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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,373 3,461 4,342
As % of all permanent jobs in London 18.48% 19.82% 22.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.11% 44.17% 47.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 2,447 3,791
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,100 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,773 7,836 9,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.96% 44.88% 47.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 5,171 7,721
10th Percentile £36,950 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 0 437 £80,000 +10.34% 923
West London -2 53 £72,500 - 102
North London +12 26 £75,000 +21.95% 14
South London +10 26 £65,000 +5.44% 39
East London -15 21 £34,000 -31.66% 90
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
1 166 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 153 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 85 (3.58%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.39%) Confluence
6 22 (0.93%) CMS
7 20 (0.84%) Apache
8 15 (0.63%) IIS
9 6 (0.25%) nginx
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
11 4 (0.17%) Appian
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Moodle
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 33 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.34%) Maya
4 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.21%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 63 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.55%) Endur
4 11 (0.46%) SAP IBP
5 8 (0.34%) Shopify
6 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.084%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.084%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.042%) Carpe Diem
11 1 (0.042%) Markit EDM
11 1 (0.042%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.042%) Siebel CRM
11 1 (0.042%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 857 (36.11%) AWS
2 473 (19.93%) GCP
3 400 (16.86%) Microsoft 365
4 386 (16.27%) Power Platform
5 339 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 246 (10.37%) Entra ID
7 162 (6.83%) SaaS
8 153 (6.45%) GitHub
9 144 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 138 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
11 130 (5.48%) Power Automate
12 120 (5.06%) Serverless
13 117 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 113 (4.76%) PowerApps
15 108 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 105 (4.42%) PaaS
17 77 (3.24%) Azure Sentinel
18 69 (2.91%) Snowflake
19 61 (2.57%) Azure Functions
19 61 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 230 (9.69%) Firewall
2 127 (5.35%) WAN
3 125 (5.27%) VPN
4 121 (5.10%) DNS
5 112 (4.72%) LAN
6 80 (3.37%) TCP/IP
7 78 (3.29%) DHCP
8 71 (2.99%) Network Security
9 59 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (1.94%) Wireless
11 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
12 37 (1.56%) VLAN
13 35 (1.47%) VoIP
14 33 (1.39%) Internet
15 30 (1.26%) BGP
15 30 (1.26%) OSPF
16 21 (0.88%) SAN
17 17 (0.72%) MPLS
18 16 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
19 14 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (10.87%) Power BI
2 236 (9.95%) SQL Server
3 177 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (5.65%) Data Lake
5 125 (5.27%) NoSQL
6 108 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 99 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 93 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 82 (3.46%) Metadata
10 79 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
11 56 (2.36%) Big Data
12 44 (1.85%) MySQL
13 43 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 41 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 40 (1.69%) Hadoop
16 32 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.14%) Tableau
18 25 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 22 (0.93%) DynamoDB
19 22 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 194 (8.18%) Git
2 105 (4.42%) JIRA
3 68 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.06%) GitLab
5 39 (1.64%) Visual Studio
6 21 (0.88%) Selenium
7 20 (0.84%) Postman
8 19 (0.80%) MLflow
9 17 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 16 (0.67%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (0.59%) JMeter
13 13 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.42%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.38%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
17 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 751 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 748 (31.52%) Finance
3 295 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.11%) Law
5 206 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 204 (8.60%) Banking
7 143 (6.03%) Retail
8 129 (5.44%) Marketing
9 113 (4.76%) Legal
10 83 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 60 (2.53%) Financial Institution
12 59 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 42 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
15 38 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 30 (1.26%) Back Office
17 30 (1.26%) Games
17 30 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 446 (18.79%) Senior
2 355 (14.96%) Developer
3 332 (13.99%) Lead
4 294 (12.39%) Architect
5 190 (8.01%) Data Engineer
6 185 (7.80%) Analyst
7 143 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
8 114 (4.80%) Support Engineer
9 111 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 105 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 97 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 87 (3.67%) Data Architect
14 77 (3.24%) IT Support
15 75 (3.16%) .NET Developer
15 75 (3.16%) Support Analyst
16 73 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
17 69 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
18 60 (2.53%) Consultant
19 56 (2.36%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (12.05%) .NET
2 190 (8.01%) React
3 136 (5.73%) REST
4 113 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 109 (4.59%) .NET Core
6 107 (4.51%) HTML
7 102 (4.30%) Kafka
7 102 (4.30%) RESTful
8 93 (3.92%) CSS
9 86 (3.62%) Node.js
10 73 (3.08%) ASP.NET
10 73 (3.08%) Vue
11 67 (2.82%) PySpark
12 66 (2.78%) .NET Framework
13 58 (2.44%) Web Services
14 51 (2.15%) OAuth
15 47 (1.98%) Django
16 46 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
16 46 (1.94%) YAML
17 45 (1.90%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 218 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 110 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 104 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 94 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 75 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (3.12%) Data Centre
7 70 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
8 66 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 65 (2.74%) Public Cloud
10 55 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
11 51 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 49 (2.06%) Low-Code
12 49 (2.06%) Onboarding
13 47 (1.98%) AI Agents
14 41 (1.73%) Data Structures
14 41 (1.73%) Private Cloud
15 39 (1.64%) Algorithms
16 38 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.56%) Reinsurance
18 34 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 406 (17.11%) Windows
2 195 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 176 (7.42%) Linux
4 62 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.81%) Mac OS
5 43 (1.81%) Unix
6 31 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 27 (1.14%) Android
9 19 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.76%) VMS
11 9 (0.38%) CentOS
12 8 (0.34%) Mac OS X
12 8 (0.34%) Solaris
12 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.21%) HPUX
15 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.084%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (30.47%) DevOps
2 678 (28.57%) Agile
3 629 (26.51%) CI/CD
4 519 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
5 457 (19.26%) AI
6 409 (17.24%) Analytics
7 319 (13.44%) Mentoring
8 294 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 287 (12.09%) Data Modelling
10 275 (11.59%) Microservices
11 273 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
12 270 (11.38%) Computer Science
12 270 (11.38%) Roadmaps
13 269 (11.34%) Software Engineering
14 265 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 253 (10.66%) Machine Learning
16 246 (10.37%) Migration
17 237 (9.99%) ETL
18 232 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
19 230 (9.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 674 (28.40%) Python
2 630 (26.55%) SQL
3 309 (13.02%) C#
4 280 (11.80%) PowerShell
5 247 (10.41%) JavaScript
6 150 (6.32%) Java
7 143 (6.03%) TypeScript
8 72 (3.03%) Bash
9 53 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 40 (1.69%) Bicep
10 40 (1.69%) Scala
11 34 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 32 (1.35%) Go
13 29 (1.22%) R
14 26 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
17 17 (0.72%) Rust
18 14 (0.59%) C++
19 13 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 406 (17.11%) Degree
2 206 (8.68%) Azure Certification
3 182 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 138 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 127 (5.35%) Security Cleared
6 111 (4.68%) AWS Certification
7 107 (4.51%) Master's Degree
8 91 (3.83%) SC Cleared
9 72 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
10 64 (2.70%) CISSP
11 47 (1.98%) CCNP
12 36 (1.52%) CCNA
13 29 (1.22%) CISM
13 29 (1.22%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
14 25 (1.05%) MCSE
15 24 (1.01%) CCIE
16 23 (0.97%) PhD
17 22 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 22 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.71%) GDPR
2 155 (6.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 129 (5.44%) QA
4 114 (4.80%) NIST
5 110 (4.64%) Data Quality
6 37 (1.56%) SLA
7 34 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.18%) EU AI Act
8 28 (1.18%) NCSC
9 27 (1.14%) HIPAA
10 23 (0.97%) PSD2
10 23 (0.97%) Solvency II
11 20 (0.84%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.46%) PMO
15 9 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.29%) EMIR
16 7 (0.29%) GRC
17 6 (0.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 348 (14.66%) Active Directory
2 229 (9.65%) Docker
3 103 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 11 (0.46%) vSphere
10 9 (0.38%) NFS
11 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.21%) KVM
12 5 (0.21%) XenApp
12 5 (0.21%) zsh
13 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.17%) Postfix
13 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.084%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 298 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 282 (11.88%) Terraform
3 206 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 131 (5.52%) Ansible
5 52 (2.19%) SCCM
6 51 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (1.73%) Grafana
7 41 (1.73%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.63%) Argo
9 15 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.55%) SCOM
11 11 (0.46%) Autotask
11 11 (0.46%) Kubeflow
11 11 (0.46%) Puppet
12 9 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.38%) CASB
13 6 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.21%) vRealize
14 5 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,000 (42.14%) Microsoft
2 242 (10.20%) Databricks
3 174 (7.33%) VMware
4 137 (5.77%) Cisco
5 106 (4.47%) Google
6 94 (3.96%) Oracle
7 71 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 65 (2.74%) Palo Alto
9 59 (2.49%) SAP
10 48 (2.02%) SolarWinds
11 43 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 42 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 42 (1.77%) Meraki
13 35 (1.47%) Citrix
14 31 (1.31%) Informatica
15 30 (1.26%) OpenAI
16 29 (1.22%) Splunk
17 26 (1.10%) CheckPoint
18 24 (1.01%) Dell
18 24 (1.01%) Foundry