
16 123 (3.88%) Power Automate
17 121 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 114 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
19 109 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
20 105 (3.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 305 (9.62%) Firewall
2 166 (5.24%) VPN
3 165 (5.21%) Network Security
4 157 (4.95%) DNS
5 120 (3.79%) DHCP
6 115 (3.63%) WAN
7 98 (3.09%) LAN
7 98 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
8 80 (2.52%) TCP/IP
9 77 (2.43%) VLAN
10 63 (1.99%) SD-WAN
11 58 (1.83%) SAN
12 57 (1.80%) Wireless
13 40 (1.26%) BGP
14 36 (1.14%) OSPF
15 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) VoIP
18 15 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (8.99%) Power BI
2 271 (8.55%) SQL Server
3 170 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 137 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 80 (2.52%) Metadata
7 73 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (2.30%) Tableau
8 70 (2.21%) NoSQL
9 57 (1.80%) Delta Lake
10 53 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 42 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 37 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 37 (1.17%) Star Schema
13 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
13 36 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (0.98%) MySQL
15 30 (0.95%) Big Data
15 30 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 190 (5.99%) Git
2 118 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 113 (3.56%) JIRA
4 66 (2.08%) GitLab
5 24 (0.76%) MLflow
6 20 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.54%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
8 15 (0.47%) JUnit
8 15 (0.47%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.28%) Eclipse
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 963 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 960 (30.28%) Finance
3 313 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.07%) Banking
4 224 (7.07%) Law
5 155 (4.89%) Legal
6 147 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 147 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 106 (3.34%) Retail
8 73 (2.30%) Marketing
9 64 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 63 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 42 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (0.79%) Front Office
16 23 (0.73%) Advertising
17 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 587 (18.52%) Senior
2 556 (17.54%) Architect
3 392 (12.37%) Lead
4 342 (10.79%) Developer
5 291 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 160 (5.05%) Analyst
9 132 (4.16%) Consultant
10 129 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 125 (3.94%) Azure Architect
12 123 (3.88%) Software Engineer
13 119 (3.75%) Data Architect
14 118 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 102 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
16 88 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
17 85 (2.68%) Network Engineer
18 84 (2.65%) Senior Developer
19 80 (2.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 76 (2.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (14.64%) Terraform
2 314 (9.91%) .NET
3 189 (5.96%) REST
4 155 (4.89%) React
5 136 (4.29%) Kafka
6 101 (3.19%) RESTful
7 90 (2.84%) Spring
8 89 (2.81%) OAuth
9 88 (2.78%) ASP.NET
10 86 (2.71%) LangChain
10 86 (2.71%) Node.js
11 84 (2.65%) .NET Core
12 78 (2.46%) Spring Boot
13 76 (2.40%) PySpark
14 63 (1.99%) PyTorch
15 62 (1.96%) TensorFlow
16 57 (1.80%) HTML
17 55 (1.74%) CSS
18 54 (1.70%) OAuth2
19 52 (1.64%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 167 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 141 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 102 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 94 (2.97%) Security Posture
8 92 (2.90%) AI Agents
9 63 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 63 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 54 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 46 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 42 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 40 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (1.14%) Low-Code
18 31 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 403 (12.71%) Windows
2 169 (5.33%) Linux
3 155 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 44 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 22 (0.69%) VMS
8 21 (0.66%) Android
9 15 (0.47%) Unix
10 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (0.35%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (28.86%) DevOps
2 888 (28.01%) CI/CD
3 825 (26.03%) AI
4 675 (21.29%) Agile
5 538 (16.97%) Roadmaps
6 507 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
7 491 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 490 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 460 (14.51%) Analytics
10 445 (14.04%) Mentoring
11 384 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
12 348 (10.98%) Data Engineering
13 343 (10.82%) Machine Learning
14 334 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
15 318 (10.03%) Software Engineering
16 300 (9.46%) Migration
17 299 (9.43%) Microservices
18 293 (9.24%) Data Modelling
19 291 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 756 (23.85%) Python
2 660 (20.82%) SQL
3 336 (10.60%) C#
4 284 (8.96%) PowerShell
5 227 (7.16%) Java
6 200 (6.31%) JavaScript
7 162 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 89 (2.81%) Bash
9 88 (2.78%) Bicep
10 49 (1.55%) Scala
11 36 (1.14%) Go
12 33 (1.04%) R
13 24 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 21 (0.66%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 16 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.44%) VBA
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 392 (12.37%) Degree
2 274 (8.64%) Azure Certification
3 264 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 193 (6.09%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.13%) CISSP
6 123 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 117 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 113 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.21%) CISM
10 67 (2.11%) Master's Degree
11 66 (2.08%) AWS Certification
12 60 (1.89%) CCNP
13 46 (1.45%) CCNA
14 40 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.01%) CEH
16 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) PhD
17 26 (0.82%) PMP
18 24 (0.76%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.43%) GDPR
2 172 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 151 (4.76%) QA
4 126 (3.97%) NIST
5 83 (2.62%) SLA
6 61 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 51 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 42 (1.32%) GRC
9 31 (0.98%) NCSC
10 27 (0.85%) PMO
11 25 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 398 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 252 (7.95%) Docker
3 128 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 328 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 135 (4.26%) Ansible
4 78 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.67%) SCCM
6 49 (1.55%) Grafana
7 34 (1.07%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Argo
10 14 (0.44%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.32%) CASB
13 10 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.32%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Packer
15 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,371 (43.25%) Microsoft
2 334 (10.54%) Databricks
3 191 (6.03%) VMware
4 166 (5.24%) Cisco
5 161 (5.08%) Google
6 82 (2.59%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.43%) Oracle
8 75 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 74 (2.33%) Palo Alto
10 60 (1.89%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 52 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 52 (1.64%) SAP
13 51 (1.61%) Meraki
14 43 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
15 41 (1.29%) Fortinet
15 41 (1.29%) Tenable
15 41 (1.29%) Zscaler
16 36 (1.14%) Dell
17 34 (1.07%) Citrix