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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,175 2,360 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.55% 19.93% 19.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.16% 43.55% 44.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 1,682 2,611
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,543 5,419 8,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.76% 45.75% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,703 3,719 5,693
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,365 £99,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%

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 September 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 September 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 +1 419 £85,000 +9.68% 415
West London -2 88 £73,750 +31.11% 100
South London -9 27 £90,000 +38.46% 26
East London -14 17 £75,000 +76.47% 37
North London -7 13 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 204 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 93 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.98%) Confluence
5 33 (1.04%) Apache
5 33 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.72%) CMS
7 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 10 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.76%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (32.41%) AWS
2 628 (19.78%) GCP
3 536 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
4 452 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
5 444 (13.98%) Power Platform
6 408 (12.85%) Entra ID
7 218 (6.87%) SaaS
8 194 (6.11%) GitHub
9 184 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 173 (5.45%) Serverless
11 165 (5.20%) PaaS
12 161 (5.07%) Azure AI
13 160 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 144 (4.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 132 (4.16%) Snowflake
16 129 (4.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 129 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
16 129 (4.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 125 (3.94%) Power Automate
18 107 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 297 (9.35%) Firewall
2 165 (5.20%) VPN
3 163 (5.13%) DNS
4 155 (4.88%) Network Security
5 125 (3.94%) DHCP
6 108 (3.40%) WAN
7 95 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
8 91 (2.87%) LAN
9 82 (2.58%) TCP/IP
10 80 (2.52%) VLAN
11 57 (1.80%) SAN
11 57 (1.80%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.70%) Wireless
13 39 (1.23%) BGP
14 36 (1.13%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.57%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (9.17%) Power BI
2 265 (8.35%) SQL Server
3 171 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 134 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 88 (2.77%) Metadata
7 75 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 74 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 72 (2.27%) Tableau
10 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 55 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 40 (1.26%) Star Schema
13 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
14 35 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 33 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
16 31 (0.98%) Big Data
17 30 (0.94%) MySQL
18 26 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (5.98%) Git
2 120 (3.78%) JIRA
3 116 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.86%) GitLab
5 25 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.69%) MLflow
7 16 (0.50%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.44%) JUnit
9 14 (0.44%) Mockito
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 11 (0.35%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 985 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 977 (30.77%) Finance
3 315 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.24%) Law
5 220 (6.93%) Banking
6 163 (5.13%) Legal
7 146 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 144 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.37%) Retail
10 80 (2.52%) Marketing
11 69 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (0.98%) Front Office
17 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.63%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 18 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 588 (18.52%) Senior
2 562 (17.70%) Architect
3 390 (12.28%) Lead
4 359 (11.31%) Developer
5 297 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
6 204 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 187 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
8 158 (4.98%) Analyst
9 135 (4.25%) Software Engineer
10 132 (4.16%) Consultant
11 126 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.81%) Azure Architect
13 118 (3.72%) Data Architect
14 115 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 99 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
16 97 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
17 95 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 87 (2.74%) Senior Developer
19 83 (2.61%) Network Engineer
20 69 (2.17%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (14.71%) Terraform
2 318 (10.02%) .NET
3 203 (6.39%) REST
4 165 (5.20%) React
5 125 (3.94%) Kafka
6 108 (3.40%) RESTful
7 93 (2.93%) OAuth
8 89 (2.80%) Spring
9 88 (2.77%) ASP.NET
9 88 (2.77%) LangChain
9 88 (2.77%) Node.js
10 81 (2.55%) .NET Core
11 79 (2.49%) Spring Boot
12 78 (2.46%) PySpark
13 58 (1.83%) LangGraph
13 58 (1.83%) PyTorch
14 57 (1.80%) TensorFlow
15 56 (1.76%) OAuth2
16 54 (1.70%) AngularJS
17 53 (1.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 428 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 149 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 112 (3.53%) AI Agents
6 104 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 102 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 91 (2.87%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 58 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Public Cloud
13 47 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 47 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 39 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
16 39 (1.23%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.20%) Low-Code
18 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 397 (12.50%) Windows
2 165 (5.20%) Linux
3 163 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (29.54%) DevOps
2 912 (28.72%) CI/CD
3 855 (26.93%) AI
4 684 (21.54%) Agile
5 528 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
6 521 (16.41%) Roadmaps
7 502 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 498 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 464 (14.61%) Analytics
10 440 (13.86%) Mentoring
11 412 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 353 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
13 344 (10.83%) Data Engineering
14 335 (10.55%) Machine Learning
14 335 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
15 329 (10.36%) Software Engineering
16 312 (9.83%) Migration
17 305 (9.61%) Data Modelling
18 304 (9.57%) Microservices
19 290 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 754 (23.75%) Python
2 662 (20.85%) SQL
3 344 (10.83%) C#
4 286 (9.01%) PowerShell
5 222 (6.99%) Java
6 196 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.02%) Bicep
9 85 (2.68%) Bash
10 54 (1.70%) Scala
11 36 (1.13%) R
12 29 (0.91%) Go
13 26 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.69%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 404 (12.72%) Degree
2 270 (8.50%) Azure Certification
3 269 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 197 (6.20%) SC Cleared
5 135 (4.25%) CISSP
6 127 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 123 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 104 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.33%) CISM
10 69 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 53 (1.67%) CCNP
13 46 (1.45%) CCNA
14 34 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (0.88%) PhD
15 28 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.82%) PMP
17 24 (0.76%) CCSP
17 24 (0.76%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.17%) GDPR
4 147 (4.63%) QA
5 118 (3.72%) NIST
6 78 (2.46%) SLA
7 61 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.23%) GRC
10 32 (1.01%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.22%) COBIT
17 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 6 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 399 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 256 (8.06%) Docker
3 128 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 4 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.031%) HDFS
14 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 331 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 218 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 135 (4.25%) Ansible
4 81 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 51 (1.61%) Grafana
6 50 (1.57%) SCCM
7 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.57%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 10 (0.31%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.25%) Istio
14 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) QRadar
15 7 (0.22%) Puppet
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,379 (43.43%) Microsoft
2 321 (10.11%) Databricks
3 188 (5.92%) VMware
4 166 (5.23%) Google
5 155 (4.88%) Cisco
6 80 (2.52%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.46%) Oracle
7 78 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.92%) Foundry
10 56 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.70%) SAP
12 52 (1.64%) Splunk
13 47 (1.48%) Meraki
14 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
15 39 (1.23%) Fortinet
15 39 (1.23%) Tenable
16 37 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
17 34 (1.07%) Dynatrace
18 33 (1.04%) Dell