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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,190 2,523 3,678
As % of all permanent jobs in London 13.35% 20.68% 18.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.67% 44.93% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,333 1,818 2,821
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,000 £56,250 £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 £113,550 £110,000 £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 8,469 5,616 8,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.43% 46.03% 42.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 3,924 6,212
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £43,997
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
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 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 17 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 17 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 +1 482 £85,000 +9.68% 213
West London +3 101 £70,000 +48.94% 53
South London +1 41 £80,000 +23.08% 20
East London -14 17 £75,000 +51.52% 34
North London -8 9 £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
1 200 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 121 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 89 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.72%) Confluence
5 45 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.85%) Apache
7 25 (0.78%) CMS
8 15 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
8 15 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.41%) Mule
10 12 (0.38%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.31%) WordPress
12 7 (0.22%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.69%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 2 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 2 (0.063%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Houdini
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Notion
10 1 (0.031%) NUKE
10 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.56%) Elite 3E
3 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Carpe Diem
5 8 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.094%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.094%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
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%) Payment Gateway
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 1,082 (33.92%) AWS
2 646 (20.25%) GCP
3 531 (16.65%) Microsoft 365
4 413 (12.95%) Power Platform
5 394 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
6 376 (11.79%) Entra ID
7 216 (6.77%) SaaS
8 188 (5.89%) GitHub
9 167 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 162 (5.08%) Serverless
11 159 (4.98%) PaaS
12 157 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 154 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 148 (4.64%) Azure AI
15 144 (4.51%) Snowflake
16 117 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
17 115 (3.61%) Power Automate
18 114 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
19 99 (3.10%) PowerApps
20 96 (3.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 316 (9.91%) Firewall
2 167 (5.24%) VPN
3 166 (5.20%) Network Security
4 159 (4.98%) DNS
5 130 (4.08%) WAN
6 122 (3.82%) DHCP
7 111 (3.48%) LAN
8 109 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (2.76%) TCP/IP
10 73 (2.29%) VLAN
11 68 (2.13%) SD-WAN
12 55 (1.72%) SAN
13 52 (1.63%) Wireless
14 43 (1.35%) BGP
15 39 (1.22%) OSPF
16 29 (0.91%) Kerberos
17 27 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
18 21 (0.66%) WLAN
19 19 (0.60%) VoIP
20 17 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 277 (8.68%) Power BI
3 166 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 126 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 84 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (2.51%) Tableau
8 76 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 71 (2.23%) Metadata
10 69 (2.16%) NoSQL
11 56 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 51 (1.60%) Relational Database
13 49 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 37 (1.16%) MySQL
17 36 (1.13%) Big Data
18 35 (1.10%) Star Schema
19 34 (1.07%) BigQuery
20 32 (1.00%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 181 (5.67%) Git
2 113 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 106 (3.32%) JIRA
4 72 (2.26%) GitLab
5 33 (1.03%) MLflow
6 17 (0.53%) Selenium
7 15 (0.47%) Chocolatey
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.41%) Mockito
8 13 (0.41%) Postman
9 11 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 10 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.28%) Maven
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.25%) Vite
13 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 958 (30.03%) Finance
2 951 (29.81%) Social Skills
3 318 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (6.90%) Banking
5 219 (6.87%) Law
6 147 (4.61%) Public Sector
7 142 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 139 (4.36%) Legal
9 104 (3.26%) Retail
10 68 (2.13%) Marketing
11 59 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.97%) Front Office
17 30 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (0.78%) Advertising
19 18 (0.56%) Investment Banking
20 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 594 (18.62%) Senior
2 549 (17.21%) Architect
3 430 (13.48%) Lead
4 332 (10.41%) Developer
5 281 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
6 196 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 179 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 168 (5.27%) Analyst
9 130 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (3.92%) Consultant
11 122 (3.82%) Azure Architect
12 120 (3.76%) Data Architect
13 119 (3.73%) Software Engineer
14 107 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
15 100 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 94 (2.95%) Network Engineer
17 88 (2.76%) Security Engineer
18 86 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
19 82 (2.57%) IT Engineer
20 80 (2.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (10.00%) .NET
2 165 (5.17%) React
3 160 (5.02%) REST
4 136 (4.26%) Kafka
5 96 (3.01%) Node.js
6 95 (2.98%) RESTful
7 92 (2.88%) OAuth
8 91 (2.85%) LangChain
9 89 (2.79%) Spring
10 87 (2.73%) .NET Core
11 81 (2.54%) ASP.NET
12 77 (2.41%) Spring Boot
13 75 (2.35%) PySpark
14 64 (2.01%) PyTorch
15 62 (1.94%) TensorFlow
16 57 (1.79%) CSS
16 57 (1.79%) HTML
17 55 (1.72%) OAuth2
18 50 (1.57%) Blazor
18 50 (1.57%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 424 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 156 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 132 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 99 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 98 (3.07%) Security Posture
8 84 (2.63%) AI Agents
9 70 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 63 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 55 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 49 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 48 (1.50%) Data Structures
15 45 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
16 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 43 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
18 39 (1.22%) Low-Code
19 36 (1.13%) Algorithms
20 35 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 420 (13.17%) Windows
2 188 (5.89%) Linux
3 159 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 47 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.66%) Android
7 21 (0.66%) Unix
7 21 (0.66%) VMS
7 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.38%) CentOS
11 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.094%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.031%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (28.93%) DevOps
2 881 (27.62%) CI/CD
3 776 (24.33%) AI
4 695 (21.79%) Agile
5 530 (16.61%) Roadmaps
6 502 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 491 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
8 485 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 467 (14.64%) Mentoring
10 456 (14.29%) Analytics
11 361 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 343 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
12 343 (10.75%) Machine Learning
13 341 (10.69%) Data Engineering
14 322 (10.09%) Software Engineering
15 302 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
16 298 (9.34%) Microservices
17 296 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
18 294 (9.22%) Migration
19 287 (9.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 764 (23.95%) Python
2 647 (20.28%) SQL
3 339 (10.63%) C#
4 298 (9.34%) PowerShell
5 220 (6.90%) Java
6 212 (6.65%) JavaScript
7 166 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 99 (3.10%) Bash
9 88 (2.76%) Bicep
10 41 (1.29%) Go
10 41 (1.29%) Scala
11 27 (0.85%) R
12 23 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.60%) C++
13 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 19 (0.60%) RPG
14 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.47%) DataWeave
15 13 (0.41%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 400 (12.54%) Degree
2 295 (9.25%) Azure Certification
3 265 (8.31%) Security Cleared
4 197 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 133 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (4.11%) CISSP
7 117 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
8 116 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 69 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 64 (2.01%) CCNP
10 64 (2.01%) CISM
11 59 (1.85%) Master's Degree
12 52 (1.63%) CCNA
13 46 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
14 41 (1.29%) CEH
15 29 (0.91%) DV Cleared
16 28 (0.88%) PMP
17 27 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.82%) CCIE
19 25 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.64%) GDPR
3 169 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 149 (4.67%) QA
5 133 (4.17%) NIST
6 89 (2.79%) SLA
7 65 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 41 (1.29%) GRC
10 34 (1.07%) PMO
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
11 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 18 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 405 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 258 (8.09%) Docker
3 128 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.78%) vSphere
8 15 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.19%) 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
1 470 (14.73%) Terraform
2 344 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 209 (6.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 157 (4.92%) Ansible
5 71 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.76%) Grafana
7 52 (1.63%) SCCM
8 41 (1.29%) Prometheus
9 32 (1.00%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.41%) 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
Vendors
1 1,355 (42.48%) Microsoft
2 348 (10.91%) Databricks
3 198 (6.21%) VMware
4 166 (5.20%) Cisco
5 159 (4.98%) Google
6 86 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 85 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 82 (2.57%) Oracle
9 78 (2.45%) Palo Alto
10 59 (1.85%) Foundry
11 56 (1.76%) Splunk
12 55 (1.72%) Meraki
12 55 (1.72%) SAP
13 52 (1.63%) Salesforce
14 46 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
15 45 (1.41%) Fortinet
16 41 (1.29%) Tenable
17 40 (1.25%) Dell
18 38 (1.19%) iManage
19 36 (1.13%) Zscaler