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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,022 2,431 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.19% 19.90% 19.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.73% 44.49% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 1,799 3,748
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
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 £115,000 £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 7,419 5,464 10,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.84% 44.73% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,060 3,828 8,191
10th Percentile £41,700 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,400
90th Percentile £111,375 £120,000 £120,000
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 12 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 12 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 0 621 £82,500 +6.45% 198
West London +13 82 £60,000 +41.18% 43
South London +21 47 £80,000 +23.08% 8
East London -6 21 £31,500 -64.00% 34
North London +2 9 £55,000 +10.00% 11
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
1 190 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.19%) Confluence
6 18 (0.60%) Apache
6 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.50%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.30%) Appian
10 8 (0.26%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
11 6 (0.20%) IIS
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 47 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.50%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.033%) Maya
8 1 (0.033%) Notion
8 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.23%) Endur
4 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.066%) Shopify
9 1 (0.033%) Maximo
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.033%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 986 (32.63%) AWS
2 582 (19.26%) GCP
3 510 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
4 368 (12.18%) Power Platform
5 361 (11.95%) Entra ID
6 359 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
7 203 (6.72%) SaaS
8 196 (6.49%) GitHub
9 148 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 143 (4.73%) PaaS
11 140 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 135 (4.47%) Serverless
13 128 (4.24%) Azure AI
14 116 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
15 103 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
16 102 (3.38%) Snowflake
17 99 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 98 (3.24%) Power Automate
19 95 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
20 94 (3.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.46%) Firewall
2 184 (6.09%) VPN
3 172 (5.69%) DNS
4 161 (5.33%) WAN
5 140 (4.63%) DHCP
6 134 (4.43%) Network Security
7 125 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
8 110 (3.64%) LAN
9 93 (3.08%) TCP/IP
10 88 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 64 (2.12%) VLAN
12 56 (1.85%) SAN
13 42 (1.39%) BGP
14 38 (1.26%) OSPF
14 38 (1.26%) Wireless
15 31 (1.03%) VoIP
15 31 (1.03%) WLAN
16 28 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
16 28 (0.93%) Internet
17 24 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 248 (8.21%) Power BI
3 131 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 65 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 63 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 60 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 60 (1.99%) Tableau
9 58 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 55 (1.82%) Metadata
11 46 (1.52%) BigQuery
11 46 (1.52%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.46%) Big Data
13 42 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.93%) MySQL
17 26 (0.86%) Pinecone
17 26 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 182 (6.02%) Git
2 101 (3.34%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.61%) JIRA
4 78 (2.58%) GitLab
5 43 (1.42%) MLflow
6 29 (0.96%) Postman
7 22 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.63%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.40%) Vite
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 937 (31.01%) Finance
2 824 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 288 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.35%) Banking
5 178 (5.89%) Law
6 126 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 119 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (3.51%) Legal
9 74 (2.45%) Retail
10 61 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.16%) Front Office
15 31 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.03%) Marketing
16 27 (0.89%) Advertising
17 21 (0.69%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.66%) Multimedia
18 20 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 579 (19.16%) Senior
2 460 (15.22%) Architect
3 398 (13.17%) Lead
4 302 (9.99%) Developer
5 277 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
6 181 (5.99%) Analyst
7 168 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 162 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 146 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 129 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 122 (4.04%) Consultant
12 113 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 106 (3.51%) Azure Architect
14 104 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 102 (3.38%) IT Engineer
16 101 (3.34%) Security Engineer
17 98 (3.24%) Network Engineer
18 97 (3.21%) Support Engineer
19 95 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
20 90 (2.98%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (9.93%) .NET
2 167 (5.53%) React
3 136 (4.50%) REST
4 116 (3.84%) Kafka
5 104 (3.44%) OAuth
6 89 (2.95%) RESTful
7 80 (2.65%) Node.js
8 75 (2.48%) CSS
8 75 (2.48%) LangChain
9 74 (2.45%) .NET Core
10 69 (2.28%) HTML
11 68 (2.25%) PySpark
12 64 (2.12%) Spring
13 58 (1.92%) PyTorch
14 57 (1.89%) TensorFlow
15 56 (1.85%) ASP.NET
15 56 (1.85%) SAML
16 54 (1.79%) Spring Boot
17 49 (1.62%) OpenID
18 45 (1.49%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 336 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 126 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 108 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 86 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 68 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
9 64 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 62 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 59 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.39%) Low-Code
15 40 (1.32%) Cyberattack
16 34 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 416 (13.77%) Windows
2 169 (5.59%) Linux
3 160 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 72 (2.38%) Windows 10
5 38 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.16%) VMS
7 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (0.89%) Unix
10 23 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.69%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 17 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.33%) CentOS
13 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
17 1 (0.033%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (28.23%) DevOps
2 763 (25.25%) CI/CD
3 637 (21.08%) AI
4 599 (19.82%) Agile
5 462 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (14.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 443 (14.66%) Roadmaps
8 425 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 424 (14.03%) Mentoring
10 421 (13.93%) Analytics
11 317 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
12 313 (10.36%) Data Engineering
13 293 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 289 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
15 282 (9.33%) Software Engineering
16 275 (9.10%) Machine Learning
17 272 (9.00%) Data Modelling
18 265 (8.77%) Microservices
19 255 (8.44%) Migration
20 234 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 739 (24.45%) Python
2 616 (20.38%) SQL
3 334 (11.05%) PowerShell
4 294 (9.73%) C#
5 225 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 169 (5.59%) Java
7 162 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 114 (3.77%) Bash
9 78 (2.58%) Bicep
10 49 (1.62%) Go
11 35 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 35 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.06%) R
13 23 (0.76%) Scala
14 21 (0.69%) C++
15 15 (0.50%) Rust
16 13 (0.43%) RPG
16 13 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 372 (12.31%) Degree
2 289 (9.56%) Azure Certification
3 232 (7.68%) Security Cleared
4 171 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 151 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (4.17%) CISSP
7 120 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 112 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (2.48%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.85%) CCNP
11 55 (1.82%) CCNA
12 54 (1.79%) CISM
13 51 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 50 (1.65%) CEH
15 44 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
16 36 (1.19%) DV Cleared
17 32 (1.06%) CCIE
18 27 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.86%) PMI Certification
19 26 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (5.23%) NIST
3 154 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 152 (5.03%) GDPR
5 112 (3.71%) QA
6 93 (3.08%) SLA
7 56 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.29%) NCSC
10 35 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 33 (1.09%) GRC
12 31 (1.03%) PMO
13 28 (0.93%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.26%) COBIT
19 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 418 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 245 (8.11%) Docker
3 121 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.03%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.066%) Xen
11 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
12 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 426 (14.10%) Terraform
2 329 (10.89%) Kubernetes
3 216 (7.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (4.60%) Ansible
5 61 (2.02%) SCCM
6 57 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 56 (1.85%) Grafana
8 45 (1.49%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.33%) Kibana
14 9 (0.30%) Argo
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.30%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) CASB
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,213 (40.14%) Microsoft
2 304 (10.06%) Databricks
3 198 (6.55%) VMware
4 148 (4.90%) Cisco
5 131 (4.33%) Google
6 91 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.75%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 64 (2.12%) Oracle
10 52 (1.72%) Foundry
11 51 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.69%) Splunk
12 50 (1.65%) Meraki
13 48 (1.59%) SAP
14 46 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
14 46 (1.52%) Dynatrace
15 44 (1.46%) SolarWinds
16 42 (1.39%) Dell
17 40 (1.32%) Salesforce
18 37 (1.22%) ForeScout