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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,131 2,429 3,756
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.66% 20.30% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.12% 44.12% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,291 1,732 2,683
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,515
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 8,435 5,506 8,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.11% 46.01% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,670 3,788 5,805
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 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

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 13 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 13 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 +1 428 £85,000 +6.25% 339
West London -1 88 £72,500 +31.82% 85
South London -3 34 £90,000 +38.46% 27
East London -15 14 £75,000 +76.47% 44
North London -9 11 £60,000 -20.00% 9
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
1 201 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 121 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.92%) Confluence
5 39 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.96%) Apache
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Mule
8 13 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 8 (0.26%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 57 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.61%) 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 44 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.80%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.096%) 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 1,034 (33.02%) AWS
2 626 (19.99%) GCP
3 526 (16.80%) Microsoft 365
4 425 (13.57%) Power Platform
5 424 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
6 388 (12.39%) Entra ID
7 211 (6.74%) SaaS
8 176 (5.62%) GitHub
9 174 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 163 (5.21%) Azure AI
11 162 (5.17%) Serverless
12 158 (5.05%) PaaS
13 155 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 155 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 137 (4.38%) Snowflake
15 122 (3.90%) Power Automate
16 119 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
17 116 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
18 114 (3.64%) Microsoft Copilot
19 104 (3.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 297 (9.49%) Firewall
2 167 (5.33%) VPN
3 161 (5.14%) Network Security
4 157 (5.01%) DNS
5 121 (3.86%) DHCP
6 112 (3.58%) WAN
7 98 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (3.03%) LAN
9 79 (2.52%) TCP/IP
10 78 (2.49%) VLAN
11 61 (1.95%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.79%) SAN
12 56 (1.79%) Wireless
13 40 (1.28%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 30 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.80%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (9.07%) Power BI
2 269 (8.59%) SQL Server
3 172 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 136 (4.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 81 (2.59%) Metadata
7 74 (2.36%) Tableau
8 73 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
10 70 (2.24%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.79%) Delta Lake
12 53 (1.69%) Relational Database
13 43 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (1.18%) Star Schema
15 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
15 36 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
15 36 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (0.96%) MySQL
17 29 (0.93%) Big Data
17 29 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 183 (5.84%) Git
2 115 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 113 (3.61%) JIRA
4 61 (1.95%) GitLab
5 24 (0.77%) MLflow
6 20 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.54%) Selenium
8 15 (0.48%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.45%) JUnit
9 14 (0.45%) Mockito
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.35%) Maven
12 9 (0.29%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 957 (30.57%) Finance
2 956 (30.53%) Social Skills
3 310 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.22%) Law
5 224 (7.15%) Banking
6 154 (4.92%) Legal
7 146 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 144 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 104 (3.32%) Retail
10 75 (2.40%) Marketing
11 63 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 41 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (0.89%) Front Office
17 20 (0.64%) Advertising
18 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 580 (18.52%) Senior
2 552 (17.63%) Architect
3 383 (12.23%) Lead
4 341 (10.89%) Developer
5 288 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 199 (6.36%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 156 (4.98%) Analyst
9 130 (4.15%) Consultant
10 127 (4.06%) Software Engineer
11 126 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 125 (3.99%) Azure Architect
13 119 (3.80%) Data Architect
14 115 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 100 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
16 90 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
17 85 (2.71%) Network Engineer
18 84 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 83 (2.65%) Senior Developer
20 75 (2.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (14.53%) Terraform
2 310 (9.90%) .NET
3 187 (5.97%) REST
4 154 (4.92%) React
5 133 (4.25%) Kafka
6 100 (3.19%) RESTful
7 88 (2.81%) LangChain
7 88 (2.81%) OAuth
8 87 (2.78%) ASP.NET
8 87 (2.78%) Spring
9 86 (2.75%) Node.js
10 82 (2.62%) .NET Core
11 77 (2.46%) Spring Boot
12 76 (2.43%) PySpark
13 62 (1.98%) PyTorch
14 61 (1.95%) TensorFlow
15 54 (1.72%) LangGraph
16 53 (1.69%) OAuth2
17 52 (1.66%) Blazor
18 50 (1.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 419 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 141 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 94 (3.00%) AI Agents
8 93 (2.97%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 60 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 52 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 48 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
14 46 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (1.31%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
18 38 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
19 36 (1.15%) Low-Code
20 31 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 393 (12.55%) Windows
2 164 (5.24%) Linux
3 153 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) Android
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 14 (0.45%) Unix
8 14 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.35%) CentOS
11 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.032%) SUSE
15 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (29.00%) DevOps
2 877 (28.01%) CI/CD
3 827 (26.41%) AI
4 674 (21.53%) Agile
5 531 (16.96%) Roadmaps
6 508 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 486 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 482 (15.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 455 (14.53%) Analytics
10 435 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 382 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 347 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
12 347 (11.08%) Data Engineering
13 338 (10.80%) Machine Learning
14 328 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
15 320 (10.22%) Software Engineering
16 301 (9.61%) Migration
17 294 (9.39%) Data Modelling
17 294 (9.39%) Microservices
18 281 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 745 (23.79%) Python
2 653 (20.86%) SQL
3 333 (10.64%) C#
4 278 (8.88%) PowerShell
5 224 (7.15%) Java
6 191 (6.10%) JavaScript
7 162 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 87 (2.78%) Bicep
9 86 (2.75%) Bash
10 50 (1.60%) Scala
11 36 (1.15%) Go
12 29 (0.93%) R
13 24 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.70%) C++
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.45%) VBA
19 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
20 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 391 (12.49%) Degree
2 265 (8.46%) Azure Certification
3 259 (8.27%) Security Cleared
4 190 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 130 (4.15%) CISSP
6 126 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 110 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 69 (2.20%) CISM
9 67 (2.14%) Master's Degree
10 58 (1.85%) CCNP
11 57 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 46 (1.47%) CCNA
13 38 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
14 29 (0.93%) CEH
15 27 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.83%) PhD
16 26 (0.83%) PMP
17 24 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.37%) GDPR
2 168 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 149 (4.76%) QA
4 121 (3.86%) NIST
5 79 (2.52%) SLA
6 62 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 51 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 41 (1.31%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) NCSC
10 27 (0.86%) PMO
11 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 394 (12.58%) Active Directory
2 249 (7.95%) Docker
3 125 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.51%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Firmware
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 323 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 216 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 131 (4.18%) Ansible
4 78 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 53 (1.69%) SCCM
6 49 (1.56%) Grafana
7 33 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.51%) Argo
10 14 (0.45%) Istio
11 13 (0.42%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.32%) CASB
13 10 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.32%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Packer
15 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,356 (43.31%) Microsoft
2 330 (10.54%) Databricks
3 186 (5.94%) VMware
4 163 (5.21%) Cisco
4 163 (5.21%) Google
5 81 (2.59%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.46%) Oracle
7 74 (2.36%) Palo Alto
8 73 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.88%) Foundry
10 52 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.66%) Splunk
11 51 (1.63%) SAP
12 50 (1.60%) Meraki
13 42 (1.34%) Fortinet
14 41 (1.31%) Zscaler
15 40 (1.28%) Tenable
16 39 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
17 36 (1.15%) Dell
18 33 (1.05%) Citrix