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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,830 2,546 4,583
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.95% 19.72% 20.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.38% 44.74% 45.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,012 1,967 3,845
10th Percentile £44,438 £45,700 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,008 5,691 10,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.03% 44.09% 44.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,514 4,136 8,193
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,238 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,625 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 12 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 12 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 +1 634 £80,000 +6.67% 288
West London +9 80 £65,000 +32.65% 39
South London +21 46 £80,000 +33.33% 11
East London -11 25 £31,250 -63.24% 30
North London +5 12 £60,000 +37.14% 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
1 179 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 143 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.95%) Confluence
6 16 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.53%) Apache
8 14 (0.49%) Appian
8 14 (0.49%) WordPress
9 12 (0.42%) CMS
10 9 (0.32%) IIS
11 8 (0.28%) 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%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.18%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.071%) 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 38 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.60%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.28%) Shopify
4 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.071%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.071%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 996 (35.19%) AWS
2 563 (19.89%) GCP
3 495 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (14.98%) Power Platform
5 328 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
6 320 (11.31%) Entra ID
7 196 (6.93%) GitHub
8 182 (6.43%) SaaS
9 162 (5.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 155 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 134 (4.73%) Azure AI
12 122 (4.31%) Power Automate
13 116 (4.10%) PaaS
14 110 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 110 (3.89%) Serverless
15 103 (3.64%) Snowflake
16 99 (3.50%) PowerApps
17 98 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
18 76 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
19 75 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 309 (10.92%) Firewall
2 173 (6.11%) DNS
3 172 (6.08%) VPN
4 153 (5.41%) WAN
5 148 (5.23%) DHCP
6 129 (4.56%) Wi-Fi
7 108 (3.82%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.39%) LAN
9 95 (3.36%) Network Security
10 84 (2.97%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.98%) Internet
11 56 (1.98%) VLAN
12 44 (1.55%) SAN
13 36 (1.27%) Wireless
14 31 (1.10%) VoIP
15 25 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
17 23 (0.81%) Broadband
17 23 (0.81%) WLAN
18 22 (0.78%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (10.46%) Power BI
2 277 (9.79%) SQL Server
3 151 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
4 147 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 91 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 72 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 72 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 64 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
8 62 (2.19%) Tableau
9 58 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 54 (1.91%) Metadata
11 50 (1.77%) Big Data
12 49 (1.73%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.73%) Relational Database
13 48 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 28 (0.99%) Pinecone
15 28 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (0.88%) MySQL
17 24 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 192 (6.78%) Git
2 96 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.79%) JIRA
4 64 (2.26%) GitLab
5 52 (1.84%) MLflow
6 32 (1.13%) Postman
7 30 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.74%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.71%) Selenium
10 18 (0.64%) Chocolatey
11 16 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
13 13 (0.46%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.35%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.35%) Vite
16 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 8 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 840 (29.68%) Finance
2 798 (28.20%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (8.45%) Banking
5 188 (6.64%) Law
6 123 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (3.92%) Legal
8 109 (3.85%) Retail
9 106 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 66 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 61 (2.16%) Marketing
13 51 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.45%) Front Office
16 41 (1.45%) Multimedia
17 35 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 29 (1.02%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 547 (19.33%) Senior
2 381 (13.46%) Lead
3 378 (13.36%) Architect
4 295 (10.42%) Developer
5 240 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
6 213 (7.53%) Analyst
7 174 (6.15%) Data Engineer
8 130 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 128 (4.52%) Software Engineer
10 127 (4.49%) Support Engineer
11 116 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
13 99 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
14 97 (3.43%) Security Engineer
15 94 (3.32%) Azure Architect
16 91 (3.22%) Consultant
17 88 (3.11%) IT Engineer
17 88 (3.11%) Network Engineer
18 87 (3.07%) Data Architect
19 86 (3.04%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (9.36%) .NET
2 164 (5.80%) React
3 130 (4.59%) REST
4 105 (3.71%) CSS
5 102 (3.60%) Kafka
5 102 (3.60%) RESTful
6 98 (3.46%) HTML
7 91 (3.22%) OAuth
8 83 (2.93%) Node.js
9 62 (2.19%) .NET Core
9 62 (2.19%) LangChain
10 58 (2.05%) PyTorch
10 58 (2.05%) TensorFlow
11 56 (1.98%) PySpark
12 53 (1.87%) Django
13 49 (1.73%) SAML
14 39 (1.38%) OpenID
14 39 (1.38%) SOAP
15 38 (1.34%) scikit-learn
16 37 (1.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 262 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 118 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.39%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 82 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.51%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 67 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 65 (2.30%) Data Centre
11 61 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 59 (2.08%) Low-Code
13 57 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.84%) Onboarding
15 45 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
17 41 (1.45%) Cyberattack
18 40 (1.41%) Algorithms
19 32 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 413 (14.59%) Windows
2 169 (5.97%) Linux
3 167 (5.90%) Windows Server
4 83 (2.93%) Windows 10
5 46 (1.63%) Unix
6 44 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 36 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.20%) VMS
9 33 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (1.02%) Android
11 28 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.28%) CentOS
16 7 (0.25%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.14%) SUSE
19 2 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (27.17%) DevOps
2 651 (23.00%) CI/CD
3 601 (21.24%) AI
4 573 (20.25%) Agile
5 465 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (15.76%) Analytics
7 395 (13.96%) Mentoring
8 383 (13.53%) Roadmaps
9 369 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 352 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 343 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
12 313 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
13 301 (10.64%) Computer Science
14 292 (10.32%) Machine Learning
15 278 (9.82%) Data Modelling
16 277 (9.79%) Software Engineering
17 271 (9.58%) Data Engineering
18 250 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 248 (8.76%) Migration
20 246 (8.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 731 (25.83%) Python
2 639 (22.58%) SQL
3 330 (11.66%) PowerShell
4 272 (9.61%) C#
5 249 (8.80%) JavaScript
6 157 (5.55%) Java
7 139 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.64%) Bash
9 63 (2.23%) Bicep
10 58 (2.05%) Go
11 44 (1.55%) R
12 37 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.85%) C++
14 24 (0.85%) Scala
15 19 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.53%) Rust
18 12 (0.42%) C
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 410 (14.49%) Degree
2 294 (10.39%) Azure Certification
3 228 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 191 (6.75%) Security Cleared
5 138 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 131 (4.63%) SC Cleared
7 119 (4.20%) CISSP
8 99 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 78 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (2.61%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.91%) CEH
12 48 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 48 (1.70%) CISM
13 46 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 44 (1.55%) CCNP
15 40 (1.41%) CCNA
16 38 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
17 30 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 29 (1.02%) PMP
19 27 (0.95%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.00%) GDPR
2 188 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (5.94%) NIST
4 142 (5.02%) Data Quality
5 83 (2.93%) QA
5 83 (2.93%) SLA
6 43 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 41 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.27%) NCSC
10 33 (1.17%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.02%) EU AI Act
11 29 (1.02%) GRC
12 27 (0.95%) HIPAA
12 27 (0.95%) Solvency II
13 22 (0.78%) PMO
13 22 (0.78%) PSD2
14 21 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 387 (13.67%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.73%) Docker
3 95 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (1.91%) Hyper-V
6 39 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.95%) vSphere
8 11 (0.39%) Firmware
9 6 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.21%) KVM
10 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
13 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 356 (12.58%) Terraform
2 311 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 243 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.49%) Ansible
5 60 (2.12%) Grafana
5 60 (2.12%) SCCM
6 50 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 46 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.57%) Argo
11 13 (0.46%) Istio
12 11 (0.39%) 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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,151 (40.67%) Microsoft
2 274 (9.68%) Databricks
3 191 (6.75%) VMware
4 158 (5.58%) Google
5 130 (4.59%) Cisco
6 84 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 73 (2.58%) OpenAI
9 64 (2.26%) Oracle
10 62 (2.19%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
12 48 (1.70%) Dell
13 47 (1.66%) SAP
14 44 (1.55%) Splunk
15 42 (1.48%) Meraki
15 42 (1.48%) Salesforce
16 39 (1.38%) SolarWinds
17 36 (1.27%) CyberArk
17 36 (1.27%) ForeScout
17 36 (1.27%) iManage