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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,135 2,387 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.66% 20.15% 19.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.21% 43.98% 44.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,296 1,699 2,639
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,685
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 £112,625 £112,500 £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 8,426 5,428 8,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.03% 45.83% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,668 3,720 5,712
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,501 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,100 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +1 428 £85,000 +6.25% 422
West London -1 88 £72,500 +31.82% 106
South London -2 34 £90,000 +38.46% 37
East London -14 13 £75,000 +76.47% 43
North London -7 12 £60,000 -20.00% 11
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
1 197 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 115 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.95%) Confluence
5 39 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 31 (0.99%) Apache
7 22 (0.70%) CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 12 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.35%) Camunda
11 8 (0.26%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.096%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.096%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 55 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Trello
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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.80%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.032%) Endur
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (32.92%) AWS
2 626 (19.97%) GCP
3 521 (16.62%) Microsoft 365
4 431 (13.75%) Power Platform
5 429 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
6 385 (12.28%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.79%) SaaS
8 178 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 176 (5.61%) GitHub
10 166 (5.30%) Serverless
11 165 (5.26%) Azure AI
12 159 (5.07%) PaaS
13 157 (5.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 155 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 140 (4.47%) Snowflake
16 123 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 120 (3.83%) Power Automate
18 117 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
19 116 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
20 103 (3.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.54%) Firewall
2 166 (5.30%) VPN
3 160 (5.10%) Network Security
4 154 (4.91%) DNS
5 118 (3.76%) DHCP
6 111 (3.54%) WAN
7 96 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
8 94 (3.00%) LAN
9 78 (2.49%) VLAN
10 77 (2.46%) TCP/IP
11 61 (1.95%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.79%) SAN
12 56 (1.79%) Wireless
13 40 (1.28%) BGP
14 36 (1.15%) OSPF
15 30 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (0.80%) Kerberos
17 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 15 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.45%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (9.25%) Power BI
2 272 (8.68%) SQL Server
3 174 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 137 (4.37%) Data Lake
6 84 (2.68%) Metadata
7 77 (2.46%) Tableau
8 73 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 73 (2.33%) NoSQL
9 72 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
10 56 (1.79%) Delta Lake
11 53 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 37 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 36 (1.15%) Data Vault
14 36 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
15 30 (0.96%) MySQL
16 29 (0.93%) Big Data
16 29 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 186 (5.93%) Git
2 115 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 114 (3.64%) JIRA
4 61 (1.95%) GitLab
5 24 (0.77%) MLflow
6 21 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.54%) Selenium
8 15 (0.48%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.45%) JUnit
9 14 (0.45%) Mockito
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.35%) Maven
12 9 (0.29%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 965 (30.78%) Finance
2 962 (30.69%) Social Skills
3 307 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (7.18%) Banking
4 225 (7.18%) Law
5 157 (5.01%) Legal
6 142 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 142 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 105 (3.35%) Retail
8 76 (2.42%) Marketing
9 64 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 63 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.88%) Financial Institution
12 38 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 30 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (0.89%) Front Office
16 20 (0.64%) Advertising
17 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.51%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 579 (18.47%) Senior
2 555 (17.70%) Architect
3 385 (12.28%) Lead
4 341 (10.88%) Developer
5 289 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 202 (6.44%) Data Engineer
7 186 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
8 154 (4.91%) Analyst
9 129 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 128 (4.08%) Consultant
11 125 (3.99%) Azure Architect
11 125 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 120 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 101 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 91 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
16 86 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 85 (2.71%) Network Engineer
18 83 (2.65%) Senior Developer
19 74 (2.36%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (14.51%) Terraform
2 313 (9.98%) .NET
3 189 (6.03%) REST
4 157 (5.01%) React
5 134 (4.27%) Kafka
6 102 (3.25%) RESTful
7 88 (2.81%) LangChain
7 88 (2.81%) OAuth
8 87 (2.78%) ASP.NET
8 87 (2.78%) Spring
9 86 (2.74%) Node.js
10 82 (2.62%) .NET Core
11 77 (2.46%) PySpark
11 77 (2.46%) Spring Boot
12 62 (1.98%) PyTorch
13 61 (1.95%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.72%) LangGraph
15 53 (1.69%) OAuth2
16 51 (1.63%) .NET Framework
16 51 (1.63%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 420 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 165 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 100 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 98 (3.13%) AI Agents
8 92 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 61 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 53 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 51 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 48 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
13 47 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.31%) Data Structures
16 40 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
17 39 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
18 36 (1.15%) Low-Code
19 31 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 387 (12.34%) Windows
2 163 (5.20%) Linux
3 151 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 38 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 26 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.64%) VMS
8 18 (0.57%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.35%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (29.19%) DevOps
2 884 (28.20%) CI/CD
3 834 (26.60%) AI
4 679 (21.66%) Agile
5 530 (16.91%) Roadmaps
6 506 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
7 487 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 481 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 457 (14.58%) Analytics
10 435 (13.88%) Mentoring
11 384 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 355 (11.32%) Data Engineering
13 353 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
14 341 (10.88%) Machine Learning
15 331 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
16 322 (10.27%) Software Engineering
17 302 (9.63%) Migration
18 300 (9.57%) Data Modelling
19 299 (9.54%) Microservices
20 285 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 748 (23.86%) Python
2 661 (21.08%) SQL
3 338 (10.78%) C#
4 273 (8.71%) PowerShell
5 222 (7.08%) Java
6 191 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 163 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 87 (2.78%) Bicep
9 84 (2.68%) Bash
10 51 (1.63%) Scala
11 36 (1.15%) Go
12 30 (0.96%) R
13 24 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.70%) C++
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 14 (0.45%) VBA
19 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
20 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 391 (12.47%) Degree
2 265 (8.45%) Azure Certification
3 259 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 189 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 129 (4.11%) CISSP
6 126 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 109 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.23%) CISM
10 67 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 58 (1.85%) CCNP
12 55 (1.75%) AWS Certification
13 46 (1.47%) CCNA
14 37 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (0.89%) CEH
16 27 (0.86%) PhD
17 26 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.83%) PMP
18 25 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
19 24 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.36%) GDPR
2 168 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 149 (4.75%) QA
4 122 (3.89%) NIST
5 79 (2.52%) SLA
6 62 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 51 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.28%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) NCSC
10 27 (0.86%) PMO
11 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 388 (12.38%) Active Directory
2 250 (7.97%) Docker
3 124 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.51%) vSphere
8 13 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Firmware
12 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 322 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 131 (4.18%) Ansible
4 78 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 50 (1.59%) SCCM
6 49 (1.56%) Grafana
7 33 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.51%) Argo
10 14 (0.45%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.35%) CASB
12 11 (0.35%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) QRadar
14 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,353 (43.16%) Microsoft
2 332 (10.59%) Databricks
3 185 (5.90%) VMware
4 162 (5.17%) Cisco
5 160 (5.10%) Google
6 81 (2.58%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.46%) Oracle
8 74 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 72 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 60 (1.91%) Foundry
11 52 (1.66%) Salesforce
11 52 (1.66%) Splunk
12 50 (1.59%) Meraki
12 50 (1.59%) SAP
13 42 (1.34%) Fortinet
13 42 (1.34%) Zscaler
14 40 (1.28%) Tenable
15 39 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
16 36 (1.15%) Dell
17 33 (1.05%) Dynatrace