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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 542 501 753
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.08% 25.68% 24.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.74% 51.70% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 409 394 639
10th Percentile £49,750 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £112,500 £108,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% +3.57%

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 1,239 969 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.89% 49.67% 49.66%
Number of salaries quoted 932 783 1,277
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,625 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.09% +0.34%

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

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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 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

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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 29 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.92%) Mule
6 4 (0.74%) Apache
7 3 (0.55%) Confluence
8 2 (0.37%) Camunda
8 2 (0.37%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (2.03%) PlantUML
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.18%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (21.03%) AWS
2 83 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (14.76%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (14.58%) GCP
5 70 (12.92%) Power Platform
6 59 (10.89%) Entra ID
7 35 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (5.72%) SaaS
9 27 (4.98%) PaaS
10 25 (4.61%) Serverless
11 24 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (3.87%) GitHub
13 20 (3.69%) Azure AKS
14 19 (3.51%) Power Automate
15 18 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (3.32%) dbt
15 18 (3.32%) IaaS
16 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
16 14 (2.58%) OneDrive
17 13 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.75%) Firewall
2 24 (4.43%) DNS
3 20 (3.69%) Network Security
4 19 (3.51%) DHCP
5 17 (3.14%) VPN
6 14 (2.58%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (2.03%) WAN
9 10 (1.85%) LAN
10 8 (1.48%) BGP
10 8 (1.48%) OSPF
11 7 (1.29%) WLAN
12 6 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (1.11%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.92%) SSL
13 5 (0.92%) Wireless
14 4 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (0.74%) VLAN
15 3 (0.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.49%) SQL Server
2 42 (7.75%) Power BI
3 25 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.24%) BigQuery
5 21 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.69%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (2.03%) Db2
9 11 (2.03%) Spark SQL
10 9 (1.66%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.48%) Metabase
12 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.29%) Tableau
13 6 (1.11%) Looker
13 6 (1.11%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (6.27%) Git
2 16 (2.95%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.40%) JIRA
3 13 (2.40%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.03%) GitLab
4 11 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.66%) MLflow
6 4 (0.74%) Maven
6 4 (0.74%) TestRail
6 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.55%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.55%) JUnit
7 3 (0.55%) Mockito
7 3 (0.55%) Spock
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Vite
9 1 (0.18%) Appium
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (28.23%) Finance
2 98 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.69%) Law
5 18 (3.32%) Banking
6 14 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.85%) Legal
9 9 (1.66%) Front Office
9 9 (1.66%) Retail
10 7 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.55%) Advertising
11 3 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.18%) French Language
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing
13 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (17.90%) Architect
2 94 (17.34%) Senior
3 88 (16.24%) Lead
4 66 (12.18%) Azure Engineer
5 50 (9.23%) Developer
6 37 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (6.64%) Data Engineer
7 36 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (6.27%) Analyst
9 31 (5.72%) Azure Architect
9 31 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (4.61%) IT Architect
11 21 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 21 (3.87%) Consultant
11 21 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (3.32%) IT Analyst
12 18 (3.32%) IT Support
13 17 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
13 17 (3.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.52%) .NET
2 20 (3.69%) Django
2 20 (3.69%) React
2 20 (3.69%) REST
3 17 (3.14%) OAuth
4 16 (2.95%) LangChain
5 15 (2.77%) PySpark
6 14 (2.58%) Kafka
7 13 (2.40%) PyTorch
8 12 (2.21%) OpenID
9 11 (2.03%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.85%) RESTful
11 9 (1.66%) Spring
11 9 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.66%) YAML
12 8 (1.48%) Blazor
12 8 (1.48%) LlamaIndex
13 7 (1.29%) Model Context Protocol
13 7 (1.29%) pgvector
13 7 (1.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.66%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.48%) Clustering
13 7 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (14.02%) Windows
2 30 (5.54%) Linux
3 27 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.74%) Android
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.37%) VMS
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (29.89%) DevOps
2 116 (21.40%) CI/CD
3 89 (16.42%) Agile
4 87 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 85 (15.68%) AI
6 78 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 64 (11.81%) Mentoring
8 58 (10.70%) Data Engineering
8 58 (10.70%) Microservices
9 53 (9.78%) Roadmaps
10 52 (9.59%) Analytics
11 48 (8.86%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (8.30%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (8.12%) Machine Learning
14 42 (7.75%) ITIL
15 41 (7.56%) Software Engineering
16 39 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
17 38 (7.01%) Generative AI
18 35 (6.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 115 (21.22%) SQL
2 114 (21.03%) Python
3 61 (11.25%) C#
4 52 (9.59%) PowerShell
5 23 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.87%) Java
7 12 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.03%) PL/SQL
8 11 (2.03%) VB.NET
9 10 (1.85%) Bash
10 9 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.29%) C++
12 6 (1.11%) Bicep
13 5 (0.92%) C
13 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.92%) DataWeave
13 5 (0.92%) Go
14 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.55%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (8.67%) Degree
2 28 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.98%) CISSP
4 23 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.06%) Security Cleared
6 17 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.03%) CEH
9 10 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.29%) CISM
11 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.92%) CCSP
12 5 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.92%) GIAC
12 5 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.74%) CISA
13 4 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.74%) GXPN
13 4 (0.74%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.87%) GDPR
2 20 (3.69%) NIST
3 19 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.32%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.14%) QA
6 7 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.92%) COBIT
7 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.55%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.37%) PMO
10 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 1
10 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 68 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.80%) Docker
3 18 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.18%) Firmware
7 1 (0.18%) NLBS
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (14.21%) Terraform
2 67 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (4.61%) Ansible
5 23 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.40%) SCCM
7 5 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.92%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.92%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.74%) Grafana
9 2 (0.37%) Kibana
9 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) Cilium
10 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) QRadar
10 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 178 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.86%) Databricks
3 38 (7.01%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.90%) VMware
5 26 (4.80%) Google
6 18 (3.32%) Cisco
7 13 (2.40%) Guidewire
7 13 (2.40%) SAP
8 11 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.48%) iManage
10 8 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.29%) Dell
11 7 (1.29%) Oracle
12 6 (1.11%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.11%) Workday