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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,162 2,471 3,753
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.12% 20.56% 19.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.38% 44.49% 44.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 1,767 2,759
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
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 £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,400
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.85% -0.95%

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 8,460 5,554 8,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.09% 46.22% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,698 3,831 6,028
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £58,750
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 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 1 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 1 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 +1 435 £85,000 +6.25% 287
West London +4 99 £70,000 +34.36% 104
South London -3 40 £90,000 +38.46% 20
East London -10 17 £75,000 +76.47% 32
North London -9 10 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 197 (6.23%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.93%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 16 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 53 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,069 (33.81%) AWS
2 641 (20.27%) GCP
3 529 (16.73%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 415 (13.12%) Azure DevOps
6 381 (12.05%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.74%) SaaS
8 186 (5.88%) GitHub
9 165 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 164 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 158 (5.00%) PaaS
11 158 (5.00%) Serverless
12 157 (4.97%) Azure AI
13 154 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 142 (4.49%) Snowflake
15 118 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 118 (3.73%) Power Automate
16 115 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
17 100 (3.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 100 (3.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 307 (9.71%) Firewall
2 168 (5.31%) VPN
3 163 (5.15%) Network Security
4 157 (4.97%) DNS
5 120 (3.80%) DHCP
6 116 (3.67%) WAN
7 102 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
8 101 (3.19%) LAN
9 79 (2.50%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.40%) VLAN
11 64 (2.02%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.80%) Wireless
13 56 (1.77%) SAN
14 40 (1.27%) BGP
15 36 (1.14%) OSPF
16 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
18 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 17 (0.54%) WLAN
19 16 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.86%) Power BI
2 274 (8.67%) SQL Server
3 171 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 131 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.40%) Metadata
7 75 (2.37%) Tableau
8 74 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 74 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
9 69 (2.18%) NoSQL
10 58 (1.83%) Delta Lake
11 50 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 45 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
14 36 (1.14%) Star Schema
15 34 (1.08%) MySQL
16 33 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
17 31 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 182 (5.76%) Git
2 115 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 112 (3.54%) JIRA
4 69 (2.18%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 959 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 952 (30.11%) Finance
3 314 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (7.12%) Law
5 224 (7.08%) Banking
6 146 (4.62%) Legal
7 145 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.26%) Retail
10 69 (2.18%) Marketing
11 61 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.87%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.79%) Advertising
18 24 (0.76%) Front Office
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 14 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 588 (18.60%) Senior
2 556 (17.58%) Architect
3 394 (12.46%) Lead
4 331 (10.47%) Developer
5 286 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
6 194 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
8 159 (5.03%) Analyst
9 130 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 128 (4.05%) Azure Architect
11 124 (3.92%) Consultant
12 122 (3.86%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.64%) Software Engineer
14 109 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 108 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 91 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
17 86 (2.72%) Network Engineer
18 84 (2.66%) Senior Developer
19 80 (2.53%) Security Engineer
20 74 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (14.71%) Terraform
2 313 (9.90%) .NET
3 178 (5.63%) REST
4 151 (4.78%) React
5 145 (4.59%) Kafka
6 99 (3.13%) RESTful
7 90 (2.85%) LangChain
8 88 (2.78%) OAuth
8 88 (2.78%) Spring
9 85 (2.69%) .NET Core
9 85 (2.69%) ASP.NET
10 84 (2.66%) Node.js
11 76 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 75 (2.37%) PySpark
13 66 (2.09%) PyTorch
14 65 (2.06%) TensorFlow
15 57 (1.80%) HTML
16 55 (1.74%) CSS
17 53 (1.68%) OAuth2
18 51 (1.61%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 134 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 93 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 63 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 63 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
12 46 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 45 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 44 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
16 39 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
18 32 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 407 (12.87%) Windows
2 170 (5.38%) Linux
3 157 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
8 18 (0.57%) VMS
9 17 (0.54%) Unix
9 17 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (29.03%) DevOps
2 879 (27.80%) CI/CD
3 798 (25.24%) AI
4 684 (21.63%) Agile
5 535 (16.92%) Roadmaps
6 497 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 493 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 493 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 456 (14.42%) Analytics
9 448 (14.17%) Mentoring
10 372 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 348 (11.01%) Data Engineering
12 347 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
13 345 (10.91%) Machine Learning
14 315 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
15 308 (9.74%) Software Engineering
16 297 (9.39%) Migration
17 294 (9.30%) Microservices
18 291 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
19 287 (9.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 756 (23.91%) Python
2 656 (20.75%) SQL
3 329 (10.40%) C#
4 288 (9.11%) PowerShell
5 226 (7.15%) Java
6 198 (6.26%) JavaScript
7 158 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 90 (2.85%) Bash
9 89 (2.81%) Bicep
10 45 (1.42%) Scala
11 38 (1.20%) Go
12 32 (1.01%) R
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.66%) C++
15 20 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 13 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 400 (12.65%) Degree
2 286 (9.04%) Azure Certification
3 256 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 188 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 129 (4.08%) CISSP
6 128 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 122 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 66 (2.09%) CISM
10 66 (2.09%) Master's Degree
11 63 (1.99%) CCNP
12 48 (1.52%) CCNA
13 41 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.14%) CEH
15 31 (0.98%) PMP
16 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.89%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.89%) PMI Certification
17 27 (0.85%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.50%) GDPR
3 171 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 149 (4.71%) QA
5 126 (3.98%) NIST
6 86 (2.72%) SLA
7 64 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (1.36%) GRC
10 33 (1.04%) PMO
11 29 (0.92%) NCSC
12 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 19 (0.60%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 402 (12.71%) Active Directory
2 253 (8.00%) Docker
3 129 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.60%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 332 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 143 (4.52%) Ansible
4 76 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 55 (1.74%) SCCM
6 53 (1.68%) Grafana
7 36 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 31 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Argo
10 14 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) CASB
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Packer
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,357 (42.92%) Microsoft
2 346 (10.94%) Databricks
3 190 (6.01%) VMware
4 164 (5.19%) Cisco
5 151 (4.78%) Google
6 84 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.47%) Oracle
9 74 (2.34%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.93%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 52 (1.64%) Meraki
13 51 (1.61%) SAP
14 47 (1.49%) Salesforce
15 44 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.36%) Tenable
17 40 (1.27%) Fortinet
18 39 (1.23%) Dell
18 39 (1.23%) Zscaler
19 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace