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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,711 2,483 4,555
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.38% 19.32% 20.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.61% 43.79% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 1,949 3,868
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,840 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £58,016 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £63,161 £64,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -1.31% +7.52% -8.42%

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 6,676 5,670 9,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.87% 44.11% 44.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,298 4,123 8,151
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,342 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +1 624 £80,000 +6.67% 319
West London +10 75 £65,000 +32.65% 45
South London +31 38 £70,000 +16.67% 22
East London -9 27 £31,250 -63.24% 40
North London +14 13 £60,000 +41.18% 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
1 183 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 145 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 54 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.96%) Confluence
6 15 (0.55%) Appian
7 14 (0.52%) Apache
8 13 (0.48%) WordPress
9 12 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.41%) IIS
11 9 (0.33%) CMS
12 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.22%) Moodle
14 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
16 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
16 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.037%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.037%) Maya
9 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.81%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.18%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.074%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.074%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.037%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 962 (35.49%) AWS
2 545 (20.10%) GCP
3 487 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
4 425 (15.68%) Power Platform
5 323 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
6 302 (11.14%) Entra ID
7 201 (7.41%) GitHub
8 192 (7.08%) SaaS
9 156 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 125 (4.61%) Power Automate
12 120 (4.43%) PaaS
13 106 (3.91%) Azure AI
14 102 (3.76%) Serverless
15 99 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
15 99 (3.65%) PowerApps
16 91 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
17 87 (3.21%) Snowflake
18 73 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
19 71 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 300 (11.07%) Firewall
2 174 (6.42%) VPN
3 165 (6.09%) DNS
4 153 (5.64%) WAN
5 142 (5.24%) DHCP
6 122 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (3.95%) TCP/IP
8 96 (3.54%) LAN
9 81 (2.99%) Network Security
9 81 (2.99%) SD-WAN
10 60 (2.21%) Internet
11 54 (1.99%) VLAN
12 41 (1.51%) SAN
13 34 (1.25%) VoIP
13 34 (1.25%) Wireless
14 27 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
15 26 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
16 22 (0.81%) Broadband
17 20 (0.74%) BGP
17 20 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (11.40%) Power BI
2 266 (9.81%) SQL Server
3 165 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
4 158 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 102 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 76 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
9 62 (2.29%) Tableau
10 60 (2.21%) Metadata
11 59 (2.18%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.03%) MongoDB
13 52 (1.92%) Relational Database
14 50 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (1.81%) Big Data
16 32 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 28 (1.03%) MySQL
19 25 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
20 24 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 195 (7.19%) Git
2 91 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 81 (2.99%) JIRA
4 59 (2.18%) GitLab
5 50 (1.84%) MLflow
6 35 (1.29%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.18%) Postman
8 21 (0.77%) Eclipse
9 18 (0.66%) Chocolatey
10 17 (0.63%) Selenium
10 17 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.30%) Vite
17 7 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 799 (29.47%) Finance
2 782 (28.85%) Social Skills
3 288 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (8.34%) Banking
5 182 (6.71%) Law
6 120 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.09%) Retail
8 104 (3.84%) Legal
9 99 (3.65%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 61 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 61 (2.25%) Marketing
12 51 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 50 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 49 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.59%) Multimedia
16 39 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.40%) Front Office
18 33 (1.22%) Retail Banking
19 25 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 538 (19.85%) Senior
2 354 (13.06%) Architect
2 354 (13.06%) Lead
3 291 (10.73%) Developer
4 216 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
5 215 (7.93%) Analyst
6 174 (6.42%) Data Engineer
7 130 (4.80%) Support Engineer
8 122 (4.50%) Software Engineer
9 117 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
12 104 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 94 (3.47%) IT Support
14 91 (3.36%) Security Engineer
15 85 (3.14%) IT Engineer
16 84 (3.10%) Data Architect
17 83 (3.06%) Network Engineer
18 82 (3.02%) Consultant
19 76 (2.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (9.07%) .NET
2 165 (6.09%) React
3 125 (4.61%) REST
4 110 (4.06%) CSS
5 104 (3.84%) HTML
6 103 (3.80%) RESTful
7 101 (3.73%) Kafka
8 89 (3.28%) Node.js
8 89 (3.28%) OAuth
9 69 (2.55%) .NET Core
10 57 (2.10%) LangChain
11 55 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 54 (1.99%) Django
12 54 (1.99%) TensorFlow
13 53 (1.95%) PySpark
14 47 (1.73%) SAML
15 41 (1.51%) AngularJS
16 40 (1.48%) SOAP
17 37 (1.36%) scikit-learn
17 37 (1.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 244 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.84%) Product Ownership
3 95 (3.50%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 80 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 71 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 70 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 60 (2.21%) AI Agents
11 58 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
12 57 (2.10%) Data Centre
13 55 (2.03%) Low-Code
14 52 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
15 51 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
16 48 (1.77%) Onboarding
17 41 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
18 39 (1.44%) Algorithms
19 38 (1.40%) Cyberattack
20 32 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 416 (15.34%) Windows
2 177 (6.53%) Windows Server
3 168 (6.20%) Linux
4 87 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.92%) Unix
6 45 (1.66%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.25%) VMS
7 34 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (1.03%) Android
11 20 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 9 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.26%) CentOS
15 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.15%) SUSE
15 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (27.15%) DevOps
2 641 (23.64%) CI/CD
3 571 (21.06%) AI
4 549 (20.25%) Agile
5 462 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (16.49%) Analytics
7 382 (14.09%) Mentoring
8 344 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 336 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
10 335 (12.36%) Roadmaps
11 321 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 316 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
13 309 (11.40%) Computer Science
14 291 (10.73%) Data Modelling
15 269 (9.92%) Software Engineering
16 265 (9.77%) Machine Learning
17 253 (9.33%) Microservices
18 244 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 239 (8.82%) ITIL
20 235 (8.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 724 (26.71%) Python
2 627 (23.13%) SQL
3 323 (11.91%) PowerShell
4 251 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 250 (9.22%) C#
6 142 (5.24%) Java
7 131 (4.83%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.69%) Bash
9 56 (2.07%) Bicep
10 53 (1.95%) Go
11 45 (1.66%) R
12 38 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 36 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.77%) Scala
16 20 (0.74%) C++
17 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.48%) Rust
18 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 411 (15.16%) Degree
2 277 (10.22%) Azure Certification
3 237 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 181 (6.68%) Security Cleared
5 145 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 127 (4.68%) SC Cleared
7 113 (4.17%) CISSP
8 103 (3.80%) AWS Certification
9 76 (2.80%) Master's Degree
10 73 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 51 (1.88%) CEH
12 50 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 44 (1.62%) CISM
13 44 (1.62%) DV Cleared
14 42 (1.55%) CCNP
15 35 (1.29%) CCNA
15 35 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (1.22%) PMI Certification
17 32 (1.18%) PMP
18 29 (1.07%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (7.19%) GDPR
2 187 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.20%) NIST
4 137 (5.05%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.14%) QA
6 79 (2.91%) SLA
7 40 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 40 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 38 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 35 (1.29%) NCSC
10 33 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.07%) EU AI Act
12 27 (1.00%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.89%) GRC
13 24 (0.89%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.85%) PSD2
15 21 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 21 (0.77%) PMO
16 17 (0.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 386 (14.24%) Active Directory
2 250 (9.22%) Docker
3 95 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.18%) Hyper-V
5 46 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.96%) vSphere
8 11 (0.41%) Firmware
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.18%) KVM
10 5 (0.18%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.037%) NLBS
13 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.037%) Xen
13 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 331 (12.21%) Terraform
2 301 (11.10%) Kubernetes
3 244 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.76%) Ansible
5 66 (2.43%) SCCM
6 60 (2.21%) Grafana
7 53 (1.95%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.63%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.44%) CASB
14 9 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.33%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 7 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
17 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.22%) Nagios
18 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,089 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 249 (9.18%) Databricks
3 189 (6.97%) VMware
4 153 (5.64%) Google
5 132 (4.87%) Cisco
6 85 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 65 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 64 (2.36%) Fortinet
10 62 (2.29%) Oracle
11 51 (1.88%) Dell
12 49 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
13 46 (1.70%) Meraki
14 42 (1.55%) Salesforce
14 42 (1.55%) SAP
15 39 (1.44%) Splunk
16 35 (1.29%) CheckPoint
16 35 (1.29%) SolarWinds
17 34 (1.25%) Dynatrace
18 33 (1.22%) CyberArk