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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,459 3,003 4,463
As % of all permanent jobs in London 16.38% 19.73% 21.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.94% 44.19% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,769 2,083 3,885
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +4.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £115,000 £114,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 6,006 6,795 9,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.01% 44.64% 45.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 4,335 8,073
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 0 552 £80,000 +6.67% 252
West London +15 64 £63,750 -1.92% 56
East London -8 22 £32,000 -44.35% 41
North London +18 20 £75,000 +27.66% 7
South London +13 19 £46,000 -24.12% 26
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
1 182 (7.40%) SharePoint
2 145 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.14%) Confluence
6 16 (0.65%) Apache
7 15 (0.61%) Appian
8 12 (0.49%) IIS
8 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 4 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.16%) Moodle
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.24%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.081%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.94%) Endur
3 19 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.33%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.24%) Shopify
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.081%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.081%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.041%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 863 (35.10%) AWS
2 470 (19.11%) GCP
3 433 (17.61%) Microsoft 365
4 398 (16.19%) Power Platform
5 355 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
6 267 (10.86%) Entra ID
7 181 (7.36%) GitHub
8 169 (6.87%) SaaS
9 150 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 136 (5.53%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 111 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (4.51%) PowerApps
13 107 (4.35%) PaaS
14 100 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 98 (3.99%) Serverless
16 87 (3.54%) Azure AI
17 70 (2.85%) Snowflake
18 69 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 256 (10.41%) Firewall
2 163 (6.63%) VPN
3 139 (5.65%) WAN
4 138 (5.61%) DNS
5 113 (4.60%) DHCP
6 99 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
7 88 (3.58%) LAN
8 87 (3.54%) TCP/IP
9 69 (2.81%) SD-WAN
10 56 (2.28%) Network Security
11 53 (2.16%) Internet
12 47 (1.91%) VLAN
13 41 (1.67%) Wireless
14 33 (1.34%) SAN
15 32 (1.30%) VoIP
16 26 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (0.94%) BGP
17 23 (0.94%) OSPF
18 21 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
19 16 (0.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (11.14%) Power BI
2 246 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 171 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
4 153 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 109 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 98 (3.99%) NoSQL
7 82 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 72 (2.93%) Metadata
9 69 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (2.44%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 51 (2.07%) Big Data
13 50 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.50%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.46%) Tableau
16 31 (1.26%) MySQL
17 30 (1.22%) Hadoop
18 25 (1.02%) Pinecone
19 23 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 21 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 190 (7.73%) Git
2 83 (3.38%) JIRA
3 75 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.67%) GitLab
6 37 (1.50%) MLflow
7 31 (1.26%) Postman
8 20 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
8 20 (0.81%) Selenium
9 18 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.49%) JMeter
13 9 (0.37%) Chocolatey
13 9 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.33%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.28%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.28%) Vite
General
1 751 (30.54%) Finance
2 739 (30.05%) Social Skills
3 290 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (8.05%) Law
5 184 (7.48%) Banking
6 121 (4.92%) Legal
7 116 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 116 (4.72%) Retail
8 93 (3.78%) Public Sector
9 72 (2.93%) Marketing
10 63 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 59 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
12 53 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 49 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (1.46%) Multimedia
16 35 (1.42%) Retail Banking
17 27 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 467 (18.99%) Senior
2 318 (12.93%) Developer
3 302 (12.28%) Architect
4 289 (11.75%) Lead
5 196 (7.97%) Analyst
6 183 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
7 178 (7.24%) Data Engineer
8 125 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 121 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 106 (4.31%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 92 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
13 90 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
14 78 (3.17%) Data Architect
15 73 (2.97%) IT Support
15 73 (2.97%) Network Engineer
15 73 (2.97%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.93%) Security Engineer
17 71 (2.89%) IT Engineer
17 71 (2.89%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (10.33%) .NET
2 153 (6.22%) React
2 153 (6.22%) REST
3 106 (4.31%) HTML
4 101 (4.11%) CSS
4 101 (4.11%) RESTful
5 83 (3.38%) .NET Core
6 80 (3.25%) Node.js
7 78 (3.17%) OAuth
8 73 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 65 (2.64%) Kafka
10 52 (2.11%) Vue
10 52 (2.11%) Web Services
11 50 (2.03%) ASP.NET
12 48 (1.95%) PySpark
12 48 (1.95%) PyTorch
12 48 (1.95%) SOAP
13 47 (1.91%) Django
13 47 (1.91%) LangChain
14 44 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 199 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 98 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 81 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 75 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (2.72%) AI Agents
8 67 (2.72%) Low-Code
9 58 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 56 (2.28%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 53 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
13 51 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.59%) Public Cloud
16 38 (1.55%) Algorithms
17 33 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
18 32 (1.30%) Virtual Team
19 30 (1.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 370 (15.05%) Windows
2 175 (7.12%) Windows Server
3 146 (5.94%) Linux
4 74 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 42 (1.71%) Unix
7 35 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.38%) VMS
9 29 (1.18%) Android
9 29 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.41%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 4 (0.16%) CentOS
15 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Solaris
15 3 (0.12%) SUSE
16 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
17 1 (0.041%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (28.14%) DevOps
2 621 (25.25%) CI/CD
3 548 (22.29%) AI
4 545 (22.16%) Agile
5 480 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (17.53%) Analytics
7 315 (12.81%) Mentoring
8 310 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
9 306 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 299 (12.16%) Roadmaps
11 298 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 282 (11.47%) Data Modelling
13 276 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
13 276 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 270 (10.98%) Microservices
15 255 (10.37%) Machine Learning
16 244 (9.92%) Software Engineering
17 238 (9.68%) ETL
18 228 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
19 219 (8.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 647 (26.31%) Python
2 588 (23.91%) SQL
3 292 (11.87%) PowerShell
4 272 (11.06%) C#
5 254 (10.33%) JavaScript
6 130 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 120 (4.88%) Java
8 77 (3.13%) Bash
9 58 (2.36%) Bicep
10 43 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.55%) Go
12 35 (1.42%) R
13 31 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 31 (1.26%) Scala
14 29 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (0.77%) C++
16 15 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.57%) Rust
18 12 (0.49%) PHP
19 10 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 427 (17.36%) Degree
2 226 (9.19%) Azure Certification
3 219 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 151 (6.14%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 103 (4.19%) SC Cleared
8 101 (4.11%) CISSP
9 96 (3.90%) Master's Degree
10 57 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (1.79%) CISM
12 40 (1.63%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 37 (1.50%) CCNP
15 35 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 34 (1.38%) PMI Certification
17 29 (1.18%) CEH
18 27 (1.10%) PMP
19 26 (1.06%) CCIE
20 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 183 (7.44%) GDPR
3 148 (6.02%) NIST
4 136 (5.53%) Data Quality
5 89 (3.62%) QA
6 58 (2.36%) SLA
7 38 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (1.42%) NCSC
9 31 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 29 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 28 (1.14%) EU AI Act
12 25 (1.02%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.98%) HIPAA
14 23 (0.94%) PSD2
15 22 (0.89%) Solvency II
16 21 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.61%) PMO
18 14 (0.57%) GRC
19 13 (0.53%) ISO 22301
20 8 (0.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 350 (14.23%) Active Directory
2 246 (10.00%) Docker
3 87 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.65%) vSphere
8 14 (0.57%) Firmware
9 12 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.12%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.12%) NFS
14 2 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.081%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.081%) XenApp
15 1 (0.041%) vCloud
15 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 310 (12.61%) Terraform
2 274 (11.14%) Kubernetes
3 217 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 114 (4.64%) Ansible
5 54 (2.20%) Grafana
5 54 (2.20%) SCCM
6 49 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 39 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.02%) FortiGate
9 19 (0.77%) Argo
10 17 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.65%) CASB
12 7 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.28%) Kibana
12 7 (0.28%) SCOM
13 6 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.24%) Rancher
13 6 (0.24%) VxRail
14 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,002 (40.75%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.85%) Databricks
3 167 (6.79%) VMware
4 119 (4.84%) Cisco
5 111 (4.51%) Google
6 76 (3.09%) Oracle
7 72 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 70 (2.85%) Palo Alto
9 60 (2.44%) OpenAI
10 56 (2.28%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.99%) SAP
12 46 (1.87%) Salesforce
13 42 (1.71%) Meraki
14 37 (1.50%) SolarWinds
15 36 (1.46%) CheckPoint
16 33 (1.34%) Informatica
17 28 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
18 27 (1.10%) Dell
19 26 (1.06%) Commvault
19 26 (1.06%) Foundry