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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,971 2,399 4,631
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 19.94% 19.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.02% 44.92% 44.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,105 1,789 3,732
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,059
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.83% -9.14%

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 7,423 5,341 10,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.13% 44.39% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,955 3,789 8,104
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,464 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 0 628 £82,500 +6.45% 309
West London +10 80 £60,000 +41.18% 45
South London +16 47 £80,000 +23.08% 10
East London -7 21 £31,500 -63.48% 39
North London +3 11 £55,000 +10.00% 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
1 188 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 124 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.14%) Confluence
6 18 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.57%) Apache
8 13 (0.44%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 8 (0.27%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Camunda
13 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.17%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 48 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.47%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.034%) Maya
9 1 (0.034%) Notion
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.27%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.067%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.034%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 966 (32.51%) AWS
2 568 (19.12%) GCP
3 505 (17.00%) Microsoft 365
4 368 (12.39%) Power Platform
5 358 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
6 354 (11.92%) Entra ID
7 201 (6.77%) SaaS
8 189 (6.36%) GitHub
9 145 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 138 (4.64%) PaaS
11 136 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 134 (4.51%) Serverless
13 125 (4.21%) Azure AI
14 115 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 104 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
16 99 (3.33%) Snowflake
17 97 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
18 96 (3.23%) Power Automate
19 93 (3.13%) IaaS
20 89 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.64%) Firewall
2 179 (6.02%) VPN
3 172 (5.79%) DNS
4 157 (5.28%) WAN
5 140 (4.71%) DHCP
6 132 (4.44%) Network Security
7 125 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
8 106 (3.57%) LAN
9 92 (3.10%) TCP/IP
10 86 (2.89%) SD-WAN
11 62 (2.09%) VLAN
12 57 (1.92%) SAN
13 39 (1.31%) BGP
14 37 (1.25%) Wireless
15 35 (1.18%) OSPF
16 32 (1.08%) WLAN
17 30 (1.01%) VoIP
18 29 (0.98%) Internet
19 26 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
20 25 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 251 (8.45%) Power BI
3 130 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 95 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 64 (2.15%) Tableau
7 63 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 59 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 57 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 54 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 54 (1.82%) Metadata
11 47 (1.58%) Big Data
11 47 (1.58%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.51%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 40 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.94%) MySQL
17 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 25 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 179 (6.02%) Git
2 100 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.52%) GitLab
3 75 (2.52%) JIRA
4 44 (1.48%) MLflow
5 27 (0.91%) Postman
6 24 (0.81%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.67%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.54%) Selenium
9 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.37%) Vite
12 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.24%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 916 (30.83%) Finance
2 813 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 293 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (7.47%) Banking
5 175 (5.89%) Law
6 125 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 124 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 100 (3.37%) Legal
9 70 (2.36%) Retail
10 58 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 34 (1.14%) Front Office
15 33 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (0.98%) Marketing
17 25 (0.84%) Advertising
18 22 (0.74%) Multimedia
19 20 (0.67%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 570 (19.19%) Senior
2 454 (15.28%) Architect
3 391 (13.16%) Lead
4 285 (9.59%) Developer
5 278 (9.36%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (6.06%) Analyst
7 169 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 160 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 144 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 124 (4.17%) Consultant
12 111 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.64%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.47%) Support Engineer
15 102 (3.43%) IT Engineer
16 101 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 99 (3.33%) Security Engineer
18 95 (3.20%) Network Engineer
19 87 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
20 86 (2.89%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (9.73%) .NET
2 161 (5.42%) React
3 131 (4.41%) REST
4 115 (3.87%) Kafka
5 99 (3.33%) OAuth
6 83 (2.79%) RESTful
7 76 (2.56%) CSS
8 75 (2.52%) Node.js
9 72 (2.42%) LangChain
10 70 (2.36%) PySpark
11 69 (2.32%) .NET Core
11 69 (2.32%) HTML
12 59 (1.99%) Spring
13 56 (1.88%) PyTorch
14 55 (1.85%) TensorFlow
15 53 (1.78%) SAML
16 49 (1.65%) Spring Boot
17 48 (1.62%) ASP.NET
18 46 (1.55%) OpenID
19 43 (1.45%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 319 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 125 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 102 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 89 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 83 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 71 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 71 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
9 64 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 63 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 60 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.45%) Low-Code
13 43 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.35%) Cyberattack
16 34 (1.14%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 413 (13.90%) Windows
2 163 (5.49%) Linux
3 159 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.46%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 36 (1.21%) VMS
7 32 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (0.94%) Unix
10 24 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.77%) Android
12 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 16 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.30%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
19 1 (0.034%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (28.21%) DevOps
2 736 (24.77%) CI/CD
3 618 (20.80%) AI
4 585 (19.69%) Agile
5 457 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 429 (14.44%) Roadmaps
8 421 (14.17%) Mentoring
9 418 (14.07%) Analytics
10 415 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 315 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
12 310 (10.43%) Data Engineering
13 286 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
14 284 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 273 (9.19%) Software Engineering
16 266 (8.95%) Data Modelling
17 264 (8.89%) Machine Learning
18 255 (8.58%) Migration
19 254 (8.55%) Microservices
20 230 (7.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 731 (24.60%) Python
2 609 (20.50%) SQL
3 339 (11.41%) PowerShell
4 287 (9.66%) C#
5 223 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 162 (5.45%) Java
7 153 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.67%) Bash
9 78 (2.63%) Bicep
10 49 (1.65%) Go
11 37 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 35 (1.18%) R
13 31 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.77%) Scala
15 20 (0.67%) C++
16 15 (0.50%) Rust
17 12 (0.40%) RPG
17 12 (0.40%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.37%) C
18 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (12.55%) Degree
2 292 (9.83%) Azure Certification
3 232 (7.81%) Security Cleared
4 168 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 149 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 124 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (4.14%) CISSP
8 108 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (2.66%) AWS Certification
10 53 (1.78%) CCNP
11 51 (1.72%) CCNA
11 51 (1.72%) CEH
11 51 (1.72%) CISM
12 49 (1.65%) Master's Degree
13 45 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.21%) DV Cleared
15 30 (1.01%) CCIE
16 28 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 27 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 155 (5.22%) NIST
3 151 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 144 (4.85%) GDPR
5 101 (3.40%) QA
6 92 (3.10%) SLA
7 54 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.35%) NCSC
10 34 (1.14%) PCI DSS
11 33 (1.11%) GRC
12 30 (1.01%) PMO
13 29 (0.98%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.30%) ISO 22301
18 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 407 (13.70%) Active Directory
2 238 (8.01%) Docker
3 118 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.04%) vSphere
8 14 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.24%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) KVM
12 2 (0.067%) Xen
12 2 (0.067%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 412 (13.87%) Terraform
2 321 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 219 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (4.44%) Ansible
5 62 (2.09%) SCCM
6 57 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 55 (1.85%) Grafana
8 43 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.40%) Istio
11 12 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.34%) Argo
12 10 (0.34%) Kibana
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
14 8 (0.27%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) Control-M
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,193 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 303 (10.20%) Databricks
3 195 (6.56%) VMware
4 145 (4.88%) Cisco
5 126 (4.24%) Google
6 90 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.79%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.09%) Oracle
10 55 (1.85%) Fortinet
11 50 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
11 50 (1.68%) Foundry
11 50 (1.68%) Meraki
12 49 (1.65%) SAP
13 47 (1.58%) Splunk
14 44 (1.48%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.45%) SolarWinds
16 42 (1.41%) Dell
17 40 (1.35%) Salesforce
18 38 (1.28%) ForeScout