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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,037 2,458 4,647
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 20.19% 18.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.20% 44.72% 44.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 1,819 3,725
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 £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

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 7,555 5,496 10,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.97% 45.15% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,131 3,885 8,216
10th Percentile £42,000 £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 £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £121,850 £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 21 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 21 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 0 606 £82,500 +6.45% 166
West London +12 86 £65,000 +48.57% 49
South London +21 48 £80,000 +23.08% 7
East London -5 21 £32,500 -62.32% 31
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 8
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 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 123 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (1.25%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.49%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) 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 46 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.56%) 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 34 (1.12%) 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 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.066%) Shopify
7 2 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
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%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 988 (32.53%) AWS
2 584 (19.23%) GCP
3 521 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
4 384 (12.64%) Power Platform
5 367 (12.08%) Entra ID
6 361 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
7 209 (6.88%) SaaS
8 191 (6.29%) GitHub
9 155 (5.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (4.81%) PaaS
11 142 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 133 (4.38%) Serverless
13 130 (4.28%) Azure AI
14 123 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 105 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
16 102 (3.36%) Snowflake
17 101 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
18 100 (3.29%) Power Automate
19 95 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.27%) Firewall
2 178 (5.86%) VPN
3 168 (5.53%) DNS
4 151 (4.97%) WAN
5 144 (4.74%) Network Security
6 137 (4.51%) DHCP
7 120 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
8 109 (3.59%) LAN
9 89 (2.93%) TCP/IP
10 81 (2.67%) SD-WAN
11 62 (2.04%) VLAN
12 52 (1.71%) SAN
13 43 (1.42%) BGP
14 39 (1.28%) OSPF
15 35 (1.15%) Wireless
16 31 (1.02%) VoIP
17 29 (0.95%) WLAN
18 26 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.79%) Broadband
20 23 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 255 (8.40%) Power BI
3 139 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (4.25%) Data Lake
5 105 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 66 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 64 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (2.04%) Tableau
9 60 (1.98%) NoSQL
10 57 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 56 (1.84%) Metadata
12 45 (1.48%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.45%) BigQuery
14 42 (1.38%) Big Data
14 42 (1.38%) Delta Lake
15 41 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (0.92%) MySQL
18 26 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 26 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (5.93%) Git
2 104 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.57%) JIRA
4 76 (2.50%) GitLab
5 40 (1.32%) MLflow
6 28 (0.92%) Postman
7 23 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.59%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
9 16 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.36%) Vite
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 940 (30.95%) Finance
2 839 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 279 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (7.18%) Banking
5 179 (5.89%) Law
6 123 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 117 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 108 (3.56%) Legal
9 76 (2.50%) Retail
10 60 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.15%) Front Office
15 31 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 30 (0.99%) Advertising
16 30 (0.99%) Marketing
17 20 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.56%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 578 (19.03%) Senior
2 480 (15.81%) Architect
3 411 (13.53%) Lead
4 303 (9.98%) Developer
5 273 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (5.89%) Analyst
7 163 (5.37%) Data Engineer
8 160 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 159 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 122 (4.02%) Consultant
12 113 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.56%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 100 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 98 (3.23%) IT Engineer
17 97 (3.19%) Data Architect
18 92 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
18 92 (3.03%) Support Engineer
19 91 (3.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (9.91%) .NET
2 165 (5.43%) React
3 135 (4.45%) REST
4 117 (3.85%) Kafka
5 104 (3.42%) OAuth
6 89 (2.93%) Node.js
7 87 (2.86%) RESTful
8 78 (2.57%) .NET Core
8 78 (2.57%) LangChain
9 73 (2.40%) Spring
10 69 (2.27%) CSS
11 66 (2.17%) PySpark
12 64 (2.11%) HTML
13 63 (2.07%) Spring Boot
14 60 (1.98%) PyTorch
15 59 (1.94%) ASP.NET
16 58 (1.91%) TensorFlow
17 56 (1.84%) SAML
18 51 (1.68%) OpenID
19 44 (1.45%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 351 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 129 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 111 (3.65%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 88 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 67 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 67 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 62 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
12 59 (1.94%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 44 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.38%) Low-Code
17 40 (1.32%) Cyberattack
18 36 (1.19%) Algorithms
19 33 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 417 (13.73%) Windows
2 171 (5.63%) Linux
3 158 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 69 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.09%) VMS
7 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.79%) Unix
10 21 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.63%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 16 (0.53%) 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%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (28.42%) DevOps
2 773 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 645 (21.24%) AI
4 622 (20.48%) Agile
5 456 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
6 454 (14.95%) Roadmaps
7 446 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 434 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 426 (14.03%) Mentoring
10 424 (13.96%) Analytics
11 315 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
12 314 (10.34%) Data Engineering
13 298 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 297 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
15 287 (9.45%) Software Engineering
16 283 (9.32%) Machine Learning
17 270 (8.89%) Microservices
18 268 (8.82%) Data Modelling
19 250 (8.23%) Migration
20 241 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 729 (24.00%) Python
2 613 (20.18%) SQL
3 330 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 293 (9.65%) C#
5 222 (7.31%) JavaScript
6 175 (5.76%) Java
7 165 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.62%) Bash
9 79 (2.60%) Bicep
10 43 (1.42%) Go
11 37 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 27 (0.89%) R
14 22 (0.72%) Scala
15 20 (0.66%) C++
16 15 (0.49%) RPG
17 13 (0.43%) Rust
18 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.40%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 372 (12.25%) Degree
2 287 (9.45%) Azure Certification
3 239 (7.87%) Security Cleared
4 175 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 151 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 128 (4.21%) CISSP
7 114 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 111 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.30%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.81%) CCNP
10 55 (1.81%) CISM
11 54 (1.78%) CCNA
12 52 (1.71%) Master's Degree
13 49 (1.61%) 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 (0.86%) PMP
19 25 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (5.27%) NIST
3 156 (5.14%) GDPR
4 148 (4.87%) Data Quality
5 119 (3.92%) QA
6 91 (3.00%) SLA
7 57 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.28%) NCSC
10 36 (1.19%) GRC
11 34 (1.12%) PCI DSS
12 31 (1.02%) PMO
13 30 (0.99%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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
1 415 (13.66%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.13%) Docker
3 121 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.65%) 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
1 428 (14.09%) Terraform
2 331 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 221 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 140 (4.61%) Ansible
5 63 (2.07%) SCCM
6 57 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.78%) Grafana
8 43 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.33%) Argo
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.26%) Nagios
16 7 (0.23%) CASB
16 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 7 (0.23%) QRadar
17 6 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,230 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 308 (10.14%) Databricks
3 193 (6.35%) VMware
4 143 (4.71%) Cisco
5 130 (4.28%) Google
6 93 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.67%) OpenAI
8 70 (2.30%) Palo Alto
9 67 (2.21%) Oracle
10 53 (1.75%) Foundry
11 49 (1.61%) Splunk
12 48 (1.58%) Meraki
12 48 (1.58%) SAP
13 47 (1.55%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.42%) Dell
15 43 (1.42%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.42%) SolarWinds
16 40 (1.32%) Salesforce
17 37 (1.22%) ForeScout