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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,555 2,876 4,375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.97% 19.63% 20.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.22% 43.98% 45.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 2,034 3,803
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.44% -2.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -8.42%

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 6,199 6,540 9,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.75% 44.64% 45.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 4,272 7,961
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £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 £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 February 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 February 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 +1 598 £77,500 +3.33% 196
West London +17 66 £65,000 +10.64% 38
South London +14 22 £46,000 -23.33% 12
East London -10 22 £32,000 -50.39% 24
North London +16 17 £75,000 -6.25% 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
1 183 (7.16%) SharePoint
2 146 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.06%) Confluence
6 15 (0.59%) Apache
6 15 (0.59%) Appian
7 11 (0.43%) IIS
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 5 (0.20%) WordPress
13 4 (0.16%) Camunda
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.078%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 45 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.12%) Maya
7 3 (0.12%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.98%) Endur
3 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.16%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.078%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.078%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.078%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.078%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 889 (34.79%) AWS
2 496 (19.41%) GCP
3 455 (17.81%) Microsoft 365
4 406 (15.89%) Power Platform
5 343 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (11.35%) Entra ID
7 194 (7.59%) SaaS
8 188 (7.36%) GitHub
9 150 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.32%) Power Automate
11 120 (4.70%) PaaS
12 107 (4.19%) PowerApps
13 104 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 104 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
14 103 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 100 (3.91%) Serverless
16 83 (3.25%) Azure AI
17 72 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
18 69 (2.70%) Snowflake
19 66 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 276 (10.80%) Firewall
2 168 (6.58%) VPN
3 156 (6.11%) DNS
4 150 (5.87%) WAN
5 130 (5.09%) DHCP
6 111 (4.34%) Wi-Fi
7 99 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 93 (3.64%) LAN
9 76 (2.97%) SD-WAN
10 60 (2.35%) Network Security
11 56 (2.19%) Internet
12 53 (2.07%) VLAN
13 40 (1.57%) SAN
14 38 (1.49%) Wireless
15 35 (1.37%) VoIP
16 26 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.94%) BGP
18 24 (0.94%) OSPF
19 21 (0.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (11.39%) Power BI
2 260 (10.18%) SQL Server
3 164 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (5.87%) Data Lake
5 102 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 81 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
8 67 (2.62%) MongoDB
9 65 (2.54%) Metadata
10 54 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 50 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (1.80%) Big Data
13 44 (1.72%) Tableau
14 39 (1.53%) BigQuery
15 29 (1.14%) MySQL
16 28 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.94%) Pinecone
18 23 (0.90%) Hadoop
19 22 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 185 (7.24%) Git
2 85 (3.33%) JIRA
3 84 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.00%) GitLab
5 39 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 38 (1.49%) MLflow
7 33 (1.29%) Postman
8 19 (0.74%) Eclipse
8 19 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.67%) Selenium
10 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.47%) Chocolatey
12 10 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.39%) JMeter
12 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.31%) Vite
15 7 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 783 (30.65%) Finance
2 746 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 278 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (7.91%) Banking
5 200 (7.83%) Law
6 119 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 117 (4.58%) Legal
8 109 (4.27%) Retail
9 101 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 67 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (2.50%) Marketing
12 60 (2.35%) Financial Institution
13 55 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.80%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 37 (1.45%) Retail Banking
18 36 (1.41%) Multimedia
19 29 (1.14%) Front Office
20 26 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (19.33%) Senior
2 320 (12.52%) Architect
3 315 (12.33%) Developer
3 315 (12.33%) Lead
4 204 (7.98%) Analyst
5 185 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
6 177 (6.93%) Data Engineer
7 124 (4.85%) Software Engineer
7 124 (4.85%) Support Engineer
8 121 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 104 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 87 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
12 83 (3.25%) IT Support
13 82 (3.21%) Network Engineer
14 80 (3.13%) Senior Developer
15 79 (3.09%) IT Engineer
16 78 (3.05%) Data Architect
17 74 (2.90%) Security Engineer
18 72 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (9.98%) .NET
2 163 (6.38%) React
3 142 (5.56%) REST
4 104 (4.07%) RESTful
5 103 (4.03%) CSS
6 101 (3.95%) HTML
7 89 (3.48%) OAuth
8 88 (3.44%) Node.js
9 75 (2.94%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.62%) Kafka
11 52 (2.04%) AngularJS
12 51 (2.00%) SAML
13 50 (1.96%) Django
14 46 (1.80%) PySpark
14 46 (1.80%) SOAP
15 44 (1.72%) LangChain
16 43 (1.68%) Web Services
17 41 (1.60%) PyTorch
18 39 (1.53%) Vue
19 38 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 209 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 101 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (3.37%) Security Posture
5 81 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.54%) AI Agents
8 64 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 63 (2.47%) Low-Code
10 58 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 57 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 57 (2.23%) Onboarding
12 55 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
15 39 (1.53%) Algorithms
15 39 (1.53%) Public Cloud
16 34 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 377 (14.76%) Windows
2 171 (6.69%) Windows Server
3 150 (5.87%) Linux
4 81 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.88%) Unix
6 41 (1.60%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.29%) VMS
9 31 (1.21%) Android
10 27 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.20%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.078%) Solaris
19 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (27.95%) DevOps
2 637 (24.93%) CI/CD
3 549 (21.49%) AI
4 545 (21.33%) Agile
5 463 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (17.06%) Analytics
7 346 (13.54%) Mentoring
8 321 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
9 315 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 302 (11.82%) Roadmaps
11 301 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 300 (11.74%) Computer Science
13 297 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
14 278 (10.88%) Data Modelling
15 271 (10.61%) Software Engineering
16 267 (10.45%) Microservices
17 237 (9.28%) Machine Learning
18 226 (8.85%) ETL
18 226 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 220 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 667 (26.11%) Python
2 582 (22.78%) SQL
3 307 (12.02%) PowerShell
4 270 (10.57%) C#
5 255 (9.98%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 127 (4.97%) Java
8 86 (3.37%) Bash
9 52 (2.04%) Bicep
10 43 (1.68%) Go
10 43 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.45%) R
12 33 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 25 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (0.94%) Scala
15 19 (0.74%) C++
16 16 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.59%) Rust
18 12 (0.47%) PHP
19 10 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 417 (16.32%) Degree
2 240 (9.39%) Azure Certification
3 225 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 118 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 108 (4.23%) CISSP
8 105 (4.11%) AWS Certification
9 86 (3.37%) Master's Degree
10 56 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (1.88%) CISM
12 41 (1.60%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 35 (1.37%) CCNP
14 35 (1.37%) CEH
15 32 (1.25%) PMI Certification
16 28 (1.10%) CCNA
16 28 (1.10%) PMP
16 28 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (0.94%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (6.93%) GDPR
3 158 (6.18%) NIST
4 130 (5.09%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.33%) QA
6 64 (2.50%) SLA
7 40 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.37%) NCSC
8 35 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 33 (1.29%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.10%) EU AI Act
11 27 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.94%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.90%) PSD2
14 22 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 22 (0.86%) Solvency II
15 17 (0.67%) GRC
16 15 (0.59%) ISO 22301
17 12 (0.47%) PMO
18 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 371 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 253 (9.90%) Docker
3 94 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 29 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.82%) vSphere
8 14 (0.55%) Firmware
9 11 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.078%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.078%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.078%) NFS
13 2 (0.078%) XenApp
14 1 (0.039%) vCloud
14 1 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 322 (12.60%) Terraform
2 296 (11.59%) Kubernetes
3 226 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 124 (4.85%) Ansible
5 60 (2.35%) SCCM
6 58 (2.27%) Grafana
7 53 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 39 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.02%) FortiGate
10 21 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.78%) Argo
12 15 (0.59%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.27%) VxRail
15 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.23%) SCOM
16 5 (0.20%) Control-M
16 5 (0.20%) Istio
16 5 (0.20%) linkerd
16 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,021 (39.96%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.67%) Databricks
3 181 (7.08%) VMware
4 135 (5.28%) Google
5 121 (4.74%) Cisco
6 77 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 75 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 68 (2.66%) Oracle
9 59 (2.31%) Fortinet
9 59 (2.31%) OpenAI
10 48 (1.88%) Meraki
11 46 (1.80%) SAP
12 45 (1.76%) Salesforce
13 36 (1.41%) CheckPoint
13 36 (1.41%) SolarWinds
14 34 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
15 32 (1.25%) Informatica
16 31 (1.21%) Dell
17 29 (1.14%) Commvault
18 28 (1.10%) Splunk