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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 3,056 2,457 4,621
As % of all permanent jobs in London 14.06% 20.18% 18.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.16% 44.72% 44.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,189 1,818 3,703
10th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,475 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -8.46%

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 7,610 5,494 10,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.00% 45.12% 42.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,174 3,887 8,166
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 0 598 £83,000 +7.10% 224
West London +12 88 £69,119 +57.99% 61
South London +22 48 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East London -3 20 £32,500 -61.76% 41
North London 0 9 £55,000 -18.52% 6
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
1 191 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 124 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.28%) Confluence
6 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 18 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
7 16 (0.52%) CMS
8 11 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
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%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 45 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.62%) PlantUML
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.033%) Maya
9 1 (0.033%) Notion
9 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.20%) Endur
4 6 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.065%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.065%) Shopify
7 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 994 (32.53%) AWS
2 588 (19.24%) GCP
3 520 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
4 388 (12.70%) Power Platform
5 371 (12.14%) Entra ID
6 362 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (7.00%) SaaS
8 195 (6.38%) GitHub
9 159 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 146 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 145 (4.74%) PaaS
12 133 (4.35%) Serverless
13 132 (4.32%) Azure AI
14 126 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 106 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
15 106 (3.47%) Snowflake
16 103 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
17 100 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
17 100 (3.27%) Power Automate
18 96 (3.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 311 (10.18%) Firewall
2 178 (5.82%) VPN
3 170 (5.56%) DNS
4 149 (4.88%) WAN
5 148 (4.84%) Network Security
6 139 (4.55%) DHCP
7 121 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
8 108 (3.53%) LAN
9 88 (2.88%) TCP/IP
10 80 (2.62%) SD-WAN
11 65 (2.13%) VLAN
12 52 (1.70%) SAN
13 45 (1.47%) BGP
14 41 (1.34%) OSPF
15 37 (1.21%) Wireless
16 30 (0.98%) VoIP
17 29 (0.95%) WLAN
18 27 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
19 24 (0.79%) Broadband
20 23 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (8.54%) Power BI
2 258 (8.44%) SQL Server
3 142 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 106 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 67 (2.19%) MongoDB
6 67 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (2.06%) Tableau
8 60 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 59 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 58 (1.90%) Metadata
11 45 (1.47%) Delta Lake
11 45 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 44 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 42 (1.37%) Big Data
14 41 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 34 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (0.95%) MySQL
17 27 (0.88%) Star Schema
18 26 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (5.92%) Git
2 106 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.49%) GitLab
3 76 (2.49%) JIRA
4 40 (1.31%) MLflow
5 26 (0.85%) Postman
6 22 (0.72%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.56%) Chocolatey
7 17 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.49%) Selenium
9 12 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.36%) Vite
11 10 (0.33%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.33%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 942 (30.82%) Finance
2 849 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 277 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (7.20%) Banking
5 174 (5.69%) Law
6 123 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 114 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 107 (3.50%) Legal
9 77 (2.52%) Retail
10 60 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 35 (1.15%) Front Office
15 34 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (1.01%) Advertising
16 31 (1.01%) Marketing
17 20 (0.65%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.59%) Telecoms
19 16 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 586 (19.18%) Senior
2 488 (15.97%) Architect
3 410 (13.42%) Lead
4 303 (9.91%) Developer
5 274 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (5.89%) Analyst
7 166 (5.43%) Data Engineer
8 163 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 158 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 128 (4.19%) Software Engineer
11 122 (3.99%) Consultant
12 117 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 110 (3.60%) Azure Architect
14 105 (3.44%) Security Engineer
15 102 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 99 (3.24%) Data Architect
17 96 (3.14%) IT Engineer
18 90 (2.95%) Network Engineer
18 90 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
19 89 (2.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (9.91%) .NET
2 166 (5.43%) React
3 132 (4.32%) REST
4 117 (3.83%) Kafka
5 104 (3.40%) OAuth
6 93 (3.04%) Node.js
7 88 (2.88%) RESTful
8 80 (2.62%) .NET Core
8 80 (2.62%) LangChain
9 75 (2.45%) Spring
10 70 (2.29%) PySpark
11 68 (2.23%) CSS
12 65 (2.13%) Spring Boot
13 64 (2.09%) HTML
14 62 (2.03%) ASP.NET
15 61 (2.00%) PyTorch
16 59 (1.93%) TensorFlow
17 57 (1.87%) SAML
18 52 (1.70%) OpenID
19 44 (1.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 361 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 127 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 96 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 91 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 67 (2.19%) AI Agents
10 63 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 61 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
12 59 (1.93%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (1.34%) Low-Code
16 40 (1.31%) Cyberattack
17 35 (1.15%) Algorithms
18 32 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 415 (13.58%) Windows
2 171 (5.60%) Linux
3 158 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.08%) VMS
7 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.79%) Unix
10 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.62%) Android
12 17 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.33%) CentOS
15 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
19 1 (0.033%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (28.50%) DevOps
2 787 (25.75%) CI/CD
3 650 (21.27%) AI
4 625 (20.45%) Agile
5 461 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 456 (14.92%) Roadmaps
7 455 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 440 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 434 (14.20%) Analytics
10 429 (14.04%) Mentoring
11 319 (10.44%) Data Engineering
12 315 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
13 306 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
14 301 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 292 (9.55%) Software Engineering
16 285 (9.33%) Machine Learning
17 276 (9.03%) Microservices
18 274 (8.97%) Data Modelling
19 251 (8.21%) Migration
20 244 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 733 (23.99%) Python
2 620 (20.29%) SQL
3 326 (10.67%) PowerShell
4 294 (9.62%) C#
5 223 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 176 (5.76%) Java
7 169 (5.53%) TypeScript
8 111 (3.63%) Bash
9 79 (2.59%) Bicep
10 43 (1.41%) Go
11 38 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 27 (0.88%) R
14 24 (0.79%) Scala
15 20 (0.65%) C++
16 16 (0.52%) RPG
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.43%) Rust
19 12 (0.39%) VB.NET
20 11 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 375 (12.27%) Degree
2 287 (9.39%) Azure Certification
3 241 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 177 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 151 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (4.12%) CISSP
7 115 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 112 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 71 (2.32%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.83%) CCNP
11 55 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 54 (1.77%) CCNA
13 53 (1.73%) CISM
14 48 (1.57%) CEH
15 45 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (1.15%) DV Cleared
17 31 (1.01%) CCIE
18 27 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 26 (0.85%) PMP
20 25 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (5.14%) NIST
3 156 (5.10%) GDPR
4 152 (4.97%) Data Quality
5 124 (4.06%) QA
6 90 (2.95%) SLA
7 57 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 47 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 38 (1.24%) GRC
9 38 (1.24%) NCSC
10 32 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.05%) PMO
11 31 (1.01%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 18 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 16 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 8 (0.26%) COBIT
18 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 416 (13.61%) Active Directory
2 247 (8.08%) Docker
3 121 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.92%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.16%) Firmware
9 5 (0.16%) KVM
9 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.065%) Xen
11 1 (0.033%) NLBS
11 1 (0.033%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 437 (14.30%) Terraform
2 333 (10.90%) Kubernetes
3 221 (7.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (4.71%) Ansible
5 62 (2.03%) SCCM
6 60 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 55 (1.80%) Grafana
8 42 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 31 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 27 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.43%) Istio
12 11 (0.36%) Argo
12 11 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.29%) Kibana
13 9 (0.29%) Nagios
14 7 (0.23%) Control-M
14 7 (0.23%) QRadar
15 6 (0.20%) Packer
15 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1,241 (40.61%) Microsoft
2 316 (10.34%) Databricks
3 194 (6.35%) VMware
4 145 (4.74%) Cisco
5 129 (4.22%) Google
6 91 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 81 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 73 (2.39%) Palo Alto
9 68 (2.23%) Oracle
10 54 (1.77%) Foundry
11 50 (1.64%) Splunk
12 48 (1.57%) Meraki
13 47 (1.54%) SAP
14 46 (1.51%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
15 43 (1.41%) SolarWinds
16 42 (1.37%) Dell
16 42 (1.37%) Dynatrace
16 42 (1.37%) Salesforce
17 37 (1.21%) ForeScout