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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,107 2,270 3,586
As % of all permanent jobs in London 11.98% 19.45% 19.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.59% 43.07% 43.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 1,639 2,483
10th Percentile £47,500 £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 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.88% +2.00%

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 8,491 5,271 8,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.73% 45.16% 44.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,566 3,617 5,405
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -1 377 £83,000 +7.10% 448
West London -3 83 £77,500 +34.78% 69
East London -4 24 £36,000 -15.29% 27
South London -17 21 £55,000 -15.38% 19
North London -6 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
1 201 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 138 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 84 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.06%) Confluence
5 34 (1.09%) Apache
6 31 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.64%) CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.42%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 6 (0.19%) IIS
10 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.097%) DNN
13 3 (0.097%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.097%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 60 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 26 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 50 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.71%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.42%) Carpe Diem
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.097%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.097%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,009 (32.48%) AWS
2 650 (20.92%) GCP
3 537 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
4 475 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 455 (14.64%) Power Platform
6 428 (13.78%) Entra ID
7 235 (7.56%) SaaS
8 216 (6.95%) GitHub
9 194 (6.24%) Serverless
10 193 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 174 (5.60%) PaaS
12 146 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 142 (4.57%) Microsoft Copilot
14 141 (4.54%) Azure AI
15 131 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
16 129 (4.15%) Power Automate
17 127 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
18 118 (3.80%) Snowflake
19 116 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
20 115 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 285 (9.17%) Firewall
2 169 (5.44%) DNS
3 163 (5.25%) VPN
4 153 (4.92%) Network Security
5 128 (4.12%) DHCP
6 102 (3.28%) WAN
7 88 (2.83%) LAN
8 85 (2.74%) TCP/IP
9 84 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 78 (2.51%) VLAN
11 56 (1.80%) SAN
12 53 (1.71%) Wireless
13 51 (1.64%) SD-WAN
14 39 (1.26%) BGP
15 36 (1.16%) OSPF
16 29 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
17 28 (0.90%) Kerberos
18 19 (0.61%) SSL
19 17 (0.55%) DMARC
20 14 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 296 (9.53%) Power BI
2 242 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 179 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 122 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.35%) Metadata
7 80 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.32%) NoSQL
10 68 (2.19%) Tableau
11 53 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 43 (1.38%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.16%) Data Vault
16 33 (1.06%) MySQL
17 30 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (0.84%) Big Data
19 25 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 178 (5.73%) Git
2 125 (4.02%) JIRA
3 113 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.90%) GitLab
5 33 (1.06%) Claude Code
6 17 (0.55%) MLflow
7 14 (0.45%) JUnit
7 14 (0.45%) Mockito
7 14 (0.45%) Selenium
8 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 10 (0.32%) Postman
11 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.23%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,008 (32.44%) Social Skills
2 986 (31.73%) Finance
3 305 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.27%) Law
5 217 (6.98%) Banking
6 175 (5.63%) Legal
7 151 (4.86%) Public Sector
8 140 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (3.25%) Retail
10 90 (2.90%) Marketing
11 76 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 70 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.03%) Financial Institution
14 39 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.16%) Front Office
17 34 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (0.71%) Manufacturing
19 19 (0.61%) Advertising
19 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 591 (19.02%) Senior
2 560 (18.02%) Architect
3 391 (12.58%) Lead
4 353 (11.36%) Developer
5 275 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
6 205 (6.60%) Data Engineer
7 180 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 162 (5.21%) Analyst
9 148 (4.76%) Consultant
10 142 (4.57%) Software Engineer
11 117 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 114 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 111 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 108 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 103 (3.32%) Azure Architect
16 101 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
17 93 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
18 89 (2.86%) Senior Developer
19 75 (2.41%) Network Engineer
20 74 (2.38%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (14.90%) Terraform
2 283 (9.11%) .NET
3 224 (7.21%) REST
4 163 (5.25%) React
5 116 (3.73%) RESTful
6 112 (3.60%) Kafka
7 96 (3.09%) LangChain
8 94 (3.03%) OAuth
9 88 (2.83%) Node.js
9 88 (2.83%) Spring
10 82 (2.64%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 78 (2.51%) PySpark
13 76 (2.45%) .NET Core
14 73 (2.35%) LangGraph
15 57 (1.83%) AngularJS
15 57 (1.83%) JSON
15 57 (1.83%) OAuth2
16 51 (1.64%) PyTorch
17 50 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 152 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 140 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 106 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 95 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 94 (3.03%) Data Centre
9 69 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 47 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 47 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 39 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 37 (1.19%) Data Structures
17 34 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
17 34 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 32 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 389 (12.52%) Windows
2 175 (5.63%) Windows Server
3 157 (5.05%) Linux
4 46 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 31 (1.00%) macOS
6 25 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.68%) VMS
8 18 (0.58%) Android
9 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.45%) Unix
10 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.29%) CentOS
11 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (30.32%) DevOps
2 937 (30.16%) CI/CD
3 880 (28.32%) AI
4 655 (21.08%) Agile
5 520 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
6 509 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 502 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 501 (16.12%) Roadmaps
9 481 (15.48%) Analytics
10 475 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 425 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 359 (11.55%) Business Intelligence
13 356 (11.46%) Software Engineering
14 340 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
15 329 (10.59%) Data Engineering
16 322 (10.36%) Machine Learning
17 317 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
17 317 (10.20%) Data Modelling
18 312 (10.04%) Migration
19 311 (10.01%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 781 (25.14%) Python
2 658 (21.18%) SQL
3 311 (10.01%) C#
4 297 (9.56%) PowerShell
5 202 (6.50%) Java
6 184 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 156 (5.02%) TypeScript
8 100 (3.22%) Bicep
9 88 (2.83%) Bash
10 52 (1.67%) Scala
11 47 (1.51%) R
12 30 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 29 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.84%) Go
15 19 (0.61%) C++
16 18 (0.58%) RPG
17 14 (0.45%) VBA
18 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
18 13 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
19 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 399 (12.84%) Degree
2 283 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 243 (7.82%) Azure Certification
4 214 (6.89%) SC Cleared
5 148 (4.76%) CISSP
6 134 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 92 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (2.54%) CISM
10 75 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 51 (1.64%) AWS Certification
12 42 (1.35%) CCNP
13 40 (1.29%) CCNA
14 39 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 35 (1.13%) PhD
16 34 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 29 (0.93%) DV Cleared
18 25 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 24 (0.77%) CCSP
19 24 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (8.34%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 164 (5.28%) GDPR
4 142 (4.57%) QA
5 118 (3.80%) NIST
6 74 (2.38%) SLA
7 58 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.16%) GRC
10 30 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 29 (0.93%) NCSC
12 25 (0.80%) PMO
13 21 (0.68%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 14 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.23%) WCAG
18 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
18 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 6 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 396 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 273 (8.79%) Docker
3 124 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.55%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.23%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) XenApp
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 330 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 210 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (4.51%) Ansible
4 79 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 62 (2.00%) Grafana
6 47 (1.51%) SCCM
7 34 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.87%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.55%) Argo
9 17 (0.55%) CASB
10 13 (0.42%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Puppet
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.26%) Istio
13 8 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.23%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.23%) QRadar
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
16 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,350 (43.45%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.92%) Databricks
3 182 (5.86%) Google
4 178 (5.73%) VMware
5 142 (4.57%) Cisco
6 81 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 75 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.25%) Oracle
9 67 (2.16%) Foundry
10 66 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 59 (1.90%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.77%) SAP
13 47 (1.51%) Splunk
14 46 (1.48%) Zscaler
15 42 (1.35%) Meraki
16 40 (1.29%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
18 36 (1.16%) Fortinet
19 32 (1.03%) Tenable
20 30 (0.97%) Citrix