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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,400 3,097 4,243
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.48% 19.94% 21.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.74% 44.45% 46.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,144 3,687
10th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +0.67% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,891 6,968 9,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.44% 44.87% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,802 4,435 7,533
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 23 January 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 23 January 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 0 522 £77,500 +3.33% 240
West London +11 64 £63,750 -12.07% 62
East London -4 24 £34,000 -37.44% 53
North London +17 20 £75,000 -6.25% 4
South London +7 14 £46,000 -25.38% 57
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
1 181 (7.54%) SharePoint
2 150 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.29%) Confluence
6 15 (0.63%) Apache
7 14 (0.58%) IIS
8 13 (0.54%) Appian
9 8 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 5 (0.21%) WordPress
12 4 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.17%) Moodle
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.083%) nginx
Applications
1 48 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.29%) Maya
7 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.083%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.88%) Endur
3 20 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.25%) Shopify
7 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.083%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.083%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.083%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.042%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.042%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 854 (35.58%) AWS
2 458 (19.08%) GCP
3 423 (17.63%) Microsoft 365
4 397 (16.54%) Power Platform
5 358 (14.92%) Azure DevOps
6 263 (10.96%) Entra ID
7 178 (7.42%) GitHub
8 162 (6.75%) SaaS
9 151 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 137 (5.71%) Power Automate
11 115 (4.79%) PowerApps
12 112 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
13 107 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 105 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 104 (4.33%) PaaS
16 94 (3.92%) Serverless
17 83 (3.46%) Azure AI
18 74 (3.08%) Snowflake
19 70 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
20 65 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 242 (10.08%) Firewall
2 154 (6.42%) VPN
3 134 (5.58%) WAN
4 130 (5.42%) DNS
5 105 (4.38%) DHCP
6 91 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
7 89 (3.71%) LAN
8 86 (3.58%) TCP/IP
9 63 (2.63%) SD-WAN
10 54 (2.25%) Network Security
11 52 (2.17%) Internet
12 44 (1.83%) VLAN
13 42 (1.75%) Wireless
14 32 (1.33%) VoIP
15 31 (1.29%) SAN
16 22 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (0.83%) BGP
17 20 (0.83%) OSPF
18 17 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
19 12 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (11.38%) Power BI
2 239 (9.96%) SQL Server
3 176 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (6.50%) Data Lake
5 109 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 100 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 83 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 79 (3.29%) Metadata
9 70 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
10 65 (2.71%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.13%) Big Data
12 49 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 47 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.54%) Tableau
15 35 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.46%) MySQL
16 32 (1.33%) Hadoop
17 23 (0.96%) Pinecone
18 22 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 22 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 195 (8.13%) Git
2 99 (4.13%) JIRA
3 75 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 40 (1.67%) GitLab
6 34 (1.42%) MLflow
7 33 (1.38%) Postman
8 25 (1.04%) Selenium
9 20 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 16 (0.67%) Eclipse
12 15 (0.63%) JMeter
13 11 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.38%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.33%) Chocolatey
16 7 (0.29%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.29%) Vite
17 6 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 745 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 731 (30.46%) Finance
3 286 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (8.29%) Law
5 185 (7.71%) Banking
6 127 (5.29%) Legal
7 125 (5.21%) Retail
8 122 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 90 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 75 (3.13%) Marketing
11 65 (2.71%) Financial Institution
12 54 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (2.25%) Telecoms
13 50 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 44 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.50%) Multimedia
15 36 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.50%) Retail Banking
16 30 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 450 (18.75%) Senior
2 318 (13.25%) Developer
3 295 (12.29%) Architect
4 283 (11.79%) Lead
5 186 (7.75%) Analyst
6 185 (7.71%) Data Engineer
7 168 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 125 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 112 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 101 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 85 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 84 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 82 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 78 (3.25%) Data Architect
15 72 (3.00%) Senior Developer
16 70 (2.92%) IT Support
17 69 (2.88%) Support Analyst
18 66 (2.75%) IT Engineer
18 66 (2.75%) Network Engineer
18 66 (2.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (10.04%) .NET
2 151 (6.29%) REST
3 148 (6.17%) React
4 109 (4.54%) HTML
5 103 (4.29%) CSS
6 100 (4.17%) RESTful
7 79 (3.29%) .NET Core
7 79 (3.29%) Node.js
8 76 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 70 (2.92%) OAuth
10 66 (2.75%) Kafka
11 56 (2.33%) Vue
12 51 (2.13%) Web Services
13 50 (2.08%) ASP.NET
14 48 (2.00%) PySpark
15 47 (1.96%) PyTorch
15 47 (1.96%) SOAP
16 46 (1.92%) LangChain
17 43 (1.79%) Middleware
18 41 (1.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 193 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 85 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 81 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 73 (3.04%) Security Posture
8 66 (2.75%) AI Agents
9 65 (2.71%) Low-Code
10 56 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 54 (2.25%) Data Centre
12 50 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.92%) Data Structures
14 45 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
15 44 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (1.63%) Public Cloud
17 36 (1.50%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.33%) Virtual Team
19 30 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
19 30 (1.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 371 (15.46%) Windows
2 175 (7.29%) Windows Server
3 150 (6.25%) Linux
4 76 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 40 (1.67%) Unix
7 35 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.29%) VMS
9 30 (1.25%) Android
9 30 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.17%) CentOS
14 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Solaris
15 3 (0.13%) SUSE
16 2 (0.083%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.042%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (28.33%) DevOps
2 611 (25.46%) CI/CD
3 548 (22.83%) Agile
4 531 (22.13%) AI
5 477 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 427 (17.79%) Analytics
7 303 (12.63%) Cybersecurity
8 302 (12.58%) Roadmaps
9 297 (12.38%) Computer Science
9 297 (12.38%) Mentoring
10 291 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 280 (11.67%) Data Modelling
12 276 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
13 265 (11.04%) Microservices
14 262 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 255 (10.63%) Machine Learning
16 237 (9.88%) ETL
17 229 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
18 226 (9.42%) Software Engineering
19 214 (8.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 629 (26.21%) Python
2 579 (24.13%) SQL
3 293 (12.21%) PowerShell
4 266 (11.08%) C#
5 252 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 125 (5.21%) TypeScript
7 124 (5.17%) Java
8 70 (2.92%) Bash
9 55 (2.29%) Bicep
10 43 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.54%) R
12 36 (1.50%) Go
12 36 (1.50%) Scala
13 29 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.71%) C++
16 14 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.54%) Rust
18 12 (0.50%) PHP
19 10 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 427 (17.79%) Degree
2 225 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 213 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 146 (6.08%) Security Cleared
5 137 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 112 (4.67%) AWS Certification
7 100 (4.17%) SC Cleared
8 99 (4.13%) Master's Degree
9 95 (3.96%) CISSP
10 53 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.79%) CISM
12 39 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 38 (1.58%) DV Cleared
14 36 (1.50%) CCNP
14 36 (1.50%) PMI Certification
14 36 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 30 (1.25%) ISTQB
16 28 (1.17%) PMP
17 26 (1.08%) CEH
18 23 (0.96%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.71%) GDPR
2 184 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 141 (5.88%) NIST
4 139 (5.79%) Data Quality
5 92 (3.83%) QA
6 52 (2.17%) SLA
7 39 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 34 (1.42%) NCSC
9 29 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.17%) EU AI Act
10 28 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 25 (1.04%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.96%) PSD2
13 22 (0.92%) Solvency II
14 21 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.75%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.54%) PMO
17 12 (0.50%) ISO 22301
18 11 (0.46%) GRC
19 8 (0.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 346 (14.42%) Active Directory
2 239 (9.96%) Docker
3 85 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.63%) Firmware
7 15 (0.63%) vSphere
8 12 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.33%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.21%) KVM
11 4 (0.17%) Postfix
12 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.13%) ISA Server
12 3 (0.13%) NFS
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
13 2 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.083%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.042%) vCloud
14 1 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 299 (12.46%) Terraform
2 266 (11.08%) Kubernetes
3 215 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 112 (4.67%) Ansible
5 57 (2.38%) SCCM
6 51 (2.13%) Grafana
7 46 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 38 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.96%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.79%) Argo
11 16 (0.67%) CASB
12 15 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.33%) SCOM
15 7 (0.29%) Kibana
15 7 (0.29%) Rancher
16 6 (0.25%) Kubeflow
16 6 (0.25%) VxRail
17 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 990 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.00%) Databricks
3 164 (6.83%) VMware
4 116 (4.83%) Cisco
5 102 (4.25%) Google
6 78 (3.25%) Oracle
7 75 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 69 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 54 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 54 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 50 (2.08%) SAP
11 46 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.58%) Meraki
13 35 (1.46%) SolarWinds
14 33 (1.38%) Informatica
15 32 (1.33%) CheckPoint
16 27 (1.13%) Citrix
16 27 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.13%) Dynatrace
17 25 (1.04%) Dell