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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,178 2,498 3,696
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.28% 20.59% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.49% 44.80% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,794 2,816
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -2.60% +2.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,550 £110,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,478 5,576 8,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.43% 45.95% 42.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5,685 3,876 6,198
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,344 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £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 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 20 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 20 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 +1 473 £85,000 +9.68% 246
West London +5 102 £70,000 +42.86% 50
South London 0 40 £80,000 +23.08% 12
East London -17 17 £75,000 +51.52% 35
North London -4 13 £60,000 -17.24% 14
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
1 197 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 91 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.79%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.85%) Apache
7 25 (0.79%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.41%) Mule
11 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
12 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.31%) WordPress
13 7 (0.22%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.72%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.50%) 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 42 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.57%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
9 2 (0.063%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.031%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (34.08%) AWS
2 650 (20.45%) GCP
3 533 (16.77%) Microsoft 365
4 418 (13.15%) Power Platform
5 401 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
6 378 (11.89%) Entra ID
7 212 (6.67%) SaaS
8 187 (5.88%) GitHub
9 166 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 161 (5.07%) Serverless
11 158 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 158 (4.97%) PaaS
12 154 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 149 (4.69%) Azure AI
14 141 (4.44%) Snowflake
15 119 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 116 (3.65%) Power Automate
17 114 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
18 99 (3.12%) PowerApps
19 97 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 314 (9.88%) Firewall
2 169 (5.32%) VPN
3 165 (5.19%) Network Security
4 160 (5.03%) DNS
5 126 (3.96%) WAN
6 123 (3.87%) DHCP
7 108 (3.40%) LAN
8 107 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (2.77%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.39%) VLAN
11 67 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.79%) SAN
13 53 (1.67%) Wireless
14 41 (1.29%) BGP
15 37 (1.16%) OSPF
16 28 (0.88%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
18 19 (0.60%) WLAN
19 18 (0.57%) VoIP
20 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 276 (8.68%) Power BI
3 165 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 142 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 127 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (2.52%) Tableau
8 78 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.23%) Metadata
10 70 (2.20%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 53 (1.67%) Relational Database
13 47 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.16%) MySQL
17 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.07%) Big Data
19 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
19 32 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 184 (5.79%) Git
2 113 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.34%) JIRA
4 72 (2.27%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Maven
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 962 (30.27%) Finance
2 957 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 319 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (6.99%) Banking
5 214 (6.73%) Law
6 147 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 141 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (4.28%) Legal
9 104 (3.27%) Retail
10 70 (2.20%) Marketing
11 60 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.04%) Front Office
17 29 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.79%) Advertising
19 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
20 14 (0.44%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 588 (18.50%) Senior
2 552 (17.37%) Architect
3 421 (13.25%) Lead
4 329 (10.35%) Developer
5 281 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.23%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 166 (5.22%) Analyst
9 130 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 127 (4.00%) Consultant
11 125 (3.93%) Azure Architect
12 120 (3.78%) Data Architect
13 119 (3.74%) Software Engineer
14 106 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 100 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 90 (2.83%) Network Engineer
17 87 (2.74%) Security Engineer
18 86 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
19 79 (2.49%) IT Engineer
19 79 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (14.73%) Terraform
2 317 (9.97%) .NET
3 164 (5.16%) React
3 164 (5.16%) REST
4 139 (4.37%) Kafka
5 96 (3.02%) Node.js
5 96 (3.02%) RESTful
6 91 (2.86%) LangChain
7 90 (2.83%) OAuth
8 89 (2.80%) Spring
9 87 (2.74%) .NET Core
10 83 (2.61%) ASP.NET
11 77 (2.42%) Spring Boot
12 76 (2.39%) PySpark
13 65 (2.05%) PyTorch
14 63 (1.98%) TensorFlow
15 58 (1.83%) CSS
15 58 (1.83%) HTML
16 54 (1.70%) OAuth2
17 51 (1.60%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 157 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 137 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 95 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 86 (2.71%) AI Agents
9 66 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 66 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 45 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 37 (1.16%) Low-Code
16 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 418 (13.15%) Windows
2 184 (5.79%) Linux
3 161 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Android
7 20 (0.63%) Unix
8 19 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (0.57%) VMS
10 16 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.094%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.031%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (28.92%) DevOps
2 879 (27.66%) CI/CD
3 778 (24.48%) AI
4 702 (22.09%) Agile
5 528 (16.61%) Roadmaps
6 500 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 500 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
7 485 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 466 (14.66%) Mentoring
9 457 (14.38%) Analytics
10 363 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 345 (10.86%) Data Engineering
11 345 (10.86%) Machine Learning
12 342 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
13 316 (9.94%) Software Engineering
14 304 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
15 302 (9.50%) Microservices
16 295 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
16 295 (9.28%) Migration
17 288 (9.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 766 (24.10%) Python
2 648 (20.39%) SQL
3 336 (10.57%) C#
4 297 (9.35%) PowerShell
5 223 (7.02%) Java
6 211 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 97 (3.05%) Bash
9 90 (2.83%) Bicep
10 42 (1.32%) Scala
11 40 (1.26%) Go
12 28 (0.88%) R
13 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 18 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
19 12 (0.38%) Rust
19 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 402 (12.65%) Degree
2 297 (9.35%) Azure Certification
3 260 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 192 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 132 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 128 (4.03%) CISSP
7 119 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 117 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 65 (2.05%) CCNP
11 63 (1.98%) CISM
11 63 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 51 (1.60%) CCNA
13 44 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
14 41 (1.29%) CEH
15 29 (0.91%) PMP
16 28 (0.88%) DV Cleared
17 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.85%) CCIE
18 26 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.66%) GDPR
3 167 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 149 (4.69%) QA
5 130 (4.09%) NIST
6 87 (2.74%) SLA
7 65 (2.05%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.57%) 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%) HIPAA
System Software
1 407 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 258 (8.12%) Docker
3 128 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.79%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 341 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 154 (4.85%) Ansible
4 70 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 55 (1.73%) Grafana
5 55 (1.73%) SCCM
6 40 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 32 (1.01%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (0.44%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Istio
10 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.38%) Nagios
12 9 (0.28%) QRadar
13 8 (0.25%) CASB
14 7 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
15 6 (0.19%) Packer
15 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,351 (42.51%) Microsoft
2 349 (10.98%) Databricks
3 197 (6.20%) VMware
4 164 (5.16%) Cisco
5 152 (4.78%) Google
6 86 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 84 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 82 (2.58%) Oracle
9 76 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.86%) Foundry
11 56 (1.76%) Splunk
12 53 (1.67%) SAP
13 51 (1.60%) Meraki
14 49 (1.54%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.35%) Fortinet
17 42 (1.32%) Tenable
18 40 (1.26%) Dell
19 37 (1.16%) Zscaler
20 36 (1.13%) iManage