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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,058 2,459 4,626
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 20.18% 18.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.95% 44.77% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,198 1,821 3,707
10th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,654 5,493 10,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.20% 45.07% 42.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,187 3,893 8,177
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £111,750 £120,000 £120,000
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 26 June 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 June 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 0 593 £83,000 +7.10% 154
West London +9 88 £69,119 +53.60% 57
South London +22 48 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East London -2 20 £32,500 -61.76% 39
North London +1 9 £55,000 -18.52% 8
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
1 195 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 126 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 63 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.28%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.52%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.26%) Appian
11 7 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.20%) Camunda
13 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.16%) IIS
13 5 (0.16%) Mule
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%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.62%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
5 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.065%) Shopify
7 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 993 (32.47%) AWS
2 587 (19.20%) GCP
3 523 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
4 396 (12.95%) Power Platform
5 372 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 364 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.93%) SaaS
8 193 (6.31%) GitHub
9 160 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 148 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 144 (4.71%) PaaS
12 135 (4.41%) Azure AI
13 134 (4.38%) Serverless
14 131 (4.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 110 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
16 105 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 105 (3.43%) Snowflake
17 104 (3.40%) Power Automate
18 101 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
19 95 (3.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.17%) Firewall
2 177 (5.79%) VPN
3 169 (5.53%) DNS
4 149 (4.87%) Network Security
4 149 (4.87%) WAN
5 138 (4.51%) DHCP
6 121 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
7 108 (3.53%) LAN
8 89 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 79 (2.58%) SD-WAN
10 66 (2.16%) VLAN
11 52 (1.70%) SAN
12 44 (1.44%) BGP
13 40 (1.31%) OSPF
14 38 (1.24%) Wireless
15 30 (0.98%) VoIP
16 28 (0.92%) WLAN
17 26 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.78%) Kerberos
19 23 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (8.73%) Power BI
2 261 (8.53%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 106 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 67 (2.19%) MongoDB
6 67 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (2.03%) Tableau
8 60 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 58 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 58 (1.90%) Metadata
10 45 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 44 (1.44%) Delta Lake
12 43 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 43 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (1.34%) Big Data
14 34 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 29 (0.95%) MySQL
16 27 (0.88%) Star Schema
17 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (5.98%) Git
2 105 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.49%) GitLab
4 75 (2.45%) JIRA
5 40 (1.31%) MLflow
6 25 (0.82%) Postman
7 22 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.56%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 15 (0.49%) Selenium
11 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.36%) Vite
13 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 6 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 946 (30.94%) Finance
2 857 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 273 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (7.13%) Banking
5 179 (5.85%) Law
6 124 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 115 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 112 (3.66%) Legal
9 75 (2.45%) Retail
10 57 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.14%) Front Office
15 34 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Advertising
17 30 (0.98%) Marketing
18 19 (0.62%) Investment Banking
18 19 (0.62%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.49%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 588 (19.23%) Senior
2 488 (15.96%) Architect
3 414 (13.54%) Lead
4 304 (9.94%) Developer
5 273 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
6 177 (5.79%) Analyst
7 165 (5.40%) Data Engineer
8 163 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 157 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (4.22%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.96%) Consultant
12 116 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 107 (3.50%) Azure Architect
14 104 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 102 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 98 (3.20%) Data Architect
17 96 (3.14%) IT Engineer
18 90 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
19 89 (2.91%) Network Engineer
19 89 (2.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (9.97%) .NET
2 167 (5.46%) React
3 135 (4.41%) REST
4 117 (3.83%) Kafka
5 103 (3.37%) OAuth
6 93 (3.04%) Node.js
7 87 (2.84%) RESTful
8 81 (2.65%) LangChain
9 79 (2.58%) .NET Core
10 74 (2.42%) Spring
11 68 (2.22%) PySpark
12 65 (2.13%) CSS
13 64 (2.09%) Spring Boot
14 62 (2.03%) ASP.NET
14 62 (2.03%) PyTorch
15 61 (1.99%) HTML
16 60 (1.96%) TensorFlow
17 55 (1.80%) SAML
18 50 (1.64%) OpenID
19 45 (1.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 362 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 131 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 111 (3.63%) Security Posture
4 95 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 91 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 68 (2.22%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 58 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
13 48 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
16 43 (1.41%) Low-Code
17 37 (1.21%) Cyberattack
18 36 (1.18%) Algorithms
19 32 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 414 (13.54%) Windows
2 171 (5.59%) Linux
3 159 (5.20%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.08%) VMS
7 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.62%) Android
12 18 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.33%) CentOS
15 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
19 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (28.55%) DevOps
2 793 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 653 (21.35%) AI
4 627 (20.50%) Agile
5 460 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 459 (15.01%) Roadmaps
7 457 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 440 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 431 (14.09%) Mentoring
10 429 (14.03%) Analytics
11 321 (10.50%) Data Engineering
12 312 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
13 310 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
14 300 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 297 (9.71%) Software Engineering
16 285 (9.32%) Machine Learning
17 274 (8.96%) Microservices
18 271 (8.86%) Data Modelling
19 248 (8.11%) Migration
19 248 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 737 (24.10%) Python
2 620 (20.27%) SQL
3 328 (10.73%) PowerShell
4 297 (9.71%) C#
5 224 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 176 (5.76%) Java
7 169 (5.53%) TypeScript
8 107 (3.50%) Bash
9 79 (2.58%) Bicep
10 43 (1.41%) Go
11 35 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 26 (0.85%) R
14 23 (0.75%) Scala
15 21 (0.69%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) RPG
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.43%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 377 (12.33%) Degree
2 286 (9.35%) Azure Certification
3 244 (7.98%) Security Cleared
4 179 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 149 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.22%) CISSP
7 115 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 114 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 70 (2.29%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.86%) CCNP
11 56 (1.83%) CISM
12 55 (1.80%) CCNA
13 54 (1.77%) Master's Degree
14 48 (1.57%) CEH
15 46 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
17 31 (1.01%) CCIE
18 28 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.85%) GIAC
19 26 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 160 (5.23%) GDPR
3 157 (5.13%) NIST
4 154 (5.04%) Data Quality
5 127 (4.15%) QA
6 91 (2.98%) SLA
7 57 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.28%) GRC
10 36 (1.18%) NCSC
11 33 (1.08%) PMO
12 32 (1.05%) SOC 2
13 31 (1.01%) PCI DSS
14 19 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 19 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) COBIT
19 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 417 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.08%) Docker
3 122 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.92%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.065%) Xen
11 1 (0.033%) NLBS
11 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 437 (14.29%) Terraform
2 332 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 220 (7.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 143 (4.68%) Ansible
5 61 (1.99%) SCCM
5 61 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 53 (1.73%) Grafana
7 41 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 26 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.43%) Istio
11 11 (0.36%) Argo
11 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.26%) Kibana
13 8 (0.26%) QRadar
14 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 6 (0.20%) Packer
15 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,249 (40.84%) Microsoft
2 315 (10.30%) Databricks
3 194 (6.34%) VMware
4 145 (4.74%) Cisco
5 128 (4.19%) Google
6 93 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 82 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 71 (2.32%) Oracle
10 56 (1.83%) Foundry
11 51 (1.67%) Splunk
12 48 (1.57%) Meraki
12 48 (1.57%) SAP
13 46 (1.50%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.41%) SolarWinds
15 42 (1.37%) Dell
15 42 (1.37%) Dynatrace
16 41 (1.34%) Salesforce
17 37 (1.21%) iManage