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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,186 2,479 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.27% 20.52% 19.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.47% 44.69% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,783 2,798
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.76%

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 8,503 5,547 8,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.42% 45.93% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,704 3,850 6,175
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,998
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +1 465 £85,000 +8.97% 228
West London +4 101 £70,000 +42.86% 87
South London +1 42 £85,000 +30.77% 19
East London -16 17 £75,000 +63.04% 37
North London -4 13 £60,000 -17.24% 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
1 193 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.79%) Confluence
5 45 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.91%) Apache
7 25 (0.78%) CMS
8 16 (0.50%) Camunda
9 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.44%) Anypoint
11 13 (0.41%) Mule
12 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.31%) WordPress
14 7 (0.22%) IIS
15 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
15 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
15 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
8 2 (0.063%) Trello
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.031%) Houdini
9 1 (0.031%) Maya
9 1 (0.031%) Notion
9 1 (0.031%) NUKE
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.063%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.063%) Shopify
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.031%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.031%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.031%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (33.99%) AWS
2 649 (20.37%) GCP
3 529 (16.60%) Microsoft 365
4 420 (13.18%) Power Platform
5 406 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
6 374 (11.74%) Entra ID
7 209 (6.56%) SaaS
8 187 (5.87%) GitHub
9 167 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 163 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 161 (5.05%) Serverless
12 158 (4.96%) PaaS
13 154 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 153 (4.80%) Azure AI
15 141 (4.43%) Snowflake
16 119 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
17 115 (3.61%) Power Automate
18 113 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
19 100 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
20 98 (3.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 315 (9.89%) Firewall
2 170 (5.34%) VPN
3 167 (5.24%) Network Security
4 157 (4.93%) DNS
5 127 (3.99%) WAN
6 121 (3.80%) DHCP
7 109 (3.42%) LAN
8 107 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
9 86 (2.70%) TCP/IP
10 76 (2.39%) VLAN
11 67 (2.10%) SD-WAN
12 56 (1.76%) SAN
13 54 (1.69%) Wireless
14 41 (1.29%) BGP
15 37 (1.16%) OSPF
16 28 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
16 28 (0.88%) Kerberos
17 19 (0.60%) WLAN
18 18 (0.56%) VoIP
19 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 278 (8.73%) Power BI
3 168 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (4.49%) Data Lake
5 127 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 83 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 79 (2.48%) Tableau
8 78 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 72 (2.26%) Metadata
10 71 (2.23%) NoSQL
11 58 (1.82%) Delta Lake
12 53 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 48 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.16%) MySQL
17 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
18 34 (1.07%) Big Data
18 34 (1.07%) Data Vault
19 32 (1.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 185 (5.81%) Git
2 113 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 105 (3.30%) JIRA
4 72 (2.26%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 16 (0.50%) Chocolatey
8 14 (0.44%) JUnit
8 14 (0.44%) Mockito
9 12 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.35%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.31%) Maven
11 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.25%) Vite
14 6 (0.19%) REST Assured
General
1 963 (30.23%) Finance
1 963 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 319 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
3 226 (7.09%) Banking
4 222 (6.97%) Law
5 148 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 145 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 142 (4.46%) Legal
8 104 (3.26%) Retail
9 70 (2.20%) Marketing
10 60 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 45 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.04%) Front Office
16 31 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (0.78%) Advertising
18 21 (0.66%) Investment Banking
19 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 590 (18.52%) Senior
2 552 (17.33%) Architect
3 421 (13.21%) Lead
4 333 (10.45%) Developer
5 281 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 198 (6.21%) Data Engineer
7 185 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 164 (5.15%) Analyst
9 131 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 126 (3.95%) Azure Architect
11 124 (3.89%) Consultant
12 120 (3.77%) Data Architect
12 120 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 106 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 99 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 91 (2.86%) Network Engineer
16 87 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
16 87 (2.73%) Security Engineer
17 81 (2.54%) Senior Developer
18 77 (2.42%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (14.66%) Terraform
2 319 (10.01%) .NET
3 170 (5.34%) REST
4 164 (5.15%) React
5 141 (4.43%) Kafka
6 97 (3.04%) RESTful
7 95 (2.98%) Node.js
8 93 (2.92%) LangChain
9 91 (2.86%) Spring
10 89 (2.79%) OAuth
11 86 (2.70%) .NET Core
12 85 (2.67%) ASP.NET
13 79 (2.48%) Spring Boot
14 77 (2.42%) PySpark
15 66 (2.07%) PyTorch
16 64 (2.01%) TensorFlow
17 58 (1.82%) CSS
17 58 (1.82%) HTML
18 54 (1.69%) OAuth2
19 51 (1.60%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 160 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 135 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 94 (2.95%) Security Posture
8 87 (2.73%) AI Agents
9 67 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 66 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 61 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 45 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
14 45 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 44 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
16 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
17 34 (1.07%) Algorithms
17 34 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 411 (12.90%) Windows
2 178 (5.59%) Linux
3 161 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 43 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Android
8 19 (0.60%) Unix
8 19 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.53%) VMS
10 16 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.38%) CentOS
13 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (29.00%) DevOps
2 882 (27.68%) CI/CD
3 784 (24.61%) AI
4 704 (22.10%) Agile
5 531 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 500 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 496 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 491 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 464 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 456 (14.31%) Analytics
11 366 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 349 (10.95%) Machine Learning
13 346 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
13 346 (10.86%) Data Engineering
14 322 (10.11%) Software Engineering
15 306 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
16 303 (9.51%) Microservices
17 295 (9.26%) Migration
18 292 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
19 290 (9.10%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 770 (24.17%) Python
2 652 (20.46%) SQL
3 337 (10.58%) C#
4 292 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 226 (7.09%) Java
6 211 (6.62%) JavaScript
7 169 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 96 (3.01%) Bash
9 92 (2.89%) Bicep
10 44 (1.38%) Scala
11 38 (1.19%) Go
12 28 (0.88%) R
13 24 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.63%) C++
15 19 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.60%) RPG
16 17 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.44%) DataWeave
17 14 (0.44%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 407 (12.77%) Degree
2 295 (9.26%) Azure Certification
3 259 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 193 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 134 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (4.05%) CISSP
7 120 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 69 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.01%) CCNP
10 64 (2.01%) CISM
11 63 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 50 (1.57%) CCNA
13 44 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
14 40 (1.26%) CEH
15 29 (0.91%) PMP
16 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.85%) CCIE
16 27 (0.85%) DV Cleared
17 26 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.65%) GDPR
3 168 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 150 (4.71%) QA
5 129 (4.05%) NIST
6 88 (2.76%) SLA
7 64 (2.01%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 28 (0.88%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 401 (12.59%) Active Directory
2 257 (8.07%) Docker
3 128 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.72%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.063%) Firmware
12 2 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 338 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 211 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 151 (4.74%) Ansible
4 70 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 56 (1.76%) Grafana
6 51 (1.60%) SCCM
7 39 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.44%) Argo
11 13 (0.41%) CloudHub
11 13 (0.41%) Istio
11 13 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.38%) Nagios
13 9 (0.28%) QRadar
14 8 (0.25%) CASB
15 7 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
16 6 (0.19%) Packer
16 6 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.19%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,356 (42.56%) Microsoft
2 348 (10.92%) Databricks
3 196 (6.15%) VMware
4 163 (5.12%) Cisco
5 151 (4.74%) Google
6 87 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 82 (2.57%) Oracle
8 81 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 78 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 61 (1.91%) Foundry
11 57 (1.79%) Splunk
12 53 (1.66%) SAP
13 52 (1.63%) Meraki
14 50 (1.57%) Salesforce
15 46 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
16 43 (1.35%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.35%) Tenable
17 39 (1.22%) Dell
18 37 (1.16%) Zscaler
19 35 (1.10%) iManage