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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,844 2,571 4,591
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.58% 19.91% 19.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.08% 44.80% 45.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 1,966 3,789
10th Percentile £44,263 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +2.00% -
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 7,095 5,739 10,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.37% 44.45% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 4,157 8,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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 0 644 £80,000 +6.67% 298
West London +2 82 £60,000 +33.33% 47
South London +19 45 £80,000 +30.19% 10
East London -16 23 £31,250 -63.24% 49
North London +1 11 £60,000 +33.33% 6
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
1 181 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 140 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.91%) Confluence
6 17 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.56%) Apache
8 15 (0.53%) WordPress
9 14 (0.49%) Appian
10 13 (0.46%) CMS
11 8 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.21%) Camunda
12 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.25%) PlantUML
7 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.035%) Maya
10 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.53%) Endur
3 8 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.070%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.070%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.070%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 980 (34.46%) AWS
2 559 (19.66%) GCP
3 496 (17.44%) Microsoft 365
4 407 (14.31%) Power Platform
5 334 (11.74%) Entra ID
6 332 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
7 197 (6.93%) GitHub
8 176 (6.19%) SaaS
9 162 (5.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 154 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 137 (4.82%) Azure AI
12 118 (4.15%) PaaS
13 113 (3.97%) Serverless
14 108 (3.80%) Power Automate
15 102 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
16 101 (3.55%) Snowflake
17 91 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
18 86 (3.02%) PowerApps
19 79 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
20 76 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 305 (10.72%) Firewall
2 172 (6.05%) DNS
3 171 (6.01%) VPN
4 152 (5.34%) WAN
5 147 (5.17%) DHCP
6 125 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
7 102 (3.59%) TCP/IP
8 100 (3.52%) Network Security
9 95 (3.34%) LAN
10 80 (2.81%) SD-WAN
11 55 (1.93%) Internet
12 54 (1.90%) VLAN
13 46 (1.62%) SAN
14 32 (1.13%) Wireless
15 31 (1.09%) VoIP
16 24 (0.84%) Broadband
16 24 (0.84%) WLAN
17 23 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.77%) BGP
19 21 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (10.06%) Power BI
2 275 (9.67%) SQL Server
3 144 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 142 (4.99%) Data Lake
5 86 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 73 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 69 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 61 (2.14%) Tableau
10 59 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 51 (1.79%) Big Data
11 51 (1.79%) Metadata
12 50 (1.76%) MongoDB
13 46 (1.62%) Relational Database
14 45 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.30%) Delta Lake
16 30 (1.05%) Pinecone
17 27 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.81%) MySQL
18 23 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (6.79%) Git
2 94 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 74 (2.60%) JIRA
4 65 (2.29%) GitLab
5 52 (1.83%) MLflow
6 32 (1.13%) Postman
7 25 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.74%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.63%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.63%) Selenium
10 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.39%) Vite
14 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.28%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 855 (30.06%) Finance
2 790 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 286 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (8.30%) Banking
5 176 (6.19%) Law
6 121 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (3.73%) Legal
8 104 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 102 (3.59%) Retail
10 64 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
12 56 (1.97%) Marketing
13 50 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.44%) Multimedia
17 40 (1.41%) Front Office
18 34 (1.20%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.95%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 551 (19.37%) Senior
2 388 (13.64%) Lead
3 377 (13.26%) Architect
4 285 (10.02%) Developer
5 251 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
6 212 (7.45%) Analyst
7 178 (6.26%) Data Engineer
8 135 (4.75%) Software Engineer
9 134 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 119 (4.18%) Support Engineer
11 114 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 114 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
12 101 (3.55%) Security Engineer
13 98 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
14 97 (3.41%) Consultant
15 96 (3.38%) Azure Architect
16 89 (3.13%) IT Engineer
17 87 (3.06%) Network Engineer
18 83 (2.92%) IT Support
19 82 (2.88%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (9.28%) .NET
2 164 (5.77%) React
3 126 (4.43%) REST
4 105 (3.69%) CSS
5 104 (3.66%) Kafka
5 104 (3.66%) RESTful
6 100 (3.52%) HTML
7 94 (3.31%) OAuth
8 83 (2.92%) Node.js
9 64 (2.25%) LangChain
10 62 (2.18%) .NET Core
11 57 (2.00%) PyTorch
11 57 (2.00%) TensorFlow
12 55 (1.93%) PySpark
13 52 (1.83%) Django
14 51 (1.79%) SAML
15 41 (1.44%) OpenID
16 38 (1.34%) scikit-learn
16 38 (1.34%) Spring
17 37 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 262 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.38%) Security Posture
4 89 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 86 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 72 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 64 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 63 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 59 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
12 58 (2.04%) AI Agents
13 55 (1.93%) Low-Code
14 54 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
15 52 (1.83%) Onboarding
16 41 (1.44%) Algorithms
16 41 (1.44%) Cyberattack
16 41 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
18 34 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 410 (14.42%) Windows
2 167 (5.87%) Windows Server
3 162 (5.70%) Linux
4 88 (3.09%) Windows 10
5 41 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 40 (1.41%) Unix
7 39 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.20%) VMS
9 33 (1.16%) Android
10 32 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.25%) CentOS
16 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.14%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.14%) SUSE
18 2 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (27.25%) DevOps
2 658 (23.14%) CI/CD
3 607 (21.34%) AI
4 558 (19.62%) Agile
5 450 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (15.68%) Analytics
7 401 (14.10%) Mentoring
8 384 (13.50%) Roadmaps
9 370 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 364 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 347 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
12 312 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
13 288 (10.13%) Computer Science
14 286 (10.06%) Machine Learning
15 283 (9.95%) Data Engineering
16 274 (9.63%) Data Modelling
16 274 (9.63%) Software Engineering
17 252 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
18 246 (8.65%) Microservices
19 242 (8.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 737 (25.91%) Python
2 635 (22.33%) SQL
3 329 (11.57%) PowerShell
4 267 (9.39%) C#
5 247 (8.68%) JavaScript
6 161 (5.66%) Java
7 147 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 101 (3.55%) Bash
9 67 (2.36%) Bicep
10 60 (2.11%) Go
11 44 (1.55%) R
12 37 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 34 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.84%) C++
14 24 (0.84%) Scala
15 16 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.49%) Rust
17 12 (0.42%) C
17 12 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 408 (14.35%) Degree
2 303 (10.65%) Azure Certification
3 219 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 187 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 136 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 128 (4.50%) SC Cleared
7 121 (4.25%) CISSP
8 97 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 79 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.90%) CEH
12 49 (1.72%) CISM
13 47 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 44 (1.55%) DV Cleared
15 42 (1.48%) CCNP
16 40 (1.41%) CCNA
16 40 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.09%) PMI Certification
18 30 (1.05%) PMP
19 29 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (6.54%) GDPR
2 182 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.77%) NIST
4 142 (4.99%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.02%) SLA
6 82 (2.88%) QA
7 44 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 41 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 37 (1.30%) NCSC
11 33 (1.16%) SOC 2
12 31 (1.09%) GRC
13 26 (0.91%) HIPAA
13 26 (0.91%) Solvency II
14 25 (0.88%) EU AI Act
15 21 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 20 (0.70%) PSD2
17 19 (0.67%) PMO
18 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 399 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 243 (8.54%) Docker
3 94 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 40 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (0.95%) vSphere
8 11 (0.39%) Firmware
9 8 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
13 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 357 (12.55%) Terraform
2 309 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 239 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.47%) Ansible
5 62 (2.18%) SCCM
6 56 (1.97%) Grafana
7 49 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 48 (1.69%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.60%) Argo
12 13 (0.46%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.32%) CASB
14 9 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.32%) Kibana
15 7 (0.25%) VxRail
16 6 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.21%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,159 (40.75%) Microsoft
2 275 (9.67%) Databricks
3 181 (6.36%) VMware
4 159 (5.59%) Google
5 128 (4.50%) Cisco
6 81 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 77 (2.71%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 60 (2.11%) Oracle
10 57 (2.00%) Fortinet
11 53 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
12 47 (1.65%) Dell
13 45 (1.58%) Meraki
14 42 (1.48%) ForeScout
14 42 (1.48%) SAP
15 40 (1.41%) Salesforce
16 39 (1.37%) Splunk
17 38 (1.34%) SolarWinds
18 37 (1.30%) iManage
19 36 (1.27%) Foundry