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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,083 2,543 4,041
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.71% 20.56% 18.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.55% 45.05% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 1,859 3,192
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £58,750
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% - -5.51%

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 7,998 5,645 9,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.56% 45.65% 42.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,371 4,006 7,140
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,625 £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 21 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 21 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 0 543 £82,500 +6.45% 204
West London +5 92 £70,000 +55.56% 48
South London +9 48 £80,000 +23.08% 20
East London -18 17 £32,500 -40.91% 36
North London -1 8 £55,000 -21.43% 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
1 197 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 129 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.46%) Confluence
5 42 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.65%) Apache
7 16 (0.52%) 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%) SAS
14 3 (0.097%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 45 (1.46%) 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 Business One
10 1 (0.032%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (32.92%) AWS
2 598 (19.40%) GCP
3 533 (17.29%) Microsoft 365
4 399 (12.94%) Power Platform
5 386 (12.52%) Entra ID
6 363 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (6.88%) SaaS
8 183 (5.94%) GitHub
9 160 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 150 (4.87%) PaaS
11 149 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 148 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 147 (4.77%) 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
17 102 (3.31%) Power Automate
18 97 (3.15%) IaaS
19 90 (2.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (10.31%) Firewall
2 182 (5.90%) VPN
3 177 (5.74%) DNS
4 159 (5.16%) Network Security
5 141 (4.57%) DHCP
6 138 (4.48%) WAN
7 122 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
8 112 (3.63%) LAN
9 94 (3.05%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.37%) SD-WAN
11 71 (2.30%) VLAN
12 51 (1.65%) SAN
13 47 (1.52%) BGP
14 44 (1.43%) Wireless
15 43 (1.39%) OSPF
16 30 (0.97%) Kerberos
17 28 (0.91%) VoIP
18 26 (0.84%) WLAN
19 24 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
20 21 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (8.66%) Power BI
2 257 (8.34%) SQL Server
3 156 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 115 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 78 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (2.37%) Tableau
8 67 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 63 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 60 (1.95%) Metadata
11 53 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (1.52%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 41 (1.33%) Big Data
15 40 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 38 (1.23%) BigQuery
17 37 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
18 34 (1.10%) MySQL
19 32 (1.04%) Star Schema
20 29 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 171 (5.55%) Git
2 110 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 90 (2.92%) JIRA
4 76 (2.47%) GitLab
5 34 (1.10%) MLflow
6 18 (0.58%) Postman
7 16 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 16 (0.52%) Selenium
8 15 (0.49%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.32%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.29%) JUnit
11 9 (0.29%) Mockito
11 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.26%) Vite
13 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 932 (30.23%) Finance
2 882 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 278 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (7.01%) Banking
5 188 (6.10%) Law
6 129 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 123 (3.99%) Legal
8 114 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 81 (2.63%) Retail
10 51 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 45 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 42 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.17%) Front Office
15 33 (1.07%) Marketing
16 30 (0.97%) Advertising
16 30 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (0.91%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.58%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 596 (19.33%) Senior
2 512 (16.61%) Architect
3 425 (13.79%) Lead
4 308 (9.99%) Developer
5 276 (8.95%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.84%) Data Engineer
7 174 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
8 169 (5.48%) Analyst
9 149 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (4.18%) Consultant
11 115 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 115 (3.73%) Software Engineer
12 114 (3.70%) Azure Architect
13 105 (3.41%) Data Architect
14 101 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 98 (3.18%) Security Engineer
16 89 (2.89%) IT Engineer
17 86 (2.79%) Network Engineer
18 85 (2.76%) IT Support
19 84 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (9.86%) .NET
2 170 (5.51%) React
3 138 (4.48%) REST
4 124 (4.02%) Kafka
5 104 (3.37%) OAuth
6 100 (3.24%) Node.js
7 86 (2.79%) RESTful
8 82 (2.66%) Spring
9 78 (2.53%) .NET Core
10 76 (2.47%) LangChain
11 71 (2.30%) Spring Boot
12 69 (2.24%) ASP.NET
13 67 (2.17%) PySpark
14 59 (1.91%) PyTorch
15 55 (1.78%) CSS
15 55 (1.78%) OpenID
15 55 (1.78%) TensorFlow
16 53 (1.72%) HTML
17 52 (1.69%) OAuth2
17 52 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 390 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 137 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 108 (3.50%) Security Posture
4 106 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 99 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 86 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 82 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 64 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 59 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 55 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 54 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
12 54 (1.75%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 38 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
17 32 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (1.01%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 428 (13.88%) Windows
2 183 (5.94%) Linux
3 164 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.91%) VMS
7 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (0.75%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Android
11 17 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.36%) 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 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (28.64%) DevOps
2 816 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 665 (21.57%) AI
4 639 (20.73%) Agile
5 479 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 479 (15.54%) Roadmaps
6 463 (15.02%) Mentoring
7 455 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
8 451 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 414 (13.43%) Analytics
10 324 (10.51%) Data Engineering
11 319 (10.35%) Business Intelligence
12 308 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 302 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
14 294 (9.54%) Software Engineering
15 283 (9.18%) Machine Learning
16 279 (9.05%) Microservices
17 273 (8.86%) Data Modelling
18 267 (8.66%) Migration
19 261 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 745 (24.16%) Python
2 616 (19.98%) SQL
3 314 (10.18%) C#
4 311 (10.09%) PowerShell
5 217 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 187 (6.07%) Java
7 172 (5.58%) TypeScript
8 110 (3.57%) Bash
9 80 (2.59%) Bicep
10 39 (1.27%) Go
11 30 (0.97%) Scala
12 28 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
12 28 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 21 (0.68%) R
14 20 (0.65%) C++
15 19 (0.62%) RPG
16 14 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.42%) DataWeave
18 12 (0.39%) Rust
18 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 365 (11.84%) Degree
2 281 (9.11%) Azure Certification
3 253 (8.21%) Security Cleared
4 188 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.31%) CISSP
6 125 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 119 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
8 106 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 63 (2.04%) CCNP
11 58 (1.88%) CISM
12 55 (1.78%) 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 29 (0.94%) CCIE
17 27 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.84%) GIAC
19 24 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 165 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 160 (5.19%) GDPR
4 143 (4.64%) NIST
5 139 (4.51%) QA
6 93 (3.02%) SLA
7 59 (1.91%) 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 15 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
19 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 429 (13.92%) Active Directory
2 241 (7.82%) Docker
3 125 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.81%) 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
1 451 (14.63%) Terraform
2 333 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 226 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (4.83%) Ansible
5 64 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (1.85%) Grafana
7 53 (1.72%) SCCM
8 42 (1.36%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.65%) 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 1,296 (42.04%) Microsoft
2 318 (10.31%) Databricks
3 197 (6.39%) VMware
4 151 (4.90%) Cisco
5 133 (4.31%) Google
6 91 (2.95%) 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 45 (1.46%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.39%) Dell
16 40 (1.30%) iManage
16 40 (1.30%) Tenable
17 39 (1.27%) Dynatrace