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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,342 3,423 4,346
As % of all permanent jobs in London 18.37% 19.78% 22.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.04% 44.05% 47.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 2,419 3,798
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,706 7,771 9,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.75% 44.92% 47.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 5,132 7,740
10th Percentile £36,625 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
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 £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 0 431 £77,500 +6.90% 969
West London -5 53 £72,500 - 105
South London +15 26 £65,000 +5.44% 38
North London +14 25 £75,000 +21.95% 13
East London -14 21 £34,000 -31.66% 89
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
1 167 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 152 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 84 (3.59%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.41%) Confluence
6 21 (0.90%) CMS
7 19 (0.81%) Apache
8 14 (0.60%) IIS
9 6 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.21%) nginx
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 4 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Moodle
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 34 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 34 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Maya
4 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.21%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.56%) Endur
4 11 (0.47%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.30%) Shopify
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.085%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.085%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.043%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 850 (36.29%) AWS
2 471 (20.11%) GCP
3 401 (17.12%) Microsoft 365
4 380 (16.23%) Power Platform
5 333 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
6 242 (10.33%) Entra ID
7 163 (6.96%) SaaS
8 153 (6.53%) GitHub
9 140 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 135 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
11 128 (5.47%) Power Automate
12 120 (5.12%) Serverless
13 115 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 111 (4.74%) PowerApps
15 104 (4.44%) PaaS
16 102 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 77 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
18 68 (2.90%) Snowflake
19 61 (2.60%) Azure Functions
19 61 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 227 (9.69%) Firewall
2 124 (5.29%) VPN
3 123 (5.25%) WAN
4 118 (5.04%) DNS
5 110 (4.70%) LAN
6 80 (3.42%) TCP/IP
7 77 (3.29%) DHCP
8 71 (3.03%) Network Security
9 58 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (1.96%) Wireless
11 42 (1.79%) SD-WAN
12 37 (1.58%) VLAN
13 35 (1.49%) VoIP
14 33 (1.41%) Internet
15 27 (1.15%) BGP
15 27 (1.15%) OSPF
16 20 (0.85%) SAN
17 14 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (0.60%) MPLS
18 13 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (10.93%) Power BI
2 234 (9.99%) SQL Server
3 175 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 120 (5.12%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 102 (4.36%) Relational Database
8 92 (3.93%) MongoDB
9 83 (3.54%) Metadata
10 81 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (2.35%) Big Data
12 43 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
12 43 (1.84%) MySQL
13 41 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 39 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 31 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 27 (1.15%) Tableau
17 25 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 22 (0.94%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 192 (8.20%) Git
2 107 (4.57%) JIRA
3 70 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 48 (2.05%) GitLab
5 39 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 21 (0.90%) Postman
6 21 (0.90%) Selenium
7 19 (0.81%) MLflow
8 16 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.60%) JMeter
10 14 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 746 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 734 (31.34%) Finance
3 291 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (10.42%) Law
5 204 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (8.45%) Banking
7 142 (6.06%) Retail
8 128 (5.47%) Marketing
9 112 (4.78%) Legal
10 78 (3.33%) Public Sector
11 60 (2.56%) Financial Institution
12 59 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
15 39 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 31 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.28%) Back Office
18 30 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
19 29 (1.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 441 (18.83%) Senior
2 352 (15.03%) Developer
3 333 (14.22%) Lead
4 291 (12.43%) Architect
5 190 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 184 (7.86%) Analyst
7 133 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
8 114 (4.87%) Support Engineer
9 110 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 104 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 96 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 85 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 77 (3.29%) IT Support
15 75 (3.20%) .NET Developer
16 74 (3.16%) Support Analyst
17 69 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
18 67 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
19 60 (2.56%) Consultant
20 58 (2.48%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (11.96%) .NET
2 187 (7.98%) React
3 135 (5.76%) REST
4 109 (4.65%) .NET Core
4 109 (4.65%) HTML
5 107 (4.57%) AngularJS
6 101 (4.31%) Kafka
7 100 (4.27%) RESTful
8 94 (4.01%) CSS
9 88 (3.76%) Node.js
10 73 (3.12%) ASP.NET
11 71 (3.03%) Vue
12 64 (2.73%) .NET Framework
13 60 (2.56%) PySpark
14 57 (2.43%) Web Services
15 50 (2.13%) OAuth
16 46 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
17 45 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
17 45 (1.92%) PyTorch
18 44 (1.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 216 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 109 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 103 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 92 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 74 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 70 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
8 68 (2.90%) Security Posture
9 61 (2.60%) Public Cloud
10 54 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
11 51 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 49 (2.09%) AI Agents
12 49 (2.09%) Low-Code
12 49 (2.09%) Onboarding
13 40 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.67%) Private Cloud
15 37 (1.58%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.58%) Reinsurance
16 36 (1.54%) Virtual Team
17 35 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 398 (16.99%) Windows
2 188 (8.03%) Windows Server
3 171 (7.30%) Linux
4 61 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 42 (1.79%) Unix
7 30 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 29 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 27 (1.15%) Android
10 19 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.73%) VMS
11 17 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.38%) CentOS
13 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.34%) Solaris
14 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.21%) HPUX
16 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (30.49%) DevOps
2 667 (28.48%) Agile
3 612 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 512 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 452 (19.30%) AI
6 407 (17.38%) Analytics
7 317 (13.54%) Mentoring
8 292 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 284 (12.13%) Data Modelling
10 277 (11.83%) Microservices
11 273 (11.66%) Computer Science
12 269 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
13 268 (11.44%) Software Engineering
14 267 (11.40%) Roadmaps
15 263 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 251 (10.72%) Machine Learning
17 242 (10.33%) Migration
18 237 (10.12%) ETL
19 233 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
20 226 (9.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 656 (28.01%) Python
2 614 (26.22%) SQL
3 305 (13.02%) C#
4 272 (11.61%) PowerShell
5 248 (10.59%) JavaScript
6 148 (6.32%) Java
7 143 (6.11%) TypeScript
8 69 (2.95%) Bash
9 53 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.71%) Bicep
11 39 (1.67%) Scala
12 33 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 32 (1.37%) Go
14 28 (1.20%) R
15 26 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 24 (1.02%) Kotlin
17 18 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
18 17 (0.73%) Rust
19 14 (0.60%) C++
20 12 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 407 (17.38%) Degree
2 204 (8.71%) Azure Certification
3 186 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 136 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 127 (5.42%) Security Cleared
6 110 (4.70%) AWS Certification
7 107 (4.57%) Master's Degree
8 91 (3.89%) SC Cleared
9 70 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.82%) CISSP
11 45 (1.92%) CCNP
12 34 (1.45%) CCNA
13 29 (1.24%) CISM
13 29 (1.24%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 25 (1.07%) MCSE
15 23 (0.98%) CCIE
15 23 (0.98%) PhD
16 22 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 22 (0.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.81%) GDPR
2 155 (6.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 128 (5.47%) QA
4 114 (4.87%) NIST
5 110 (4.70%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.54%) SLA
7 33 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.20%) EU AI Act
9 27 (1.15%) NCSC
10 26 (1.11%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.98%) PSD2
11 23 (0.98%) Solvency II
12 20 (0.85%) Accessibility
13 14 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.47%) PMO
16 10 (0.43%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.30%) EMIR
17 7 (0.30%) GRC
18 6 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 341 (14.56%) Active Directory
2 229 (9.78%) Docker
3 98 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.51%) Firmware
8 12 (0.51%) vSphere
9 11 (0.47%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.38%) NFS
11 6 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.21%) XenApp
12 5 (0.21%) zsh
13 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.17%) KVM
13 4 (0.17%) Postfix
13 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.085%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 292 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 278 (11.87%) Terraform
3 206 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 130 (5.55%) Ansible
5 51 (2.18%) SCCM
5 51 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (1.75%) Grafana
6 41 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.81%) Argo
8 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.51%) SCOM
11 11 (0.47%) Autotask
11 11 (0.47%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.43%) Puppet
13 9 (0.38%) CASB
14 8 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.21%) Rancher
15 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 990 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 235 (10.03%) Databricks
3 169 (7.22%) VMware
4 132 (5.64%) Cisco
5 105 (4.48%) Google
6 94 (4.01%) Oracle
7 67 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 66 (2.82%) Palo Alto
9 58 (2.48%) SAP
10 44 (1.88%) SolarWinds
11 43 (1.84%) Salesforce
12 41 (1.75%) Fortinet
13 40 (1.71%) Meraki
14 33 (1.41%) Citrix
15 31 (1.32%) Informatica
15 31 (1.32%) OpenAI
16 28 (1.20%) Splunk
17 24 (1.02%) CheckPoint
17 24 (1.02%) Dell
17 24 (1.02%) Foundry