Azure Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 603 559 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.54% 26.53% 24.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.36% 52.64% 46.80%
Number of salaries quoted 464 460 695
10th Percentile £47,875 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +1.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £104,250 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,174 1,062 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.20% 50.40% 52.87%
Number of salaries quoted 875 852 1,450
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,650 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (21.23%) AWS
2 110 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (17.25%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (15.42%) Power Platform
5 89 (14.76%) GCP
6 55 (9.12%) Entra ID
7 40 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (5.14%) PaaS
9 30 (4.98%) SaaS
10 26 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (3.98%) dbt
13 23 (3.81%) Power Automate
14 22 (3.65%) GitHub
14 22 (3.65%) Serverless
15 19 (3.15%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (2.65%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.32%) Snowflake
18 13 (2.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.78%) Firewall
2 26 (4.31%) DHCP
2 26 (4.31%) DNS
2 26 (4.31%) VPN
3 18 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (2.32%) Network Security
6 13 (2.16%) LAN
6 13 (2.16%) WAN
7 8 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.16%) WLAN
9 5 (0.83%) WebEx
9 5 (0.83%) Wireless
10 4 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.66%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
11 3 (0.50%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.50%) OSPF
11 3 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.45%) Power BI
2 60 (9.95%) SQL Server
3 42 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (5.31%) BigQuery
6 26 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.99%) Metabase
10 11 (1.82%) DB2
10 11 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.33%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.33%) Tableau
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.00%) Looker
12 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (5.64%) Git
2 17 (2.82%) Eclipse
3 16 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.32%) JIRA
5 9 (1.49%) MLflow
6 7 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (1.16%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.83%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.83%) GitLab
7 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.33%) TestRail
8 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.17%) NUnit
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 181 (30.02%) Finance
2 120 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 48 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (4.15%) Banking
6 21 (3.48%) Legal
7 20 (3.32%) Law
8 15 (2.49%) Retail
9 10 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.16%) Front Office
10 7 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.00%) Advertising
12 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 108 (17.91%) Senior
2 93 (15.42%) Lead
3 75 (12.44%) Architect
4 57 (9.45%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (8.96%) Developer
6 45 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 40 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (6.30%) Analyst
9 36 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (5.14%) Support Engineer
11 29 (4.81%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.48%) IT Support
13 26 (4.31%) Azure Architect
14 23 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (3.65%) IT Analyst
16 21 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.48%) Security Engineer
17 19 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (3.15%) IT Engineer
17 19 (3.15%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (12.44%) .NET
2 29 (4.81%) Django
3 22 (3.65%) React
4 17 (2.82%) RESTful
5 15 (2.49%) REST
6 14 (2.32%) Kafka
6 14 (2.32%) LangChain
7 13 (2.16%) YAML
8 12 (1.99%) OAuth
8 12 (1.99%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.82%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.66%) PySpark
11 9 (1.49%) OpenID
12 8 (1.33%) Blazor
12 8 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.16%) CSS
13 7 (1.16%) HTML
13 7 (1.16%) LlamaIndex
13 7 (1.16%) Node.js
13 7 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.14%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 27 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.31%) Algorithms
5 26 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.65%) Public Cloud
7 21 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.49%) Reinsurance
10 14 (2.32%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (2.32%) Virtual Team
11 13 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.16%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.49%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.16%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
16 6 (1.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.42%) Windows
2 32 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.15%) Linux
4 23 (3.81%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.66%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (32.01%) DevOps
2 117 (19.40%) CI/CD
3 109 (18.08%) Agile
4 107 (17.74%) AI
5 99 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 90 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (13.27%) Analytics
7 80 (13.27%) Mentoring
8 70 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (10.45%) Microservices
10 59 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
12 57 (9.45%) ITIL
13 54 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (8.79%) Roadmaps
14 53 (8.79%) Software Engineering
15 48 (7.96%) Computer Science
15 48 (7.96%) Data Engineering
16 46 (7.63%) ETL
17 45 (7.46%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 158 (26.20%) Python
2 150 (24.88%) SQL
3 74 (12.27%) C#
3 74 (12.27%) PowerShell
4 24 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.82%) Java
6 14 (2.32%) Bicep
7 11 (1.82%) Bash
7 11 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.82%) VB.NET
8 8 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.16%) Go
10 6 (1.00%) C++
10 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.66%) C
11 4 (0.66%) Perl
11 4 (0.66%) Ruby
12 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.50%) R
12 3 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (10.78%) Degree
2 43 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.47%) CISSP
4 30 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.49%) CISM
6 13 (2.16%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.99%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.82%) CEH
8 11 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (1.00%) GIAC
11 6 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.83%) GPEN
12 5 (0.83%) OSCP
13 4 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.66%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (5.31%) NIST
3 26 (4.31%) GDPR
4 17 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.82%) QA
6 8 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.83%) COBIT
8 5 (0.83%) NCSC
9 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.64%) Docker
3 16 (2.65%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) NLBS
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (11.44%) Terraform
2 56 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.48%) Ansible
5 18 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.16%) SCCM
7 11 (1.82%) Grafana
8 8 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (1.16%) Kibana
10 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.17%) Argo
12 1 (0.17%) Cilium
12 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 216 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.96%) Databricks
3 37 (6.14%) Google
4 36 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 31 (5.14%) VMware
6 16 (2.65%) CyberArk
7 15 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (2.16%) Cisco
10 10 (1.66%) iManage
11 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.16%) Commvault
12 7 (1.16%) Dell
12 7 (1.16%) Okta
12 7 (1.16%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.16%) SAP
13 6 (1.00%) Citrix
13 6 (1.00%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.00%) Guidewire
13 6 (1.00%) Oracle