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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,195 2,523 3,696
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.42% 20.69% 18.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.81% 44.98% 44.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 1,820 2,840
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £111,250 £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 8,450 5,609 8,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.50% 45.99% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,679 3,916 6,279
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 12 August 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 August 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 0 495 £85,000 +9.68% 236
West London +1 101 £70,000 +55.56% 60
South London -1 39 £80,000 +23.08% 25
East London -18 17 £75,000 +51.52% 34
North London -9 9 £60,000 -14.29% 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 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.72%) Confluence
5 46 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (0.75%) Apache
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 10 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.31%) WordPress
11 6 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Maya
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Carpe Diem
5 7 (0.22%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (34.05%) AWS
2 651 (20.38%) GCP
3 531 (16.62%) Microsoft 365
4 419 (13.11%) Power Platform
5 395 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
6 379 (11.86%) Entra ID
7 212 (6.64%) SaaS
8 188 (5.88%) GitHub
9 165 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 162 (5.07%) PaaS
10 162 (5.07%) Serverless
11 153 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 151 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 145 (4.54%) Azure AI
14 143 (4.48%) Snowflake
15 117 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 113 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
16 113 (3.54%) Power Automate
17 99 (3.10%) IaaS
18 97 (3.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 319 (9.98%) Firewall
2 170 (5.32%) VPN
3 165 (5.16%) DNS
3 165 (5.16%) Network Security
4 133 (4.16%) WAN
5 126 (3.94%) DHCP
6 113 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
7 112 (3.51%) LAN
8 92 (2.88%) TCP/IP
9 74 (2.32%) VLAN
10 69 (2.16%) SD-WAN
11 54 (1.69%) SAN
12 51 (1.60%) Wireless
13 43 (1.35%) BGP
14 39 (1.22%) OSPF
15 29 (0.91%) Kerberos
16 25 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
17 22 (0.69%) WLAN
18 20 (0.63%) VoIP
19 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (8.95%) Power BI
2 282 (8.83%) SQL Server
3 166 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 141 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 126 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 88 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (2.54%) Tableau
8 76 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 70 (2.19%) Metadata
11 54 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 51 (1.60%) Relational Database
13 50 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 43 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.19%) Big Data
16 36 (1.13%) MySQL
17 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.06%) BigQuery
19 31 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (5.63%) Git
2 112 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 108 (3.38%) JIRA
4 72 (2.25%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) Postman
9 12 (0.38%) JUnit
9 12 (0.38%) Mockito
10 11 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.34%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Maven
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 970 (30.36%) Finance
2 943 (29.51%) Social Skills
3 316 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.01%) Banking
5 217 (6.79%) Law
6 145 (4.54%) Public Sector
7 140 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 137 (4.29%) Legal
9 102 (3.19%) Retail
10 64 (2.00%) Marketing
11 58 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 56 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 42 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.10%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.78%) Advertising
19 19 (0.59%) Investment Banking
20 17 (0.53%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 604 (18.90%) Senior
2 544 (17.03%) Architect
3 432 (13.52%) Lead
4 337 (10.55%) Developer
5 279 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
6 196 (6.13%) Data Engineer
7 177 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
8 167 (5.23%) Analyst
9 128 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 124 (3.88%) Consultant
11 121 (3.79%) Software Engineer
12 120 (3.76%) Azure Architect
12 120 (3.76%) Data Architect
13 107 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 98 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 94 (2.94%) Network Engineer
16 89 (2.79%) Security Engineer
17 85 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
18 83 (2.60%) IT Engineer
19 82 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (9.92%) .NET
2 168 (5.26%) React
3 155 (4.85%) REST
4 136 (4.26%) Kafka
5 100 (3.13%) Node.js
6 93 (2.91%) OAuth
6 93 (2.91%) RESTful
7 89 (2.79%) LangChain
7 89 (2.79%) Spring
8 87 (2.72%) .NET Core
9 78 (2.44%) ASP.NET
10 77 (2.41%) Spring Boot
11 73 (2.28%) PySpark
12 64 (2.00%) PyTorch
13 61 (1.91%) TensorFlow
14 59 (1.85%) CSS
15 58 (1.82%) HTML
16 55 (1.72%) OAuth2
17 49 (1.53%) LangGraph
18 48 (1.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 421 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 133 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 97 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 81 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 69 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 63 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 55 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 50 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
15 45 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 42 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
17 41 (1.28%) Low-Code
18 35 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 424 (13.27%) Windows
2 188 (5.88%) Linux
3 161 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.72%) Unix
8 22 (0.69%) VMS
9 21 (0.66%) Android
9 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.34%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (29.01%) DevOps
2 881 (27.57%) CI/CD
3 764 (23.91%) AI
4 706 (22.10%) Agile
5 524 (16.40%) Roadmaps
6 501 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 486 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
8 481 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 471 (14.74%) Mentoring
10 459 (14.37%) Analytics
11 355 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 353 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
13 341 (10.67%) Data Engineering
14 339 (10.61%) Machine Learning
15 321 (10.05%) Software Engineering
16 302 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
17 298 (9.33%) Microservices
18 295 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
19 292 (9.14%) Migration
20 285 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 762 (23.85%) Python
2 649 (20.31%) SQL
3 335 (10.49%) C#
4 296 (9.26%) PowerShell
5 219 (6.85%) Java
6 215 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 170 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.00%) Bash
9 86 (2.69%) Bicep
10 41 (1.28%) Go
11 39 (1.22%) Scala
12 30 (0.94%) R
13 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.59%) C++
15 19 (0.59%) RPG
16 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
16 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 402 (12.58%) Degree
2 296 (9.26%) Azure Certification
3 268 (8.39%) Security Cleared
4 199 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 131 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 130 (4.07%) CISSP
7 119 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 113 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 68 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.00%) CCNP
11 63 (1.97%) CISM
12 58 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.69%) CCNA
14 46 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
15 43 (1.35%) CEH
16 31 (0.97%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.85%) PMP
18 26 (0.81%) CCIE
19 24 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.60%) GDPR
3 169 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 145 (4.54%) QA
5 135 (4.23%) NIST
6 91 (2.85%) SLA
7 65 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.25%) GRC
10 35 (1.10%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.81%) NCSC
13 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 407 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 259 (8.11%) Docker
3 128 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 44 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.78%) vSphere
8 14 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.063%) Firmware
11 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 466 (14.59%) Terraform
2 349 (10.92%) Kubernetes
3 211 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 158 (4.95%) Ansible
5 68 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 53 (1.66%) Grafana
6 53 (1.66%) SCCM
7 39 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.38%) Argo
11 12 (0.38%) Istio
12 11 (0.34%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) CASB
14 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
15 7 (0.22%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,342 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 349 (10.92%) Databricks
3 198 (6.20%) VMware
4 166 (5.20%) Cisco
5 157 (4.91%) Google
6 87 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 85 (2.66%) OpenAI
8 79 (2.47%) Oracle
9 78 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 57 (1.78%) Foundry
11 56 (1.75%) SAP
12 55 (1.72%) Meraki
13 53 (1.66%) Salesforce
13 53 (1.66%) Splunk
14 46 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
15 44 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 41 (1.28%) Dell
16 41 (1.28%) Tenable
17 39 (1.22%) iManage
18 36 (1.13%) Dynatrace