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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,876 2,537 4,619
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.34% 19.97% 19.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.95% 44.95% 45.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,042 1,938 3,803
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,890 £57,500 £57,375
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 7,199 5,644 10,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.89% 44.42% 43.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,643 4,108 8,197
10th Percentile £40,550 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £116,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 2 May 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 2 May 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 0 656 £80,000 +6.67% 345
West London +1 76 £60,000 +33.33% 47
South London +14 45 £80,000 +29.78% 9
East London -14 23 £32,500 -61.76% 43
North London -1 10 £57,500 +27.78% 9
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
1 184 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 133 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.90%) Confluence
6 18 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.52%) Apache
8 12 (0.42%) Appian
8 12 (0.42%) CMS
9 11 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.24%) IIS
10 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Moodle
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 50 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.28%) PlantUML
6 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
6 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.035%) Maya
8 1 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.49%) Endur
3 9 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.14%) Shopify
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.035%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.035%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 969 (33.69%) AWS
2 556 (19.33%) GCP
3 498 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
4 400 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 342 (11.89%) Entra ID
6 337 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
7 194 (6.75%) GitHub
8 183 (6.36%) SaaS
9 162 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 149 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 128 (4.45%) Azure AI
12 124 (4.31%) PaaS
13 120 (4.17%) Serverless
14 107 (3.72%) Power Automate
15 105 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 99 (3.44%) Snowflake
17 94 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
18 87 (3.03%) PowerApps
19 81 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
19 81 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 309 (10.74%) Firewall
2 180 (6.26%) VPN
3 172 (5.98%) DNS
4 152 (5.29%) WAN
5 144 (5.01%) DHCP
6 129 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
7 109 (3.79%) Network Security
8 97 (3.37%) TCP/IP
9 96 (3.34%) LAN
10 81 (2.82%) SD-WAN
11 55 (1.91%) VLAN
12 51 (1.77%) SAN
13 46 (1.60%) Internet
14 32 (1.11%) Wireless
15 31 (1.08%) VoIP
16 29 (1.01%) WLAN
17 26 (0.90%) BGP
18 25 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.83%) Broadband
19 24 (0.83%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (9.70%) Power BI
2 271 (9.42%) SQL Server
3 142 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.83%) Data Lake
5 87 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 69 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 68 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (2.12%) Tableau
9 60 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 56 (1.95%) BigQuery
11 53 (1.84%) MongoDB
12 51 (1.77%) Big Data
13 50 (1.74%) Metadata
14 44 (1.53%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.32%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.08%) Pinecone
17 25 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (0.87%) MySQL
18 24 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 180 (6.26%) Git
2 98 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 72 (2.50%) JIRA
4 65 (2.26%) GitLab
5 52 (1.81%) MLflow
6 30 (1.04%) Postman
7 22 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.70%) Chocolatey
8 20 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.63%) Selenium
10 14 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.45%) Vite
12 12 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 860 (29.90%) Finance
2 777 (27.02%) Social Skills
3 293 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (7.68%) Banking
5 171 (5.95%) Law
6 116 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 99 (3.44%) Legal
9 84 (2.92%) Retail
10 59 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 57 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 43 (1.50%) Marketing
13 43 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.32%) Front Office
15 34 (1.18%) Multimedia
16 29 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 25 (0.87%) Advertising
18 24 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 559 (19.44%) Senior
2 388 (13.49%) Architect
3 378 (13.14%) Lead
4 282 (9.81%) Developer
5 254 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
6 208 (7.23%) Analyst
7 178 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 146 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 135 (4.69%) Software Engineer
10 114 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 114 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 113 (3.93%) Support Engineer
12 106 (3.69%) Consultant
13 100 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
13 100 (3.48%) Security Engineer
14 98 (3.41%) Azure Architect
15 92 (3.20%) IT Engineer
16 91 (3.16%) Network Engineer
17 84 (2.92%) Data Architect
17 84 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (9.46%) .NET
2 166 (5.77%) React
3 124 (4.31%) REST
4 106 (3.69%) Kafka
5 97 (3.37%) RESTful
6 95 (3.30%) CSS
7 93 (3.23%) OAuth
8 90 (3.13%) HTML
9 82 (2.85%) Node.js
10 67 (2.33%) LangChain
11 65 (2.26%) .NET Core
12 59 (2.05%) PySpark
13 57 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 57 (1.98%) TensorFlow
14 52 (1.81%) SAML
15 49 (1.70%) Django
16 43 (1.50%) OpenID
17 39 (1.36%) scikit-learn
17 39 (1.36%) Spring
18 36 (1.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 267 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.27%) Security Posture
4 88 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 83 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 70 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 69 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 66 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 64 (2.23%) AI Agents
11 63 (2.19%) Public Cloud
12 59 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
13 55 (1.91%) Onboarding
14 54 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.63%) Low-Code
16 41 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
17 39 (1.36%) Algorithms
17 39 (1.36%) Cyberattack
17 39 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
18 37 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 407 (14.15%) Windows
2 166 (5.77%) Linux
3 162 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 87 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 39 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 37 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.18%) Unix
8 33 (1.15%) VMS
9 32 (1.11%) Android
10 30 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
11 25 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
12 20 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.35%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.14%) SUSE
18 2 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.070%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (27.75%) DevOps
2 678 (23.57%) CI/CD
3 598 (20.79%) AI
4 554 (19.26%) Agile
5 448 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 439 (15.26%) Analytics
7 397 (13.80%) Mentoring
8 394 (13.70%) Roadmaps
9 389 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 374 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 338 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
12 310 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
13 298 (10.36%) Data Engineering
14 272 (9.46%) Machine Learning
15 270 (9.39%) Data Modelling
15 270 (9.39%) Software Engineering
16 264 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 260 (9.04%) Computer Science
18 248 (8.62%) Migration
19 238 (8.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 736 (25.59%) Python
2 631 (21.94%) SQL
3 324 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 274 (9.53%) C#
5 233 (8.10%) JavaScript
6 161 (5.60%) Java
7 145 (5.04%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.58%) Bash
9 69 (2.40%) Bicep
10 59 (2.05%) Go
11 42 (1.46%) R
12 40 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.90%) C++
15 24 (0.83%) Scala
16 15 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.52%) Rust
17 13 (0.45%) C
18 12 (0.42%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (13.46%) Degree
2 300 (10.43%) Azure Certification
3 200 (6.95%) Security Cleared
4 194 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 127 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (4.24%) CISSP
8 89 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 85 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.98%) Master's Degree
11 55 (1.91%) CEH
12 48 (1.67%) CISM
13 43 (1.50%) CCNA
13 43 (1.50%) CCNP
14 42 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
14 42 (1.46%) DV Cleared
15 40 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 32 (1.11%) PMI Certification
17 31 (1.08%) PMP
18 29 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 163 (5.67%) GDPR
3 162 (5.63%) NIST
4 147 (5.11%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.06%) SLA
6 83 (2.89%) QA
7 44 (1.53%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.36%) NCSC
10 37 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 34 (1.18%) GRC
12 33 (1.15%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 20 (0.70%) PMO
14 18 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.52%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.52%) Solvency II
16 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 12 (0.42%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 396 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 241 (8.38%) Docker
3 102 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.97%) vSphere
8 10 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 10 (0.35%) Firmware
9 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.17%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.070%) Postfix
13 1 (0.035%) NLBS
13 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 376 (13.07%) Terraform
2 323 (11.23%) Kubernetes
3 232 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.42%) Ansible
5 64 (2.23%) SCCM
6 57 (1.98%) Grafana
7 51 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 45 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.59%) Argo
12 13 (0.45%) Istio
13 10 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.31%) CASB
14 9 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.31%) Kibana
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,161 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 288 (10.01%) Databricks
3 188 (6.54%) VMware
4 146 (5.08%) Google
5 132 (4.59%) Cisco
6 84 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 84 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 73 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 58 (2.02%) Oracle
9 55 (1.91%) Fortinet
10 52 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.70%) Meraki
12 44 (1.53%) Dell
12 44 (1.53%) SAP
13 42 (1.46%) ForeScout
13 42 (1.46%) SolarWinds
14 40 (1.39%) Salesforce
15 39 (1.36%) Splunk
16 38 (1.32%) Foundry
17 37 (1.29%) iManage