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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,191 2,342 3,692
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.57% 19.89% 19.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.25% 43.54% 44.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,670 2,590
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,250
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 £93,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,050 £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 8,567 5,379 8,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.74% 45.69% 44.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 3,685 5,642
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,762
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -1.91%

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 22 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 22 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 +1 419 £85,000 +8.97% 431
West London -3 88 £73,750 +31.11% 96
South London -10 26 £90,000 +38.46% 21
East London -9 18 £75,000 +76.47% 37
North London -7 13 £60,000 -20.00% 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
1 204 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 127 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 90 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.97%) Confluence
5 33 (1.03%) Apache
6 30 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.34%) Camunda
11 10 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (32.25%) AWS
2 628 (19.68%) GCP
3 541 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
4 462 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
5 443 (13.88%) Power Platform
6 420 (13.16%) Entra ID
7 225 (7.05%) SaaS
8 202 (6.33%) GitHub
9 186 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 177 (5.55%) Serverless
11 167 (5.23%) PaaS
12 161 (5.05%) Azure AI
12 161 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 141 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 133 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
15 130 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
16 129 (4.04%) Snowflake
17 128 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
18 126 (3.95%) Power Automate
19 108 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 298 (9.34%) Firewall
2 167 (5.23%) VPN
3 165 (5.17%) DNS
4 157 (4.92%) Network Security
5 126 (3.95%) DHCP
6 109 (3.42%) WAN
7 96 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
8 92 (2.88%) LAN
9 83 (2.60%) TCP/IP
10 81 (2.54%) VLAN
11 58 (1.82%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.79%) SAN
13 55 (1.72%) Wireless
14 39 (1.22%) BGP
15 36 (1.13%) OSPF
16 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (0.78%) Kerberos
18 18 (0.56%) SSL
19 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
19 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (9.06%) Power BI
2 268 (8.40%) SQL Server
3 168 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 153 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 131 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 90 (2.82%) Metadata
7 75 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 75 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 68 (2.13%) Tableau
10 57 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 56 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 40 (1.25%) Star Schema
13 37 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (1.13%) Data Vault
14 36 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 31 (0.97%) Big Data
16 30 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
16 30 (0.94%) MySQL
17 27 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 189 (5.92%) Git
2 120 (3.76%) JIRA
3 115 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.85%) GitLab
5 25 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 16 (0.50%) Selenium
8 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
9 14 (0.44%) JUnit
9 14 (0.44%) Mockito
10 11 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.34%) Maven
10 11 (0.34%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 1,000 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 986 (30.90%) Finance
3 317 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.21%) Law
5 222 (6.96%) Banking
6 161 (5.05%) Legal
7 156 (4.89%) Public Sector
8 145 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 108 (3.38%) Retail
10 80 (2.51%) Marketing
11 70 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (0.97%) Front Office
17 20 (0.63%) Advertising
17 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 590 (18.49%) Senior
2 574 (17.99%) Architect
3 392 (12.28%) Lead
4 360 (11.28%) Developer
5 296 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
6 205 (6.42%) Data Engineer
7 193 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
8 159 (4.98%) Analyst
9 136 (4.26%) Software Engineer
10 133 (4.17%) Consultant
11 125 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 122 (3.82%) Azure Architect
13 119 (3.73%) Data Architect
14 115 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 99 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
16 98 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
17 95 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 87 (2.73%) Senior Developer
19 83 (2.60%) Network Engineer
20 69 (2.16%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (14.89%) Terraform
2 318 (9.97%) .NET
3 209 (6.55%) REST
4 165 (5.17%) React
5 122 (3.82%) Kafka
6 108 (3.38%) RESTful
7 94 (2.95%) OAuth
8 89 (2.79%) Spring
9 88 (2.76%) ASP.NET
9 88 (2.76%) Node.js
10 85 (2.66%) LangChain
11 81 (2.54%) .NET Core
12 79 (2.48%) Spring Boot
13 78 (2.44%) PySpark
14 58 (1.82%) LangGraph
14 58 (1.82%) OAuth2
15 55 (1.72%) PyTorch
16 54 (1.69%) AngularJS
16 54 (1.69%) TensorFlow
17 53 (1.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 426 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 153 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 113 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 92 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.04%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 47 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.44%) Public Cloud
14 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 40 (1.25%) Data Structures
17 39 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
18 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
19 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 400 (12.54%) Windows
2 166 (5.20%) Linux
3 164 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 45 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.31%) CentOS
11 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (29.65%) DevOps
2 922 (28.89%) CI/CD
3 854 (26.76%) AI
4 684 (21.44%) Agile
5 530 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
5 530 (16.61%) Roadmaps
6 511 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 507 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 471 (14.76%) Analytics
9 442 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 427 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 351 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
12 342 (10.72%) Data Engineering
13 338 (10.59%) Software Engineering
14 337 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
15 335 (10.50%) Machine Learning
16 323 (10.12%) Migration
17 307 (9.62%) Microservices
18 304 (9.53%) Data Modelling
19 297 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 755 (23.66%) Python
2 665 (20.84%) SQL
3 344 (10.78%) C#
4 291 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 223 (6.99%) Java
6 196 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 167 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.20%) Bicep
9 86 (2.70%) Bash
10 54 (1.69%) Scala
11 36 (1.13%) R
12 30 (0.94%) Go
13 26 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 25 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.69%) C++
16 19 (0.60%) RPG
17 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 11 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 405 (12.69%) Degree
2 277 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 275 (8.62%) Azure Certification
4 206 (6.46%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.20%) CISSP
6 128 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 123 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 104 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.32%) CISM
10 70 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.75%) AWS Certification
12 53 (1.66%) CCNP
13 46 (1.44%) CCNA
14 33 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
16 28 (0.88%) PhD
17 26 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.81%) PMP
18 24 (0.75%) CCSP
18 24 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (5.11%) GDPR
4 147 (4.61%) QA
5 116 (3.64%) NIST
6 78 (2.44%) SLA
7 62 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.22%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.22%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 404 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 258 (8.09%) Docker
3 129 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) HDFS
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 335 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 219 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 134 (4.20%) Ansible
4 83 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 58 (1.82%) Grafana
6 50 (1.57%) SCCM
7 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 10 (0.31%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.25%) Istio
14 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) QRadar
15 7 (0.22%) Puppet
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,390 (43.56%) Microsoft
2 320 (10.03%) Databricks
3 189 (5.92%) VMware
4 166 (5.20%) Google
5 158 (4.95%) Cisco
6 80 (2.51%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.48%) Oracle
7 79 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 71 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.91%) Foundry
10 56 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.72%) SAP
12 53 (1.66%) Splunk
13 47 (1.47%) Meraki
14 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
15 41 (1.28%) Dynatrace
16 40 (1.25%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.22%) Tenable
18 38 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
19 31 (0.97%) Citrix