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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,999 2,427 4,646
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.19% 19.84% 19.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.79% 44.54% 44.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,126 1,799 3,734
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,325
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 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,353 5,449 10,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.80% 44.55% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,992 3,822 8,127
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,464 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% - -
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 9 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 9 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 0 626 £82,500 +6.45% 259
West London +15 79 £60,000 +41.18% 45
South London +19 46 £80,000 +23.08% 7
East London -6 21 £31,500 -63.48% 37
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
1 190 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 125 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 59 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.13%) Confluence
6 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (0.57%) Apache
8 13 (0.43%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 9 (0.30%) Appian
11 7 (0.23%) 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 46 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.50%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Endur
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.067%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 976 (32.54%) AWS
2 576 (19.21%) GCP
3 507 (16.91%) Microsoft 365
4 373 (12.44%) Power Platform
5 359 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 356 (11.87%) Entra ID
7 205 (6.84%) SaaS
8 193 (6.44%) GitHub
9 144 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 141 (4.70%) PaaS
11 137 (4.57%) Serverless
12 136 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 128 (4.27%) Azure AI
14 116 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 107 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
16 101 (3.37%) Snowflake
17 99 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
18 98 (3.27%) Power Automate
19 94 (3.13%) IaaS
20 93 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 316 (10.54%) Firewall
2 180 (6.00%) VPN
3 172 (5.74%) DNS
4 157 (5.24%) WAN
5 140 (4.67%) DHCP
6 135 (4.50%) Network Security
7 127 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (3.57%) LAN
9 90 (3.00%) TCP/IP
10 87 (2.90%) SD-WAN
11 64 (2.13%) VLAN
12 57 (1.90%) SAN
13 41 (1.37%) BGP
14 38 (1.27%) Wireless
15 37 (1.23%) OSPF
16 32 (1.07%) WLAN
17 30 (1.00%) VoIP
18 29 (0.97%) Internet
19 27 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
20 25 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 253 (8.44%) Power BI
3 131 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 97 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 65 (2.17%) Tableau
7 63 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
8 59 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 58 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 54 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 54 (1.80%) Metadata
11 48 (1.60%) BigQuery
12 46 (1.53%) Big Data
13 45 (1.50%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.37%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 28 (0.93%) MySQL
17 27 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 25 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (6.04%) Git
2 100 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.53%) JIRA
4 75 (2.50%) GitLab
5 44 (1.47%) MLflow
6 28 (0.93%) Postman
7 23 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.67%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
10 14 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.40%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.37%) Vite
13 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.23%) Claude Code
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 931 (31.04%) Finance
2 817 (27.24%) Social Skills
3 288 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (7.44%) Banking
5 175 (5.84%) Law
6 126 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 125 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 101 (3.37%) Legal
9 75 (2.50%) Retail
10 58 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.40%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.17%) Front Office
15 34 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 30 (1.00%) Marketing
17 28 (0.93%) Advertising
18 21 (0.70%) Multimedia
19 20 (0.67%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 574 (19.14%) Senior
2 457 (15.24%) Architect
3 397 (13.24%) Lead
4 290 (9.67%) Developer
5 278 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (5.94%) Analyst
7 170 (5.67%) Data Engineer
8 162 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 145 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 124 (4.13%) Consultant
12 110 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
13 108 (3.60%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.43%) IT Engineer
15 102 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 100 (3.33%) Security Engineer
16 100 (3.33%) Support Engineer
17 96 (3.20%) Network Engineer
18 92 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
19 87 (2.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (9.84%) .NET
2 162 (5.40%) React
3 132 (4.40%) REST
4 115 (3.83%) Kafka
5 101 (3.37%) OAuth
6 86 (2.87%) RESTful
7 77 (2.57%) Node.js
8 76 (2.53%) CSS
9 73 (2.43%) LangChain
10 70 (2.33%) .NET Core
10 70 (2.33%) PySpark
11 69 (2.30%) HTML
12 62 (2.07%) Spring
13 57 (1.90%) PyTorch
14 56 (1.87%) TensorFlow
15 53 (1.77%) SAML
16 52 (1.73%) Spring Boot
17 50 (1.67%) ASP.NET
18 46 (1.53%) OpenID
19 43 (1.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 326 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 102 (3.40%) Security Posture
4 91 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 69 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 65 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
8 65 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 63 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 60 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 42 (1.40%) Low-Code
14 40 (1.33%) Cyberattack
14 40 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 34 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 417 (13.90%) Windows
2 166 (5.54%) Linux
3 163 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 36 (1.20%) VMS
7 32 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (0.93%) Unix
10 24 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (0.77%) Android
12 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 16 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.33%) 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 (0.033%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (28.24%) DevOps
2 749 (24.97%) CI/CD
3 626 (20.87%) AI
4 591 (19.71%) Agile
5 455 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 437 (14.57%) Roadmaps
8 424 (14.14%) Mentoring
9 419 (13.97%) Analytics
10 417 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 315 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
12 313 (10.44%) Data Engineering
13 289 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
14 288 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 278 (9.27%) Software Engineering
16 270 (9.00%) Machine Learning
17 267 (8.90%) Data Modelling
18 259 (8.64%) Migration
19 256 (8.54%) Microservices
20 231 (7.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 730 (24.34%) Python
2 614 (20.47%) SQL
3 337 (11.24%) PowerShell
4 290 (9.67%) C#
5 224 (7.47%) JavaScript
6 165 (5.50%) Java
7 154 (5.14%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.67%) Bash
9 77 (2.57%) Bicep
10 49 (1.63%) Go
11 37 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 34 (1.13%) R
13 32 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.73%) Scala
15 21 (0.70%) C++
16 15 (0.50%) Rust
17 13 (0.43%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.40%) RPG
19 11 (0.37%) C
19 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 374 (12.47%) Degree
2 293 (9.77%) Azure Certification
3 232 (7.74%) Security Cleared
4 169 (5.64%) SC Cleared
5 149 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 124 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (4.10%) CISSP
8 109 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 54 (1.80%) CCNP
11 52 (1.73%) CCNA
12 50 (1.67%) CEH
12 50 (1.67%) CISM
12 50 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 43 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (1.20%) DV Cleared
15 31 (1.03%) CCIE
16 28 (0.93%) PMI Certification
17 27 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 153 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.10%) NIST
3 148 (4.93%) GDPR
4 107 (3.57%) QA
5 91 (3.03%) SLA
6 53 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 39 (1.30%) NCSC
9 34 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.10%) GRC
11 31 (1.03%) PMO
12 28 (0.93%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.27%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 413 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 239 (7.97%) Docker
3 119 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.03%) vSphere
8 14 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.20%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) KVM
12 2 (0.067%) Xen
12 2 (0.067%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.033%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 420 (14.00%) Terraform
2 323 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 221 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 136 (4.53%) Ansible
5 62 (2.07%) SCCM
6 57 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 56 (1.87%) Grafana
8 44 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.03%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 12 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.37%) Argo
14 10 (0.33%) Kibana
15 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
16 8 (0.27%) CASB
16 8 (0.27%) Nagios
17 7 (0.23%) Control-M
17 7 (0.23%) QRadar
17 7 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,204 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 303 (10.10%) Databricks
3 197 (6.57%) VMware
4 146 (4.87%) Cisco
5 128 (4.27%) Google
6 91 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.77%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 62 (2.07%) Oracle
10 54 (1.80%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.70%) Foundry
12 50 (1.67%) Meraki
12 50 (1.67%) SAP
13 48 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
13 48 (1.60%) Splunk
14 46 (1.53%) Dynatrace
15 43 (1.43%) SolarWinds
16 41 (1.37%) Dell
17 40 (1.33%) Salesforce
18 38 (1.27%) ForeScout