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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,122 2,534 3,847
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.63% 20.69% 18.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.31% 44.82% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,272 1,842 3,018
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 8,150 5,654 8,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.58% 46.16% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,467 4,007 6,720
10th Percentile £42,300 £41,250 £42,282
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
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 £122,500 £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 28 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 28 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 0 516 £83,000 +7.10% 221
West London +2 96 £70,000 +55.56% 63
South London -1 44 £80,000 +23.08% 16
East London -15 16 £32,500 -34.34% 35
North London -8 7 £48,750 -30.36% 13
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
1 195 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 77 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.47%) Confluence
5 44 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.70%) Apache
7 18 (0.58%) CMS
8 15 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 14 (0.45%) Camunda
10 12 (0.38%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) 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%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.67%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.45%) 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 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.064%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.064%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (33.86%) AWS
2 628 (20.12%) GCP
3 526 (16.85%) Microsoft 365
4 414 (13.26%) Power Platform
5 377 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
6 375 (12.01%) Entra ID
7 213 (6.82%) SaaS
8 188 (6.02%) GitHub
9 164 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 153 (4.90%) Serverless
11 152 (4.87%) PaaS
12 149 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 147 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (4.45%) Azure AI
15 128 (4.10%) Snowflake
16 115 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 107 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
18 106 (3.40%) Power Automate
19 96 (3.07%) IaaS
20 92 (2.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 312 (9.99%) Firewall
2 172 (5.51%) VPN
3 169 (5.41%) DNS
4 162 (5.19%) Network Security
5 134 (4.29%) WAN
6 133 (4.26%) DHCP
7 117 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
8 113 (3.62%) LAN
9 93 (2.98%) TCP/IP
10 71 (2.27%) VLAN
11 69 (2.21%) SD-WAN
12 50 (1.60%) SAN
13 46 (1.47%) BGP
14 45 (1.44%) Wireless
15 42 (1.35%) OSPF
16 31 (0.99%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.86%) VoIP
18 24 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
18 24 (0.77%) WLAN
19 19 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (9.06%) Power BI
2 259 (8.30%) SQL Server
3 159 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 116 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 78 (2.50%) Tableau
8 70 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 66 (2.11%) Metadata
9 66 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 51 (1.63%) Delta Lake
10 51 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (1.44%) Relational Database
12 41 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 40 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (1.28%) Big Data
14 36 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.12%) Star Schema
16 34 (1.09%) MySQL
17 30 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 175 (5.61%) Git
2 112 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 94 (3.01%) JIRA
4 76 (2.43%) GitLab
5 34 (1.09%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Postman
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.35%) Visual Studio
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%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 943 (30.20%) Finance
2 902 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 290 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (6.98%) Banking
5 203 (6.50%) Law
6 134 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 127 (4.07%) Legal
8 124 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 92 (2.95%) Retail
10 55 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 50 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 45 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 40 (1.28%) Marketing
15 35 (1.12%) Front Office
16 31 (0.99%) Telecoms
17 30 (0.96%) Advertising
18 28 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
20 18 (0.58%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 591 (18.93%) Senior
2 526 (16.85%) Architect
3 433 (13.87%) Lead
4 321 (10.28%) Developer
5 273 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
6 183 (5.86%) Data Engineer
7 176 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.38%) Analyst
9 136 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.00%) Consultant
11 122 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 116 (3.72%) Data Architect
13 115 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
14 113 (3.62%) Azure Architect
15 95 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 94 (3.01%) Security Engineer
17 87 (2.79%) IT Engineer
18 86 (2.75%) IT Support
18 86 (2.75%) Network Engineer
19 82 (2.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (10.09%) .NET
2 174 (5.57%) React
3 151 (4.84%) REST
4 133 (4.26%) Kafka
5 102 (3.27%) Node.js
6 101 (3.24%) OAuth
7 89 (2.85%) RESTful
8 87 (2.79%) Spring
9 82 (2.63%) .NET Core
10 79 (2.53%) LangChain
11 75 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 74 (2.37%) ASP.NET
13 72 (2.31%) PySpark
14 59 (1.89%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.83%) CSS
16 55 (1.76%) HTML
16 55 (1.76%) OAuth2
16 55 (1.76%) TensorFlow
17 54 (1.73%) OpenID
18 49 (1.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 407 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 141 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 120 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.30%) Security Posture
5 100 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 90 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 73 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 66 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 62 (1.99%) Public Cloud
10 61 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 56 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 53 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
13 52 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.35%) Low-Code
16 39 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
17 33 (1.06%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 419 (13.42%) Windows
2 184 (5.89%) Linux
3 159 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.12%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.80%) VMS
6 25 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (0.74%) Unix
8 20 (0.64%) Android
9 17 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.35%) CentOS
13 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (28.83%) DevOps
2 842 (26.97%) CI/CD
3 710 (22.74%) AI
4 668 (21.40%) Agile
5 495 (15.86%) Roadmaps
6 480 (15.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 478 (15.31%) Mentoring
8 462 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 459 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 434 (13.90%) Analytics
11 341 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
12 333 (10.67%) Data Engineering
13 324 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 308 (9.87%) Machine Learning
15 307 (9.83%) Software Engineering
16 296 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
17 288 (9.22%) Microservices
18 285 (9.13%) Data Modelling
19 273 (8.74%) Migration
19 273 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 754 (24.15%) Python
2 630 (20.18%) SQL
3 322 (10.31%) C#
4 300 (9.61%) PowerShell
5 220 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 202 (6.47%) Java
7 177 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 105 (3.36%) Bash
9 77 (2.47%) Bicep
10 43 (1.38%) Go
11 33 (1.06%) Scala
12 26 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.80%) R
14 24 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 20 (0.64%) C++
16 19 (0.61%) RPG
17 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.45%) DataWeave
18 14 (0.45%) VB.NET
19 13 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 375 (12.01%) Degree
2 288 (9.22%) Azure Certification
3 259 (8.30%) Security Cleared
4 196 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.29%) CISSP
6 127 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 118 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
8 109 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.11%) AWS Certification
10 63 (2.02%) CCNP
11 60 (1.92%) CISM
12 57 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.73%) CCNA
14 50 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.51%) CEH
16 30 (0.96%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.86%) CCIE
18 24 (0.77%) GIAC
19 23 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.25%) GDPR
3 160 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 141 (4.52%) QA
5 134 (4.29%) NIST
6 94 (3.01%) SLA
7 63 (2.02%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.35%) GRC
10 35 (1.12%) PMO
11 29 (0.93%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.90%) NCSC
13 26 (0.83%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 19 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 14 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
20 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 415 (13.29%) Active Directory
2 248 (7.94%) Docker
3 125 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 41 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.74%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
10 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.096%) Firmware
11 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.064%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 453 (14.51%) Terraform
2 343 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 214 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (4.93%) Ansible
5 65 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 55 (1.76%) Grafana
7 50 (1.60%) SCCM
8 42 (1.35%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 11 (0.35%) Argo
14 9 (0.29%) QRadar
15 8 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.22%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) Packer
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,310 (41.96%) Microsoft
2 332 (10.63%) Databricks
3 196 (6.28%) VMware
4 155 (4.96%) Cisco
5 140 (4.48%) Google
6 91 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.37%) Oracle
8 74 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.79%) Foundry
10 54 (1.73%) SAP
10 54 (1.73%) Splunk
11 51 (1.63%) Salesforce
12 50 (1.60%) Meraki
13 45 (1.44%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
15 41 (1.31%) Dell
16 39 (1.25%) iManage
16 39 (1.25%) Tenable
17 38 (1.22%) Dynatrace