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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,689 2,559 4,539
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.43% 19.28% 20.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.56% 43.72% 45.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 1,971 3,858
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -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 6,629 5,853 9,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.03% 44.09% 44.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,266 4,161 8,131
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +1 631 £77,500 +3.33% 312
West London +10 73 £67,059 +36.86% 50
South London +28 38 £70,000 +16.67% 24
East London -10 27 £31,250 -63.24% 42
North London +15 14 £66,250 +55.88% 8
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
1 185 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 147 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 53 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.93%) Confluence
6 15 (0.56%) Appian
7 13 (0.48%) Apache
7 13 (0.48%) WordPress
8 12 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.41%) IIS
10 9 (0.33%) CMS
11 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.22%) Camunda
12 6 (0.22%) Moodle
13 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 50 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.41%) 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%) Maya
Business Applications
1 46 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.86%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
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%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.037%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 955 (35.52%) AWS
2 546 (20.30%) GCP
3 484 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
4 428 (15.92%) Power Platform
5 323 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
6 301 (11.19%) Entra ID
7 197 (7.33%) GitHub
8 190 (7.07%) SaaS
9 157 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 133 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 130 (4.83%) Power Automate
12 116 (4.31%) PaaS
13 102 (3.79%) PowerApps
13 102 (3.79%) Serverless
14 101 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 100 (3.72%) Azure AI
16 98 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
17 86 (3.20%) Snowflake
18 71 (2.64%) dbt
19 70 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 296 (11.01%) Firewall
2 170 (6.32%) VPN
3 161 (5.99%) DNS
4 154 (5.73%) WAN
5 138 (5.13%) DHCP
6 120 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 107 (3.98%) TCP/IP
8 97 (3.61%) LAN
9 82 (3.05%) SD-WAN
10 81 (3.01%) Network Security
11 62 (2.31%) Internet
12 49 (1.82%) VLAN
13 37 (1.38%) SAN
14 36 (1.34%) Wireless
15 35 (1.30%) VoIP
16 27 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.82%) Broadband
19 21 (0.78%) BGP
19 21 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (11.60%) Power BI
2 267 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 167 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (5.80%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (2.83%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 61 (2.27%) Tableau
10 60 (2.23%) Metadata
11 59 (2.19%) BigQuery
12 54 (2.01%) MongoDB
13 53 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (1.93%) Relational Database
15 49 (1.82%) Big Data
16 29 (1.08%) MySQL
16 29 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 28 (1.04%) Delta Lake
18 25 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
19 24 (0.89%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 190 (7.07%) Git
2 89 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.05%) JIRA
4 59 (2.19%) GitLab
5 51 (1.90%) MLflow
6 39 (1.45%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.15%) Postman
8 21 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (0.60%) Selenium
12 14 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.52%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.52%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 10 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.33%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.30%) JMeter
16 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 807 (30.01%) Finance
2 778 (28.93%) Social Skills
3 283 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (8.29%) Banking
5 187 (6.95%) Law
6 120 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.13%) Retail
8 102 (3.79%) Legal
9 97 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.34%) Marketing
12 62 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
13 54 (2.01%) Financial Institution
14 50 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.60%) Multimedia
17 38 (1.41%) Telecoms
18 37 (1.38%) Front Office
19 34 (1.26%) Retail Banking
20 26 (0.97%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 532 (19.78%) Senior
2 354 (13.16%) Lead
3 349 (12.98%) Architect
4 289 (10.75%) Developer
5 216 (8.03%) Analyst
6 202 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
7 172 (6.40%) Data Engineer
8 128 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 124 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 118 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 115 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 105 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 104 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 92 (3.42%) IT Support
14 92 (3.42%) Security Engineer
15 84 (3.12%) IT Engineer
15 84 (3.12%) Network Engineer
16 79 (2.94%) Data Architect
17 78 (2.90%) Consultant
18 75 (2.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (9.22%) .NET
2 159 (5.91%) React
3 129 (4.80%) REST
4 109 (4.05%) CSS
5 103 (3.83%) HTML
5 103 (3.83%) RESTful
6 99 (3.68%) Kafka
7 87 (3.24%) Node.js
7 87 (3.24%) OAuth
8 72 (2.68%) .NET Core
9 57 (2.12%) LangChain
10 54 (2.01%) PyTorch
11 53 (1.97%) Django
11 53 (1.97%) TensorFlow
12 51 (1.90%) PySpark
13 47 (1.75%) SAML
14 44 (1.64%) SOAP
15 40 (1.49%) AngularJS
16 37 (1.38%) Swagger
16 37 (1.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 242 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 103 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 82 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 79 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 62 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 58 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 58 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 57 (2.12%) Data Centre
11 56 (2.08%) Low-Code
12 53 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 49 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
13 49 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 45 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 40 (1.49%) Algorithms
16 37 (1.38%) Cyberattack
17 32 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 408 (15.17%) Windows
2 176 (6.55%) Windows Server
3 162 (6.02%) Linux
4 90 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.93%) Unix
6 46 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.26%) VMS
8 31 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (1.04%) Android
10 19 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.26%) CentOS
15 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.15%) SUSE
16 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (27.30%) DevOps
2 646 (24.02%) CI/CD
3 564 (20.97%) AI
4 557 (20.71%) Agile
5 456 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (16.59%) Analytics
7 382 (14.21%) Mentoring
8 343 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 338 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
10 329 (12.24%) Roadmaps
11 318 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
12 313 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 310 (11.53%) Computer Science
14 287 (10.67%) Data Modelling
15 273 (10.15%) Software Engineering
16 261 (9.71%) Microservices
17 260 (9.67%) Machine Learning
18 241 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
19 236 (8.78%) ITIL
20 232 (8.63%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 714 (26.55%) Python
2 623 (23.17%) SQL
3 321 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 250 (9.30%) C#
5 247 (9.19%) JavaScript
6 137 (5.09%) Java
7 126 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.72%) Bash
9 52 (1.93%) Bicep
9 52 (1.93%) Go
10 45 (1.67%) R
11 39 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 36 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 20 (0.74%) C++
15 19 (0.71%) Scala
16 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.52%) Rust
17 13 (0.48%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 415 (15.43%) Degree
2 265 (9.85%) Azure Certification
3 236 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 177 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 143 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 125 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 114 (4.24%) CISSP
8 107 (3.98%) AWS Certification
9 80 (2.98%) Master's Degree
10 67 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 50 (1.86%) CEH
12 44 (1.64%) CISM
13 43 (1.60%) DV Cleared
14 38 (1.41%) CCNP
15 34 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
16 33 (1.23%) PMI Certification
17 32 (1.19%) CCNA
17 32 (1.19%) PMP
18 29 (1.08%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (7.21%) GDPR
2 188 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 168 (6.25%) NIST
4 137 (5.09%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.16%) QA
6 76 (2.83%) SLA
7 41 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 35 (1.30%) NCSC
10 33 (1.23%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.08%) EU AI Act
12 26 (0.97%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.89%) GRC
13 24 (0.89%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.86%) PSD2
15 21 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 19 (0.71%) PMO
17 17 (0.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 379 (14.09%) Active Directory
2 254 (9.45%) Docker
3 87 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.93%) vSphere
8 14 (0.52%) Firmware
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) 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
1 326 (12.12%) Terraform
2 300 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 239 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 126 (4.69%) Ansible
5 65 (2.42%) SCCM
6 60 (2.23%) Grafana
7 51 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.63%) Argo
12 13 (0.48%) Istio
13 12 (0.45%) CASB
14 9 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 6 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.22%) Control-M
16 6 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,062 (39.49%) Microsoft
2 238 (8.85%) Databricks
3 180 (6.69%) VMware
4 153 (5.69%) Google
5 129 (4.80%) Cisco
6 86 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.38%) Oracle
9 63 (2.34%) OpenAI
10 60 (2.23%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
11 49 (1.82%) Dell
12 45 (1.67%) Meraki
13 44 (1.64%) Salesforce
14 43 (1.60%) SAP
15 36 (1.34%) Splunk
16 35 (1.30%) CheckPoint
16 35 (1.30%) SolarWinds
17 33 (1.23%) CyberArk
18 31 (1.15%) Commvault