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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,110 2,563 4,356
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.97% 20.38% 18.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.15% 44.98% 44.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,251 1,878 3,461
10th Percentile £47,000 £44,590 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £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 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.45%

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 7,943 5,698 9,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.67% 45.32% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,343 4,040 7,735
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,125 £122,500
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 July 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 July 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 0 568 £82,500 +6.45% 218
West London +7 91 £70,000 +55.56% 56
South London +12 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -9 19 £32,500 -55.17% 36
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
1 199 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 130 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 66 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.32%) Confluence
6 19 (0.61%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
7 17 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 11 (0.35%) Camunda
8 11 (0.35%) WordPress
9 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.29%) Mule
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
11 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.35%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.064%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,009 (32.44%) AWS
2 590 (18.97%) GCP
3 537 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
4 404 (12.99%) Power Platform
5 387 (12.44%) Entra ID
6 368 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
7 217 (6.98%) SaaS
8 189 (6.08%) GitHub
9 161 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.82%) PaaS
11 149 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 149 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 146 (4.69%) Serverless
13 135 (4.34%) Azure AI
14 116 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 116 (3.73%) Snowflake
15 107 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
16 105 (3.38%) Power Automate
17 99 (3.18%) IaaS
18 94 (3.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (10.23%) Firewall
2 180 (5.79%) VPN
3 176 (5.66%) DNS
4 155 (4.98%) Network Security
5 142 (4.57%) WAN
6 140 (4.50%) DHCP
7 123 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
8 112 (3.60%) LAN
9 91 (2.93%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.35%) SD-WAN
11 70 (2.25%) VLAN
12 51 (1.64%) SAN
13 45 (1.45%) BGP
14 42 (1.35%) Wireless
15 41 (1.32%) OSPF
16 29 (0.93%) VoIP
17 28 (0.90%) Kerberos
18 27 (0.87%) WLAN
19 24 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
20 23 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (8.78%) Power BI
2 258 (8.30%) SQL Server
3 152 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 115 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 77 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 65 (2.09%) Tableau
9 63 (2.03%) NoSQL
10 60 (1.93%) Metadata
11 53 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 44 (1.41%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.29%) Big Data
16 39 (1.25%) BigQuery
17 36 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
18 32 (1.03%) MySQL
19 30 (0.96%) Star Schema
20 28 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 176 (5.66%) Git
2 110 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.73%) JIRA
4 75 (2.41%) GitLab
5 34 (1.09%) MLflow
6 23 (0.74%) Postman
7 18 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.51%) Selenium
10 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.35%) Vite
12 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
12 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.29%) JUnit
13 9 (0.29%) Mockito
13 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.26%) JMeter
14 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 935 (30.06%) Finance
2 882 (28.36%) Social Skills
3 276 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (6.91%) Banking
5 184 (5.92%) Law
6 130 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 117 (3.76%) Legal
8 116 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (2.57%) Retail
10 52 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 51 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 43 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.13%) Front Office
14 32 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.03%) Marketing
15 31 (1.00%) Advertising
16 25 (0.80%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 594 (19.10%) Senior
2 513 (16.50%) Architect
3 419 (13.47%) Lead
4 312 (10.03%) Developer
5 273 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 182 (5.85%) Analyst
7 174 (5.59%) Data Engineer
8 173 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 154 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.02%) Consultant
11 121 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 117 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 112 (3.60%) Azure Architect
14 106 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 103 (3.31%) Data Architect
16 100 (3.22%) Security Engineer
17 94 (3.02%) IT Engineer
18 88 (2.83%) IT Support
18 88 (2.83%) Network Engineer
19 86 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (10.00%) .NET
2 173 (5.56%) React
3 139 (4.47%) REST
4 123 (3.95%) Kafka
5 106 (3.41%) OAuth
6 100 (3.22%) Node.js
7 91 (2.93%) RESTful
8 81 (2.60%) Spring
9 78 (2.51%) .NET Core
10 75 (2.41%) LangChain
11 71 (2.28%) Spring Boot
12 68 (2.19%) ASP.NET
13 65 (2.09%) PySpark
14 59 (1.90%) CSS
14 59 (1.90%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.83%) HTML
15 57 (1.83%) OpenID
16 55 (1.77%) TensorFlow
17 54 (1.74%) SAML
18 50 (1.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 386 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 100 (3.22%) Data Centre
4 100 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
5 83 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 77 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (2.06%) AI Agents
9 63 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.86%) Data Structures
12 56 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
13 54 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
14 48 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.32%) Low-Code
17 36 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
18 33 (1.06%) Cyberattack
19 31 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 435 (13.99%) Windows
2 180 (5.79%) Linux
3 166 (5.34%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 31 (1.00%) VMS
7 27 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.74%) Unix
10 19 (0.61%) Android
11 18 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.32%) CentOS
14 10 (0.32%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (28.52%) DevOps
2 821 (26.40%) CI/CD
3 665 (21.38%) AI
4 640 (20.58%) Agile
5 482 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 468 (15.05%) Roadmaps
7 462 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
8 453 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 452 (14.53%) Mentoring
10 420 (13.50%) Analytics
11 324 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
12 320 (10.29%) Data Engineering
13 300 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
14 299 (9.61%) Software Engineering
15 295 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 284 (9.13%) Machine Learning
17 283 (9.10%) Microservices
18 272 (8.75%) Data Modelling
19 268 (8.62%) Migration
20 257 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 751 (24.15%) Python
2 625 (20.10%) SQL
3 324 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 317 (10.19%) C#
5 223 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 191 (6.14%) Java
7 175 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.50%) Bash
9 79 (2.54%) Bicep
10 42 (1.35%) Go
11 31 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 30 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (0.84%) Scala
14 22 (0.71%) C++
15 21 (0.68%) R
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 372 (11.96%) Degree
2 283 (9.10%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.23%) Security Cleared
4 185 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 138 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 130 (4.18%) CISSP
7 117 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.22%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.93%) CCNP
11 56 (1.80%) CCNA
12 55 (1.77%) CISM
13 54 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.54%) CEH
14 48 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.13%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.96%) CCIE
17 28 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.84%) GIAC
18 26 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 162 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 161 (5.18%) GDPR
4 151 (4.86%) NIST
5 138 (4.44%) QA
6 93 (2.99%) SLA
7 58 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.09%) PMO
11 31 (1.00%) NCSC
12 30 (0.96%) SOC 2
13 26 (0.84%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.26%) COBIT
19 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 433 (13.92%) Active Directory
2 245 (7.88%) Docker
3 124 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 454 (14.60%) Terraform
2 332 (10.68%) Kubernetes
3 229 (7.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (4.82%) Ansible
5 64 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 59 (1.90%) SCCM
7 58 (1.86%) Grafana
8 43 (1.38%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.45%) Istio
12 13 (0.42%) Argo
13 11 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.29%) CloudHub
14 9 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.26%) QRadar
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,290 (41.48%) Microsoft
2 314 (10.10%) Databricks
3 199 (6.40%) VMware
4 150 (4.82%) Cisco
5 130 (4.18%) Google
6 93 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.51%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.35%) Oracle
8 73 (2.35%) Palo Alto
9 59 (1.90%) Foundry
10 52 (1.67%) Splunk
11 51 (1.64%) SAP
12 49 (1.58%) Meraki
13 47 (1.51%) Salesforce
14 46 (1.48%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.38%) Dell
16 42 (1.35%) Dynatrace
17 41 (1.32%) SolarWinds
18 40 (1.29%) Tenable