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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,085 2,553 4,133
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.73% 20.54% 18.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.57% 45.03% 43.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 1,870 3,274
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,400 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £57,500
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 £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -6.25%

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 7,999 5,669 9,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.60% 45.62% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,369 4,028 7,331
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 July 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 July 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 0 548 £83,000 +7.10% 142
West London +6 89 £70,000 +55.56% 46
South London +12 48 £80,000 +23.08% 20
East London -16 17 £31,500 -42.73% 38
North London -1 8 £55,000 -21.43% 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
1 194 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 130 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 70 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Confluence
5 42 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) CMS
8 15 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.42%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.36%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
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%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.68%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) Endur
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.065%) Shopify
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,014 (32.87%) AWS
2 594 (19.25%) GCP
3 533 (17.28%) Microsoft 365
4 396 (12.84%) Power Platform
5 384 (12.45%) Entra ID
6 367 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.87%) SaaS
8 183 (5.93%) GitHub
9 159 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.86%) PaaS
11 149 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 147 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 145 (4.70%) Serverless
14 137 (4.44%) Azure AI
15 115 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 115 (3.73%) Snowflake
16 107 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
17 100 (3.24%) Power Automate
18 98 (3.18%) IaaS
19 89 (2.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 319 (10.34%) Firewall
2 183 (5.93%) VPN
3 179 (5.80%) DNS
4 160 (5.19%) Network Security
5 142 (4.60%) DHCP
6 141 (4.57%) WAN
7 124 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
8 115 (3.73%) LAN
9 93 (3.01%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.37%) SD-WAN
10 73 (2.37%) VLAN
11 52 (1.69%) SAN
12 47 (1.52%) BGP
13 45 (1.46%) Wireless
14 43 (1.39%) OSPF
15 30 (0.97%) Kerberos
15 30 (0.97%) VoIP
16 26 (0.84%) WLAN
17 24 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
18 22 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (8.62%) Power BI
2 259 (8.40%) SQL Server
3 154 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.34%) Data Lake
5 114 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 72 (2.33%) Tableau
8 67 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 62 (2.01%) NoSQL
10 60 (1.94%) Metadata
11 53 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (1.49%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.30%) Big Data
14 40 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 38 (1.23%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 34 (1.10%) MySQL
18 33 (1.07%) Star Schema
19 29 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (5.48%) Git
2 109 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 91 (2.95%) JIRA
4 76 (2.46%) GitLab
5 34 (1.10%) MLflow
6 19 (0.62%) Postman
7 17 (0.55%) Chocolatey
8 16 (0.52%) Selenium
9 15 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.29%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) Mockito
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.26%) Vite
14 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 932 (30.21%) Finance
2 878 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 279 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (7.03%) Banking
5 186 (6.03%) Law
6 128 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 121 (3.92%) Legal
8 115 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (2.59%) Retail
10 52 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.17%) Front Office
15 33 (1.07%) Marketing
16 30 (0.97%) Advertising
17 29 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 26 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
20 17 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 593 (19.22%) Senior
2 508 (16.47%) Architect
3 424 (13.74%) Lead
4 308 (9.98%) Developer
5 279 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 173 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 171 (5.54%) Analyst
9 150 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (4.18%) Consultant
11 119 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 115 (3.73%) Software Engineer
13 114 (3.70%) Azure Architect
14 103 (3.34%) Data Architect
15 102 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.21%) Security Engineer
17 92 (2.98%) IT Engineer
18 87 (2.82%) IT Support
19 86 (2.79%) Network Engineer
19 86 (2.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (9.82%) .NET
2 172 (5.58%) React
3 138 (4.47%) REST
4 123 (3.99%) Kafka
5 103 (3.34%) OAuth
6 100 (3.24%) Node.js
7 86 (2.79%) RESTful
8 81 (2.63%) Spring
9 77 (2.50%) .NET Core
10 76 (2.46%) LangChain
11 71 (2.30%) Spring Boot
12 68 (2.20%) ASP.NET
13 65 (2.11%) PySpark
14 59 (1.91%) PyTorch
15 55 (1.78%) CSS
15 55 (1.78%) TensorFlow
16 54 (1.75%) OpenID
17 53 (1.72%) HTML
18 52 (1.69%) OAuth2
19 51 (1.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 388 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 105 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 86 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 81 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 59 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
11 55 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 55 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 50 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
15 38 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
16 32 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
17 31 (1.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 432 (14.00%) Windows
2 184 (5.96%) Linux
3 165 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.91%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Android
11 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (0.36%) CentOS
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (28.72%) DevOps
2 813 (26.35%) CI/CD
3 665 (21.56%) AI
4 641 (20.78%) Agile
5 479 (15.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 477 (15.46%) Roadmaps
7 462 (14.98%) Mentoring
8 453 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
9 449 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 415 (13.45%) Analytics
11 322 (10.44%) Data Engineering
12 318 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
13 302 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
14 301 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 296 (9.59%) Software Engineering
16 284 (9.21%) Machine Learning
17 280 (9.08%) Microservices
18 273 (8.85%) Data Modelling
19 267 (8.65%) Migration
20 260 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 744 (24.12%) Python
2 616 (19.97%) SQL
3 313 (10.15%) C#
4 312 (10.11%) PowerShell
5 216 (7.00%) JavaScript
6 189 (6.13%) Java
7 172 (5.58%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.57%) Bash
9 79 (2.56%) Bicep
10 40 (1.30%) Go
11 28 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 28 (0.91%) Scala
11 28 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.65%) C++
12 20 (0.65%) R
13 19 (0.62%) RPG
14 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
16 12 (0.39%) Rust
16 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 367 (11.90%) Degree
2 280 (9.08%) Azure Certification
3 250 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 185 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.31%) CISSP
6 128 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 120 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
8 105 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.07%) CCNP
11 58 (1.88%) CISM
12 56 (1.82%) CCNA
13 53 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.56%) CEH
14 48 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.04%) DV Cleared
16 30 (0.97%) CCIE
17 27 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.84%) GIAC
19 24 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 164 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 159 (5.15%) GDPR
4 145 (4.70%) NIST
5 140 (4.54%) QA
6 93 (3.01%) SLA
7 60 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.36%) GRC
10 36 (1.17%) PMO
11 29 (0.94%) NCSC
12 28 (0.91%) SOC 2
13 27 (0.88%) PCI DSS
14 20 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 18 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
19 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 431 (13.97%) Active Directory
2 238 (7.71%) Docker
3 127 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 47 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.84%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
11 3 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.065%) Xen
13 1 (0.032%) NLBS
13 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 450 (14.59%) Terraform
2 330 (10.70%) Kubernetes
3 225 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (4.83%) Ansible
5 64 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (1.85%) Grafana
7 55 (1.78%) SCCM
8 42 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 33 (1.07%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.42%) Istio
12 12 (0.39%) Argo
13 11 (0.36%) CloudHub
13 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.36%) Nagios
14 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.29%) QRadar
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,295 (41.98%) Microsoft
2 316 (10.24%) Databricks
3 199 (6.45%) VMware
4 151 (4.89%) Cisco
5 133 (4.31%) Google
6 92 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 78 (2.53%) OpenAI
8 74 (2.40%) Oracle
8 74 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 56 (1.82%) Foundry
10 52 (1.69%) SAP
11 51 (1.65%) Splunk
12 48 (1.56%) Meraki
12 48 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 46 (1.49%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
14 44 (1.43%) Dell
15 41 (1.33%) Dynatrace
15 41 (1.33%) Tenable
16 40 (1.30%) iManage