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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,154 2,294 3,608
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.12% 19.46% 19.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.91% 43.13% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 1,641 2,496
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,125 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,544 5,319 8,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.82% 45.13% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,656 3,630 5,423
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £44,626
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 0 400 £85,000 +9.68% 403
West London -2 86 £77,500 +37.78% 69
South London -12 24 £80,000 +23.08% 23
East London -7 22 £36,000 -15.29% 26
North London -5 14 £60,000 -20.00% 11
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
1 202 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 139 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 88 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 64 (2.03%) Confluence
5 33 (1.05%) Apache
6 28 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.67%) CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 13 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 13 (0.41%) Mule
9 11 (0.35%) Camunda
10 8 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.19%) IIS
13 5 (0.16%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
15 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
15 3 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 61 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 24 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.70%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.032%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Houdini
9 1 (0.032%) Notion
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 49 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.095%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.095%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.032%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (32.53%) AWS
2 651 (20.64%) GCP
3 544 (17.25%) Microsoft 365
4 478 (15.16%) Azure DevOps
5 453 (14.36%) Power Platform
6 431 (13.67%) Entra ID
7 231 (7.32%) SaaS
8 214 (6.79%) GitHub
9 196 (6.21%) Serverless
10 189 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 176 (5.58%) PaaS
12 150 (4.76%) Azure AI
13 147 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 141 (4.47%) Microsoft Copilot
15 132 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 130 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
17 129 (4.09%) Power Automate
18 126 (3.99%) Snowflake
19 125 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 114 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 286 (9.07%) Firewall
2 174 (5.52%) DNS
3 166 (5.26%) VPN
4 152 (4.82%) Network Security
5 132 (4.19%) DHCP
6 104 (3.30%) WAN
7 90 (2.85%) TCP/IP
8 89 (2.82%) LAN
9 86 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (2.50%) VLAN
11 56 (1.78%) SAN
12 54 (1.71%) Wireless
13 51 (1.62%) SD-WAN
14 40 (1.27%) BGP
15 36 (1.14%) OSPF
16 29 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
17 26 (0.82%) Kerberos
18 19 (0.60%) SSL
19 16 (0.51%) DMARC
20 14 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (9.29%) Power BI
2 258 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 175 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 123 (3.90%) Data Lake
6 100 (3.17%) Metadata
7 80 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.06%) Tableau
11 54 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 51 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 42 (1.33%) Star Schema
14 38 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.11%) Data Vault
16 32 (1.01%) MySQL
17 31 (0.98%) Big Data
18 30 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 25 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 181 (5.74%) Git
2 125 (3.96%) JIRA
3 115 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.90%) GitLab
5 32 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.60%) MLflow
7 14 (0.44%) JUnit
7 14 (0.44%) Mockito
7 14 (0.44%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 11 (0.35%) Maven
10 9 (0.29%) Postman
11 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
11 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.22%) Vite
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,016 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 993 (31.48%) Finance
3 310 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.20%) Law
5 217 (6.88%) Banking
6 173 (5.49%) Legal
7 151 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 142 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (3.27%) Retail
10 87 (2.76%) Marketing
11 74 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.00%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 36 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 35 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
17 34 (1.08%) Front Office
18 22 (0.70%) Manufacturing
19 20 (0.63%) Advertising
20 19 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 603 (19.12%) Senior
2 568 (18.01%) Architect
3 391 (12.40%) Lead
4 362 (11.48%) Developer
5 281 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
6 204 (6.47%) Data Engineer
7 188 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
8 162 (5.14%) Analyst
9 147 (4.66%) Consultant
10 140 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 119 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 115 (3.65%) Data Architect
14 112 (3.55%) Azure Architect
15 101 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 100 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
17 97 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
18 91 (2.89%) Senior Developer
19 78 (2.47%) Senior Architect
20 77 (2.44%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (15.09%) Terraform
2 298 (9.45%) .NET
3 222 (7.04%) REST
4 166 (5.26%) React
5 115 (3.65%) Kafka
6 114 (3.61%) RESTful
7 95 (3.01%) OAuth
8 90 (2.85%) LangChain
8 90 (2.85%) Spring
9 89 (2.82%) Node.js
10 86 (2.73%) ASP.NET
11 82 (2.60%) Spring Boot
12 79 (2.50%) .NET Core
13 77 (2.44%) PySpark
14 68 (2.16%) LangGraph
15 59 (1.87%) OAuth2
16 56 (1.78%) AngularJS
16 56 (1.78%) JSON
17 52 (1.65%) .NET Framework
17 52 (1.65%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 426 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 158 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 154 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
6 106 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 101 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 93 (2.95%) Security Posture
9 72 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
15 40 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.20%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.17%) Data Structures
18 36 (1.14%) Virtual Team
19 34 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
19 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 397 (12.59%) Windows
2 175 (5.55%) Windows Server
3 157 (4.98%) Linux
4 48 (1.52%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) VMS
8 19 (0.60%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Unix
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.32%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (30.44%) DevOps
2 938 (29.74%) CI/CD
3 871 (27.62%) AI
4 677 (21.46%) Agile
5 529 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
6 513 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 513 (16.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 513 (16.27%) Roadmaps
7 480 (15.22%) Analytics
8 462 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 435 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 355 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
11 350 (11.10%) Software Engineering
12 339 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
13 336 (10.65%) Data Engineering
14 328 (10.40%) Migration
15 323 (10.24%) Machine Learning
16 317 (10.05%) Microservices
17 309 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
17 309 (9.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 775 (24.57%) Python
2 664 (21.05%) SQL
3 325 (10.30%) C#
4 296 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 212 (6.72%) Java
6 191 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 165 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 104 (3.30%) Bicep
9 83 (2.63%) Bash
10 54 (1.71%) Scala
11 44 (1.40%) R
12 29 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 29 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.79%) Go
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.44%) VBA
17 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
18 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 403 (12.78%) Degree
2 283 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 254 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 215 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 138 (4.38%) CISSP
6 135 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 124 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 93 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (2.41%) Master's Degree
10 74 (2.35%) CISM
11 53 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 44 (1.40%) CCNP
13 42 (1.33%) CCNA
14 36 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
15 34 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
15 34 (1.08%) PhD
16 27 (0.86%) DV Cleared
17 25 (0.79%) PMP
18 24 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 23 (0.73%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 163 (5.17%) GDPR
4 145 (4.60%) QA
5 114 (3.61%) NIST
6 72 (2.28%) SLA
7 58 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.24%) GRC
10 30 (0.95%) NCSC
11 27 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 27 (0.86%) PMO
12 22 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.22%) WCAG
17 6 (0.19%) COBIT
17 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 402 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 270 (8.56%) Docker
3 127 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.57%) vSphere
8 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.063%) XenApp
14 1 (0.032%) HDFS
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Xen
14 1 (0.032%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 333 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 215 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (4.47%) Ansible
4 80 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 62 (1.97%) Grafana
6 48 (1.52%) SCCM
7 35 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.54%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CASB
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 13 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Puppet
12 9 (0.29%) Nagios
13 8 (0.25%) Istio
13 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.25%) QRadar
14 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,371 (43.47%) Microsoft
2 289 (9.16%) Databricks
3 183 (5.80%) VMware
4 175 (5.55%) Google
5 147 (4.66%) Cisco
6 81 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 77 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.31%) Oracle
9 64 (2.03%) Foundry
10 63 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 57 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.74%) SAP
13 48 (1.52%) Splunk
14 44 (1.40%) Meraki
15 43 (1.36%) Zscaler
16 40 (1.27%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
17 37 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 34 (1.08%) Citrix
19 33 (1.05%) Tenable