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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,146 2,397 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.64% 20.09% 19.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.12% 43.84% 44.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 1,711 2,639
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,685
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 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 8,475 5,467 8,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.06% 45.82% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,674 3,755 5,715
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,335 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.22% -4.76% -3.08%

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 16 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 16 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 +1 424 £85,000 +6.25% 418
West London 0 88 £72,500 +28.89% 107
South London -4 34 £90,000 +38.46% 36
East London -14 15 £75,000 +76.47% 44
North London -6 13 £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
1 200 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 118 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 94 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 62 (1.97%) Confluence
5 39 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (1.02%) Apache
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 12 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 56 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 20 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
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
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Endur
9 1 (0.032%) Maximo
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (32.71%) AWS
2 629 (19.99%) GCP
3 525 (16.69%) Microsoft 365
4 438 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
5 435 (13.83%) Power Platform
6 391 (12.43%) Entra ID
7 215 (6.83%) SaaS
8 180 (5.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 180 (5.72%) GitHub
9 172 (5.47%) Serverless
10 164 (5.21%) Azure AI
11 161 (5.12%) PaaS
12 159 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 156 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 142 (4.51%) Snowflake
15 125 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.81%) Power Automate
17 119 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
18 118 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
19 104 (3.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 296 (9.41%) Firewall
2 166 (5.28%) VPN
3 159 (5.05%) Network Security
4 157 (4.99%) DNS
5 122 (3.88%) DHCP
6 111 (3.53%) WAN
7 96 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (3.02%) LAN
9 79 (2.51%) TCP/IP
9 79 (2.51%) VLAN
10 61 (1.94%) SD-WAN
11 57 (1.81%) SAN
12 56 (1.78%) Wireless
13 40 (1.27%) BGP
14 37 (1.18%) OSPF
15 30 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.45%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (9.31%) Power BI
2 276 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 176 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 136 (4.32%) Data Lake
6 85 (2.70%) Metadata
7 76 (2.42%) Tableau
8 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.32%) NoSQL
9 73 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
10 56 (1.78%) Delta Lake
11 54 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.24%) Star Schema
14 37 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (1.14%) Data Vault
16 31 (0.99%) MySQL
17 29 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
17 29 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 187 (5.94%) Git
2 116 (3.69%) JIRA
3 114 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.91%) GitLab
5 26 (0.83%) MLflow
6 22 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.51%) Selenium
8 14 (0.45%) JUnit
8 14 (0.45%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.22%) Vite
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 971 (30.86%) Finance
2 963 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 314 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.18%) Law
5 224 (7.12%) Banking
6 158 (5.02%) Legal
7 144 (4.58%) Public Sector
8 143 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.40%) Retail
10 75 (2.38%) Marketing
11 67 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 29 (0.92%) Front Office
16 28 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (0.60%) Advertising
17 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 585 (18.60%) Senior
2 556 (17.67%) Architect
3 387 (12.30%) Lead
4 348 (11.06%) Developer
5 288 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
6 202 (6.42%) Data Engineer
7 186 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
8 153 (4.86%) Analyst
9 131 (4.16%) Consultant
9 131 (4.16%) Software Engineer
10 125 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 124 (3.94%) Azure Architect
12 122 (3.88%) Data Architect
13 117 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 98 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 92 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
16 88 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 85 (2.70%) Senior Developer
18 84 (2.67%) Network Engineer
19 71 (2.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (14.46%) Terraform
2 319 (10.14%) .NET
3 194 (6.17%) REST
4 159 (5.05%) React
5 130 (4.13%) Kafka
6 106 (3.37%) RESTful
7 89 (2.83%) LangChain
8 88 (2.80%) ASP.NET
8 88 (2.80%) OAuth
9 87 (2.77%) Spring
10 86 (2.73%) Node.js
11 85 (2.70%) .NET Core
12 78 (2.48%) PySpark
13 77 (2.45%) Spring Boot
14 62 (1.97%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.94%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.72%) LangGraph
17 53 (1.68%) .NET Framework
18 52 (1.65%) AngularJS
18 52 (1.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 427 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 147 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (3.34%) Data Centre
6 103 (3.27%) AI Agents
7 100 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 94 (2.99%) Security Posture
9 62 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 60 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 51 (1.62%) Public Cloud
13 48 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
14 47 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.34%) Data Structures
17 41 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
18 40 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
19 36 (1.14%) Low-Code
20 32 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 395 (12.56%) Windows
2 165 (5.24%) Linux
3 156 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 18 (0.57%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.35%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (29.31%) DevOps
2 898 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 849 (26.99%) AI
4 683 (21.71%) Agile
5 538 (17.10%) Roadmaps
6 509 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 490 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 490 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 463 (14.72%) Analytics
9 440 (13.99%) Mentoring
10 391 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 356 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
12 354 (11.25%) Data Engineering
13 347 (11.03%) Machine Learning
14 332 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
15 328 (10.43%) Software Engineering
16 306 (9.73%) Data Modelling
17 305 (9.69%) Migration
18 304 (9.66%) Microservices
19 282 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 747 (23.74%) Python
2 665 (21.14%) SQL
3 345 (10.97%) C#
4 277 (8.80%) PowerShell
5 222 (7.06%) Java
6 191 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 163 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 88 (2.80%) Bicep
9 83 (2.64%) Bash
10 51 (1.62%) Scala
11 31 (0.99%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 25 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.70%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.45%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 392 (12.46%) Degree
2 263 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 260 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 192 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 127 (4.04%) CISSP
6 125 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 111 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 107 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
9 71 (2.26%) CISM
10 66 (2.10%) Master's Degree
11 57 (1.81%) CCNP
12 54 (1.72%) AWS Certification
13 45 (1.43%) CCNA
14 35 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (0.89%) PhD
16 26 (0.83%) PMP
17 25 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.79%) CEH
17 25 (0.79%) DV Cleared
17 25 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.31%) GDPR
2 167 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 148 (4.70%) QA
4 120 (3.81%) NIST
5 80 (2.54%) SLA
6 61 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 51 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.27%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) NCSC
10 27 (0.86%) PMO
11 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 16 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 393 (12.49%) Active Directory
2 246 (7.82%) Docker
3 127 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.51%) vSphere
8 13 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) Firmware
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) HDFS
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 323 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 215 (6.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 133 (4.23%) Ansible
4 79 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.65%) SCCM
6 49 (1.56%) Grafana
7 33 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.51%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 11 (0.35%) CASB
11 11 (0.35%) Nagios
12 10 (0.32%) QRadar
13 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.25%) Istio
14 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Puppet
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,362 (43.29%) Microsoft
2 329 (10.46%) Databricks
3 189 (6.01%) VMware
4 163 (5.18%) Google
5 161 (5.12%) Cisco
6 81 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 78 (2.48%) Oracle
8 75 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 72 (2.29%) Palo Alto
10 60 (1.91%) Foundry
11 54 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.72%) Splunk
12 52 (1.65%) SAP
13 48 (1.53%) Meraki
14 42 (1.34%) Zscaler
15 41 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 41 (1.30%) Tenable
16 37 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
17 36 (1.14%) Dell
18 34 (1.08%) Dynatrace