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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,140 2,523 3,796
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.54% 20.57% 18.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.12% 44.58% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 1,829 2,965
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £59,750
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 £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,238 5,659 8,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.52% 46.13% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,525 4,001 6,603
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £110,150 £122,500 £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 31 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 31 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 0 515 £83,000 +7.10% 232
West London +3 100 £70,000 +55.56% 53
South London 0 44 £80,000 +23.08% 19
East London -14 17 £53,750 +8.59% 35
North London -10 7 £48,750 -30.36% 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
1 198 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 126 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 49 (1.56%) Confluence
5 46 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.73%) Apache
7 20 (0.64%) CMS
8 15 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 14 (0.45%) Camunda
10 12 (0.38%) Mule
11 10 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.32%) WordPress
12 7 (0.22%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
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%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.67%) PlantUML
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.064%) SmartSuite
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 38 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
5 6 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.096%) Endur
8 3 (0.096%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.064%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.064%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (33.89%) AWS
2 630 (20.06%) GCP
3 529 (16.85%) Microsoft 365
4 416 (13.25%) Power Platform
5 384 (12.23%) Entra ID
6 383 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (6.78%) SaaS
8 188 (5.99%) GitHub
9 165 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 156 (4.97%) PaaS
11 154 (4.90%) Serverless
12 150 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 146 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 141 (4.49%) Azure AI
15 132 (4.20%) Snowflake
16 114 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
17 108 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
18 107 (3.41%) Power Automate
19 96 (3.06%) IaaS
20 93 (2.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (10.00%) Firewall
2 171 (5.45%) VPN
3 167 (5.32%) DNS
4 163 (5.19%) Network Security
5 133 (4.24%) WAN
6 131 (4.17%) DHCP
7 117 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
8 113 (3.60%) LAN
9 91 (2.90%) TCP/IP
10 72 (2.29%) VLAN
11 69 (2.20%) SD-WAN
12 51 (1.62%) SAN
13 46 (1.46%) BGP
13 46 (1.46%) Wireless
14 42 (1.34%) OSPF
15 32 (1.02%) Kerberos
16 26 (0.83%) VoIP
17 24 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (0.76%) WLAN
18 19 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (9.04%) Power BI
2 267 (8.50%) SQL Server
3 163 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 121 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (2.45%) Tableau
8 73 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 67 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 66 (2.10%) Metadata
11 53 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 52 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (1.46%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 41 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (1.24%) Big Data
16 36 (1.15%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.15%) MySQL
17 35 (1.11%) Star Schema
18 30 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 177 (5.64%) Git
2 111 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 98 (3.12%) JIRA
4 77 (2.45%) GitLab
5 33 (1.05%) MLflow
6 16 (0.51%) Chocolatey
6 16 (0.51%) Postman
6 16 (0.51%) Selenium
7 13 (0.41%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.35%) JUnit
9 11 (0.35%) Mockito
9 11 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 949 (30.22%) Finance
2 913 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 292 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (6.97%) Banking
5 205 (6.53%) Law
6 135 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 127 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (4.04%) Legal
8 97 (3.09%) Retail
9 58 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 46 (1.46%) Marketing
12 45 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.18%) Front Office
14 33 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 30 (0.96%) Advertising
15 30 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (0.61%) Investment Banking
17 18 (0.57%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 585 (18.63%) Senior
2 523 (16.66%) Architect
3 432 (13.76%) Lead
4 327 (10.41%) Developer
5 277 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 191 (6.08%) Data Engineer
7 172 (5.48%) Analyst
7 172 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
8 134 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 123 (3.92%) Consultant
10 121 (3.85%) Software Engineer
11 116 (3.69%) Data Architect
12 114 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 112 (3.57%) Azure Architect
14 96 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 94 (2.99%) Security Engineer
16 89 (2.83%) IT Engineer
17 87 (2.77%) Network Engineer
18 86 (2.74%) IT Support
19 81 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (10.06%) .NET
2 170 (5.41%) React
3 154 (4.90%) REST
4 133 (4.24%) Kafka
5 100 (3.18%) Node.js
6 99 (3.15%) OAuth
7 92 (2.93%) RESTful
8 89 (2.83%) Spring
9 83 (2.64%) .NET Core
10 81 (2.58%) LangChain
11 77 (2.45%) Spring Boot
12 75 (2.39%) ASP.NET
13 73 (2.32%) PySpark
14 60 (1.91%) PyTorch
15 57 (1.82%) CSS
16 56 (1.78%) TensorFlow
17 55 (1.75%) HTML
17 55 (1.75%) OAuth2
18 54 (1.72%) OpenID
19 48 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 410 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 142 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 125 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 101 (3.22%) Data Centre
6 93 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 68 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 60 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 55 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 53 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.62%) Data Structures
15 42 (1.34%) Low-Code
15 42 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
16 39 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
17 34 (1.08%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 426 (13.57%) Windows
2 190 (6.05%) Linux
3 162 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.76%) Unix
7 24 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.73%) VMS
9 22 (0.70%) Android
10 19 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
18 1 (0.032%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (28.85%) DevOps
2 850 (27.07%) CI/CD
3 722 (22.99%) AI
4 678 (21.59%) Agile
5 508 (16.18%) Roadmaps
6 486 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 479 (15.25%) Mentoring
8 465 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 461 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 439 (13.98%) Analytics
11 346 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
12 337 (10.73%) Data Engineering
13 331 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 318 (10.13%) Machine Learning
15 311 (9.90%) Software Engineering
16 296 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
17 291 (9.27%) Microservices
18 282 (8.98%) Data Modelling
19 280 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
20 279 (8.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 761 (24.24%) Python
2 640 (20.38%) SQL
3 324 (10.32%) C#
4 301 (9.59%) PowerShell
5 215 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 207 (6.59%) Java
7 171 (5.45%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.38%) Bash
9 80 (2.55%) Bicep
10 43 (1.37%) Go
11 34 (1.08%) Scala
12 27 (0.86%) R
12 27 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.61%) C++
14 19 (0.61%) RPG
15 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.45%) DataWeave
17 13 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 382 (12.17%) Degree
2 287 (9.14%) Azure Certification
3 258 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 195 (6.21%) SC Cleared
5 135 (4.30%) CISSP
6 129 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 120 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
8 110 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 66 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.04%) CCNP
11 62 (1.97%) CISM
12 57 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.72%) CCNA
14 49 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (1.46%) CEH
16 29 (0.92%) DV Cleared
17 28 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.86%) CCIE
19 23 (0.73%) CCSP
19 23 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.38%) GDPR
3 164 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 142 (4.52%) QA
5 136 (4.33%) NIST
6 91 (2.90%) SLA
7 62 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 42 (1.34%) GRC
10 35 (1.11%) PMO
11 29 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.89%) NCSC
13 24 (0.76%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 20 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
18 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (13.38%) Active Directory
2 250 (7.96%) Docker
3 127 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.80%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.096%) Firmware
10 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.064%) Xen
12 1 (0.032%) NLBS
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 458 (14.59%) Terraform
2 345 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 217 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (4.97%) Ansible
5 65 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 54 (1.72%) Grafana
7 52 (1.66%) SCCM
8 40 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.41%) Nagios
12 12 (0.38%) CloudHub
12 12 (0.38%) Istio
13 11 (0.35%) Argo
14 9 (0.29%) QRadar
15 8 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
16 7 (0.22%) Control-M
17 6 (0.19%) CASB
17 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,325 (42.20%) Microsoft
2 336 (10.70%) Databricks
3 196 (6.24%) VMware
4 158 (5.03%) Cisco
5 144 (4.59%) Google
6 90 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 83 (2.64%) OpenAI
8 75 (2.39%) Oracle
9 74 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 57 (1.82%) SAP
11 56 (1.78%) Foundry
12 55 (1.75%) Splunk
13 51 (1.62%) Meraki
13 51 (1.62%) Salesforce
14 46 (1.46%) Fortinet
15 44 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.37%) Dell
17 40 (1.27%) iManage
17 40 (1.27%) Tenable
18 38 (1.21%) Dynatrace