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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,611 2,757 4,416
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.77% 19.36% 20.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.14% 43.73% 45.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,873 1,992 3,826
10th Percentile £42,550 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

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 6,347 6,304 9,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.35% 44.27% 45.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,110 4,223 8,055
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +1 610 £77,500 +3.33% 263
West London +12 72 £70,000 +42.86% 53
South London +18 25 £47,500 -20.83% 28
East London -7 22 £32,000 -60.62% 52
North London +18 18 £73,750 +18.00% 15
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
1 188 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 52 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.07%) Confluence
6 16 (0.61%) Apache
7 15 (0.57%) Appian
8 11 (0.42%) IIS
9 9 (0.34%) CMS
9 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.19%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) WordPress
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.11%) Maya
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.96%) Endur
3 10 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.11%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.077%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.077%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.077%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.038%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 895 (34.28%) AWS
2 506 (19.38%) GCP
3 472 (18.08%) Microsoft 365
4 424 (16.24%) Power Platform
5 339 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
6 300 (11.49%) Entra ID
7 198 (7.58%) SaaS
8 185 (7.09%) GitHub
9 153 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.21%) Power Automate
11 125 (4.79%) PaaS
12 113 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 108 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
14 107 (4.10%) PowerApps
15 105 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 101 (3.87%) Serverless
17 85 (3.26%) Azure AI
18 74 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
19 73 (2.80%) Snowflake
20 66 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 290 (11.11%) Firewall
2 176 (6.74%) VPN
3 159 (6.09%) DNS
4 157 (6.01%) WAN
5 134 (5.13%) DHCP
6 115 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
7 104 (3.98%) TCP/IP
8 97 (3.72%) LAN
9 81 (3.10%) SD-WAN
10 66 (2.53%) Network Security
11 55 (2.11%) VLAN
12 54 (2.07%) Internet
13 41 (1.57%) SAN
14 38 (1.46%) Wireless
15 36 (1.38%) VoIP
16 26 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.92%) BGP
18 24 (0.92%) OSPF
19 21 (0.80%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (11.76%) Power BI
2 262 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 168 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
4 153 (5.86%) Data Lake
5 103 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (3.06%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.60%) MongoDB
9 62 (2.37%) Metadata
10 56 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
10 56 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (1.95%) Tableau
13 49 (1.88%) Big Data
14 44 (1.69%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.15%) MySQL
16 29 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.92%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.88%) Pinecone
19 22 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 185 (7.09%) Git
2 85 (3.26%) JIRA
3 84 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.95%) GitLab
5 43 (1.65%) MLflow
6 40 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.26%) Postman
8 19 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.65%) Selenium
10 13 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.46%) Chocolatey
12 11 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.38%) JMeter
13 10 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.31%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 791 (30.29%) Finance
2 765 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 278 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (7.93%) Banking
5 195 (7.47%) Law
6 123 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 112 (4.29%) Legal
8 109 (4.17%) Retail
9 100 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 68 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (2.53%) Marketing
12 58 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 57 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 44 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.38%) Retail Banking
18 34 (1.30%) Front Office
18 34 (1.30%) Multimedia
19 26 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 510 (19.53%) Senior
2 332 (12.72%) Lead
3 329 (12.60%) Architect
4 313 (11.99%) Developer
5 211 (8.08%) Analyst
6 193 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
7 175 (6.70%) Data Engineer
8 128 (4.90%) Support Engineer
9 123 (4.71%) Software Engineer
10 119 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 107 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 96 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 94 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
14 88 (3.37%) IT Support
15 86 (3.29%) Network Engineer
16 81 (3.10%) IT Engineer
16 81 (3.10%) Senior Developer
17 75 (2.87%) Data Architect
17 75 (2.87%) Security Engineer
18 74 (2.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (9.92%) .NET
2 167 (6.40%) React
3 140 (5.36%) REST
4 104 (3.98%) CSS
4 104 (3.98%) RESTful
5 101 (3.87%) HTML
6 89 (3.41%) Node.js
6 89 (3.41%) OAuth
7 78 (2.99%) .NET Core
8 77 (2.95%) Kafka
9 51 (1.95%) AngularJS
10 50 (1.91%) Django
10 50 (1.91%) SAML
11 48 (1.84%) LangChain
11 48 (1.84%) PySpark
12 46 (1.76%) PyTorch
13 45 (1.72%) SOAP
14 44 (1.69%) TensorFlow
15 41 (1.57%) Web Services
16 39 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 225 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 104 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 92 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 81 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 77 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 66 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.49%) AI Agents
9 62 (2.37%) Low-Code
10 60 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
11 57 (2.18%) Data Centre
12 56 (2.14%) Onboarding
13 55 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
14 46 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 44 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.46%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.26%) Cyberattack
17 33 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 395 (15.13%) Windows
2 179 (6.86%) Windows Server
3 154 (5.90%) Linux
4 83 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 51 (1.95%) Unix
6 45 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.26%) VMS
9 31 (1.19%) Android
10 29 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
12 18 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.34%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.19%) CentOS
17 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.11%) SUSE
18 2 (0.077%) Solaris
18 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (27.77%) DevOps
2 647 (24.78%) CI/CD
3 558 (21.37%) Agile
4 554 (21.22%) AI
5 462 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (16.89%) Analytics
7 360 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 327 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 324 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
10 311 (11.91%) Business Intelligence
11 307 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 306 (11.72%) Roadmaps
13 305 (11.68%) Computer Science
14 283 (10.84%) Data Modelling
15 272 (10.42%) Software Engineering
16 267 (10.23%) Microservices
17 242 (9.27%) Machine Learning
18 230 (8.81%) ETL
19 229 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
20 222 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 678 (25.97%) Python
2 595 (22.79%) SQL
3 318 (12.18%) PowerShell
4 274 (10.49%) C#
5 252 (9.65%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 126 (4.83%) Java
8 90 (3.45%) Bash
9 58 (2.22%) Bicep
10 45 (1.72%) Go
11 40 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.42%) R
13 36 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
14 26 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.84%) Scala
16 18 (0.69%) C++
17 16 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.57%) Rust
19 12 (0.46%) PHP
20 11 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 419 (16.05%) Degree
2 247 (9.46%) Azure Certification
3 230 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 170 (6.51%) Security Cleared
5 142 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 120 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 109 (4.17%) CISSP
8 101 (3.87%) AWS Certification
9 82 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 60 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.76%) CISM
12 40 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.49%) CEH
14 38 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 36 (1.38%) PMI Certification
16 35 (1.34%) CCNP
17 33 (1.26%) PMP
18 30 (1.15%) CCNA
19 28 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (1.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 182 (6.97%) GDPR
3 160 (6.13%) NIST
4 131 (5.02%) Data Quality
5 84 (3.22%) QA
6 69 (2.64%) SLA
7 40 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.38%) NCSC
8 36 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 35 (1.34%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.07%) SOC 2
11 27 (1.03%) EU AI Act
12 24 (0.92%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.88%) PSD2
13 23 (0.88%) Solvency II
14 18 (0.69%) GRC
15 17 (0.65%) PMO
16 16 (0.61%) ISO 22301
17 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 379 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 254 (9.73%) Docker
3 94 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.88%) vSphere
8 14 (0.54%) Firmware
9 12 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) KVM
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.077%) NFS
12 2 (0.077%) XenApp
13 1 (0.038%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.038%) NLBS
13 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.038%) Xen
Systems Management
1 323 (12.37%) Terraform
2 296 (11.34%) Kubernetes
3 233 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 127 (4.86%) Ansible
5 62 (2.37%) SCCM
6 58 (2.22%) Grafana
7 53 (2.03%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 24 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.77%) Argo
12 14 (0.54%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.27%) Istio
14 7 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.27%) VxRail
15 6 (0.23%) Control-M
15 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.23%) SCOM
16 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,044 (39.98%) Microsoft
2 205 (7.85%) Databricks
3 186 (7.12%) VMware
4 135 (5.17%) Google
5 121 (4.63%) Cisco
6 76 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.83%) Palo Alto
8 67 (2.57%) Oracle
9 60 (2.30%) Fortinet
10 59 (2.26%) OpenAI
11 47 (1.80%) Meraki
12 45 (1.72%) Salesforce
12 45 (1.72%) SAP
13 39 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
14 38 (1.46%) Dell
15 37 (1.42%) SolarWinds
16 35 (1.34%) CheckPoint
17 32 (1.23%) Informatica
18 30 (1.15%) Commvault
19 28 (1.07%) Dynatrace