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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,443 3,011 4,502
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.39% 19.75% 21.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.89% 44.27% 46.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 2,069 3,915
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,975 6,801 9,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.08% 44.61% 45.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,839 4,298 8,130
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 0 547 £78,750 +5.00% 304
West London +15 64 £63,750 -1.92% 55
East London -10 21 £32,000 -44.35% 44
North London +17 20 £75,000 +27.66% 6
South London +7 17 £46,000 -24.90% 25
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
1 182 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 145 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.15%) Confluence
6 16 (0.65%) Apache
7 15 (0.61%) Appian
8 12 (0.49%) IIS
8 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 4 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.16%) Moodle
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.25%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.082%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.082%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.94%) Endur
3 19 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.33%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.25%) Shopify
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.082%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.082%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.082%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.082%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.041%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.041%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 856 (35.04%) AWS
2 464 (18.99%) GCP
3 431 (17.64%) Microsoft 365
4 397 (16.25%) Power Platform
5 352 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
6 265 (10.85%) Entra ID
7 180 (7.37%) GitHub
8 168 (6.88%) SaaS
9 148 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.57%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 111 (4.54%) PowerApps
13 110 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
14 107 (4.38%) PaaS
15 100 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 96 (3.93%) Serverless
17 87 (3.56%) Azure AI
18 70 (2.87%) Snowflake
19 68 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
20 63 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 254 (10.40%) Firewall
2 162 (6.63%) VPN
3 138 (5.65%) DNS
4 137 (5.61%) WAN
5 113 (4.63%) DHCP
6 98 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
7 87 (3.56%) TCP/IP
8 86 (3.52%) LAN
9 69 (2.82%) SD-WAN
10 56 (2.29%) Network Security
11 53 (2.17%) Internet
12 47 (1.92%) VLAN
13 41 (1.68%) Wireless
14 33 (1.35%) SAN
15 31 (1.27%) VoIP
16 25 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (0.94%) BGP
17 23 (0.94%) OSPF
18 20 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
19 16 (0.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (11.17%) Power BI
2 244 (9.99%) SQL Server
3 171 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
4 153 (6.26%) Data Lake
5 106 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 97 (3.97%) NoSQL
7 82 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 72 (2.95%) Metadata
9 69 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.09%) Big Data
12 50 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 50 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.47%) Tableau
14 35 (1.43%) BigQuery
15 31 (1.27%) MySQL
16 30 (1.23%) Hadoop
17 25 (1.02%) Pinecone
18 23 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 21 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 190 (7.78%) Git
2 83 (3.40%) JIRA
3 74 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 40 (1.64%) GitLab
6 37 (1.51%) MLflow
7 30 (1.23%) Postman
8 20 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 20 (0.82%) Selenium
9 18 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.70%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.49%) JMeter
13 9 (0.37%) Chocolatey
13 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.33%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.29%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.29%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.29%) Vite
General
1 744 (30.45%) Finance
2 734 (30.05%) Social Skills
3 289 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (8.02%) Law
5 184 (7.53%) Banking
6 121 (4.95%) Legal
7 116 (4.75%) Retail
8 115 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 91 (3.72%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.95%) Marketing
11 63 (2.58%) Financial Institution
12 59 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 46 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
16 36 (1.47%) Multimedia
17 35 (1.43%) Retail Banking
18 27 (1.11%) Manufacturing
19 26 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 466 (19.07%) Senior
2 317 (12.98%) Developer
3 302 (12.36%) Architect
4 286 (11.71%) Lead
5 194 (7.94%) Analyst
6 181 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 176 (7.20%) Data Engineer
8 123 (5.03%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 106 (4.34%) Software Engineer
11 97 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 91 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 90 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
14 78 (3.19%) Data Architect
15 73 (2.99%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.95%) IT Support
16 72 (2.95%) Network Engineer
16 72 (2.95%) Security Engineer
17 71 (2.91%) Support Analyst
18 70 (2.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (10.32%) .NET
2 153 (6.26%) React
3 152 (6.22%) REST
4 106 (4.34%) HTML
5 101 (4.13%) CSS
6 99 (4.05%) RESTful
7 82 (3.36%) .NET Core
8 80 (3.27%) Node.js
9 78 (3.19%) OAuth
10 73 (2.99%) AngularJS
11 64 (2.62%) Kafka
12 52 (2.13%) Vue
13 51 (2.09%) Web Services
14 50 (2.05%) ASP.NET
15 48 (1.96%) PyTorch
15 48 (1.96%) SOAP
16 47 (1.92%) LangChain
16 47 (1.92%) PySpark
17 45 (1.84%) Django
18 44 (1.80%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 197 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 97 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 80 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 75 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 67 (2.74%) Low-Code
9 58 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 55 (2.25%) Data Centre
11 53 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 51 (2.09%) Data Structures
13 49 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.60%) Public Cloud
16 36 (1.47%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
18 32 (1.31%) Virtual Team
19 30 (1.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 368 (15.06%) Windows
2 174 (7.12%) Windows Server
3 146 (5.98%) Linux
4 74 (3.03%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.76%) Mac OS
6 42 (1.72%) Unix
7 35 (1.43%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.35%) VMS
9 29 (1.19%) Android
9 29 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.41%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.16%) CentOS
15 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Solaris
15 3 (0.12%) SUSE
16 2 (0.082%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.041%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (28.12%) DevOps
2 617 (25.26%) CI/CD
3 546 (22.35%) AI
4 542 (22.19%) Agile
5 479 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
6 430 (17.60%) Analytics
7 312 (12.77%) Mentoring
8 310 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
9 300 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 298 (12.20%) Roadmaps
11 295 (12.08%) Computer Science
12 281 (11.50%) Data Modelling
13 275 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
14 274 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 267 (10.93%) Microservices
16 255 (10.44%) Machine Learning
17 240 (9.82%) Software Engineering
18 236 (9.66%) ETL
19 227 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
20 218 (8.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 641 (26.24%) Python
2 581 (23.78%) SQL
3 290 (11.87%) PowerShell
4 271 (11.09%) C#
5 254 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 130 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 119 (4.87%) Java
8 76 (3.11%) Bash
9 58 (2.37%) Bicep
10 43 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.51%) Go
12 35 (1.43%) R
13 31 (1.27%) Scala
14 30 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 29 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.78%) C++
17 15 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.57%) Rust
19 12 (0.49%) PHP
20 10 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 423 (17.31%) Degree
2 226 (9.25%) Azure Certification
3 216 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 149 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 101 (4.13%) CISSP
7 101 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 96 (3.93%) Master's Degree
9 56 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.80%) CISM
11 40 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 38 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 36 (1.47%) CCNP
14 35 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
15 34 (1.39%) PMI Certification
16 29 (1.19%) CEH
17 27 (1.11%) PMP
18 25 (1.02%) CCIE
19 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (7.45%) GDPR
3 148 (6.06%) NIST
4 136 (5.57%) Data Quality
5 88 (3.60%) QA
6 58 (2.37%) SLA
7 37 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.43%) NCSC
9 30 (1.23%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.15%) EU AI Act
12 24 (0.98%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.98%) SOC 2
13 23 (0.94%) PSD2
14 22 (0.90%) Solvency II
15 20 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.61%) PMO
17 13 (0.53%) GRC
17 13 (0.53%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 348 (14.24%) Active Directory
2 245 (10.03%) Docker
3 86 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.65%) vSphere
8 14 (0.57%) Firmware
9 12 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.25%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.12%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.12%) NFS
14 2 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.082%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.082%) XenApp
15 1 (0.041%) vCloud
15 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 308 (12.61%) Terraform
2 273 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 215 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 113 (4.63%) Ansible
5 54 (2.21%) SCCM
6 53 (2.17%) Grafana
7 48 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.78%) Argo
11 17 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (0.65%) CASB
13 7 (0.29%) Kibana
13 7 (0.29%) SCOM
14 6 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.25%) Rancher
14 6 (0.25%) VxRail
15 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 999 (40.89%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.90%) Databricks
3 166 (6.79%) VMware
4 117 (4.79%) Cisco
5 108 (4.42%) Google
6 76 (3.11%) Oracle
7 72 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.87%) Palo Alto
9 59 (2.42%) OpenAI
10 55 (2.25%) Fortinet
11 49 (2.01%) SAP
12 46 (1.88%) Salesforce
13 41 (1.68%) Meraki
14 37 (1.51%) SolarWinds
15 35 (1.43%) CheckPoint
16 33 (1.35%) Informatica
17 28 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
18 26 (1.06%) Commvault
18 26 (1.06%) Dell
18 26 (1.06%) Dynatrace