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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,141 2,261 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.01% 19.29% 19.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.70% 42.87% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 1,637 2,480
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 8,558 5,274 8,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.73% 45.00% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 3,622 5,391
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -1 379 £83,000 +7.10% 137
West London -3 84 £77,500 +34.78% 47
East London -4 25 £36,000 -15.29% 27
South London -13 21 £55,000 -15.38% 12
North London -6 14 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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
1 203 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 139 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 83 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.04%) Confluence
5 33 (1.05%) Apache
6 29 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.60%) CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
11 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.096%) DNN
14 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.096%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 60 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.64%) PlantUML
6 19 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 52 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.70%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.096%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.032%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.032%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (32.60%) AWS
2 658 (20.95%) GCP
3 541 (17.22%) Microsoft 365
4 483 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 464 (14.77%) Power Platform
6 439 (13.98%) Entra ID
7 234 (7.45%) SaaS
8 216 (6.88%) GitHub
9 198 (6.30%) Serverless
10 196 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 174 (5.54%) PaaS
12 150 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 142 (4.52%) Azure AI
15 136 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
16 133 (4.23%) Power Automate
17 129 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
18 120 (3.82%) Snowflake
19 118 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
20 115 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 286 (9.11%) Firewall
2 170 (5.41%) DNS
3 168 (5.35%) VPN
4 152 (4.84%) Network Security
5 128 (4.08%) DHCP
6 102 (3.25%) WAN
7 90 (2.87%) LAN
8 85 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 85 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
9 79 (2.52%) VLAN
10 56 (1.78%) SAN
11 55 (1.75%) Wireless
12 51 (1.62%) SD-WAN
13 39 (1.24%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 29 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
16 28 (0.89%) Kerberos
17 19 (0.60%) SSL
18 17 (0.54%) DMARC
19 14 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (9.49%) Power BI
2 246 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 181 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 122 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.31%) Metadata
7 82 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 69 (2.20%) Tableau
11 54 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 49 (1.56%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.37%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.11%) Data Vault
16 34 (1.08%) MySQL
17 33 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
19 25 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 182 (5.79%) Git
2 126 (4.01%) JIRA
3 114 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.88%) GitLab
5 35 (1.11%) Claude Code
6 17 (0.54%) MLflow
7 14 (0.45%) JUnit
7 14 (0.45%) Mockito
7 14 (0.45%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 10 (0.32%) Postman
11 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.22%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,023 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 1,001 (31.87%) Finance
3 308 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (7.35%) Law
5 221 (7.04%) Banking
6 178 (5.67%) Legal
7 155 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (3.22%) Retail
10 93 (2.96%) Marketing
11 76 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 71 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.04%) Financial Institution
14 40 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.15%) Front Office
17 35 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (0.70%) Manufacturing
19 19 (0.60%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 605 (19.26%) Senior
2 565 (17.99%) Architect
3 394 (12.54%) Lead
4 358 (11.40%) Developer
5 277 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 208 (6.62%) Data Engineer
7 180 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.13%) Analyst
9 153 (4.87%) Consultant
10 143 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 116 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
12 115 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 114 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 113 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 103 (3.28%) Azure Architect
16 100 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 96 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
18 89 (2.83%) Senior Developer
19 76 (2.42%) Senior Architect
20 75 (2.39%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (14.80%) Terraform
2 289 (9.20%) .NET
3 231 (7.35%) REST
4 165 (5.25%) React
5 119 (3.79%) RESTful
6 111 (3.53%) Kafka
7 98 (3.12%) LangChain
8 96 (3.06%) OAuth
9 89 (2.83%) Node.js
9 89 (2.83%) Spring
10 83 (2.64%) Spring Boot
11 82 (2.61%) ASP.NET
12 78 (2.48%) PySpark
13 77 (2.45%) .NET Core
14 73 (2.32%) LangGraph
15 60 (1.91%) JSON
16 58 (1.85%) AngularJS
17 57 (1.81%) OAuth2
18 52 (1.66%) PyTorch
19 51 (1.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 421 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 157 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 153 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (4.65%) AI Agents
5 129 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
6 109 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 95 (3.02%) Security Posture
8 93 (2.96%) Data Centre
9 70 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
14 43 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
15 41 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.24%) Public Cloud
17 38 (1.21%) Data Structures
18 35 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
18 35 (1.11%) Virtual Team
19 32 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 393 (12.51%) Windows
2 178 (5.67%) Windows Server
3 156 (4.97%) Linux
4 46 (1.46%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.99%) macOS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.67%) VMS
8 17 (0.54%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.29%) CentOS
11 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (30.37%) DevOps
2 949 (30.21%) CI/CD
3 898 (28.59%) AI
4 663 (21.11%) Agile
5 530 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 516 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 512 (16.30%) Roadmaps
8 508 (16.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 490 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 488 (15.54%) Analytics
11 432 (13.75%) Mentoring
12 361 (11.49%) Software Engineering
13 360 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
14 345 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
15 331 (10.54%) Data Engineering
16 326 (10.38%) Machine Learning
17 321 (10.22%) Data Modelling
18 320 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
19 315 (10.03%) Migration
20 314 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 792 (25.21%) Python
2 668 (21.27%) SQL
3 315 (10.03%) C#
4 300 (9.55%) PowerShell
5 203 (6.46%) Java
6 185 (5.89%) JavaScript
7 156 (4.97%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.18%) Bicep
9 88 (2.80%) Bash
10 53 (1.69%) Scala
11 47 (1.50%) R
12 31 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 30 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.83%) Go
15 18 (0.57%) C++
15 18 (0.57%) RPG
16 14 (0.45%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
17 13 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 402 (12.80%) Degree
2 289 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 243 (7.74%) Azure Certification
4 220 (7.00%) SC Cleared
5 151 (4.81%) CISSP
6 136 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 92 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
9 80 (2.55%) CISM
10 76 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 52 (1.66%) AWS Certification
12 42 (1.34%) CCNP
13 41 (1.31%) CCNA
14 40 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (1.11%) PhD
16 33 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
17 29 (0.92%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.80%) PMP
19 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 24 (0.76%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (5.35%) GDPR
4 143 (4.55%) QA
5 121 (3.85%) NIST
6 72 (2.29%) SLA
7 59 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 58 (1.85%) Accessibility
9 36 (1.15%) GRC
10 33 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 29 (0.92%) NCSC
12 25 (0.80%) PMO
13 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.22%) WCAG
18 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
18 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 403 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 277 (8.82%) Docker
3 124 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) XenApp
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 332 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 215 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (4.43%) Ansible
4 82 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
5 63 (2.01%) Grafana
6 48 (1.53%) SCCM
7 36 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.54%) Argo
9 17 (0.54%) CASB
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Puppet
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.22%) QRadar
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,369 (43.58%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.82%) Databricks
3 183 (5.83%) Google
4 178 (5.67%) VMware
5 140 (4.46%) Cisco
6 86 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.26%) Oracle
9 69 (2.20%) Foundry
10 66 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 59 (1.88%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.75%) SAP
13 47 (1.50%) Splunk
14 46 (1.46%) Zscaler
15 43 (1.37%) Meraki
16 40 (1.27%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.18%) Fortinet
18 32 (1.02%) CyberArk
19 31 (0.99%) Tenable