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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,082 2,546 3,960
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.62% 20.69% 18.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.30% 44.97% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,244 1,854 3,117
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £58,750
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 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.51%

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 8,047 5,661 9,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.57% 46.01% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,405 4,013 6,954
10th Percentile £42,200 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 0 524 £83,000 +7.10% 185
West London +5 95 £70,000 +55.56% 61
South London +4 46 £80,000 +23.08% 18
East London -14 17 £32,500 -36.27% 32
North London -2 8 £55,000 -21.43% 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
1 196 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 74 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Confluence
5 43 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 15 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.42%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Endur
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (33.29%) AWS
2 607 (19.70%) GCP
3 527 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
4 403 (13.08%) Power Platform
5 378 (12.26%) Entra ID
6 371 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (6.85%) SaaS
8 181 (5.87%) GitHub
9 161 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.87%) PaaS
11 147 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 147 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 146 (4.74%) Serverless
13 138 (4.48%) Azure AI
14 123 (3.99%) Snowflake
15 116 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 107 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
17 105 (3.41%) Power Automate
18 97 (3.15%) IaaS
19 92 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.09%) Firewall
2 173 (5.61%) VPN
3 170 (5.52%) DNS
4 159 (5.16%) Network Security
5 134 (4.35%) DHCP
6 133 (4.32%) WAN
7 119 (3.86%) Wi-Fi
8 112 (3.63%) LAN
9 91 (2.95%) TCP/IP
10 70 (2.27%) VLAN
11 69 (2.24%) SD-WAN
12 50 (1.62%) SAN
13 46 (1.49%) BGP
14 44 (1.43%) Wireless
15 42 (1.36%) OSPF
16 29 (0.94%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.88%) VoIP
18 25 (0.81%) WLAN
19 24 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
20 21 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (8.86%) Power BI
2 255 (8.27%) SQL Server
3 158 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 113 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 82 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (2.43%) Tableau
8 69 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 66 (2.14%) NoSQL
10 63 (2.04%) Metadata
11 51 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 49 (1.59%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.49%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.30%) Big Data
15 39 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 38 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
17 36 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.10%) MySQL
18 34 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 30 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 172 (5.58%) Git
2 107 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 92 (2.99%) JIRA
4 74 (2.40%) GitLab
5 34 (1.10%) MLflow
6 18 (0.58%) Postman
7 17 (0.55%) Selenium
8 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.32%) JUnit
11 10 (0.32%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
14 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 928 (30.11%) Finance
2 885 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 282 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (6.91%) Banking
5 194 (6.29%) Law
6 131 (4.25%) Public Sector
7 123 (3.99%) Legal
8 116 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (2.82%) Retail
10 53 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.14%) Front Office
15 32 (1.04%) Marketing
16 30 (0.97%) Advertising
17 29 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (0.94%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 586 (19.01%) Senior
2 519 (16.84%) Architect
3 425 (13.79%) Lead
4 316 (10.25%) Developer
5 269 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.84%) Data Engineer
7 175 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
8 170 (5.52%) Analyst
9 140 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.06%) Consultant
11 117 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 114 (3.70%) Azure Architect
13 112 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 110 (3.57%) Data Architect
15 96 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 95 (3.08%) Security Engineer
17 89 (2.89%) IT Engineer
18 87 (2.82%) IT Support
19 85 (2.76%) Network Engineer
20 82 (2.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (10.06%) .NET
2 171 (5.55%) React
3 143 (4.64%) REST
4 130 (4.22%) Kafka
5 100 (3.24%) Node.js
5 100 (3.24%) OAuth
6 89 (2.89%) RESTful
7 87 (2.82%) Spring
8 80 (2.60%) .NET Core
9 78 (2.53%) LangChain
10 76 (2.47%) Spring Boot
11 72 (2.34%) ASP.NET
12 70 (2.27%) PySpark
13 58 (1.88%) PyTorch
14 56 (1.82%) CSS
15 54 (1.75%) HTML
15 54 (1.75%) OpenID
15 54 (1.75%) TensorFlow
16 53 (1.72%) OAuth2
17 49 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 400 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (3.41%) Security Posture
5 100 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 89 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 84 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 67 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 60 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 59 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 54 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
14 52 (1.69%) Data Structures
15 51 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
16 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
17 40 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
18 38 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
19 33 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
20 29 (0.94%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 422 (13.69%) Windows
2 183 (5.94%) Linux
3 161 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.81%) VMS
6 25 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.78%) Unix
8 20 (0.65%) Android
9 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.36%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (28.75%) DevOps
2 822 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 695 (22.55%) AI
4 645 (20.93%) Agile
5 483 (15.67%) Roadmaps
6 474 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 471 (15.28%) Mentoring
8 455 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
9 446 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 422 (13.69%) Analytics
11 331 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
12 328 (10.64%) Data Engineering
13 317 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 298 (9.67%) Machine Learning
15 296 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
16 295 (9.57%) Software Engineering
17 283 (9.18%) Microservices
18 278 (9.02%) Data Modelling
19 267 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
20 265 (8.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 740 (24.01%) Python
2 622 (20.18%) SQL
3 317 (10.29%) C#
4 302 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 216 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 198 (6.42%) Java
7 174 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.54%) Bash
9 80 (2.60%) Bicep
10 42 (1.36%) Go
11 32 (1.04%) Scala
12 27 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 22 (0.71%) R
15 20 (0.65%) C++
16 19 (0.62%) RPG
17 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.42%) Rust
18 13 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 370 (12.01%) Degree
2 284 (9.21%) Azure Certification
3 252 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 192 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.32%) CISSP
6 125 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 65 (2.11%) AWS Certification
10 62 (2.01%) CCNP
11 59 (1.91%) CISM
12 55 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.75%) CCNA
14 50 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.52%) CEH
16 28 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.91%) CCIE
16 28 (0.91%) DV Cleared
17 25 (0.81%) GIAC
18 23 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 160 (5.19%) GDPR
4 140 (4.54%) QA
5 137 (4.45%) NIST
6 92 (2.99%) SLA
7 60 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.36%) GRC
10 35 (1.14%) PMO
11 30 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 29 (0.94%) NCSC
13 25 (0.81%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
19 7 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 419 (13.60%) Active Directory
2 240 (7.79%) Docker
3 125 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.097%) Firmware
10 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.065%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 446 (14.47%) Terraform
2 335 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 218 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 148 (4.80%) Ansible
5 64 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (1.78%) Grafana
7 51 (1.65%) SCCM
8 41 (1.33%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.39%) Istio
11 12 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) CloudHub
12 11 (0.36%) Nagios
13 9 (0.29%) QRadar
14 8 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,300 (42.18%) Microsoft
2 325 (10.55%) Databricks
3 197 (6.39%) VMware
4 151 (4.90%) Cisco
5 134 (4.35%) Google
6 90 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.37%) Oracle
8 73 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.82%) Foundry
10 53 (1.72%) SAP
11 51 (1.65%) Splunk
12 50 (1.62%) Salesforce
13 47 (1.52%) Meraki
14 45 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
15 44 (1.43%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.36%) Dell
17 39 (1.27%) Dynatrace
17 39 (1.27%) Tenable
18 38 (1.23%) iManage