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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,907 2,418 4,578
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.02% 19.70% 19.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.25% 44.83% 44.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,057 1,824 3,739
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,663 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 7,223 5,394 10,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.85% 43.95% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,813 3,932 8,082
10th Percentile £41,785 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £121,125 £118,200
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 0 658 £82,500 +6.45% 227
West London +11 76 £60,000 +41.18% 32
South London +14 45 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East London -10 22 £87,500 +2.94% 35
North London +3 11 £55,000 +10.00% 9
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 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 121 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.07%) Confluence
6 19 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.55%) Apache
8 13 (0.45%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 10 (0.34%) Appian
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.14%) Moodle
14 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.41%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.034%) Maya
8 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.38%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Shopify
9 2 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.069%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.034%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 947 (32.58%) AWS
2 552 (18.99%) GCP
3 500 (17.20%) Microsoft 365
4 377 (12.97%) Power Platform
5 348 (11.97%) Entra ID
6 342 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 192 (6.60%) SaaS
8 188 (6.47%) GitHub
9 154 (5.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 144 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 134 (4.61%) PaaS
12 126 (4.33%) Azure AI
13 125 (4.30%) Serverless
14 110 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (3.44%) Power Automate
16 96 (3.30%) Snowflake
17 94 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
18 93 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
19 87 (2.99%) IaaS
19 87 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.80%) Firewall
2 182 (6.26%) VPN
3 171 (5.88%) DNS
4 157 (5.40%) WAN
5 141 (4.85%) DHCP
6 130 (4.47%) Wi-Fi
7 124 (4.27%) Network Security
8 101 (3.47%) LAN
9 90 (3.10%) TCP/IP
10 89 (3.06%) SD-WAN
11 60 (2.06%) VLAN
12 56 (1.93%) SAN
13 38 (1.31%) Internet
14 35 (1.20%) Wireless
15 34 (1.17%) BGP
16 32 (1.10%) WLAN
17 31 (1.07%) VoIP
18 30 (1.03%) OSPF
19 27 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
20 25 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (9.12%) SQL Server
2 256 (8.81%) Power BI
3 137 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (4.54%) Data Lake
5 91 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 67 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 61 (2.10%) Tableau
8 60 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 58 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 56 (1.93%) MongoDB
11 54 (1.86%) Big Data
12 53 (1.82%) BigQuery
13 48 (1.65%) Metadata
14 43 (1.48%) Relational Database
15 42 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 39 (1.34%) Delta Lake
17 28 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (0.93%) Pinecone
19 25 (0.86%) MySQL
19 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 178 (6.12%) Git
2 96 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 72 (2.48%) JIRA
4 68 (2.34%) GitLab
5 48 (1.65%) MLflow
6 27 (0.93%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 21 (0.72%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.58%) Selenium
10 16 (0.55%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Vite
14 9 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 881 (30.31%) Finance
2 781 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 293 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (7.22%) Banking
5 172 (5.92%) Law
6 115 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 96 (3.30%) Legal
9 68 (2.34%) Retail
10 55 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.41%) Financial Institution
15 39 (1.34%) Front Office
16 31 (1.07%) Marketing
17 28 (0.96%) Multimedia
18 23 (0.79%) Advertising
19 21 (0.72%) Retail Banking
20 18 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 564 (19.40%) Senior
2 423 (14.55%) Architect
3 367 (12.62%) Lead
4 284 (9.77%) Developer
5 269 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
6 186 (6.40%) Analyst
7 168 (5.78%) Data Engineer
8 149 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 129 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
11 120 (4.13%) Consultant
12 108 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 106 (3.65%) Azure Architect
14 104 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
15 102 (3.51%) Support Engineer
16 101 (3.47%) IT Engineer
17 97 (3.34%) Network Engineer
18 93 (3.20%) Security Engineer
19 91 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
20 81 (2.79%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (9.77%) .NET
2 160 (5.50%) React
3 127 (4.37%) REST
4 109 (3.75%) Kafka
5 94 (3.23%) OAuth
6 83 (2.86%) CSS
7 81 (2.79%) RESTful
8 76 (2.61%) HTML
9 71 (2.44%) Node.js
10 70 (2.41%) PySpark
11 65 (2.24%) .NET Core
12 64 (2.20%) LangChain
13 55 (1.89%) SAML
14 52 (1.79%) PyTorch
15 51 (1.75%) TensorFlow
16 48 (1.65%) Spring
17 47 (1.62%) Django
18 44 (1.51%) OpenID
19 41 (1.41%) ASP.NET
20 38 (1.31%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 285 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 91 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 86 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 85 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 77 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 71 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 63 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 62 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 61 (2.10%) AI Agents
11 61 (2.10%) Onboarding
12 60 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
13 51 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.48%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.38%) Algorithms
17 38 (1.31%) Cyberattack
17 38 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
18 34 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 407 (14.00%) Windows
2 167 (5.74%) Linux
3 158 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.17%) Mac OS
7 33 (1.14%) VMS
8 31 (1.07%) Unix
9 30 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (0.89%) Android
11 25 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.31%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.10%) SUSE
19 2 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
20 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (27.73%) DevOps
2 702 (24.15%) CI/CD
3 595 (20.47%) AI
4 566 (19.47%) Agile
5 445 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 420 (14.45%) Analytics
7 413 (14.21%) Roadmaps
8 412 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 404 (13.90%) Mentoring
10 392 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 315 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
12 299 (10.29%) Data Engineering
13 286 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
14 273 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 269 (9.25%) Software Engineering
16 263 (9.05%) Data Modelling
17 255 (8.77%) Migration
18 251 (8.63%) Machine Learning
19 241 (8.29%) Microservices
20 224 (7.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 731 (25.15%) Python
2 607 (20.88%) SQL
3 330 (11.35%) PowerShell
4 283 (9.74%) C#
5 224 (7.71%) JavaScript
6 165 (5.68%) Java
7 146 (5.02%) TypeScript
8 99 (3.41%) Bash
9 74 (2.55%) Bicep
10 50 (1.72%) Go
11 37 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 37 (1.27%) R
12 30 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.86%) Scala
14 22 (0.76%) C++
15 15 (0.52%) Rust
16 13 (0.45%) C
17 12 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 367 (12.62%) Degree
2 302 (10.39%) Azure Certification
3 215 (7.40%) Security Cleared
4 161 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 153 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 125 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 120 (4.13%) CISSP
8 102 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
9 81 (2.79%) AWS Certification
10 53 (1.82%) CEH
11 50 (1.72%) CCNP
12 49 (1.69%) CCNA
13 48 (1.65%) CISM
14 44 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 44 (1.51%) Master's Degree
15 36 (1.24%) DV Cleared
16 34 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 33 (1.14%) PMI Certification
18 32 (1.10%) PMP
19 30 (1.03%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 151 (5.19%) NIST
3 147 (5.06%) GDPR
4 146 (5.02%) Data Quality
5 90 (3.10%) QA
5 90 (3.10%) SLA
6 47 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 47 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 37 (1.27%) NCSC
8 35 (1.20%) GRC
8 35 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 30 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 29 (1.00%) PMO
11 20 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.34%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 403 (13.86%) Active Directory
2 232 (7.98%) Docker
3 114 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (1.03%) vSphere
8 13 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.31%) Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.069%) Xen
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 391 (13.45%) Terraform
2 315 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 223 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 128 (4.40%) Ansible
5 66 (2.27%) SCCM
6 55 (1.89%) Grafana
7 53 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 43 (1.48%) Prometheus
9 29 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 28 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.45%) Argo
11 13 (0.45%) Istio
12 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.31%) CASB
13 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.24%) Nagios
14 7 (0.24%) QRadar
14 7 (0.24%) VxRail
15 6 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,180 (40.59%) Microsoft
2 298 (10.25%) Databricks
3 194 (6.67%) VMware
4 141 (4.85%) Cisco
5 128 (4.40%) Google
6 86 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.89%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 59 (2.03%) Oracle
10 56 (1.93%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.75%) SAP
12 50 (1.72%) Meraki
13 49 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
14 47 (1.62%) Foundry
15 43 (1.48%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.48%) Salesforce
16 42 (1.44%) SolarWinds
16 42 (1.44%) Splunk
17 41 (1.41%) Dell
17 41 (1.41%) ForeScout