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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,148 2,317 3,671
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.15% 19.58% 19.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.94% 43.25% 44.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 1,660 2,522
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 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,523 5,357 8,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.90% 45.28% 44.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,647 3,664 5,496
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £44,598
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.69% +2.93%

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 4 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 4 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 +1 395 £85,000 +9.68% 396
West London -2 86 £77,500 +37.78% 91
South London -10 24 £80,000 +23.08% 31
East London -8 21 £55,500 +30.59% 29
North London -7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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
1 206 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 137 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 87 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.03%) Confluence
5 33 (1.05%) Apache
6 28 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 8 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.095%) Kentico
15 3 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 60 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.095%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.095%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.064%) Trello
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) Houdini
10 1 (0.032%) Notion
10 1 (0.032%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 49 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.032%) Endur
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,022 (32.47%) AWS
2 646 (20.52%) GCP
3 543 (17.25%) Microsoft 365
4 472 (14.99%) Azure DevOps
5 445 (14.14%) Power Platform
6 429 (13.63%) Entra ID
7 229 (7.27%) SaaS
8 211 (6.70%) GitHub
9 191 (6.07%) Serverless
10 186 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 172 (5.46%) PaaS
12 148 (4.70%) Azure AI
12 148 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 135 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
14 132 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 128 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
16 127 (4.03%) Power Automate
17 123 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 123 (3.91%) Snowflake
18 114 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 287 (9.12%) Firewall
2 171 (5.43%) DNS
3 165 (5.24%) VPN
4 151 (4.80%) Network Security
5 130 (4.13%) DHCP
6 104 (3.30%) WAN
7 89 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
8 88 (2.80%) LAN
9 87 (2.76%) TCP/IP
10 79 (2.51%) VLAN
11 56 (1.78%) SAN
12 55 (1.75%) Wireless
13 51 (1.62%) SD-WAN
14 39 (1.24%) BGP
15 35 (1.11%) OSPF
16 29 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.79%) Kerberos
18 18 (0.57%) SSL
19 16 (0.51%) DMARC
20 14 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (9.21%) Power BI
2 257 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 176 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 122 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 100 (3.18%) Metadata
7 81 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 64 (2.03%) Tableau
11 54 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 42 (1.33%) Star Schema
14 37 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.11%) Data Vault
16 32 (1.02%) MySQL
17 31 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 30 (0.95%) Big Data
19 26 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
20 25 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 179 (5.69%) Git
2 125 (3.97%) JIRA
3 115 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.91%) GitLab
5 32 (1.02%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 14 (0.44%) JUnit
7 14 (0.44%) Mockito
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.41%) Selenium
9 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 9 (0.29%) Postman
11 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) Vite
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,008 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 984 (31.26%) Finance
3 307 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (7.24%) Law
5 215 (6.83%) Banking
6 173 (5.50%) Legal
7 150 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 142 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (3.30%) Retail
10 88 (2.80%) Marketing
11 74 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (1.97%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.08%) Front Office
17 21 (0.67%) Manufacturing
18 20 (0.64%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 594 (18.87%) Senior
2 562 (17.85%) Architect
3 394 (12.52%) Lead
4 358 (11.37%) Developer
5 281 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
6 204 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 185 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 161 (5.11%) Analyst
9 144 (4.57%) Consultant
10 140 (4.45%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 114 (3.62%) Data Architect
14 113 (3.59%) Azure Architect
15 100 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 98 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 97 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
18 89 (2.83%) Senior Developer
19 79 (2.51%) Network Engineer
20 75 (2.38%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (14.99%) Terraform
2 299 (9.50%) .NET
3 219 (6.96%) REST
4 163 (5.18%) React
5 116 (3.68%) Kafka
6 114 (3.62%) RESTful
7 93 (2.95%) OAuth
8 90 (2.86%) LangChain
9 89 (2.83%) Node.js
9 89 (2.83%) Spring
10 86 (2.73%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.57%) Spring Boot
12 79 (2.51%) .NET Core
13 78 (2.48%) PySpark
14 68 (2.16%) LangGraph
15 58 (1.84%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.78%) JSON
17 54 (1.72%) AngularJS
18 52 (1.65%) .NET Framework
18 52 (1.65%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 161 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 152 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (4.07%) AI Agents
4 128 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 98 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 92 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 73 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 56 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
14 41 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.21%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 35 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 34 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
18 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 396 (12.58%) Windows
2 173 (5.50%) Windows Server
3 157 (4.99%) Linux
4 47 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.32%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (30.24%) DevOps
2 933 (29.64%) CI/CD
3 864 (27.45%) AI
4 672 (21.35%) Agile
5 523 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
6 510 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 508 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 506 (16.07%) Roadmaps
9 476 (15.12%) Analytics
10 451 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 431 (13.69%) Mentoring
12 352 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
13 342 (10.86%) Software Engineering
14 337 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
15 333 (10.58%) Data Engineering
16 323 (10.26%) Machine Learning
17 320 (10.17%) Migration
18 311 (9.88%) Microservices
19 310 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
20 307 (9.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 772 (24.52%) Python
2 659 (20.93%) SQL
3 325 (10.32%) C#
4 293 (9.31%) PowerShell
5 211 (6.70%) Java
6 191 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 165 (5.24%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.24%) Bicep
9 84 (2.67%) Bash
10 53 (1.68%) Scala
11 44 (1.40%) R
12 28 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.76%) Go
14 20 (0.64%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 402 (12.77%) Degree
2 280 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 256 (8.13%) Azure Certification
4 213 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 137 (4.35%) CISSP
6 129 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 121 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 95 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.35%) CISM
10 73 (2.32%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 45 (1.43%) CCNP
13 44 (1.40%) CCNA
14 35 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 33 (1.05%) PhD
17 27 (0.86%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.79%) PMP
19 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 23 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 162 (5.15%) GDPR
4 145 (4.61%) QA
5 115 (3.65%) NIST
6 72 (2.29%) SLA
7 60 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.24%) GRC
10 30 (0.95%) NCSC
11 27 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 27 (0.86%) PMO
12 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 401 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 273 (8.67%) Docker
3 125 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 48 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.54%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 336 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 217 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (4.42%) Ansible
4 80 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 61 (1.94%) Grafana
6 47 (1.49%) SCCM
7 35 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.54%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CASB
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Puppet
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,367 (43.42%) Microsoft
2 291 (9.24%) Databricks
3 182 (5.78%) VMware
4 174 (5.53%) Google
5 149 (4.73%) Cisco
6 80 (2.54%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.32%) Oracle
9 63 (2.00%) Foundry
9 63 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 56 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.75%) SAP
12 50 (1.59%) Splunk
13 46 (1.46%) Meraki
14 43 (1.37%) Zscaler
15 38 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
15 38 (1.21%) Dynatrace
16 37 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 33 (1.05%) Citrix
17 33 (1.05%) Tenable