Azure Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer salary in the City of London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 123 121
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 21 42 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.58% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.72% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 42
10th Percentile £64,500 £52,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -3.70% -20.59%
75th Percentile £93,125 £82,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £89,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -23.53%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,173 2,445 2,683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 92.09% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,627 1,587 2,388
10th Percentile £40,532 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £99,375 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Azure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Engineer in the City of London

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Azure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 9 (42.86%) Terraform
6 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
7 7 (33.33%) Python
8 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
9 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
9 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
9 5 (23.81%) Investment Management
9 5 (23.81%) Windows
10 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
10 4 (19.05%) Firewall
10 4 (19.05%) Git
10 4 (19.05%) Observability
10 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (14.29%) .NET
11 3 (14.29%) AI
11 3 (14.29%) Ansible
11 3 (14.29%) Databricks
11 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (14.29%) Linux
11 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 3 (14.29%) SQL
11 3 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (14.29%) VMware

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (9.52%) Azure AI
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
2 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Private Cloud
1 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
4 5 (23.81%) Investment Management
5 4 (19.05%) Observability
5 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) AI
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Analytics
7 2 (9.52%) Benchmarking
7 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
7 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 2 (9.52%) ETL
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
7 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) EMC
3 2 (9.52%) F5
3 2 (9.52%) New Relic
3 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow