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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 403 764 726
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 21.99% 26.86% 24.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.67% 52.36% 47.61%
Number of salaries quoted 320 575 659
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,125 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

All Cloud 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 780 1,459 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 42.55% 51.30% 50.83%
Number of salaries quoted 634 1,016 1,418
10th Percentile £40,747 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

Azure
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the City of London region over the 6 months to 29 November 2025. 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
London Bridge 0 3 £87,500 +14.75%
Azure
Central 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 36 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.74%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) Moodle
6 2 (0.50%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 26 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (27.54%) Power Platform
2 99 (24.57%) AWS
3 84 (20.84%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (19.60%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (14.89%) GCP
6 47 (11.66%) Power Automate
7 43 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (10.67%) PowerApps
8 42 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (6.95%) Entra ID
10 27 (6.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (4.71%) Serverless
12 17 (4.22%) Snowflake
13 16 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (3.97%) GitHub
13 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (3.47%) PaaS
15 13 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (2.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.44%) Firewall
2 16 (3.97%) Network Security
3 13 (3.23%) DNS
3 13 (3.23%) VoIP
3 13 (3.23%) WAN
4 12 (2.98%) LAN
5 11 (2.73%) VPN
6 9 (2.23%) DHCP
6 9 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.24%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) MPLS
9 2 (0.50%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.50%) OSPF
9 2 (0.50%) SAN
9 2 (0.50%) VSAN
9 2 (0.50%) WebEx
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (21.09%) Power BI
2 43 (10.67%) SQL Server
3 40 (9.93%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (6.20%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.74%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.49%) Power Query
11 5 (1.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.24%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.24%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 4 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.99%) Metabase
12 4 (0.99%) Tableau
13 3 (0.74%) Big Data
13 3 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (10.42%) Git
2 21 (5.21%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.48%) JIRA
4 8 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (1.99%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.49%) GitLab
7 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.50%) ERwin
8 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 2 (0.50%) NUnit
8 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) MSTest
9 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 149 (36.97%) Finance
2 115 (28.54%) Social Skills
3 51 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.44%) Legal
5 27 (6.70%) Law
6 19 (4.71%) Retail
7 18 (4.47%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.72%) Banking
10 10 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.23%) Marketing
12 6 (1.49%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.24%) Advertising
14 3 (0.74%) Back Office
14 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Front Office
15 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 79 (19.60%) Senior
2 75 (18.61%) Lead
3 52 (12.90%) Developer
4 47 (11.66%) Data Engineer
5 27 (6.70%) Architect
6 26 (6.45%) Analyst
7 23 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 22 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.72%) Support Engineer
12 14 (3.47%) Security Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) IT Manager
13 13 (3.23%) IT Support
13 13 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 11 (2.73%) Power Platform Developer
16 10 (2.48%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.42%) .NET
2 34 (8.44%) React
3 23 (5.71%) Web Services
4 18 (4.47%) REST
5 14 (3.47%) SOAP
6 13 (3.23%) PySpark
7 12 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.98%) Node.js
8 11 (2.73%) Django
8 11 (2.73%) Kafka
9 10 (2.48%) HTML
10 9 (2.23%) CSS
10 9 (2.23%) HTML5 Canvas
11 8 (1.99%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.99%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.99%) Vue
12 7 (1.74%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.74%) RESTful
13 6 (1.49%) Next.js
13 6 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.48%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.74%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.90%) Windows
2 18 (4.47%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.22%) Linux
4 14 (3.47%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.99%) Unix
6 6 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.99%) VMS
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (31.27%) DevOps
2 118 (29.28%) Agile
3 114 (28.29%) CI/CD
4 94 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (20.35%) AI
6 63 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (14.64%) Analytics
8 56 (13.90%) Data Modelling
9 52 (12.90%) Mentoring
10 50 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (12.41%) ETL
11 49 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (11.66%) Decision-Making
13 44 (10.92%) Software Engineering
14 42 (10.42%) Computer Science
15 41 (10.17%) ITIL
16 40 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (9.93%) Migration
17 39 (9.68%) Workflow
18 36 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.01%) Python
2 118 (29.28%) SQL
3 57 (14.14%) PowerShell
4 55 (13.65%) C#
5 33 (8.19%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.96%) Java
7 16 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (3.97%) T-SQL
7 16 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.99%) Bash
9 7 (1.74%) Bicep
10 4 (0.99%) Rust
11 3 (0.74%) Scala
12 2 (0.50%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) R
12 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) X++
13 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (14.39%) Degree
2 31 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.97%) CISSP
5 16 (3.97%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.72%) SC Cleared
7 13 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.98%) CISM
9 7 (1.74%) CEH
9 7 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.99%) PMP
12 3 (0.74%) CCNA
12 3 (0.74%) CCNP
12 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.74%) GIAC
12 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.69%) GDPR
2 27 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.47%) NIST
4 11 (2.73%) QA
5 7 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.99%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (10.92%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.20%) Docker
3 11 (2.73%) Hyper-V
3 11 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.49%) XenDesktop
6 5 (1.24%) XenApp
7 4 (0.99%) vSphere
8 3 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.25%) KVM
10 1 (0.25%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 43 (10.67%) Terraform
2 35 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (4.96%) SCCM
5 16 (3.97%) Ansible
6 11 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.24%) Autotask
7 5 (1.24%) Grafana
8 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.74%) SCOM
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) Ambari
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 186 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 55 (13.65%) Databricks
3 21 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.96%) VMware
5 16 (3.97%) Google
6 13 (3.23%) Cisco
6 13 (3.23%) Citrix
7 12 (2.98%) Oracle
8 10 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.99%) Meraki
11 7 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.49%) iManage
13 5 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.24%) SonicWALL
13 5 (1.24%) Sophos
14 4 (0.99%) Intapp
14 4 (0.99%) Okta
14 4 (0.99%) SAP