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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,016 2,463 4,658
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.07% 20.20% 18.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.50% 44.88% 44.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,149 1,825 3,734
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,313
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 £114,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -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 7,446 5,488 10,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.73% 45.01% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,085 3,866 8,175
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 0 609 £82,500 +6.45% 189
West London +13 84 £60,000 +41.18% 57
South London +21 47 £80,000 +23.08% 8
East London -8 20 £31,500 -63.48% 35
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 10
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
1 189 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 123 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.23%) Confluence
6 19 (0.63%) Apache
7 18 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.50%) CMS
9 11 (0.36%) WordPress
10 8 (0.27%) Appian
10 8 (0.27%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
11 6 (0.20%) IIS
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) 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%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.099%) Mule
Applications
1 46 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.56%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.033%) Maya
8 1 (0.033%) Notion
8 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.20%) Endur
5 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
6 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.066%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.066%) Shopify
9 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.033%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 981 (32.53%) AWS
2 578 (19.16%) GCP
3 512 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
4 373 (12.37%) Power Platform
5 362 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 357 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 204 (6.76%) SaaS
8 195 (6.47%) GitHub
9 151 (5.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 143 (4.74%) PaaS
11 138 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 132 (4.38%) Serverless
13 126 (4.18%) Azure AI
14 120 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 104 (3.45%) Snowflake
16 103 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
17 102 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
18 99 (3.28%) Power Automate
19 97 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
20 94 (3.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 312 (10.34%) Firewall
2 181 (6.00%) VPN
3 168 (5.57%) DNS
4 153 (5.07%) WAN
5 138 (4.58%) Network Security
6 137 (4.54%) DHCP
7 120 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
8 106 (3.51%) LAN
9 90 (2.98%) TCP/IP
10 84 (2.79%) SD-WAN
11 63 (2.09%) VLAN
12 54 (1.79%) SAN
13 42 (1.39%) BGP
14 38 (1.26%) OSPF
15 36 (1.19%) Wireless
16 30 (0.99%) VoIP
17 29 (0.96%) WLAN
18 27 (0.90%) Internet
19 26 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
20 24 (0.80%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 250 (8.29%) Power BI
3 135 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 63 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 62 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (2.02%) Tableau
9 60 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 56 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 56 (1.86%) Metadata
11 46 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 45 (1.49%) Relational Database
13 44 (1.46%) Big Data
14 43 (1.43%) Delta Lake
15 41 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 33 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (0.90%) MySQL
18 26 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 26 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 182 (6.03%) Git
2 102 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.62%) JIRA
4 75 (2.49%) GitLab
5 42 (1.39%) MLflow
6 29 (0.96%) Postman
7 22 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 18 (0.60%) Chocolatey
9 16 (0.53%) Selenium
9 16 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.36%) Vite
12 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 934 (30.97%) Finance
2 834 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 281 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (7.29%) Banking
5 178 (5.90%) Law
6 126 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 119 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 105 (3.48%) Legal
9 73 (2.42%) Retail
10 60 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.16%) Front Office
15 31 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.03%) Marketing
16 28 (0.93%) Advertising
17 21 (0.70%) Investment Banking
18 19 (0.63%) Multimedia
18 19 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 576 (19.10%) Senior
2 467 (15.48%) Architect
3 404 (13.40%) Lead
4 301 (9.98%) Developer
5 275 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
6 179 (5.94%) Analyst
7 166 (5.50%) Data Engineer
8 159 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 149 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.01%) Consultant
12 112 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 106 (3.51%) Azure Architect
14 101 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 101 (3.35%) Security Engineer
15 100 (3.32%) IT Engineer
16 95 (3.15%) Support Engineer
17 94 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
18 93 (3.08%) Data Architect
18 93 (3.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (9.98%) .NET
2 166 (5.50%) React
3 135 (4.48%) REST
4 116 (3.85%) Kafka
5 104 (3.45%) OAuth
6 87 (2.88%) RESTful
7 84 (2.79%) Node.js
8 76 (2.52%) LangChain
9 75 (2.49%) .NET Core
9 75 (2.49%) CSS
10 69 (2.29%) HTML
10 69 (2.29%) PySpark
11 68 (2.25%) Spring
12 58 (1.92%) PyTorch
12 58 (1.92%) Spring Boot
13 57 (1.89%) SAML
13 57 (1.89%) TensorFlow
14 56 (1.86%) ASP.NET
15 51 (1.69%) OpenID
16 43 (1.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 345 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 107 (3.55%) Security Posture
4 94 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 85 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 67 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 62 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
10 62 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 61 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 45 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.36%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.33%) Cyberattack
17 34 (1.13%) Algorithms
18 33 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 414 (13.73%) Windows
2 167 (5.54%) Linux
3 160 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 69 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 37 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 34 (1.13%) VMS
7 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 28 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.83%) Unix
10 22 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.63%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.33%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.30%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
19 1 (0.033%) CoreOS
19 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (28.25%) DevOps
2 763 (25.30%) CI/CD
3 631 (20.92%) AI
4 608 (20.16%) Agile
5 455 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 445 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 430 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 423 (14.03%) Analytics
10 422 (13.99%) Mentoring
11 317 (10.51%) Cybersecurity
12 314 (10.41%) Data Engineering
13 295 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 292 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
15 283 (9.38%) Software Engineering
16 274 (9.08%) Machine Learning
17 273 (9.05%) Data Modelling
18 264 (8.75%) Microservices
19 253 (8.39%) Migration
20 236 (7.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 724 (24.01%) Python
2 613 (20.32%) SQL
3 329 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 293 (9.71%) C#
5 221 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 169 (5.60%) Java
7 161 (5.34%) TypeScript
8 109 (3.61%) Bash
9 78 (2.59%) Bicep
10 44 (1.46%) Go
11 37 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 30 (0.99%) R
14 24 (0.80%) Scala
15 19 (0.63%) C++
16 15 (0.50%) Rust
17 14 (0.46%) RPG
18 13 (0.43%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 368 (12.20%) Degree
2 288 (9.55%) Azure Certification
3 237 (7.86%) Security Cleared
4 176 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 146 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (4.21%) CISSP
7 119 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 110 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (2.49%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.86%) CISM
11 55 (1.82%) CCNP
12 54 (1.79%) CCNA
13 51 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 49 (1.62%) CEH
15 45 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.16%) DV Cleared
17 31 (1.03%) CCIE
18 26 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.86%) PMI Certification
18 26 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 159 (5.27%) NIST
3 153 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 153 (5.07%) GDPR
4 115 (3.81%) QA
5 94 (3.12%) SLA
6 57 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 49 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 40 (1.33%) NCSC
9 36 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 35 (1.16%) GRC
11 31 (1.03%) PMO
12 29 (0.96%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 19 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.27%) COBIT
18 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 416 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 238 (7.89%) Docker
3 121 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (0.99%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.13%) Firmware
10 4 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.066%) Xen
11 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.033%) NLBS
12 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 423 (14.03%) Terraform
2 323 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 219 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 139 (4.61%) Ansible
5 62 (2.06%) SCCM
6 57 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 53 (1.76%) Grafana
8 43 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.30%) Argo
13 9 (0.30%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.30%) Kibana
14 8 (0.27%) CASB
14 8 (0.27%) Nagios
15 7 (0.23%) Control-M
15 7 (0.23%) QRadar
16 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,215 (40.29%) Microsoft
2 308 (10.21%) Databricks
3 195 (6.47%) VMware
4 144 (4.77%) Cisco
5 129 (4.28%) Google
6 90 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 80 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 72 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 66 (2.19%) Oracle
10 52 (1.72%) Foundry
11 48 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 48 (1.59%) Meraki
11 48 (1.59%) Splunk
12 47 (1.56%) SAP
13 45 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
14 43 (1.43%) Dynatrace
15 42 (1.39%) Dell
15 42 (1.39%) SolarWinds
16 40 (1.33%) Salesforce
17 37 (1.23%) ForeScout