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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,315 3,285 4,066
As % of all permanent jobs in London 17.43% 20.29% 22.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.60% 44.41% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 2,338 3,539
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.31% +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 5,702 7,397 8,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 42.93% 45.70% 47.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,712 4,873 7,177
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,709
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 £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 15 December 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 15 December 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 0 463 £76,500 +5.52% 223
West London +6 57 £71,250 -3.39% 71
North London +19 24 £75,000 -6.25% 16
East London -5 24 £34,000 -35.24% 63
South London +12 20 £55,000 -10.78% 38
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
1 160 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 137 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 76 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (1.30%) Confluence
6 15 (0.65%) Apache
6 15 (0.65%) IIS
7 14 (0.60%) CMS
8 8 (0.35%) Appian
9 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.26%) Moodle
10 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.22%) WordPress
11 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.17%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 45 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.35%) Maya
4 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.17%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.78%) Endur
4 10 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.26%) Shopify
6 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.17%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.13%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.086%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.086%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.043%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.043%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 830 (35.85%) AWS
2 454 (19.61%) GCP
3 406 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
4 395 (17.06%) Power Platform
5 342 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
6 241 (10.41%) Entra ID
7 161 (6.95%) GitHub
8 160 (6.91%) SaaS
9 144 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 133 (5.75%) Power Automate
11 123 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
12 113 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 109 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 108 (4.67%) PowerApps
15 105 (4.54%) PaaS
15 105 (4.54%) Serverless
16 71 (3.07%) Azure AI
16 71 (3.07%) Snowflake
17 65 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
18 62 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 232 (10.02%) Firewall
2 130 (5.62%) VPN
3 120 (5.18%) WAN
4 114 (4.92%) DNS
5 97 (4.19%) LAN
6 85 (3.67%) DHCP
7 75 (3.24%) TCP/IP
8 72 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
9 65 (2.81%) Network Security
10 46 (1.99%) SD-WAN
11 45 (1.94%) Internet
12 44 (1.90%) Wireless
13 40 (1.73%) VLAN
14 37 (1.60%) VoIP
15 25 (1.08%) SAN
16 23 (0.99%) BGP
16 23 (0.99%) OSPF
17 18 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.52%) Wireshark
19 11 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (11.84%) Power BI
2 226 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 179 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (6.18%) Data Lake
5 123 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 104 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 84 (3.63%) MongoDB
8 79 (3.41%) Metadata
9 72 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
9 72 (3.11%) Relational Database
10 60 (2.59%) Big Data
11 43 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 40 (1.73%) Hadoop
13 39 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (1.60%) MySQL
15 33 (1.43%) Tableau
16 29 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (1.25%) BigQuery
17 21 (0.91%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 198 (8.55%) Git
2 100 (4.32%) JIRA
3 74 (3.20%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.81%) Visual Studio
5 39 (1.68%) GitLab
6 27 (1.17%) MLflow
7 23 (0.99%) Selenium
8 22 (0.95%) Postman
9 15 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.65%) JMeter
9 15 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
10 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
11 12 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.43%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.35%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.30%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.30%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.30%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 735 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 697 (30.11%) Finance
3 285 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (8.68%) Law
5 169 (7.30%) Banking
6 146 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 138 (5.96%) Retail
8 114 (4.92%) Legal
9 92 (3.97%) Marketing
10 78 (3.37%) Public Sector
11 63 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 62 (2.68%) Telecoms
13 55 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 46 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.51%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.34%) Retail Banking
17 30 (1.30%) Games
18 28 (1.21%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 421 (18.19%) Senior
2 329 (14.21%) Developer
3 295 (12.74%) Architect
4 291 (12.57%) Lead
5 185 (7.99%) Analyst
6 180 (7.78%) Data Engineer
7 140 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 101 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 95 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 83 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 80 (3.46%) Data Architect
13 78 (3.37%) Senior Developer
14 75 (3.24%) IT Support
15 73 (3.15%) Support Analyst
16 72 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 68 (2.94%) .NET Developer
18 67 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
19 58 (2.51%) Azure Architect
19 58 (2.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (10.80%) .NET
2 163 (7.04%) React
3 135 (5.83%) REST
4 109 (4.71%) HTML
5 97 (4.19%) CSS
6 93 (4.02%) .NET Core
7 92 (3.97%) RESTful
8 89 (3.84%) AngularJS
9 84 (3.63%) Node.js
10 82 (3.54%) Kafka
11 64 (2.76%) ASP.NET
12 63 (2.72%) Vue
13 57 (2.46%) PySpark
14 53 (2.29%) Web Services
15 50 (2.16%) .NET Framework
16 48 (2.07%) OAuth
17 47 (2.03%) Middleware
18 45 (1.94%) YAML
19 44 (1.90%) PyTorch
20 41 (1.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 201 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 103 (4.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 102 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 100 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (2.98%) Security Posture
8 61 (2.63%) Data Centre
9 57 (2.46%) Low-Code
10 54 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 54 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 48 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 44 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.86%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.56%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.43%) Reinsurance
17 30 (1.30%) Data Structures
18 29 (1.25%) Virtual Team
19 27 (1.17%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 387 (16.72%) Windows
2 185 (7.99%) Windows Server
3 162 (7.00%) Linux
4 68 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 36 (1.56%) Unix
7 34 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 32 (1.38%) Android
9 29 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.99%) VMS
11 15 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.35%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.17%) CentOS
16 3 (0.13%) Solaris
16 3 (0.13%) SUSE
17 2 (0.086%) Kali Linux
18 1 (0.043%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (30.45%) DevOps
2 599 (25.87%) Agile
3 582 (25.14%) CI/CD
4 482 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
5 477 (20.60%) AI
6 414 (17.88%) Analytics
7 300 (12.96%) Mentoring
8 296 (12.79%) Computer Science
9 290 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 281 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
11 280 (12.10%) Roadmaps
12 278 (12.01%) Data Modelling
13 261 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
13 261 (11.27%) Microservices
14 253 (10.93%) Machine Learning
15 249 (10.76%) ETL
16 243 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
17 230 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
18 222 (9.59%) Migration
19 221 (9.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 634 (27.39%) Python
2 580 (25.05%) SQL
3 286 (12.35%) C#
4 282 (12.18%) PowerShell
5 247 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 129 (5.57%) Java
7 125 (5.40%) TypeScript
8 66 (2.85%) Bash
9 49 (2.12%) Bicep
10 41 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.51%) Scala
12 32 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 32 (1.38%) Go
13 30 (1.30%) R
14 23 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.69%) C++
16 14 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.52%) PHP
17 12 (0.52%) Rust
18 11 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 428 (18.49%) Degree
2 216 (9.33%) Azure Certification
3 211 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 137 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 123 (5.31%) Security Cleared
6 110 (4.75%) AWS Certification
7 103 (4.45%) Master's Degree
8 86 (3.71%) SC Cleared
9 78 (3.37%) CISSP
10 59 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.73%) CCNP
12 33 (1.43%) CISM
12 33 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 32 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 32 (1.38%) PMI Certification
14 30 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
15 24 (1.04%) PMP
16 23 (0.99%) CCIE
16 23 (0.99%) CEH
17 22 (0.95%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (7.73%) GDPR
2 160 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 120 (5.18%) NIST
4 119 (5.14%) QA
5 111 (4.79%) Data Quality
6 39 (1.68%) SLA
7 33 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.21%) EU AI Act
9 27 (1.17%) NCSC
10 24 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.04%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.99%) PSD2
12 21 (0.91%) Solvency II
13 17 (0.73%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.60%) PMO
15 14 (0.60%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.39%) GRC
16 9 (0.39%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.35%) EMIR
System Software
1 322 (13.91%) Active Directory
2 224 (9.68%) Docker
3 91 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.76%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.73%) Firmware
8 16 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.48%) vSphere
10 10 (0.43%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.35%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.26%) NFS
13 5 (0.22%) XenApp
14 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
14 4 (0.17%) KVM
14 4 (0.17%) Postfix
14 4 (0.17%) ProxySG
14 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.086%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.086%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 283 (12.22%) Terraform
2 262 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 119 (5.14%) Ansible
5 51 (2.20%) SCCM
6 41 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (1.73%) Prometheus
8 38 (1.64%) Grafana
9 18 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.73%) Argo
11 14 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
12 12 (0.52%) Autotask
13 11 (0.48%) CASB
14 10 (0.43%) Kubeflow
15 9 (0.39%) SCOM
16 7 (0.30%) Rancher
17 6 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 6 (0.26%) Puppet
18 5 (0.22%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 997 (43.07%) Microsoft
2 208 (8.98%) Databricks
3 157 (6.78%) VMware
4 118 (5.10%) Cisco
5 94 (4.06%) Google
6 86 (3.71%) Oracle
7 69 (2.98%) ServiceNow
8 68 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 57 (2.46%) SAP
10 49 (2.12%) Fortinet
10 49 (2.12%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.60%) Meraki
12 35 (1.51%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.47%) Informatica
14 33 (1.43%) SolarWinds
15 32 (1.38%) Citrix
16 28 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
17 27 (1.17%) CheckPoint
18 23 (0.99%) Dell
19 22 (0.95%) IBM