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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,159 2,481 3,724
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.13% 20.60% 19.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.31% 44.61% 44.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,312 1,781 2,795
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,918
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.51% -4.07%

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 8,466 5,561 8,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.18% 46.17% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,681 3,854 6,160
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 26 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 26 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 +1 448 £85,000 +8.28% 171
West London +3 99 £70,000 +42.86% 94
South London 0 42 £85,000 +30.77% 15
East London -12 17 £75,000 +63.04% 27
North London -6 13 £60,000 -20.00% 6
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
1 194 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.87%) Confluence
5 45 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.92%) Apache
7 25 (0.79%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Camunda
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.73%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
7 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
7 2 (0.063%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.032%) Houdini
8 1 (0.032%) Maya
8 1 (0.032%) Notion
8 1 (0.032%) NUKE
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.70%) Elite 3E
3 12 (0.38%) Carpe Diem
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.063%) Shopify
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (33.81%) AWS
2 640 (20.26%) GCP
3 529 (16.75%) Microsoft 365
4 417 (13.20%) Power Platform
5 406 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
6 378 (11.97%) Entra ID
7 210 (6.65%) SaaS
8 185 (5.86%) GitHub
9 166 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 165 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 160 (5.06%) Serverless
12 157 (4.97%) PaaS
13 155 (4.91%) Azure AI
13 155 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 141 (4.46%) Snowflake
15 119 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 116 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
17 115 (3.64%) Power Automate
18 100 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
19 98 (3.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 311 (9.84%) Firewall
2 168 (5.32%) VPN
3 165 (5.22%) Network Security
4 159 (5.03%) DNS
5 122 (3.86%) DHCP
5 122 (3.86%) WAN
6 106 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
7 105 (3.32%) LAN
8 85 (2.69%) TCP/IP
9 77 (2.44%) VLAN
10 66 (2.09%) SD-WAN
11 56 (1.77%) SAN
12 55 (1.74%) Wireless
13 41 (1.30%) BGP
14 37 (1.17%) OSPF
15 28 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
17 19 (0.60%) WLAN
18 17 (0.54%) SSL
18 17 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (8.80%) Power BI
2 273 (8.64%) SQL Server
3 168 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (4.56%) Data Lake
5 128 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 77 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (2.41%) Tableau
8 75 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.28%) Metadata
10 68 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 58 (1.84%) Delta Lake
12 51 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 46 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 36 (1.14%) Star Schema
17 35 (1.11%) MySQL
18 34 (1.08%) Data Vault
19 33 (1.04%) Big Data
20 32 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (5.70%) Git
2 112 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 108 (3.42%) JIRA
4 70 (2.22%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) MLflow
6 17 (0.54%) Selenium
7 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 13 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.32%) Eclipse
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.22%) Vite
15 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 957 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 953 (30.17%) Finance
3 311 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.09%) Banking
5 221 (7.00%) Law
6 144 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 144 (4.56%) Public Sector
7 143 (4.53%) Legal
8 104 (3.29%) Retail
9 70 (2.22%) Marketing
10 61 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 45 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 29 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (0.92%) Front Office
16 25 (0.79%) Advertising
17 20 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 582 (18.42%) Senior
2 551 (17.44%) Architect
3 406 (12.85%) Lead
4 325 (10.29%) Developer
5 286 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
6 195 (6.17%) Data Engineer
7 184 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
8 163 (5.16%) Analyst
9 130 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 128 (4.05%) Azure Architect
11 124 (3.93%) Consultant
12 120 (3.80%) Data Architect
13 114 (3.61%) Software Engineer
14 106 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
15 103 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 89 (2.82%) Network Engineer
17 88 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
18 83 (2.63%) Security Engineer
19 79 (2.50%) Senior Developer
20 76 (2.41%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (14.69%) Terraform
2 313 (9.91%) .NET
3 169 (5.35%) REST
4 154 (4.87%) React
5 143 (4.53%) Kafka
6 94 (2.98%) RESTful
7 89 (2.82%) LangChain
8 88 (2.79%) OAuth
8 88 (2.79%) Spring
9 87 (2.75%) Node.js
10 84 (2.66%) ASP.NET
11 83 (2.63%) .NET Core
12 76 (2.41%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.37%) PySpark
14 65 (2.06%) PyTorch
15 64 (2.03%) TensorFlow
16 56 (1.77%) HTML
17 55 (1.74%) CSS
18 52 (1.65%) OAuth2
19 51 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 158 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 134 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 100 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 91 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 86 (2.72%) AI Agents
8 66 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 63 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 61 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
13 44 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 43 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 37 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
17 32 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 413 (13.07%) Windows
2 174 (5.51%) Linux
3 160 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 44 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Android
8 18 (0.57%) Unix
8 18 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.54%) VMS
10 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.38%) CentOS
11 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (28.93%) DevOps
2 871 (27.57%) CI/CD
3 784 (24.82%) AI
4 686 (21.72%) Agile
5 528 (16.71%) Roadmaps
6 496 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 491 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 489 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 456 (14.43%) Mentoring
10 455 (14.40%) Analytics
11 367 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 345 (10.92%) Data Engineering
13 343 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
13 343 (10.86%) Machine Learning
14 309 (9.78%) Software Engineering
15 307 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
16 296 (9.37%) Microservices
16 296 (9.37%) Migration
17 288 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
18 286 (9.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 750 (23.74%) Python
2 649 (20.54%) SQL
3 330 (10.45%) C#
4 291 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 222 (7.03%) Java
6 198 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 160 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 95 (3.01%) Bash
9 91 (2.88%) Bicep
10 45 (1.42%) Scala
11 38 (1.20%) Go
12 30 (0.95%) R
13 23 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 17 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.47%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 400 (12.66%) Degree
2 293 (9.28%) Azure Certification
3 255 (8.07%) Security Cleared
4 188 (5.95%) SC Cleared
5 130 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.02%) CISSP
7 123 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 114 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 65 (2.06%) CISM
11 64 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 63 (1.99%) CCNP
13 48 (1.52%) CCNA
14 43 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (1.17%) CEH
16 31 (0.98%) PMP
17 28 (0.89%) PMI Certification
18 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.85%) CCIE
18 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.60%) GDPR
3 167 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 145 (4.59%) QA
5 125 (3.96%) NIST
6 89 (2.82%) SLA
7 64 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.30%) GRC
10 34 (1.08%) PMO
11 28 (0.89%) NCSC
12 25 (0.79%) 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 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 405 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 254 (8.04%) Docker
3 129 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.66%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 334 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 215 (6.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (4.65%) Ansible
4 73 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.71%) Grafana
5 54 (1.71%) SCCM
6 37 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 34 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (0.47%) Argo
9 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
9 13 (0.41%) Istio
9 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.38%) Nagios
11 9 (0.28%) CASB
11 9 (0.28%) QRadar
12 6 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (0.19%) Packer
12 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,356 (42.92%) Microsoft
2 348 (11.02%) Databricks
3 192 (6.08%) VMware
4 162 (5.13%) Cisco
5 149 (4.72%) Google
6 85 (2.69%) OpenAI
7 81 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 79 (2.50%) Oracle
9 76 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.93%) Foundry
11 56 (1.77%) Splunk
12 51 (1.61%) Meraki
13 50 (1.58%) SAP
14 46 (1.46%) Salesforce
15 45 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.36%) Tenable
17 42 (1.33%) Fortinet
18 38 (1.20%) Dell
18 38 (1.20%) Zscaler
19 35 (1.11%) Dynatrace