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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 500 486 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.95% 25.55% 24.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.88% 51.37% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 375 383 576
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,250 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £83,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.10% +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 1,166 946 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.20% 49.74% 49.60%
Number of salaries quoted 874 773 1,148
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -0.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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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

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 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 24 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.40%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.40%) Mule
6 4 (0.80%) Apache
7 3 (0.60%) Confluence
8 2 (0.40%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) PlantUML
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.80%) AWS
2 76 (15.20%) GCP
3 72 (14.40%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (13.80%) Power Platform
5 67 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (11.20%) Entra ID
7 34 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (5.80%) SaaS
9 28 (5.60%) PaaS
10 24 (4.80%) Serverless
11 21 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (3.80%) GitHub
12 19 (3.80%) IaaS
13 18 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.40%) Azure AKS
14 17 (3.40%) Power Automate
15 15 (3.00%) dbt
16 14 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
18 10 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.40%) Firewall
2 23 (4.60%) Network Security
3 18 (3.60%) DNS
4 15 (3.00%) VPN
5 13 (2.60%) DHCP
6 10 (2.00%) WAN
6 10 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.80%) LAN
7 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.60%) BGP
8 8 (1.60%) OSPF
9 7 (1.40%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.40%) SSL
9 7 (1.40%) WLAN
10 6 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.00%) Wireless
12 4 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.80%) VLAN
13 3 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.40%) Power BI
2 41 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (4.20%) BigQuery
4 21 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (2.20%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.00%) Db2
10 10 (2.00%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.80%) Tableau
12 7 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.20%) Looker
13 6 (1.20%) Metabase
13 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (6.40%) Git
2 13 (2.60%) Eclipse
2 13 (2.60%) JIRA
3 12 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.20%) GitLab
4 11 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.00%) MLflow
6 4 (0.80%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) TestRail
6 4 (0.80%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.60%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.60%) JUnit
7 3 (0.60%) Mockito
7 3 (0.60%) Spock
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.40%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Appium
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (28.40%) Finance
2 86 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.80%) Law
5 17 (3.40%) Banking
6 13 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.40%) Legal
8 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.80%) Retail
9 7 (1.40%) Front Office
10 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Advertising
11 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.60%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) French Language
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (19.60%) Architect
2 88 (17.60%) Senior
3 85 (17.00%) Lead
4 63 (12.60%) Azure Engineer
5 48 (9.60%) Developer
6 36 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 33 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (6.20%) Azure Architect
10 30 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (5.40%) Analyst
12 24 (4.80%) IT Architect
13 21 (4.20%) Consultant
14 20 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.40%) IT Support
16 16 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
16 16 (3.20%) Security Engineer
16 16 (3.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.80%) .NET
2 21 (4.20%) REST
3 20 (4.00%) React
4 19 (3.80%) LangChain
4 19 (3.80%) OAuth
5 17 (3.40%) Django
5 17 (3.40%) PySpark
6 15 (3.00%) Kafka
7 13 (2.60%) PyTorch
8 12 (2.40%) OpenID
9 11 (2.20%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.00%) Spring
10 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.80%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (1.80%) RESTful
12 8 (1.60%) Blazor
12 8 (1.60%) JWT
12 8 (1.60%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.60%) SAML
12 8 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.20%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.00%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.40%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.60%) Clustering
10 8 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.60%) Windows
2 29 (5.80%) Linux
3 23 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (28.60%) DevOps
2 112 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 88 (17.60%) Agile
4 85 (17.00%) AI
5 75 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (13.00%) Mentoring
7 60 (12.00%) Data Engineering
8 56 (11.20%) Microservices
9 54 (10.80%) Roadmaps
10 50 (10.00%) Analytics
11 47 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (9.20%) Machine Learning
13 44 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (7.80%) Generative AI
15 39 (7.80%) Software Engineering
16 37 (7.40%) Data Architecture
16 37 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (21.60%) Python
1 108 (21.60%) SQL
2 54 (10.80%) C#
3 47 (9.40%) PowerShell
4 25 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.60%) Java
6 14 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.00%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.00%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.80%) Bash
8 9 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.40%) Bicep
9 7 (1.40%) C++
9 7 (1.40%) DataWeave
10 5 (1.00%) C
10 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.00%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) R
11 4 (0.80%) Scala
12 3 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (8.60%) Degree
2 27 (5.40%) CISSP
2 27 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.20%) Security Cleared
4 25 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.20%) CEH
8 9 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.20%) CISM
10 5 (1.00%) CCSP
10 5 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.00%) GIAC
11 4 (0.80%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.80%) GPEN
11 4 (0.80%) GXPN
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.80%) OSCE
11 4 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.60%) GDPR
3 16 (3.20%) QA
4 13 (2.60%) NIST
5 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) COBIT
9 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 62 (12.40%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.40%) Docker
3 19 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) NLBS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (15.20%) Terraform
2 67 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (5.00%) Ansible
5 23 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.80%) SCCM
7 7 (1.40%) CloudHub
8 5 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Cilium
10 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 168 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.00%) Databricks
3 34 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 31 (6.20%) VMware
5 23 (4.60%) Google
6 18 (3.60%) Cisco
7 13 (2.60%) Guidewire
7 13 (2.60%) SAP
8 12 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.60%) iManage
11 8 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.40%) Dell
13 6 (1.20%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.20%) Okta
13 6 (1.20%) Workday
14 5 (1.00%) Thales