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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,146 2,273 3,541
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.04% 19.41% 19.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.75% 43.00% 43.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,284 1,648 2,464
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 8,560 5,286 8,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.75% 45.14% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 3,637 5,359
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £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 14 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 14 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 -1 383 £83,000 +7.10% 405
West London -3 84 £77,500 +34.78% 64
East London -3 24 £36,000 -15.29% 27
South London -14 21 £55,000 -15.38% 20
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
1 204 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 139 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 84 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.03%) Confluence
5 34 (1.08%) Apache
6 30 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.64%) CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 6 (0.19%) IIS
10 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.095%) DNN
13 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 60 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.67%) 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 53 (1.68%) 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 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) 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 1,021 (32.45%) AWS
2 656 (20.85%) GCP
3 542 (17.23%) Microsoft 365
4 483 (15.35%) Azure DevOps
5 463 (14.72%) Power Platform
6 438 (13.92%) Entra ID
7 236 (7.50%) SaaS
8 218 (6.93%) GitHub
9 199 (6.33%) Serverless
10 195 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 176 (5.59%) PaaS
12 150 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 145 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 144 (4.58%) Azure AI
15 137 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
16 133 (4.23%) Power Automate
17 129 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 120 (3.81%) Snowflake
19 117 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
20 116 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 288 (9.15%) Firewall
2 171 (5.44%) DNS
3 168 (5.34%) VPN
4 152 (4.83%) Network Security
5 129 (4.10%) DHCP
6 103 (3.27%) WAN
7 91 (2.89%) LAN
8 86 (2.73%) TCP/IP
9 85 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (2.51%) VLAN
11 56 (1.78%) SAN
12 55 (1.75%) Wireless
13 51 (1.62%) SD-WAN
14 39 (1.24%) BGP
15 36 (1.14%) OSPF
16 29 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
17 28 (0.89%) Kerberos
18 19 (0.60%) SSL
19 17 (0.54%) DMARC
20 14 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (9.47%) Power BI
2 246 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 180 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 124 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.31%) Metadata
7 82 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.32%) NoSQL
10 69 (2.19%) Tableau
11 54 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.37%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
16 33 (1.05%) MySQL
17 32 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (0.83%) Big Data
18 26 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
19 25 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 180 (5.72%) Git
2 126 (4.01%) JIRA
3 113 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.88%) GitLab
5 34 (1.08%) 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 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 1,003 (31.88%) Finance
3 309 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (7.25%) Law
5 222 (7.06%) Banking
6 176 (5.59%) Legal
7 154 (4.90%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (3.21%) Retail
10 93 (2.96%) Marketing
11 77 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 71 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.00%) Financial Institution
14 40 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.14%) 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
1 603 (19.17%) Senior
2 566 (17.99%) Architect
3 395 (12.56%) Lead
4 355 (11.28%) Developer
5 280 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (6.58%) Data Engineer
7 181 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 163 (5.18%) Analyst
9 150 (4.77%) Consultant
10 144 (4.58%) Software Engineer
11 117 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 114 (3.62%) Data Architect
12 114 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 113 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 103 (3.27%) Azure Architect
15 102 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
16 97 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
17 89 (2.83%) Senior Developer
18 76 (2.42%) Network Engineer
18 76 (2.42%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (14.88%) Terraform
2 289 (9.19%) .NET
3 228 (7.25%) REST
4 164 (5.21%) React
5 118 (3.75%) RESTful
6 111 (3.53%) Kafka
7 98 (3.12%) LangChain
8 96 (3.05%) OAuth
9 89 (2.83%) Node.js
9 89 (2.83%) Spring
10 82 (2.61%) ASP.NET
10 82 (2.61%) Spring Boot
11 78 (2.48%) PySpark
12 77 (2.45%) .NET Core
13 73 (2.32%) LangGraph
14 59 (1.88%) JSON
15 57 (1.81%) AngularJS
15 57 (1.81%) OAuth2
16 52 (1.65%) PyTorch
17 51 (1.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 421 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 157 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 154 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (4.55%) AI Agents
5 129 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
6 109 (3.46%) Onboarding
7 94 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 94 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 70 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 48 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 43 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
14 41 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.24%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 34 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
19 32 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 394 (12.52%) Windows
2 178 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 157 (4.99%) Linux
4 47 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 31 (0.99%) macOS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.67%) VMS
8 18 (0.57%) 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 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 954 (30.32%) DevOps
2 950 (30.20%) CI/CD
3 896 (28.48%) AI
4 663 (21.07%) Agile
5 527 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 514 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 509 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 509 (16.18%) Roadmaps
8 485 (15.42%) Analytics
8 485 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 431 (13.70%) Mentoring
10 361 (11.47%) Business Intelligence
10 361 (11.47%) Software Engineering
11 347 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
12 332 (10.55%) Data Engineering
13 325 (10.33%) Machine Learning
14 321 (10.20%) Data Modelling
15 320 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
16 316 (10.04%) Microservices
16 316 (10.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 793 (25.21%) Python
2 666 (21.17%) SQL
3 317 (10.08%) C#
4 299 (9.50%) PowerShell
5 204 (6.48%) Java
6 186 (5.91%) JavaScript
7 158 (5.02%) TypeScript
8 101 (3.21%) Bicep
9 88 (2.80%) Bash
10 53 (1.68%) Scala
11 47 (1.49%) R
12 30 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 29 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 27 (0.86%) Go
15 19 (0.60%) C++
16 18 (0.57%) RPG
17 14 (0.45%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
19 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 403 (12.81%) Degree
2 287 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 249 (7.91%) Azure Certification
4 217 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 148 (4.70%) CISSP
6 136 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 92 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (2.51%) CISM
10 76 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 51 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 42 (1.34%) CCNP
13 41 (1.30%) CCNA
14 39 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (1.11%) PhD
16 33 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
17 29 (0.92%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.79%) PMP
19 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (8.30%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 167 (5.31%) GDPR
4 143 (4.55%) QA
5 119 (3.78%) NIST
6 74 (2.35%) SLA
7 58 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.14%) GRC
10 30 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 29 (0.92%) NCSC
12 25 (0.79%) PMO
13 21 (0.67%) 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 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 277 (8.80%) Docker
3 124 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.84%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.54%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.095%) 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
1 334 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 214 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (4.48%) Ansible
4 81 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
5 63 (2.00%) Grafana
6 48 (1.53%) SCCM
7 36 (1.14%) 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 1,370 (43.55%) Microsoft
2 278 (8.84%) Databricks
3 184 (5.85%) Google
4 178 (5.66%) VMware
5 142 (4.51%) Cisco
6 85 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.23%) Oracle
9 68 (2.16%) Foundry
10 66 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 59 (1.88%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.75%) SAP
13 47 (1.49%) Splunk
14 46 (1.46%) Zscaler
15 43 (1.37%) Meraki
16 40 (1.27%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.18%) Fortinet
18 36 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
19 31 (0.99%) CyberArk
19 31 (0.99%) Tenable