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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,596 2,744 4,394
As % of all permanent jobs in London 15.77% 19.33% 20.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.04% 43.72% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 1,984 3,809
10th Percentile £42,575 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

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 6,326 6,277 9,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.42% 44.23% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,097 4,203 8,003
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +1 611 £77,500 +3.33% 499
West London +14 72 £70,000 +33.97% 56
South London +18 24 £47,500 -20.83% 32
East London -9 22 £32,000 -60.62% 47
North London +20 18 £73,750 -7.81% 15
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
1 187 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 148 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 16 (0.62%) Apache
7 15 (0.58%) Appian
8 11 (0.42%) IIS
9 9 (0.35%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Moodle
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.19%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) WordPress
13 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.15%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.077%) Maya
8 2 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.96%) Endur
3 11 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.077%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.077%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.077%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.039%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 885 (34.09%) AWS
2 496 (19.11%) GCP
3 469 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
4 417 (16.06%) Power Platform
5 341 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
6 297 (11.44%) Entra ID
7 198 (7.63%) SaaS
8 185 (7.13%) GitHub
9 153 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 134 (5.16%) Power Automate
11 124 (4.78%) PaaS
12 108 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 107 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
14 106 (4.08%) PowerApps
15 105 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 101 (3.89%) Serverless
17 84 (3.24%) Azure AI
18 74 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
19 70 (2.70%) Snowflake
20 65 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 285 (10.98%) Firewall
2 174 (6.70%) VPN
3 159 (6.12%) DNS
4 155 (5.97%) WAN
5 133 (5.12%) DHCP
6 114 (4.39%) Wi-Fi
7 104 (4.01%) TCP/IP
8 95 (3.66%) LAN
9 79 (3.04%) SD-WAN
10 64 (2.47%) Network Security
11 55 (2.12%) VLAN
12 54 (2.08%) Internet
13 41 (1.58%) SAN
14 38 (1.46%) Wireless
15 36 (1.39%) VoIP
16 26 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
18 24 (0.92%) BGP
18 24 (0.92%) OSPF
19 21 (0.81%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (11.56%) Power BI
2 260 (10.02%) SQL Server
3 163 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (5.78%) Data Lake
5 103 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 83 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (3.12%) NoSQL
8 67 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 64 (2.47%) Metadata
10 55 (2.12%) Relational Database
11 54 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 53 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.85%) Tableau
14 47 (1.81%) Big Data
15 41 (1.58%) BigQuery
16 29 (1.12%) MySQL
16 29 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.89%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.89%) Pinecone
18 22 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 185 (7.13%) Git
2 85 (3.27%) JIRA
3 84 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.96%) GitLab
5 39 (1.50%) MLflow
5 39 (1.50%) Visual Studio
6 33 (1.27%) Postman
7 19 (0.73%) Eclipse
7 19 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 19 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.65%) Selenium
9 13 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.46%) Chocolatey
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.39%) JMeter
12 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.31%) Vite
14 7 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 786 (30.28%) Finance
2 763 (29.39%) Social Skills
3 275 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (7.82%) Banking
5 194 (7.47%) Law
6 122 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 113 (4.35%) Legal
8 109 (4.20%) Retail
9 99 (3.81%) Public Sector
10 67 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (2.54%) Marketing
12 58 (2.23%) Financial Institution
13 56 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 44 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.39%) Retail Banking
17 34 (1.31%) Front Office
17 34 (1.31%) Multimedia
18 26 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 503 (19.38%) Senior
2 331 (12.75%) Lead
3 324 (12.48%) Architect
4 312 (12.02%) Developer
5 209 (8.05%) Analyst
6 193 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
7 176 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 127 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 123 (4.74%) Software Engineer
10 120 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 107 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 94 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 94 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
13 86 (3.31%) IT Support
13 86 (3.31%) Network Engineer
14 81 (3.12%) IT Engineer
15 80 (3.08%) Senior Developer
16 76 (2.93%) Security Engineer
17 75 (2.89%) Data Architect
18 73 (2.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (10.02%) .NET
2 168 (6.47%) React
3 142 (5.47%) REST
4 104 (4.01%) CSS
4 104 (4.01%) RESTful
5 101 (3.89%) HTML
6 89 (3.43%) Node.js
6 89 (3.43%) OAuth
7 78 (3.00%) .NET Core
8 72 (2.77%) Kafka
9 51 (1.96%) AngularJS
10 50 (1.93%) Django
10 50 (1.93%) SAML
11 47 (1.81%) PySpark
12 46 (1.77%) SOAP
13 45 (1.73%) LangChain
14 43 (1.66%) PyTorch
15 41 (1.58%) TensorFlow
15 41 (1.58%) Web Services
16 39 (1.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 220 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 90 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 86 (3.31%) Security Posture
5 84 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 80 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 75 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 65 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 62 (2.39%) Low-Code
10 59 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 56 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 55 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
13 45 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
14 41 (1.58%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.46%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.27%) Cyberattack
16 33 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 391 (15.06%) Windows
2 177 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 151 (5.82%) Linux
4 82 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.93%) Unix
6 44 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 34 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.27%) VMS
9 31 (1.19%) Android
10 29 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.35%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.19%) CentOS
17 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.12%) SUSE
18 2 (0.077%) Solaris
19 1 (0.039%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (27.85%) DevOps
2 641 (24.69%) CI/CD
3 556 (21.42%) Agile
4 550 (21.19%) AI
5 460 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 437 (16.83%) Analytics
7 357 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 325 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 323 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
10 304 (11.71%) Business Intelligence
11 303 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 303 (11.67%) Roadmaps
12 301 (11.59%) Computer Science
13 280 (10.79%) Data Modelling
14 270 (10.40%) Software Engineering
15 268 (10.32%) Microservices
16 239 (9.21%) Machine Learning
17 229 (8.82%) ETL
17 229 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 220 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 669 (25.77%) Python
2 591 (22.77%) SQL
3 313 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 274 (10.55%) C#
5 252 (9.71%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.20%) TypeScript
7 125 (4.82%) Java
8 89 (3.43%) Bash
9 57 (2.20%) Bicep
10 43 (1.66%) Go
11 41 (1.58%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.43%) R
13 34 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 26 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.89%) Scala
16 18 (0.69%) C++
17 16 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.58%) Rust
19 12 (0.46%) PHP
20 11 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 416 (16.02%) Degree
2 246 (9.48%) Azure Certification
3 227 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (6.51%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 119 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 109 (4.20%) CISSP
8 100 (3.85%) AWS Certification
9 81 (3.12%) Master's Degree
10 58 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.77%) CISM
12 39 (1.50%) CEH
12 39 (1.50%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 36 (1.39%) PMI Certification
15 35 (1.35%) CCNP
16 33 (1.27%) PMP
17 30 (1.16%) CCNA
18 28 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
19 24 (0.92%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 178 (6.86%) GDPR
3 159 (6.12%) NIST
4 133 (5.12%) Data Quality
5 85 (3.27%) QA
6 67 (2.58%) SLA
7 40 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 36 (1.39%) NCSC
8 36 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 34 (1.31%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 27 (1.04%) EU AI Act
12 24 (0.92%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.89%) PSD2
13 23 (0.89%) Solvency II
14 18 (0.69%) GRC
15 17 (0.65%) PMO
16 16 (0.62%) ISO 22301
17 10 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 377 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 252 (9.71%) Docker
3 94 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.92%) vSphere
7 14 (0.54%) Firmware
8 12 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.23%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.15%) KVM
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.077%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.077%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.077%) NFS
11 2 (0.077%) XenApp
12 1 (0.039%) NLBS
12 1 (0.039%) vCloud
12 1 (0.039%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 321 (12.37%) Terraform
2 294 (11.33%) Kubernetes
3 230 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 125 (4.82%) Ansible
5 61 (2.35%) SCCM
6 58 (2.23%) Grafana
7 53 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 40 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.12%) FortiGate
10 24 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.77%) Argo
12 14 (0.54%) CASB
13 8 (0.31%) Kibana
14 7 (0.27%) VxRail
15 6 (0.23%) Control-M
15 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.23%) SCOM
16 5 (0.19%) Mesos
16 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,040 (40.06%) Microsoft
2 200 (7.70%) Databricks
3 187 (7.20%) VMware
4 135 (5.20%) Google
5 121 (4.66%) Cisco
6 77 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.85%) Palo Alto
8 66 (2.54%) Oracle
9 60 (2.31%) Fortinet
10 59 (2.27%) OpenAI
11 47 (1.81%) Meraki
12 46 (1.77%) SAP
13 45 (1.73%) Salesforce
14 37 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
14 37 (1.43%) SolarWinds
15 35 (1.35%) CheckPoint
16 34 (1.31%) Dell
17 31 (1.19%) Informatica
18 30 (1.16%) Commvault
19 28 (1.08%) Dynatrace