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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,195 2,364 3,731
As % of all permanent jobs in London 12.49% 19.87% 19.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.13% 43.50% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,697 2,592
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £46,275
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 8,605 5,435 8,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.64% 45.69% 44.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,761 3,738 5,644
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £44,598
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,250 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £121,075 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +1 411 £85,000 +9.68% 427
West London 0 87 £75,000 +33.33% 113
South London -8 26 £85,000 +30.77% 24
East London -9 18 £75,000 +76.47% 27
North London -7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 12
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
1 207 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 129 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 86 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 62 (1.94%) Confluence
5 32 (1.00%) Apache
6 28 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 23 (0.72%) CMS
8 14 (0.44%) Headless CMS
9 13 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 11 (0.34%) Camunda
11 10 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.19%) IIS
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.13%) SAS
15 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
15 3 (0.094%) Immediacy CMS
15 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
6 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 13 (0.41%) Carpe Diem
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.063%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.031%) Endur
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (32.08%) AWS
2 627 (19.62%) GCP
3 545 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
4 461 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
5 441 (13.80%) Power Platform
6 425 (13.30%) Entra ID
7 230 (7.20%) SaaS
8 201 (6.29%) GitHub
9 188 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 183 (5.73%) Serverless
11 169 (5.29%) PaaS
12 161 (5.04%) Azure AI
13 158 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 139 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
16 130 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
16 130 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
17 127 (3.97%) Snowflake
18 126 (3.94%) Power Automate
19 108 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 299 (9.36%) Firewall
2 166 (5.20%) DNS
2 166 (5.20%) VPN
3 157 (4.91%) Network Security
4 127 (3.97%) DHCP
5 107 (3.35%) WAN
6 96 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
7 91 (2.85%) LAN
8 82 (2.57%) VLAN
9 81 (2.54%) TCP/IP
10 58 (1.82%) SAN
11 56 (1.75%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.69%) Wireless
13 39 (1.22%) BGP
14 36 (1.13%) OSPF
15 30 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (0.85%) Kerberos
17 18 (0.56%) SSL
18 15 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (8.98%) Power BI
2 270 (8.45%) SQL Server
3 168 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 127 (3.97%) Data Lake
6 91 (2.85%) Metadata
7 78 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (2.32%) MongoDB
9 73 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 65 (2.03%) Tableau
11 56 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 54 (1.69%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.28%) Star Schema
14 35 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.10%) Data Vault
14 35 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 32 (1.00%) MySQL
16 31 (0.97%) Big Data
17 27 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
18 26 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 187 (5.85%) Git
2 121 (3.79%) JIRA
3 115 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.88%) GitLab
5 26 (0.81%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.56%) MLflow
7 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
7 15 (0.47%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.34%) Maven
10 11 (0.34%) Postman
11 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,004 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 991 (31.02%) Finance
3 313 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (7.20%) Law
5 224 (7.01%) Banking
6 166 (5.20%) Legal
7 156 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 146 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 108 (3.38%) Retail
10 80 (2.50%) Marketing
11 72 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
17 31 (0.97%) Front Office
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 20 (0.63%) Advertising
20 18 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 590 (18.47%) Senior
2 571 (17.87%) Architect
3 395 (12.36%) Lead
4 364 (11.39%) Developer
5 292 (9.14%) Azure Engineer
6 205 (6.42%) Data Engineer
7 192 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
8 159 (4.98%) Analyst
9 137 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 134 (4.19%) Consultant
11 125 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 121 (3.79%) Azure Architect
13 118 (3.69%) Data Architect
14 117 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 98 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 98 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
16 94 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 88 (2.75%) Senior Developer
18 82 (2.57%) Network Engineer
19 70 (2.19%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (14.80%) Terraform
2 315 (9.86%) .NET
3 213 (6.67%) REST
4 169 (5.29%) React
5 119 (3.72%) Kafka
6 110 (3.44%) RESTful
7 95 (2.97%) OAuth
8 91 (2.85%) Node.js
9 90 (2.82%) Spring
10 88 (2.75%) ASP.NET
11 81 (2.54%) .NET Core
11 81 (2.54%) LangChain
12 80 (2.50%) Spring Boot
13 79 (2.47%) PySpark
14 58 (1.82%) OAuth2
15 57 (1.78%) LangGraph
16 55 (1.72%) AngularJS
17 53 (1.66%) .NET Framework
17 53 (1.66%) JSON
18 52 (1.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 423 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 163 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 154 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
5 113 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 105 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 102 (3.19%) Data Centre
8 95 (2.97%) Security Posture
9 69 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 64 (2.00%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
16 41 (1.28%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.25%) Public Cloud
18 39 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
19 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
20 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 400 (12.52%) Windows
2 163 (5.10%) Linux
2 163 (5.10%) Windows Server
3 46 (1.44%) Windows 10
4 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 27 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.63%) VMS
7 19 (0.59%) Android
8 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.44%) Unix
9 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.31%) CentOS
10 10 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (29.61%) DevOps
2 930 (29.11%) CI/CD
3 856 (26.79%) AI
4 687 (21.50%) Agile
5 530 (16.59%) Roadmaps
6 528 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
7 510 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 506 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 468 (14.65%) Analytics
10 446 (13.96%) Mentoring
11 431 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 349 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
13 342 (10.70%) Software Engineering
14 339 (10.61%) Data Engineering
14 339 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
15 333 (10.42%) Machine Learning
16 325 (10.17%) Migration
17 311 (9.73%) Microservices
18 304 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
19 301 (9.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 755 (23.63%) Python
2 665 (20.81%) SQL
3 342 (10.70%) C#
4 291 (9.11%) PowerShell
5 224 (7.01%) Java
6 197 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.29%) TypeScript
8 102 (3.19%) Bicep
9 86 (2.69%) Bash
10 53 (1.66%) Scala
11 37 (1.16%) R
12 30 (0.94%) Go
13 26 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 23 (0.72%) C++
16 19 (0.59%) RPG
17 14 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) VBA
18 13 (0.41%) DataWeave
19 11 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 408 (12.77%) Degree
2 278 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 270 (8.45%) Azure Certification
4 207 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 136 (4.26%) CISSP
6 128 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 126 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 102 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (2.32%) CISM
10 73 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 54 (1.69%) AWS Certification
12 50 (1.56%) CCNP
13 45 (1.41%) CCNA
14 33 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
15 32 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.94%) PhD
17 26 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.81%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.81%) PMP
18 24 (0.75%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 161 (5.04%) GDPR
4 148 (4.63%) QA
5 117 (3.66%) NIST
6 78 (2.44%) SLA
7 63 (1.97%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 40 (1.25%) GRC
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 28 (0.88%) PMO
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.44%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.22%) COBIT
15 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 408 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 262 (8.20%) Docker
3 127 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.47%) vSphere
8 12 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) HDFS
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 334 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 222 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 133 (4.16%) Ansible
4 85 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
5 59 (1.85%) Grafana
6 51 (1.60%) SCCM
7 36 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.56%) Argo
10 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 12 (0.38%) CASB
12 10 (0.31%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.25%) Istio
14 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.25%) QRadar
15 7 (0.22%) Puppet
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,401 (43.85%) Microsoft
2 316 (9.89%) Databricks
3 188 (5.88%) VMware
4 169 (5.29%) Google
5 154 (4.82%) Cisco
6 80 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 79 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.44%) Oracle
9 69 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 62 (1.94%) Foundry
11 57 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.78%) SAP
12 53 (1.66%) Splunk
13 46 (1.44%) Meraki
14 43 (1.35%) Zscaler
15 41 (1.28%) Dynatrace
16 39 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
16 39 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 39 (1.22%) Tenable
17 31 (0.97%) Citrix