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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,174 2,528 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.50% 20.66% 18.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.04% 44.78% 44.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,315 1,830 2,873
10th Percentile £47,200 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,350 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,343 5,646 8,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.50% 46.15% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,597 3,971 6,364
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 0 506 £85,000 +9.68% 297
West London +1 100 £70,000 +55.56% 58
South London +4 43 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -18 16 £53,750 +8.59% 33
North London -8 10 £60,000 -14.29% 12
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 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 127 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 82 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 52 (1.64%) Confluence
5 46 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.72%) Apache
7 22 (0.69%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
9 14 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 9 (0.28%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
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
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 7 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Endur
8 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.063%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,076 (33.90%) AWS
2 637 (20.07%) GCP
3 534 (16.82%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (13.23%) Power Platform
5 386 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 384 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
7 215 (6.77%) SaaS
8 190 (5.99%) GitHub
9 166 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 159 (5.01%) PaaS
10 159 (5.01%) Serverless
11 148 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
12 145 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 143 (4.51%) Azure AI
14 139 (4.38%) Snowflake
15 114 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 111 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
17 109 (3.43%) Power Automate
18 98 (3.09%) IaaS
19 94 (2.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 316 (9.96%) Firewall
2 169 (5.32%) VPN
3 168 (5.29%) DNS
4 166 (5.23%) Network Security
5 134 (4.22%) WAN
6 131 (4.13%) DHCP
7 116 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
8 114 (3.59%) LAN
9 93 (2.93%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.30%) VLAN
11 69 (2.17%) SD-WAN
12 52 (1.64%) SAN
13 48 (1.51%) Wireless
14 45 (1.42%) BGP
15 41 (1.29%) OSPF
16 32 (1.01%) Kerberos
17 25 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (0.76%) VoIP
19 23 (0.72%) WLAN
20 17 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (9.11%) Power BI
2 276 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 162 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 124 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 83 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (2.55%) Tableau
8 74 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 69 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 68 (2.14%) Metadata
11 54 (1.70%) Delta Lake
12 50 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
13 47 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 44 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 42 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 39 (1.23%) Big Data
17 37 (1.17%) MySQL
18 35 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 34 (1.07%) Star Schema
20 31 (0.98%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 179 (5.64%) Git
2 114 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 103 (3.25%) JIRA
4 76 (2.39%) GitLab
5 33 (1.04%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Chocolatey
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Postman
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.35%) JUnit
9 11 (0.35%) Mockito
10 10 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 956 (30.12%) Finance
2 922 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 305 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (6.99%) Banking
5 207 (6.52%) Law
6 140 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 130 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 130 (4.10%) Legal
8 103 (3.25%) Retail
9 61 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (1.73%) Marketing
11 51 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 46 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.04%) Front Office
16 30 (0.95%) Advertising
17 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
19 18 (0.57%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 595 (18.75%) Senior
2 537 (16.92%) Architect
3 430 (13.55%) Lead
4 327 (10.30%) Developer
5 278 (8.76%) Azure Engineer
6 193 (6.08%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.29%) Analyst
9 130 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (3.91%) Consultant
11 121 (3.81%) Software Engineer
12 119 (3.75%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.59%) Azure Architect
14 111 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
15 96 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 91 (2.87%) Network Engineer
16 91 (2.87%) Security Engineer
17 87 (2.74%) IT Engineer
18 85 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
19 81 (2.55%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (9.99%) .NET
2 166 (5.23%) React
3 158 (4.98%) REST
4 134 (4.22%) Kafka
5 100 (3.15%) OAuth
6 99 (3.12%) Node.js
7 92 (2.90%) RESTful
8 89 (2.80%) Spring
9 86 (2.71%) LangChain
10 84 (2.65%) .NET Core
11 77 (2.43%) ASP.NET
11 77 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 73 (2.30%) PySpark
13 62 (1.95%) PyTorch
14 59 (1.86%) CSS
14 59 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 57 (1.80%) HTML
16 56 (1.76%) OAuth2
17 53 (1.67%) OpenID
18 47 (1.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 417 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 130 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
7 95 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 80 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.92%) Public Cloud
12 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
14 48 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.48%) Data Structures
16 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
17 42 (1.32%) Low-Code
18 40 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
19 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
19 34 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 426 (13.42%) Windows
2 192 (6.05%) Linux
3 164 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.58%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.76%) Unix
7 23 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (0.69%) VMS
9 21 (0.66%) Android
10 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (28.92%) DevOps
2 871 (27.44%) CI/CD
3 736 (23.19%) AI
4 692 (21.80%) Agile
5 519 (16.35%) Roadmaps
6 499 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 478 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
8 475 (14.97%) Mentoring
9 471 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 452 (14.24%) Analytics
11 352 (11.09%) Business Intelligence
12 347 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 337 (10.62%) Data Engineering
14 326 (10.27%) Machine Learning
15 315 (9.92%) Software Engineering
16 298 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
17 294 (9.26%) Microservices
18 291 (9.17%) Migration
19 288 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
20 283 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 759 (23.91%) Python
2 643 (20.26%) SQL
3 331 (10.43%) C#
4 303 (9.55%) PowerShell
5 216 (6.81%) JavaScript
6 211 (6.65%) Java
7 170 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.25%) Bash
9 84 (2.65%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
11 36 (1.13%) Scala
12 29 (0.91%) R
13 26 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 21 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.60%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 386 (12.16%) Degree
2 296 (9.33%) Azure Certification
3 263 (8.29%) Security Cleared
4 198 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.19%) CISSP
6 127 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 114 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 63 (1.98%) CCNP
11 62 (1.95%) CISM
12 58 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 53 (1.67%) CCNA
14 48 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 44 (1.39%) CEH
16 28 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) CCIE
17 26 (0.82%) PMP
18 23 (0.72%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.45%) GDPR
3 165 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 144 (4.54%) QA
5 134 (4.22%) NIST
6 94 (2.96%) SLA
7 63 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.26%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) NCSC
11 28 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 23 (0.72%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 19 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (13.23%) Active Directory
2 259 (8.16%) Docker
3 130 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.67%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 13 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.095%) Firmware
10 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.063%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 470 (14.81%) Terraform
2 350 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 215 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 160 (5.04%) Ansible
5 65 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.70%) Grafana
7 53 (1.67%) SCCM
8 39 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 31 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Argo
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.22%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) CASB
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,341 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 339 (10.68%) Databricks
3 199 (6.27%) VMware
4 162 (5.10%) Cisco
5 151 (4.76%) Google
6 89 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 77 (2.43%) Oracle
8 77 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 57 (1.80%) SAP
10 56 (1.76%) Foundry
11 55 (1.73%) Splunk
12 53 (1.67%) Meraki
13 52 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 45 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
15 44 (1.39%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.32%) Dell
16 42 (1.32%) Tenable
17 39 (1.23%) iManage
18 38 (1.20%) Dynatrace