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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,631 2,535 4,484
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.40% 19.08% 20.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.44% 43.31% 45.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 1,942 3,845
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,775 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +9.79% -9.23%

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 6,506 5,853 9,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.09% 44.05% 44.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 4,128 8,127
10th Percentile £38,950 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +1 615 £77,500 +3.33% 316
West London +12 70 £67,059 +36.86% 52
South London +26 29 £38,500 -35.83% 24
East London -9 27 £31,250 -63.24% 46
North London +18 15 £72,500 +65.71% 9
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
1 188 (7.15%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (0.99%) Confluence
6 15 (0.57%) Appian
7 13 (0.49%) Apache
7 13 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 13 (0.49%) WordPress
8 12 (0.46%) IIS
9 9 (0.34%) CMS
10 8 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.15%) SAS
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.076%) Tomcat
Applications
1 48 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 45 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.91%) Endur
3 8 (0.30%) Shopify
4 7 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.076%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.076%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.076%) SAP CX
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.038%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.038%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.038%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 927 (35.23%) AWS
2 519 (19.73%) GCP
3 482 (18.32%) Microsoft 365
4 414 (15.74%) Power Platform
5 325 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
6 296 (11.25%) Entra ID
7 197 (7.49%) GitHub
8 192 (7.30%) SaaS
9 152 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 133 (5.06%) Power Automate
11 118 (4.48%) PaaS
12 112 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 105 (3.99%) PowerApps
14 102 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 99 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
15 99 (3.76%) Serverless
16 89 (3.38%) Azure AI
17 69 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
18 67 (2.55%) Snowflake
19 66 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 291 (11.06%) Firewall
2 170 (6.46%) VPN
3 159 (6.04%) DNS
4 153 (5.82%) WAN
5 136 (5.17%) DHCP
6 118 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
7 106 (4.03%) TCP/IP
8 94 (3.57%) LAN
9 80 (3.04%) SD-WAN
10 76 (2.89%) Network Security
11 62 (2.36%) Internet
12 51 (1.94%) VLAN
13 38 (1.44%) SAN
14 36 (1.37%) VoIP
15 33 (1.25%) Wireless
16 27 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
17 26 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (0.84%) Broadband
19 21 (0.80%) BGP
19 21 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (11.36%) Power BI
2 254 (9.65%) SQL Server
3 154 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (5.63%) Data Lake
5 100 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 79 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (2.85%) NoSQL
8 59 (2.24%) Metadata
9 55 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 54 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 52 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 52 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 49 (1.86%) Tableau
13 47 (1.79%) Big Data
14 46 (1.75%) BigQuery
15 28 (1.06%) MySQL
16 27 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (0.99%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.87%) Pinecone
19 22 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 186 (7.07%) Git
2 87 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.15%) JIRA
4 57 (2.17%) GitLab
5 41 (1.56%) MLflow
6 39 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 30 (1.14%) Postman
8 21 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (0.61%) Selenium
12 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.53%) Chocolatey
13 13 (0.49%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 10 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.34%) SpecFlow
16 8 (0.30%) JMeter
16 8 (0.30%) Vite
General
1 780 (29.65%) Finance
2 764 (29.04%) Social Skills
3 272 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (8.32%) Banking
5 188 (7.15%) Law
6 121 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 111 (4.22%) Retail
8 100 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 99 (3.76%) Legal
10 69 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (2.39%) Marketing
12 61 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
13 56 (2.13%) Financial Institution
14 50 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.63%) Multimedia
17 38 (1.44%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.33%) Front Office
19 34 (1.29%) Retail Banking
20 26 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 517 (19.65%) Senior
2 342 (13.00%) Lead
3 339 (12.88%) Architect
4 295 (11.21%) Developer
5 213 (8.10%) Analyst
6 197 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
7 168 (6.39%) Data Engineer
8 125 (4.75%) Support Engineer
9 121 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 116 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 112 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 104 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
13 100 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
14 91 (3.46%) IT Support
15 89 (3.38%) Security Engineer
16 85 (3.23%) Network Engineer
17 81 (3.08%) IT Engineer
18 78 (2.96%) Data Architect
19 77 (2.93%) Senior Developer
20 73 (2.77%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (9.27%) .NET
2 159 (6.04%) React
3 131 (4.98%) REST
4 110 (4.18%) CSS
5 104 (3.95%) HTML
6 102 (3.88%) RESTful
7 88 (3.34%) OAuth
8 86 (3.27%) Kafka
8 86 (3.27%) Node.js
9 70 (2.66%) .NET Core
10 51 (1.94%) Django
11 48 (1.82%) PySpark
11 48 (1.82%) SAML
12 45 (1.71%) LangChain
13 43 (1.63%) SOAP
14 42 (1.60%) PyTorch
15 41 (1.56%) AngularJS
15 41 (1.56%) TensorFlow
16 37 (1.41%) Swagger
16 37 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 226 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 101 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 99 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.42%) Security Posture
5 78 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 63 (2.39%) AI Agents
10 57 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (2.13%) Low-Code
12 54 (2.05%) Data Centre
13 53 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 50 (1.90%) Onboarding
15 48 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
16 47 (1.79%) Public Cloud
17 43 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
18 38 (1.44%) Algorithms
19 35 (1.33%) Cyberattack
20 32 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 403 (15.32%) Windows
2 178 (6.77%) Windows Server
3 159 (6.04%) Linux
4 88 (3.34%) Windows 10
5 52 (1.98%) Unix
6 46 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.29%) VMS
8 32 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (1.18%) Apple iOS
10 30 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (1.06%) Android
12 18 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.34%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 6 (0.23%) CentOS
17 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.15%) SUSE
18 2 (0.076%) Solaris
18 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (27.59%) DevOps
2 638 (24.25%) CI/CD
3 543 (20.64%) Agile
4 538 (20.45%) AI
5 455 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 430 (16.34%) Analytics
7 374 (14.22%) Mentoring
8 340 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 332 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
10 308 (11.71%) Computer Science
11 305 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 304 (11.55%) Roadmaps
13 302 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
14 276 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 266 (10.11%) Software Engineering
16 261 (9.92%) Microservices
17 238 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 237 (9.01%) Machine Learning
19 228 (8.67%) ITIL
20 218 (8.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 691 (26.26%) Python
2 596 (22.65%) SQL
3 316 (12.01%) PowerShell
4 249 (9.46%) C#
5 247 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 133 (5.06%) Java
7 128 (4.87%) TypeScript
8 97 (3.69%) Bash
9 52 (1.98%) Bicep
10 50 (1.90%) Go
11 45 (1.71%) R
12 38 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 37 (1.41%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.72%) C++
15 19 (0.72%) Scala
16 15 (0.57%) Rust
17 14 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.46%) PHP
18 12 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 414 (15.74%) Degree
2 263 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 236 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 176 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 145 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 122 (4.64%) SC Cleared
7 113 (4.29%) CISSP
8 108 (4.10%) AWS Certification
9 83 (3.15%) Master's Degree
10 64 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 47 (1.79%) CEH
13 45 (1.71%) DV Cleared
14 43 (1.63%) CISM
15 37 (1.41%) CCNP
16 35 (1.33%) PMI Certification
17 34 (1.29%) PMP
18 32 (1.22%) CCNA
19 31 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
20 27 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 184 (6.99%) GDPR
3 165 (6.27%) NIST
4 131 (4.98%) Data Quality
5 82 (3.12%) QA
6 73 (2.77%) SLA
7 40 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 36 (1.37%) NCSC
10 31 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 29 (1.10%) EU AI Act
12 25 (0.95%) Solvency II
13 24 (0.91%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 23 (0.87%) PSD2
15 22 (0.84%) GRC
16 19 (0.72%) PMO
17 17 (0.65%) ISO 22301
18 12 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 375 (14.25%) Active Directory
2 257 (9.77%) Docker
3 89 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.95%) vSphere
8 14 (0.53%) Firmware
9 10 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.19%) KVM
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.038%) NLBS
13 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.038%) Xen
13 1 (0.038%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 326 (12.39%) Terraform
2 296 (11.25%) Kubernetes
3 234 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (4.71%) Ansible
5 64 (2.43%) SCCM
6 58 (2.20%) Grafana
7 52 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.65%) Argo
12 13 (0.49%) Istio
13 12 (0.46%) CASB
14 9 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.30%) Kibana
15 8 (0.30%) VxRail
16 6 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.23%) Control-M
16 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,042 (39.60%) Microsoft
2 214 (8.13%) Databricks
3 183 (6.96%) VMware
4 146 (5.55%) Google
5 123 (4.68%) Cisco
6 84 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 77 (2.93%) Palo Alto
8 64 (2.43%) Oracle
9 61 (2.32%) OpenAI
10 58 (2.20%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
12 46 (1.75%) Salesforce
13 45 (1.71%) Meraki
14 42 (1.60%) SAP
15 38 (1.44%) Dell
16 34 (1.29%) SolarWinds
17 33 (1.25%) Splunk
18 32 (1.22%) CheckPoint
18 32 (1.22%) CyberArk
19 31 (1.18%) Commvault