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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,203 2,351 3,661
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.56% 19.88% 19.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.24% 43.53% 44.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 1,681 2,568
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,550 £112,000 £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 8,600 5,401 8,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.72% 45.68% 44.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,754 3,706 5,596
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 £64,169 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% -7.69% +0.78%

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 23 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 23 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 +1 416 £85,000 +9.68% 442
West London -4 88 £73,750 +31.11% 116
South London -11 25 £90,000 +38.46% 22
East London -9 18 £75,000 +76.47% 33
North London -7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 12
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
1 206 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 128 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 88 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.97%) Confluence
5 33 (1.03%) Apache
6 28 (0.87%) 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 (0.12%) Appian
14 4 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.12%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
Applications
1 59 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.062%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.062%) 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 48 (1.50%) 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 (0.062%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.062%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.062%) 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 1,030 (32.16%) AWS
2 629 (19.64%) GCP
3 545 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
4 464 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 442 (13.80%) Power Platform
6 424 (13.24%) Entra ID
7 228 (7.12%) SaaS
8 203 (6.34%) GitHub
9 188 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 181 (5.65%) Serverless
11 170 (5.31%) PaaS
12 160 (5.00%) Azure AI
12 160 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 139 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 133 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 130 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
16 129 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
17 126 (3.93%) Power Automate
17 126 (3.93%) Snowflake
18 108 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 301 (9.40%) Firewall
2 168 (5.25%) VPN
3 167 (5.21%) DNS
4 159 (4.96%) Network Security
5 128 (4.00%) DHCP
6 109 (3.40%) WAN
7 97 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
8 92 (2.87%) LAN
9 83 (2.59%) TCP/IP
10 82 (2.56%) VLAN
11 58 (1.81%) SAN
11 58 (1.81%) SD-WAN
12 55 (1.72%) Wireless
13 39 (1.22%) BGP
14 36 (1.12%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.81%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.56%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (8.99%) Power BI
2 271 (8.46%) SQL Server
3 168 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 128 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 92 (2.87%) Metadata
7 77 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 75 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 65 (2.03%) Tableau
10 57 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 56 (1.75%) Delta Lake
12 41 (1.28%) Star Schema
13 36 (1.12%) Data Vault
13 36 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (1.00%) MySQL
16 31 (0.97%) Big Data
17 27 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 190 (5.93%) Git
2 121 (3.78%) JIRA
3 115 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.84%) GitLab
5 26 (0.81%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.50%) MLflow
6 16 (0.50%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 11 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.34%) Maven
9 11 (0.34%) Postman
10 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.22%) Vite
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 1,006 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 993 (31.00%) Finance
3 316 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (7.21%) Law
5 225 (7.02%) Banking
6 163 (5.09%) Legal
7 156 (4.87%) Public Sector
8 145 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.34%) Retail
10 80 (2.50%) Marketing
11 71 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.90%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (0.97%) Front Office
17 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.62%) Advertising
19 18 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 590 (18.42%) Senior
2 573 (17.89%) Architect
3 394 (12.30%) Lead
4 362 (11.30%) Developer
5 299 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (6.46%) Data Engineer
7 191 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
8 160 (5.00%) Analyst
9 138 (4.31%) Software Engineer
10 134 (4.18%) Consultant
11 126 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.78%) Azure Architect
12 121 (3.78%) Data Architect
13 116 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 99 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 99 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 94 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 87 (2.72%) Senior Developer
17 83 (2.59%) Network Engineer
18 70 (2.19%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (14.92%) Terraform
2 317 (9.90%) .NET
3 211 (6.59%) REST
4 169 (5.28%) React
5 120 (3.75%) Kafka
6 110 (3.43%) RESTful
7 95 (2.97%) OAuth
8 91 (2.84%) Spring
9 90 (2.81%) Node.js
10 88 (2.75%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.53%) .NET Core
11 81 (2.53%) LangChain
11 81 (2.53%) Spring Boot
12 79 (2.47%) PySpark
13 58 (1.81%) OAuth2
14 57 (1.78%) LangGraph
15 55 (1.72%) AngularJS
16 53 (1.65%) .NET Framework
16 53 (1.65%) JSON
17 52 (1.62%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 166 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 153 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 126 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 112 (3.50%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.22%) Data Centre
8 94 (2.93%) Security Posture
9 67 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
14 44 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.34%) Public Cloud
16 42 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (1.28%) Data Structures
18 39 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
19 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
20 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 405 (12.64%) Windows
2 167 (5.21%) Linux
2 167 (5.21%) Windows Server
3 46 (1.44%) Windows 10
4 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 27 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.62%) VMS
7 19 (0.59%) Android
8 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.44%) Unix
9 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.31%) CentOS
10 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.062%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (29.69%) DevOps
2 929 (29.00%) CI/CD
3 853 (26.63%) AI
4 688 (21.48%) Agile
5 534 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 533 (16.64%) Roadmaps
7 512 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 510 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 472 (14.74%) Analytics
10 446 (13.92%) Mentoring
11 430 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 350 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
13 342 (10.68%) Software Engineering
14 341 (10.65%) Data Engineering
15 339 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
16 332 (10.37%) Machine Learning
17 326 (10.18%) Migration
18 310 (9.68%) Microservices
19 304 (9.49%) Data Modelling
20 301 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 757 (23.63%) Python
2 669 (20.89%) SQL
3 344 (10.74%) C#
4 295 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 225 (7.02%) Java
6 198 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 170 (5.31%) TypeScript
8 103 (3.22%) Bicep
9 86 (2.68%) Bash
10 54 (1.69%) Scala
11 36 (1.12%) R
12 30 (0.94%) Go
13 26 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 26 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.69%) C++
15 19 (0.59%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 409 (12.77%) Degree
2 278 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 275 (8.59%) Azure Certification
4 206 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 136 (4.25%) CISSP
6 128 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 125 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 105 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.31%) CISM
10 72 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.75%) AWS Certification
12 53 (1.65%) CCNP
13 47 (1.47%) CCNA
14 33 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
16 29 (0.91%) PhD
17 26 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.81%) PMP
18 25 (0.78%) DV Cleared
19 24 (0.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 162 (5.06%) GDPR
4 149 (4.65%) QA
5 116 (3.62%) NIST
6 78 (2.44%) SLA
7 62 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.25%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 27 (0.84%) 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
1 409 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 261 (8.15%) Docker
3 130 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.50%) vSphere
8 12 (0.37%) 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 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) HDFS
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 337 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 222 (6.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (4.25%) Ansible
4 84 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
5 58 (1.81%) Grafana
6 51 (1.59%) SCCM
7 36 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.37%) 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 1,400 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 319 (9.96%) Databricks
3 191 (5.96%) VMware
4 167 (5.21%) Google
5 158 (4.93%) Cisco
6 80 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.47%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.47%) Oracle
8 71 (2.22%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.90%) Foundry
10 57 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 57 (1.78%) SAP
11 53 (1.65%) Splunk
12 47 (1.47%) Meraki
13 43 (1.34%) Zscaler
14 41 (1.28%) Dynatrace
15 40 (1.25%) Fortinet
16 39 (1.22%) Tenable
17 38 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
18 31 (0.97%) Citrix