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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,113 2,282 3,609
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.02% 19.41% 19.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.73% 43.00% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,272 1,649 2,498
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,400 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.51% +1.60%

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 8,475 5,307 8,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.73% 45.14% 44.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,581 3,646 5,425
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,710 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -7.69% +4.00%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 0 384 £83,000 +7.10% 435
West London -3 82 £77,500 +40.91% 67
East London -5 24 £36,000 -15.29% 24
South London -15 21 £55,000 -15.38% 23
North London -5 14 £60,000 -20.00% 13
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
1 202 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 139 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 84 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 62 (1.99%) Confluence
5 34 (1.09%) Apache
6 31 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.64%) CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 6 (0.19%) IIS
10 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.096%) Kentico
13 3 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 61 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 27 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.67%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
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%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.71%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.096%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.032%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,008 (32.38%) AWS
2 647 (20.78%) GCP
3 538 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
4 471 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
5 455 (14.62%) Power Platform
6 428 (13.75%) Entra ID
7 235 (7.55%) SaaS
8 218 (7.00%) GitHub
9 195 (6.26%) Serverless
10 193 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 174 (5.59%) PaaS
12 147 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 142 (4.56%) Microsoft Copilot
14 141 (4.53%) Azure AI
15 131 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
16 130 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
17 129 (4.14%) Power Automate
18 119 (3.82%) Snowflake
19 116 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
19 116 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 285 (9.16%) Firewall
2 170 (5.46%) DNS
3 164 (5.27%) VPN
4 154 (4.95%) Network Security
5 129 (4.14%) DHCP
6 102 (3.28%) WAN
7 88 (2.83%) LAN
8 87 (2.79%) TCP/IP
9 85 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
10 78 (2.51%) VLAN
11 55 (1.77%) SAN
12 53 (1.70%) Wireless
13 51 (1.64%) SD-WAN
14 39 (1.25%) BGP
15 36 (1.16%) OSPF
16 29 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
17 27 (0.87%) Kerberos
18 19 (0.61%) SSL
19 17 (0.55%) DMARC
20 14 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (9.51%) Power BI
2 243 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 179 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 122 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.34%) Metadata
7 81 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 69 (2.22%) Tableau
11 53 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.38%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.16%) Data Vault
16 33 (1.06%) MySQL
17 30 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (0.84%) Big Data
19 25 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (5.72%) Git
2 122 (3.92%) JIRA
3 114 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.93%) GitLab
5 32 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.58%) MLflow
7 14 (0.45%) JUnit
7 14 (0.45%) Mockito
8 13 (0.42%) Selenium
9 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
10 11 (0.35%) Maven
11 9 (0.29%) Postman
12 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.26%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,009 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 984 (31.61%) Finance
3 305 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.26%) Law
5 218 (7.00%) Banking
6 175 (5.62%) Legal
7 151 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 141 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (3.34%) Retail
10 90 (2.89%) Marketing
11 76 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 69 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 36 (1.16%) Front Office
16 34 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.61%) Advertising
18 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 590 (18.95%) Senior
2 562 (18.05%) Architect
3 393 (12.62%) Lead
4 358 (11.50%) Developer
5 277 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
6 206 (6.62%) Data Engineer
7 181 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.17%) Analyst
9 147 (4.72%) Consultant
10 143 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 116 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 113 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 112 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 107 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 106 (3.41%) Azure Architect
16 100 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
17 94 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
18 89 (2.86%) Senior Developer
19 76 (2.44%) Network Engineer
20 74 (2.38%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (14.87%) Terraform
2 286 (9.19%) .NET
3 223 (7.16%) REST
4 164 (5.27%) React
5 114 (3.66%) RESTful
6 113 (3.63%) Kafka
7 95 (3.05%) LangChain
8 93 (2.99%) OAuth
9 88 (2.83%) Node.js
9 88 (2.83%) Spring
10 83 (2.67%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.60%) Spring Boot
12 78 (2.51%) PySpark
13 77 (2.47%) .NET Core
14 72 (2.31%) LangGraph
15 57 (1.83%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.80%) AngularJS
16 56 (1.80%) JSON
17 51 (1.64%) PyTorch
18 50 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 152 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 139 (4.47%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
6 106 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 95 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 95 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 69 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 47 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 47 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
13 39 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 37 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 34 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
15 34 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 33 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 389 (12.50%) Windows
2 173 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 156 (5.01%) Linux
4 48 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 31 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 18 (0.58%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.29%) CentOS
11 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 939 (30.16%) DevOps
2 935 (30.04%) CI/CD
3 878 (28.20%) AI
4 655 (21.04%) Agile
5 523 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 506 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 502 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 498 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 482 (15.48%) Analytics
10 471 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 426 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 360 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
13 356 (11.44%) Software Engineering
14 340 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
15 330 (10.60%) Data Engineering
16 318 (10.22%) Machine Learning
17 316 (10.15%) Cybersecurity
18 315 (10.12%) Data Modelling
19 312 (10.02%) Migration
20 311 (9.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 780 (25.06%) Python
2 658 (21.14%) SQL
3 313 (10.05%) C#
4 294 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 202 (6.49%) Java
6 186 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 158 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.21%) Bicep
9 88 (2.83%) Bash
10 52 (1.67%) Scala
11 47 (1.51%) R
12 30 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 30 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.80%) Go
14 19 (0.61%) C++
15 18 (0.58%) RPG
16 14 (0.45%) VBA
17 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
17 13 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 398 (12.79%) Degree
2 283 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 246 (7.90%) Azure Certification
4 214 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 146 (4.69%) CISSP
6 132 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 92 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (2.54%) CISM
10 75 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 51 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 42 (1.35%) CCNP
13 41 (1.32%) CCNA
14 39 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.12%) PhD
16 29 (0.93%) DV Cleared
17 24 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (0.77%) PMP
18 23 (0.74%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (8.35%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (5.24%) GDPR
4 141 (4.53%) QA
5 118 (3.79%) NIST
6 75 (2.41%) SLA
7 58 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.16%) GRC
10 30 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 30 (0.96%) NCSC
11 25 (0.80%) PMO
12 21 (0.67%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 14 (0.45%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.22%) WCAG
17 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 396 (12.72%) Active Directory
2 274 (8.80%) Docker
3 124 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.51%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) XenApp
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 331 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 208 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (4.47%) Ansible
4 79 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 61 (1.96%) Grafana
6 46 (1.48%) SCCM
7 33 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.87%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.55%) Argo
10 16 (0.51%) CASB
11 13 (0.42%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.35%) Puppet
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 8 (0.26%) Istio
14 8 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.22%) QRadar
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
17 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,355 (43.53%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.90%) Databricks
3 180 (5.78%) Google
4 179 (5.75%) VMware
5 143 (4.59%) Cisco
6 80 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 75 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.25%) Oracle
9 65 (2.09%) Foundry
9 65 (2.09%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.77%) SAP
12 47 (1.51%) Splunk
13 45 (1.45%) Zscaler
14 42 (1.35%) Meraki
15 40 (1.28%) Dynatrace
16 38 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
17 36 (1.16%) Fortinet
18 32 (1.03%) Tenable
19 30 (0.96%) Citrix