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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,480 2,942 4,457
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.04% 19.72% 20.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.76% 44.13% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,793 2,035 3,878
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +6.90% -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 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 6,085 6,667 9,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.35% 44.69% 45.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,932 4,253 8,104
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,590 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £117,375 £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 16 February 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 16 February 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 0 569 £77,500 +3.33% 198
West London +17 66 £63,750 +2.41% 61
South London +12 23 £46,000 -23.33% 31
East London -5 22 £32,000 -47.33% 45
North London +16 18 £75,000 -6.25% 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
1 178 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 144 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.13%) Confluence
6 17 (0.69%) Apache
7 15 (0.60%) Appian
8 11 (0.44%) IIS
9 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.16%) Moodle
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 46 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.20%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.01%) Endur
3 14 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.24%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.24%) Shopify
5 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.040%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.040%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 863 (34.80%) AWS
2 479 (19.31%) GCP
3 440 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
4 397 (16.01%) Power Platform
5 348 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
6 283 (11.41%) Entra ID
7 182 (7.34%) SaaS
8 179 (7.22%) GitHub
9 151 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (5.40%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.48%) PaaS
12 110 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
13 106 (4.27%) PowerApps
14 103 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
15 102 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 100 (4.03%) Serverless
17 83 (3.35%) Azure AI
18 69 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (2.62%) Snowflake
20 64 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 261 (10.52%) Firewall
2 164 (6.61%) VPN
3 147 (5.93%) DNS
4 138 (5.56%) WAN
5 122 (4.92%) DHCP
6 105 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
7 96 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 86 (3.47%) LAN
9 70 (2.82%) SD-WAN
10 57 (2.30%) Network Security
11 54 (2.18%) Internet
12 49 (1.98%) VLAN
13 37 (1.49%) Wireless
14 35 (1.41%) SAN
14 35 (1.41%) VoIP
15 25 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (0.93%) BGP
16 23 (0.93%) OSPF
17 22 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
18 19 (0.77%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (11.33%) Power BI
2 247 (9.96%) SQL Server
3 170 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (6.29%) Data Lake
5 106 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 87 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (2.90%) MongoDB
9 70 (2.82%) Metadata
10 55 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
11 51 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (1.90%) Big Data
13 38 (1.53%) Tableau
14 36 (1.45%) BigQuery
15 31 (1.25%) MySQL
16 26 (1.05%) Hadoop
17 25 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.97%) Pinecone
19 21 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 189 (7.62%) Git
2 82 (3.31%) JIRA
3 75 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.85%) GitLab
5 42 (1.69%) Visual Studio
6 37 (1.49%) MLflow
7 33 (1.33%) Postman
8 19 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (0.73%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.73%) Selenium
9 18 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.44%) JMeter
12 10 (0.40%) Chocolatey
13 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.32%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 760 (30.65%) Finance
2 731 (29.48%) Social Skills
3 279 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (8.06%) Law
5 188 (7.58%) Banking
6 118 (4.76%) Legal
7 116 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 111 (4.48%) Retail
9 94 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 66 (2.66%) Marketing
11 64 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (2.46%) Financial Institution
13 52 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 49 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
17 36 (1.45%) Multimedia
18 33 (1.33%) Retail Banking
19 26 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
20 25 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 471 (18.99%) Senior
2 314 (12.66%) Developer
3 312 (12.58%) Architect
4 294 (11.85%) Lead
5 197 (7.94%) Analyst
6 181 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
7 180 (7.26%) Data Engineer
8 125 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 115 (4.64%) Software Engineer
11 101 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 95 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 89 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 79 (3.19%) IT Support
15 78 (3.15%) Data Architect
16 76 (3.06%) Senior Developer
17 75 (3.02%) IT Engineer
18 74 (2.98%) Network Engineer
19 71 (2.86%) Support Analyst
20 68 (2.74%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (10.20%) .NET
2 155 (6.25%) React
3 148 (5.97%) REST
4 104 (4.19%) HTML
5 102 (4.11%) CSS
6 101 (4.07%) RESTful
7 85 (3.43%) OAuth
8 84 (3.39%) Node.js
9 78 (3.15%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.70%) Kafka
11 62 (2.50%) AngularJS
12 49 (1.98%) SOAP
13 48 (1.94%) Web Services
14 46 (1.85%) PySpark
14 46 (1.85%) SAML
15 45 (1.81%) Django
15 45 (1.81%) Vue
16 44 (1.77%) LangChain
17 43 (1.73%) ASP.NET
18 40 (1.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 99 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 90 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 84 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 78 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 74 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 62 (2.50%) Low-Code
10 59 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 56 (2.26%) Onboarding
12 54 (2.18%) Data Centre
12 54 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
16 37 (1.49%) Public Cloud
17 35 (1.41%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.33%) Reinsurance
19 32 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 362 (14.60%) Windows
2 171 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 142 (5.73%) Linux
4 76 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.81%) Unix
6 39 (1.57%) Mac OS
7 33 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 32 (1.29%) VMS
9 30 (1.21%) Android
10 26 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.36%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.20%) CentOS
16 3 (0.12%) Solaris
16 3 (0.12%) SUSE
17 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 1 (0.040%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (27.70%) DevOps
2 618 (24.92%) CI/CD
3 542 (21.85%) Agile
3 542 (21.85%) AI
4 455 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
5 435 (17.54%) Analytics
6 330 (13.31%) Mentoring
7 314 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
8 305 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 296 (11.94%) Roadmaps
10 292 (11.77%) Computer Science
11 287 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
12 280 (11.29%) Data Modelling
13 279 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 268 (10.81%) Microservices
15 256 (10.32%) Software Engineering
16 242 (9.76%) Machine Learning
17 233 (9.40%) ETL
18 226 (9.11%) Data Pipeline
19 215 (8.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 649 (26.17%) Python
2 583 (23.51%) SQL
3 294 (11.85%) PowerShell
4 266 (10.73%) C#
5 255 (10.28%) JavaScript
6 134 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 122 (4.92%) Java
8 82 (3.31%) Bash
9 54 (2.18%) Bicep
10 45 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.65%) Go
12 37 (1.49%) R
13 31 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (1.13%) Scala
15 26 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.77%) C++
17 15 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.56%) Rust
19 12 (0.48%) PHP
20 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 409 (16.49%) Degree
2 232 (9.35%) Azure Certification
3 216 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 158 (6.37%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 111 (4.48%) SC Cleared
7 108 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 104 (4.19%) CISSP
9 87 (3.51%) Master's Degree
10 52 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (1.90%) CISM
12 39 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 34 (1.37%) CCNP
15 33 (1.33%) PMI Certification
15 33 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (1.21%) CEH
17 27 (1.09%) PMP
18 24 (0.97%) CCIE
18 24 (0.97%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 178 (7.18%) GDPR
3 147 (5.93%) NIST
4 134 (5.40%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.47%) QA
6 61 (2.46%) SLA
7 38 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.45%) NCSC
9 34 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.29%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.13%) EU AI Act
12 26 (1.05%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.97%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.93%) PSD2
15 22 (0.89%) Solvency II
16 21 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.60%) GRC
18 13 (0.52%) ISO 22301
19 12 (0.48%) PMO
20 10 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 358 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 248 (10.00%) Docker
3 87 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 29 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.65%) vSphere
8 14 (0.56%) Firmware
9 10 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.081%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.081%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.081%) NFS
13 2 (0.081%) XenApp
14 1 (0.040%) vCloud
14 1 (0.040%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 314 (12.66%) Terraform
2 286 (11.53%) Kubernetes
3 223 (8.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 118 (4.76%) Ansible
5 56 (2.26%) Grafana
6 54 (2.18%) SCCM
7 49 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 38 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.81%) Argo
11 16 (0.65%) CASB
12 8 (0.32%) Kibana
13 6 (0.24%) Rancher
13 6 (0.24%) SCOM
13 6 (0.24%) VxRail
14 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.20%) Istio
14 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 1,002 (40.40%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.98%) Databricks
3 167 (6.73%) VMware
4 119 (4.80%) Google
5 117 (4.72%) Cisco
6 75 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 72 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 70 (2.82%) Oracle
9 58 (2.34%) OpenAI
10 57 (2.30%) Fortinet
11 45 (1.81%) Meraki
11 45 (1.81%) SAP
12 41 (1.65%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 35 (1.41%) SolarWinds
14 32 (1.29%) Informatica
15 31 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
16 29 (1.17%) Dell
17 28 (1.13%) Splunk
18 27 (1.09%) Dynatrace