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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,188 2,356 3,764
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.44% 19.84% 19.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.07% 43.49% 44.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 1,689 2,612
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,300 £46,589
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 £95,250 £93,750 £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 8,599 5,417 8,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.55% 45.62% 44.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,747 3,717 5,682
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 £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,100 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -

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 25 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 25 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 +1 411 £85,000 +9.68% 422
West London -2 88 £75,000 +33.33% 113
South London -8 27 £85,000 +30.77% 24
East London -8 18 £75,000 +76.47% 28
North London -6 14 £60,000 -20.00% 12
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
1 207 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 130 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.91%) Confluence
5 32 (1.00%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 10 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
15 3 (0.094%) Immediacy CMS
15 3 (0.094%) Kentico
Applications
1 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) 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
Business Applications
1 48 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (32.15%) AWS
2 629 (19.73%) GCP
3 541 (16.97%) Microsoft 365
4 463 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
5 440 (13.80%) Power Platform
6 423 (13.27%) Entra ID
7 228 (7.15%) SaaS
8 202 (6.34%) GitHub
9 187 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 183 (5.74%) Serverless
11 166 (5.21%) PaaS
12 159 (4.99%) Azure AI
13 158 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
16 131 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
17 129 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
17 129 (4.05%) Snowflake
18 127 (3.98%) Power Automate
19 107 (3.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 293 (9.19%) Firewall
2 163 (5.11%) DNS
3 162 (5.08%) VPN
4 157 (4.92%) Network Security
5 125 (3.92%) DHCP
6 106 (3.32%) WAN
7 93 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (2.82%) LAN
9 81 (2.54%) TCP/IP
10 77 (2.42%) VLAN
11 55 (1.73%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.69%) SAN
12 54 (1.69%) Wireless
13 40 (1.25%) BGP
14 36 (1.13%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.85%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.56%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (8.94%) Power BI
2 266 (8.34%) SQL Server
3 169 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 126 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 90 (2.82%) Metadata
7 78 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.04%) Tableau
11 56 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 54 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.29%) Star Schema
14 35 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.10%) Data Vault
14 35 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 32 (1.00%) MySQL
16 31 (0.97%) Big Data
17 27 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
18 26 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 185 (5.80%) Git
2 120 (3.76%) JIRA
3 115 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.88%) GitLab
5 27 (0.85%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.56%) MLflow
7 15 (0.47%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Chocolatey
9 12 (0.38%) 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%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,000 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 992 (31.12%) Finance
3 307 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.21%) Law
5 223 (6.99%) Banking
6 166 (5.21%) Legal
7 157 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 144 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.36%) Retail
10 80 (2.51%) Marketing
11 72 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 69 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 31 (0.97%) Front Office
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.63%) Advertising
20 18 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 588 (18.44%) Senior
2 572 (17.94%) Architect
3 394 (12.36%) Lead
4 364 (11.42%) Developer
5 289 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
6 205 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 191 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
8 157 (4.92%) Analyst
9 137 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 136 (4.27%) Consultant
11 125 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.80%) Azure Architect
13 118 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 116 (3.64%) Data Architect
15 98 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 98 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
16 94 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 88 (2.76%) Senior Developer
18 82 (2.57%) Network Engineer
19 71 (2.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (14.81%) Terraform
2 316 (9.91%) .NET
3 214 (6.71%) REST
4 167 (5.24%) React
5 120 (3.76%) Kafka
6 110 (3.45%) RESTful
7 95 (2.98%) OAuth
8 91 (2.85%) Spring
9 90 (2.82%) Node.js
10 88 (2.76%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.54%) .NET Core
11 81 (2.54%) LangChain
11 81 (2.54%) Spring Boot
12 79 (2.48%) PySpark
13 58 (1.82%) OAuth2
14 57 (1.79%) LangGraph
15 55 (1.73%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.69%) JSON
17 53 (1.66%) .NET Framework
18 52 (1.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 163 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 155 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 113 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 95 (2.98%) Security Posture
9 69 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
16 41 (1.29%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.25%) Public Cloud
18 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
19 36 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
20 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 395 (12.39%) Windows
2 163 (5.11%) Windows Server
3 162 (5.08%) Linux
4 45 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.85%) 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
1 948 (29.74%) DevOps
2 929 (29.14%) CI/CD
3 853 (26.76%) AI
4 686 (21.52%) Agile
5 531 (16.66%) Roadmaps
6 523 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
7 510 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 504 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 466 (14.62%) Analytics
10 441 (13.83%) Mentoring
11 433 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 347 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
13 342 (10.73%) Software Engineering
14 340 (10.66%) Data Engineering
15 338 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
16 333 (10.45%) Machine Learning
17 324 (10.16%) Migration
18 312 (9.79%) Microservices
19 304 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
20 300 (9.41%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 754 (23.65%) Python
2 661 (20.73%) SQL
3 343 (10.76%) C#
4 290 (9.10%) PowerShell
5 224 (7.03%) Java
6 197 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.24%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.20%) Bicep
9 86 (2.70%) Bash
10 53 (1.66%) Scala
11 37 (1.16%) R
12 30 (0.94%) Go
13 26 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 23 (0.72%) 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
1 408 (12.80%) Degree
2 281 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 263 (8.25%) Azure Certification
4 210 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 136 (4.27%) CISSP
6 127 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 123 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 100 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.32%) CISM
10 72 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 48 (1.51%) CCNP
13 45 (1.41%) CCNA
14 33 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
15 32 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
16 31 (0.97%) PhD
17 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) PMP
18 26 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 24 (0.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 159 (4.99%) GDPR
4 148 (4.64%) QA
5 116 (3.64%) NIST
6 75 (2.35%) SLA
7 62 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.25%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 28 (0.88%) PMO
12 24 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.19%) PSD2
17 6 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 404 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 263 (8.25%) Docker
3 124 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) HDFS
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
13 1 (0.031%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 335 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 218 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 134 (4.20%) Ansible
4 85 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 59 (1.85%) Grafana
6 47 (1.47%) SCCM
7 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 10 (0.31%) Nagios
13 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 7 (0.22%) Puppet
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,393 (43.70%) Microsoft
2 314 (9.85%) Databricks
3 184 (5.77%) VMware
4 171 (5.36%) Google
5 154 (4.83%) Cisco
6 79 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 79 (2.48%) Oracle
6 79 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 67 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 61 (1.91%) Foundry
9 58 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.76%) SAP
11 53 (1.66%) Splunk
12 45 (1.41%) Meraki
13 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
14 39 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
15 38 (1.19%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 36 (1.13%) Tenable
17 32 (1.00%) Citrix