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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,046 2,459 4,629
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 20.20% 18.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.15% 44.72% 44.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,181 1,821 3,707
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 £113,750 £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 7,586 5,499 10,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.00% 45.18% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,144 3,890 8,175
10th Percentile £42,325 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £121,350 £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 23 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 23 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 0 600 £82,500 +6.45% 167
West London +12 87 £67,059 +53.28% 52
South London +20 48 £80,000 +23.08% 10
East London -5 20 £32,500 -62.32% 38
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 7
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
1 193 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.28%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.53%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.30%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
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
13 4 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 45 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.62%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.066%) Shopify
7 2 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.033%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.033%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 988 (32.44%) AWS
2 586 (19.24%) GCP
3 523 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 387 (12.71%) Power Platform
5 370 (12.15%) Entra ID
6 364 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.96%) SaaS
8 194 (6.37%) GitHub
9 157 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (4.79%) PaaS
11 145 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 133 (4.37%) Serverless
13 132 (4.33%) Azure AI
14 126 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 108 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
16 105 (3.45%) Snowflake
17 102 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
17 102 (3.35%) Power Automate
18 99 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
19 97 (3.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 313 (10.28%) Firewall
2 178 (5.84%) VPN
3 170 (5.58%) DNS
4 149 (4.89%) WAN
5 148 (4.86%) Network Security
6 139 (4.56%) DHCP
7 121 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.55%) LAN
9 88 (2.89%) TCP/IP
10 80 (2.63%) SD-WAN
11 63 (2.07%) VLAN
12 52 (1.71%) SAN
13 44 (1.44%) BGP
14 40 (1.31%) OSPF
15 35 (1.15%) Wireless
16 30 (0.98%) VoIP
17 29 (0.95%) WLAN
18 26 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.79%) Broadband
20 23 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 256 (8.40%) Power BI
3 140 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.27%) Data Lake
5 107 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 67 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 66 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (2.04%) Tableau
9 60 (1.97%) NoSQL
10 59 (1.94%) Metadata
11 58 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.48%) Delta Lake
12 45 (1.48%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 42 (1.38%) Big Data
14 42 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.92%) MySQL
17 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
17 26 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 181 (5.94%) Git
2 107 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.59%) JIRA
4 76 (2.50%) GitLab
5 40 (1.31%) MLflow
6 28 (0.92%) Postman
7 23 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.59%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.53%) Selenium
11 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.39%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.36%) Vite
14 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 940 (30.86%) Finance
2 844 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 278 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (7.22%) Banking
5 175 (5.75%) Law
6 122 (4.01%) Public Sector
7 114 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 108 (3.55%) Legal
9 76 (2.50%) Retail
10 60 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.15%) Front Office
14 33 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (0.98%) Advertising
15 30 (0.98%) Marketing
16 20 (0.66%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.59%) Telecoms
18 16 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 581 (19.07%) Senior
2 486 (15.96%) Architect
3 410 (13.46%) Lead
4 304 (9.98%) Developer
5 275 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (5.88%) Analyst
7 165 (5.42%) Data Engineer
8 161 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 158 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.97%) Consultant
12 117 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 110 (3.61%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 103 (3.38%) Security Engineer
15 99 (3.25%) Data Architect
16 97 (3.18%) IT Engineer
17 91 (2.99%) Network Engineer
17 91 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
17 91 (2.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (9.88%) .NET
2 166 (5.45%) React
3 135 (4.43%) REST
4 116 (3.81%) Kafka
5 104 (3.41%) OAuth
6 91 (2.99%) Node.js
7 87 (2.86%) RESTful
8 79 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 78 (2.56%) LangChain
10 73 (2.40%) Spring
11 70 (2.30%) PySpark
12 69 (2.27%) CSS
13 64 (2.10%) HTML
14 63 (2.07%) Spring Boot
15 61 (2.00%) ASP.NET
16 60 (1.97%) PyTorch
17 58 (1.90%) TensorFlow
18 56 (1.84%) SAML
19 51 (1.67%) OpenID
20 44 (1.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 356 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 128 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.58%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 88 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 71 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 70 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 68 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 66 (2.17%) AI Agents
11 63 (2.07%) Management Information System
12 62 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
13 59 (1.94%) Public Cloud
14 46 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.38%) Low-Code
17 40 (1.31%) Cyberattack
18 35 (1.15%) Algorithms
19 32 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 417 (13.69%) Windows
2 172 (5.65%) Linux
3 157 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 68 (2.23%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.08%) VMS
7 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.79%) Unix
10 20 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.62%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.30%) CentOS
14 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (28.56%) DevOps
2 784 (25.74%) CI/CD
3 645 (21.18%) AI
4 627 (20.58%) Agile
5 458 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 455 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 455 (14.94%) Roadmaps
7 438 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 429 (14.08%) Analytics
9 423 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 316 (10.37%) Data Engineering
11 314 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
12 301 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
13 300 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 289 (9.49%) Software Engineering
15 283 (9.29%) Machine Learning
16 273 (8.96%) Microservices
17 271 (8.90%) Data Modelling
18 250 (8.21%) Migration
19 242 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 730 (23.97%) Python
2 620 (20.35%) SQL
3 330 (10.83%) PowerShell
4 292 (9.59%) C#
5 223 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 174 (5.71%) Java
7 168 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 111 (3.64%) Bash
9 80 (2.63%) Bicep
10 43 (1.41%) Go
11 38 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 27 (0.89%) R
14 24 (0.79%) Scala
15 20 (0.66%) C++
16 15 (0.49%) RPG
17 13 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.43%) Rust
18 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 371 (12.18%) Degree
2 288 (9.46%) Azure Certification
3 241 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 177 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 151 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.17%) CISSP
7 115 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 111 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.27%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.81%) CCNP
11 54 (1.77%) CCNA
11 54 (1.77%) CISM
12 53 (1.74%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.58%) CEH
14 46 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.15%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.02%) CCIE
17 27 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.85%) PMP
19 25 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (5.15%) NIST
3 155 (5.09%) GDPR
4 150 (4.92%) Data Quality
5 122 (4.01%) QA
6 90 (2.95%) SLA
7 57 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.25%) NCSC
10 37 (1.21%) GRC
11 33 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 31 (1.02%) PMO
12 31 (1.02%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 16 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) COBIT
19 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 417 (13.69%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.11%) Docker
3 122 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 29 (0.95%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 2 (0.066%) Xen
11 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
12 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 435 (14.28%) Terraform
2 332 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 224 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 143 (4.69%) Ansible
5 64 (2.10%) SCCM
6 58 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.77%) Grafana
8 43 (1.41%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 27 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.30%) Kibana
14 8 (0.26%) Nagios
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,237 (40.61%) Microsoft
2 313 (10.28%) Databricks
3 194 (6.37%) VMware
4 145 (4.76%) Cisco
5 129 (4.24%) Google
6 93 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.66%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 67 (2.20%) Oracle
10 54 (1.77%) Foundry
11 50 (1.64%) Splunk
12 48 (1.58%) Meraki
12 48 (1.58%) SAP
13 46 (1.51%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.41%) Dell
14 43 (1.41%) Dynatrace
14 43 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.38%) Salesforce
16 37 (1.21%) ForeScout