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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,974 2,379 4,613
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.19% 19.77% 19.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.18% 44.58% 44.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,114 1,785 3,744
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

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 7,401 5,336 10,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.31% 44.35% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,951 3,796 8,094
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 0 644 £82,500 +6.45% 183
West London +10 78 £60,000 +41.18% 33
South London +14 47 £80,000 +23.08% 12
East London -11 19 £95,000 +11.76% 33
North London +4 11 £55,000 +10.00% 13
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
1 189 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 126 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.18%) Confluence
6 18 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.54%) Apache
8 14 (0.47%) CMS
9 11 (0.37%) WordPress
10 9 (0.30%) Appian
11 7 (0.24%) Camunda
11 7 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.17%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 48 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.44%) PlantUML
6 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.034%) Maya
9 1 (0.034%) Notion
9 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.34%) Endur
4 7 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.067%) Shopify
10 1 (0.034%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.034%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 974 (32.75%) AWS
2 572 (19.23%) GCP
3 505 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
4 376 (12.64%) Power Platform
5 353 (11.87%) Azure DevOps
5 353 (11.87%) Entra ID
6 196 (6.59%) GitHub
6 196 (6.59%) SaaS
7 152 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 139 (4.67%) PaaS
10 133 (4.47%) Serverless
11 123 (4.14%) Azure AI
12 114 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 105 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
14 99 (3.33%) Snowflake
15 98 (3.30%) Power Automate
16 97 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
17 91 (3.06%) IaaS
18 86 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 320 (10.76%) Firewall
2 184 (6.19%) VPN
3 175 (5.88%) DNS
4 156 (5.25%) WAN
5 143 (4.81%) DHCP
6 128 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
7 127 (4.27%) Network Security
8 103 (3.46%) LAN
9 89 (2.99%) TCP/IP
10 86 (2.89%) SD-WAN
11 64 (2.15%) VLAN
12 58 (1.95%) SAN
13 38 (1.28%) BGP
14 36 (1.21%) Wireless
15 34 (1.14%) OSPF
16 33 (1.11%) Internet
16 33 (1.11%) WLAN
17 31 (1.04%) VoIP
18 27 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
19 26 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 253 (8.51%) Power BI
3 132 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 130 (4.37%) Data Lake
5 96 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 65 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 63 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 61 (2.05%) Tableau
9 56 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 52 (1.75%) Big Data
11 51 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 50 (1.68%) Metadata
13 46 (1.55%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.38%) Delta Lake
15 39 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 30 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 30 (1.01%) MySQL
17 27 (0.91%) Pinecone
18 25 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 182 (6.12%) Git
2 97 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.52%) JIRA
4 72 (2.42%) GitLab
5 47 (1.58%) MLflow
6 27 (0.91%) Postman
7 23 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.67%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.57%) Selenium
10 14 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.40%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.37%) Vite
14 10 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.27%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 915 (30.77%) Finance
2 807 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 298 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (7.30%) Banking
5 172 (5.78%) Law
6 123 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 98 (3.30%) Legal
9 68 (2.29%) Retail
10 59 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 34 (1.14%) Front Office
16 30 (1.01%) Marketing
17 25 (0.84%) Advertising
17 25 (0.84%) Multimedia
18 21 (0.71%) Retail Banking
19 20 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 575 (19.33%) Senior
2 449 (15.10%) Architect
3 386 (12.98%) Lead
4 294 (9.89%) Developer
5 269 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
6 181 (6.09%) Analyst
7 171 (5.75%) Data Engineer
8 161 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 139 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 124 (4.17%) Consultant
12 109 (3.67%) Azure Architect
13 106 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 104 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 104 (3.50%) IT Engineer
15 103 (3.46%) Support Engineer
16 98 (3.30%) Network Engineer
16 98 (3.30%) Security Engineer
17 91 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
18 88 (2.96%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (9.65%) .NET
2 163 (5.48%) React
3 132 (4.44%) REST
4 113 (3.80%) Kafka
5 102 (3.43%) OAuth
6 87 (2.93%) RESTful
7 82 (2.76%) CSS
8 76 (2.56%) Node.js
9 75 (2.52%) HTML
10 71 (2.39%) PySpark
11 68 (2.29%) .NET Core
11 68 (2.29%) LangChain
12 60 (2.02%) Spring
13 55 (1.85%) SAML
14 54 (1.82%) PyTorch
15 53 (1.78%) TensorFlow
16 49 (1.65%) Spring Boot
17 46 (1.55%) ASP.NET
17 46 (1.55%) Django
17 46 (1.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 303 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 126 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 100 (3.36%) Security Posture
4 88 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 87 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 71 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.32%) Onboarding
9 67 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 64 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
10 64 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 63 (2.12%) AI Agents
12 59 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
13 48 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.38%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.34%) Cyberattack
16 40 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.28%) Algorithms
18 34 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 412 (13.85%) Windows
2 162 (5.45%) Linux
3 157 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.18%) VMS
7 33 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.04%) Unix
9 30 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 25 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.81%) Android
12 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.30%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
19 1 (0.034%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (28.14%) DevOps
2 735 (24.71%) CI/CD
3 616 (20.71%) AI
4 583 (19.60%) Agile
5 456 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 428 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 427 (14.36%) Roadmaps
8 426 (14.32%) Analytics
9 423 (14.22%) Mentoring
10 408 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 314 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
12 310 (10.42%) Data Engineering
13 288 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
14 283 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 274 (9.21%) Software Engineering
16 268 (9.01%) Data Modelling
17 263 (8.84%) Machine Learning
18 262 (8.81%) Migration
19 252 (8.47%) Microservices
20 226 (7.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 741 (24.92%) Python
2 617 (20.75%) SQL
3 338 (11.37%) PowerShell
4 286 (9.62%) C#
5 230 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 170 (5.72%) Java
7 153 (5.14%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.56%) Bash
9 77 (2.59%) Bicep
10 50 (1.68%) Go
11 38 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 37 (1.24%) R
13 30 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 24 (0.81%) Scala
15 21 (0.71%) C++
16 15 (0.50%) Rust
17 12 (0.40%) C
17 12 (0.40%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 376 (12.64%) Degree
2 295 (9.92%) Azure Certification
3 229 (7.70%) Security Cleared
4 165 (5.55%) SC Cleared
5 155 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 120 (4.03%) CISSP
8 103 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (2.66%) AWS Certification
10 51 (1.71%) CCNP
11 50 (1.68%) CEH
12 49 (1.65%) CCNA
13 48 (1.61%) CISM
13 48 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 43 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
15 37 (1.24%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 30 (1.01%) CCIE
18 29 (0.98%) PMI Certification
19 27 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 152 (5.11%) NIST
3 151 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 142 (4.77%) GDPR
5 101 (3.40%) QA
6 90 (3.03%) SLA
7 55 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 45 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.31%) NCSC
10 33 (1.11%) GRC
10 33 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 30 (1.01%) PMO
12 29 (0.98%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.30%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 408 (13.72%) Active Directory
2 235 (7.90%) Docker
3 117 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 31 (1.04%) vSphere
8 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.24%) Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) KVM
11 4 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.067%) Xen
13 1 (0.034%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 408 (13.72%) Terraform
2 318 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 218 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (4.34%) Ansible
5 63 (2.12%) SCCM
6 57 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 54 (1.82%) Grafana
8 41 (1.38%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.11%) FortiGate
10 29 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.40%) Istio
12 10 (0.34%) Argo
12 10 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.30%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
15 7 (0.24%) Nagios
15 7 (0.24%) QRadar
15 7 (0.24%) VxRail
16 6 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,197 (40.25%) Microsoft
2 304 (10.22%) Databricks
3 196 (6.59%) VMware
4 143 (4.81%) Cisco
5 130 (4.37%) Google
6 90 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.76%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 64 (2.15%) Oracle
10 56 (1.88%) Fortinet
11 51 (1.71%) SAP
12 50 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
12 50 (1.68%) Meraki
13 47 (1.58%) Foundry
14 45 (1.51%) Splunk
15 44 (1.48%) Dynatrace
16 42 (1.41%) SolarWinds
17 41 (1.38%) Dell
17 41 (1.38%) Salesforce
18 39 (1.31%) ForeScout