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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,336 3,267 4,034
As % of all permanent jobs in London 17.31% 20.25% 22.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.56% 44.42% 47.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 2,319 3,507
10th Percentile £41,222 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,760 7,355 8,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 42.68% 45.60% 47.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,752 4,807 7,124
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 0 471 £77,500 +6.90% 197
West London +5 58 £65,000 -11.86% 66
East London -6 25 £34,000 -35.24% 44
North London +19 24 £75,000 -6.25% 8
South London +8 20 £55,000 -10.78% 51
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
1 159 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 138 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 75 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.28%) Confluence
6 14 (0.60%) Apache
6 14 (0.60%) IIS
7 12 (0.51%) CMS
8 8 (0.34%) Appian
9 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.21%) Moodle
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.17%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 46 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.34%) Maya
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.81%) Endur
4 10 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.086%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.086%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.043%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 843 (36.09%) AWS
2 458 (19.61%) GCP
3 407 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
4 396 (16.95%) Power Platform
5 344 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
6 247 (10.57%) Entra ID
7 166 (7.11%) GitHub
8 161 (6.89%) SaaS
9 144 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (5.74%) Power Automate
11 122 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
12 113 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 108 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 108 (4.62%) PowerApps
14 106 (4.54%) PaaS
15 103 (4.41%) Serverless
16 72 (3.08%) Snowflake
17 71 (3.04%) Azure AI
18 66 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
19 62 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 235 (10.06%) Firewall
2 135 (5.78%) VPN
3 125 (5.35%) WAN
4 114 (4.88%) DNS
5 99 (4.24%) LAN
6 86 (3.68%) DHCP
7 77 (3.30%) TCP/IP
8 75 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
9 66 (2.83%) Network Security
10 50 (2.14%) SD-WAN
11 49 (2.10%) Internet
12 46 (1.97%) Wireless
13 41 (1.76%) VLAN
14 37 (1.58%) VoIP
15 28 (1.20%) SAN
16 23 (0.98%) BGP
16 23 (0.98%) OSPF
17 20 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
18 12 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (11.73%) Power BI
2 223 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 177 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
4 144 (6.16%) Data Lake
5 120 (5.14%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 84 (3.60%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.34%) Metadata
9 73 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 72 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
11 60 (2.57%) Big Data
12 44 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.58%) MySQL
16 32 (1.37%) Tableau
17 30 (1.28%) BigQuery
18 27 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (0.86%) DynamoDB
19 20 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 202 (8.65%) Git
2 102 (4.37%) JIRA
3 75 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.76%) GitLab
6 28 (1.20%) MLflow
7 23 (0.98%) Postman
7 23 (0.98%) Selenium
8 16 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.64%) JMeter
10 13 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.30%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 733 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 705 (30.18%) Finance
3 290 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (8.69%) Law
5 172 (7.36%) Banking
6 148 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 139 (5.95%) Retail
8 116 (4.97%) Legal
9 91 (3.90%) Marketing
10 82 (3.51%) Public Sector
11 63 (2.70%) Financial Institution
12 62 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (1.58%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.37%) Multimedia
17 32 (1.37%) Retail Banking
18 30 (1.28%) Games
18 30 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 424 (18.15%) Senior
2 332 (14.21%) Developer
3 292 (12.50%) Architect
3 292 (12.50%) Lead
4 185 (7.92%) Data Engineer
5 184 (7.88%) Analyst
6 144 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
7 126 (5.39%) Support Engineer
8 102 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 93 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 79 (3.38%) Data Architect
11 79 (3.38%) Senior Developer
12 74 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 74 (3.17%) IT Support
13 73 (3.13%) Support Analyst
14 72 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
15 66 (2.83%) .NET Developer
16 63 (2.70%) Network Engineer
17 59 (2.53%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (10.49%) .NET
2 161 (6.89%) React
3 134 (5.74%) REST
4 109 (4.67%) HTML
5 97 (4.15%) CSS
6 90 (3.85%) RESTful
7 89 (3.81%) .NET Core
8 88 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 83 (3.55%) Node.js
10 81 (3.47%) Kafka
11 62 (2.65%) ASP.NET
11 62 (2.65%) Vue
12 56 (2.40%) PySpark
13 51 (2.18%) .NET Framework
13 51 (2.18%) Web Services
14 47 (2.01%) Middleware
14 47 (2.01%) OAuth
15 45 (1.93%) YAML
16 44 (1.88%) PyTorch
17 40 (1.71%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 201 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 101 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 99 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 62 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 57 (2.44%) Low-Code
10 55 (2.35%) AI Agents
10 55 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 48 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 43 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.33%) Reinsurance
17 30 (1.28%) Data Structures
17 30 (1.28%) Virtual Team
18 26 (1.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 386 (16.52%) Windows
2 186 (7.96%) Windows Server
3 164 (7.02%) Linux
4 67 (2.87%) Windows 10
5 42 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 39 (1.67%) Unix
7 34 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 32 (1.37%) Android
9 30 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.98%) VMS
11 16 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.21%) CentOS
17 4 (0.17%) Solaris
18 3 (0.13%) SUSE
19 2 (0.086%) Kali Linux
20 1 (0.043%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (30.18%) DevOps
2 589 (25.21%) Agile
2 589 (25.21%) CI/CD
3 488 (20.89%) AI
4 486 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
5 418 (17.89%) Analytics
6 306 (13.10%) Mentoring
7 298 (12.76%) Computer Science
8 293 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 284 (12.16%) Roadmaps
10 280 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
11 279 (11.94%) Data Modelling
12 272 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
13 257 (11.00%) Microservices
14 253 (10.83%) Machine Learning
15 249 (10.66%) ETL
16 247 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 231 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
18 222 (9.50%) ITIL
19 221 (9.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 648 (27.74%) Python
2 584 (25.00%) SQL
3 287 (12.29%) PowerShell
4 285 (12.20%) C#
5 250 (10.70%) JavaScript
6 129 (5.52%) Java
7 123 (5.27%) TypeScript
8 68 (2.91%) Bash
9 48 (2.05%) Bicep
10 41 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.54%) Scala
12 32 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 32 (1.37%) Go
12 32 (1.37%) R
13 23 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.68%) C++
15 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.56%) Rust
17 12 (0.51%) PHP
18 11 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 430 (18.41%) Degree
2 224 (9.59%) Azure Certification
3 211 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 139 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 129 (5.52%) Security Cleared
6 115 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 104 (4.45%) Master's Degree
8 91 (3.90%) SC Cleared
9 81 (3.47%) CISSP
10 60 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.76%) CCNP
12 36 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 35 (1.50%) CISM
14 34 (1.46%) DV Cleared
15 33 (1.41%) PMI Certification
16 31 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (1.03%) CCIE
17 24 (1.03%) CEH
17 24 (1.03%) PMP
18 22 (0.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (7.66%) GDPR
2 164 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 124 (5.31%) NIST
4 114 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 114 (4.88%) QA
5 44 (1.88%) SLA
6 33 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.24%) NCSC
8 28 (1.20%) EU AI Act
9 24 (1.03%) HIPAA
10 23 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.98%) PSD2
11 21 (0.90%) Solvency II
12 18 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 14 (0.60%) PMO
14 14 (0.60%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.43%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.39%) GRC
17 8 (0.34%) EMIR
System Software
1 325 (13.91%) Active Directory
2 225 (9.63%) Docker
3 92 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 26 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.73%) Firmware
8 16 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.56%) vSphere
10 9 (0.39%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.26%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) XenApp
14 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.17%) KVM
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
14 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.086%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 284 (12.16%) Terraform
2 262 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 119 (5.09%) Ansible
5 51 (2.18%) SCCM
6 41 (1.76%) Grafana
6 41 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.73%) Argo
9 13 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.51%) Autotask
11 11 (0.47%) CASB
12 10 (0.43%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.39%) SCOM
14 7 (0.30%) Rancher
15 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.26%) Puppet
16 5 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,003 (42.94%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.03%) Databricks
3 162 (6.93%) VMware
4 124 (5.31%) Cisco
5 95 (4.07%) Google
6 86 (3.68%) Oracle
7 71 (3.04%) Palo Alto
8 69 (2.95%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.53%) SAP
10 53 (2.27%) Fortinet
11 50 (2.14%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.63%) Meraki
13 37 (1.58%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.41%) Informatica
14 33 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 32 (1.37%) Citrix
16 30 (1.28%) CheckPoint
17 29 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
18 25 (1.07%) Splunk
19 24 (1.03%) Commvault