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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,364 3,148 3,963
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.99% 20.19% 22.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.99% 44.59% 47.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,713 2,201 3,442
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,767 7,060 8,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.46% 45.28% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,729 4,513 6,978
10th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,752
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 0 492 £80,000 +6.67% 281
West London +7 61 £65,000 -13.33% 43
East London -6 25 £34,000 -37.44% 47
North London +21 24 £75,000 -6.25% 3
South London +6 17 £46,750 -24.16% 34
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
1 166 (7.02%) SharePoint
2 142 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 68 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.27%) Confluence
6 14 (0.59%) Apache
7 13 (0.55%) IIS
8 11 (0.47%) Appian
9 9 (0.38%) CMS
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 5 (0.21%) WordPress
12 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.17%) Moodle
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.30%) Maya
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.80%) Endur
4 9 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.30%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.25%) Shopify
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.085%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.085%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.085%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.085%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.042%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 853 (36.08%) AWS
2 457 (19.33%) GCP
3 404 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
4 393 (16.62%) Power Platform
5 359 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
6 249 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 174 (7.36%) GitHub
8 158 (6.68%) SaaS
9 144 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 135 (5.71%) Power Automate
11 118 (4.99%) Dynamics 365
12 112 (4.74%) PaaS
13 109 (4.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 109 (4.61%) PowerApps
14 108 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 100 (4.23%) Serverless
16 80 (3.38%) Azure AI
17 72 (3.05%) Snowflake
18 65 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 238 (10.07%) Firewall
2 143 (6.05%) VPN
3 132 (5.58%) WAN
4 122 (5.16%) DNS
5 95 (4.02%) DHCP
6 94 (3.98%) LAN
7 83 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
8 81 (3.43%) TCP/IP
9 57 (2.41%) Network Security
10 56 (2.37%) SD-WAN
11 51 (2.16%) Internet
12 45 (1.90%) Wireless
13 41 (1.73%) VLAN
14 35 (1.48%) VoIP
15 28 (1.18%) SAN
16 22 (0.93%) BGP
16 22 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
16 22 (0.93%) OSPF
17 14 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
18 11 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (11.29%) Power BI
2 233 (9.86%) SQL Server
3 176 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
4 151 (6.39%) Data Lake
5 111 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 111 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 88 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 79 (3.34%) Metadata
8 74 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 70 (2.96%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.33%) Big Data
11 47 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.52%) MySQL
14 35 (1.48%) Tableau
15 34 (1.44%) BigQuery
15 34 (1.44%) Hadoop
16 23 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 20 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 19 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 202 (8.54%) Git
2 104 (4.40%) JIRA
3 76 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.86%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.73%) GitLab
6 34 (1.44%) MLflow
7 27 (1.14%) Postman
8 24 (1.02%) Selenium
9 19 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.63%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.55%) JMeter
12 13 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (0.47%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.38%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.30%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.25%) Chocolatey
17 5 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 742 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 719 (30.41%) Finance
3 288 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (8.46%) Law
5 180 (7.61%) Banking
6 137 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 133 (5.63%) Retail
8 121 (5.12%) Legal
9 85 (3.60%) Public Sector
10 81 (3.43%) Marketing
11 62 (2.62%) Financial Institution
12 58 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 54 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 52 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
16 35 (1.48%) Multimedia
16 35 (1.48%) Retail Banking
17 31 (1.31%) Manufacturing
18 29 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 426 (18.02%) Senior
2 332 (14.04%) Developer
3 297 (12.56%) Lead
4 290 (12.27%) Architect
5 180 (7.61%) Data Engineer
6 176 (7.45%) Analyst
7 161 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
8 129 (5.46%) Support Engineer
9 102 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 92 (3.89%) Software Engineer
11 86 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
12 81 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 79 (3.34%) Data Architect
14 77 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
15 76 (3.21%) Senior Developer
16 73 (3.09%) IT Support
17 70 (2.96%) Support Analyst
18 65 (2.75%) Network Engineer
19 64 (2.71%) .NET Developer
20 63 (2.66%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (10.41%) .NET
2 157 (6.64%) React
3 145 (6.13%) REST
4 113 (4.78%) HTML
5 105 (4.44%) CSS
6 95 (4.02%) RESTful
7 88 (3.72%) .NET Core
8 86 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 83 (3.51%) Node.js
10 72 (3.05%) Kafka
11 61 (2.58%) Vue
12 57 (2.41%) ASP.NET
12 57 (2.41%) OAuth
13 53 (2.24%) Web Services
14 50 (2.12%) .NET Framework
15 47 (1.99%) PySpark
15 47 (1.99%) PyTorch
16 46 (1.95%) YAML
17 43 (1.82%) Middleware
18 42 (1.78%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 198 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 81 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
6 80 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 63 (2.66%) Low-Code
9 59 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 56 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 53 (2.24%) Onboarding
12 52 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.95%) Public Cloud
14 45 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 42 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.69%) Algorithms
16 40 (1.69%) Data Structures
17 33 (1.40%) Virtual Team
18 31 (1.31%) Reinsurance
19 25 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 375 (15.86%) Windows
2 180 (7.61%) Windows Server
3 160 (6.77%) Linux
4 70 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 41 (1.73%) Unix
7 35 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (1.27%) Android
10 26 (1.10%) VMS
11 19 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 10 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 4 (0.17%) CentOS
15 4 (0.17%) Solaris
16 3 (0.13%) SUSE
17 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
18 1 (0.042%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (29.23%) DevOps
2 597 (25.25%) CI/CD
3 574 (24.28%) Agile
4 517 (21.87%) AI
5 485 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
6 419 (17.72%) Analytics
7 314 (13.28%) Mentoring
8 302 (12.77%) Computer Science
9 298 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 291 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
11 287 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 279 (11.80%) Data Modelling
13 276 (11.68%) Business Intelligence
14 267 (11.29%) Microservices
15 260 (11.00%) Machine Learning
16 250 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 238 (10.07%) ETL
18 225 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
18 225 (9.52%) Software Engineering
19 220 (9.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 638 (26.99%) Python
2 587 (24.83%) SQL
3 288 (12.18%) PowerShell
4 279 (11.80%) C#
5 254 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 127 (5.37%) Java
7 123 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 70 (2.96%) Bash
9 53 (2.24%) Bicep
10 41 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.61%) R
11 38 (1.61%) Scala
12 32 (1.35%) Go
13 29 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.63%) C++
16 14 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.51%) PHP
17 12 (0.51%) Rust
18 10 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 430 (18.19%) Degree
2 221 (9.35%) Azure Certification
3 213 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 141 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 127 (5.37%) Security Cleared
6 110 (4.65%) AWS Certification
7 102 (4.31%) Master's Degree
8 91 (3.85%) SC Cleared
9 86 (3.64%) CISSP
10 53 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.69%) CISM
12 38 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 37 (1.57%) CCNP
14 34 (1.44%) PMI Certification
15 33 (1.40%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
17 27 (1.14%) ISTQB
18 26 (1.10%) PMP
19 25 (1.06%) CEH
20 23 (0.97%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.78%) GDPR
2 176 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 134 (5.67%) NIST
4 129 (5.46%) Data Quality
5 102 (4.31%) QA
6 50 (2.12%) SLA
7 34 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 34 (1.44%) NCSC
8 28 (1.18%) EU AI Act
9 26 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 25 (1.06%) HIPAA
10 25 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.97%) PSD2
12 22 (0.93%) Solvency II
13 19 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.59%) PMO
14 14 (0.59%) SOC 2
15 11 (0.47%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.42%) GRC
17 8 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 331 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 230 (9.73%) Docker
3 89 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.68%) Firmware
6 16 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.63%) vSphere
8 14 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.38%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.25%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.21%) NFS
12 4 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.17%) Postfix
12 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
12 4 (0.17%) XenApp
13 3 (0.13%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.085%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.042%) zsh
Systems Management
1 289 (12.23%) Terraform
2 270 (11.42%) Kubernetes
3 199 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 112 (4.74%) Ansible
5 53 (2.24%) SCCM
6 45 (1.90%) Grafana
7 43 (1.82%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.72%) Argo
11 16 (0.68%) CASB
12 12 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 11 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.38%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.38%) SCOM
15 8 (0.34%) Autotask
16 7 (0.30%) Rancher
17 5 (0.21%) Kibana
17 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,000 (42.30%) Microsoft
2 195 (8.25%) Databricks
3 163 (6.90%) VMware
4 119 (5.03%) Cisco
5 100 (4.23%) Google
6 80 (3.38%) Oracle
7 74 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 72 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 57 (2.41%) Fortinet
10 55 (2.33%) SAP
11 48 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 47 (1.99%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.48%) Meraki
14 34 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
15 32 (1.35%) CheckPoint
15 32 (1.35%) Informatica
15 32 (1.35%) SolarWinds
16 29 (1.23%) Citrix
17 25 (1.06%) Commvault
17 25 (1.06%) Dell