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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 333 385 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.85% 23.49% 26.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.71% 48.61% 51.96%
Number of salaries quoted 255 313 543
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £49,281
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 818 792 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.57% 48.32% 50.33%
Number of salaries quoted 629 664 972
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £44,100
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £79,700 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year +6.27% +0.67% +2.76%

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

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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 10 October 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 14 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.10%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.10%) Mule
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.90%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) PlantUML
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (23.72%) AWS
2 60 (18.02%) Power Platform
3 46 (13.81%) GCP
4 44 (13.21%) Entra ID
5 43 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (7.21%) Serverless
9 22 (6.61%) Power Automate
10 21 (6.31%) SaaS
11 19 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (5.71%) PaaS
12 18 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (4.80%) IaaS
13 16 (4.80%) PowerApps
14 15 (4.50%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (4.20%) GitHub
16 12 (3.60%) Azure AI
17 11 (3.30%) Azure AKS
17 11 (3.30%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.21%) Firewall
2 16 (4.80%) Network Security
3 12 (3.60%) DNS
4 10 (3.00%) VPN
5 9 (2.70%) SSL
6 7 (2.10%) DHCP
6 7 (2.10%) VLAN
6 7 (2.10%) WAN
6 7 (2.10%) Wireless
7 6 (1.80%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.50%) BGP
8 5 (1.50%) LAN
8 5 (1.50%) OSPF
8 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.20%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.90%) MPLS
11 2 (0.60%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.01%) Power BI
2 25 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.80%) Metadata
6 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.80%) Spark SQL
6 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.60%) Chroma
10 2 (0.60%) Tableau
11 1 (0.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (8.11%) Git
2 13 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.40%) GitLab
4 7 (2.10%) JIRA
4 7 (2.10%) Maven
5 6 (1.80%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.80%) JUnit
5 6 (1.80%) Mockito
6 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.20%) MLflow
8 3 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.90%) Selenium
8 3 (0.90%) Spock
8 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.60%) TestRail
9 2 (0.60%) Vite
10 1 (0.30%) Appium
10 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (29.43%) Finance
2 56 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.81%) Law
4 24 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.90%) Legal
7 8 (2.40%) Banking
8 7 (2.10%) Retail
9 6 (1.80%) Front Office
9 6 (1.80%) Marketing
10 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Back Office
11 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (0.90%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.60%) Billing
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (18.32%) Architect
2 57 (17.12%) Senior
3 52 (15.62%) Lead
4 48 (14.41%) Developer
5 34 (10.21%) Azure Engineer
6 26 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (7.51%) Data Engineer
8 24 (7.21%) Consultant
9 21 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.11%) Azure Architect
11 17 (5.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.60%) Analyst
14 12 (3.60%) Data Consultant
14 12 (3.60%) IT Architect
15 11 (3.30%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.12%) Terraform
2 21 (6.31%) .NET
3 19 (5.71%) REST
4 15 (4.50%) LangChain
5 13 (3.90%) OAuth
5 13 (3.90%) React
6 11 (3.30%) PySpark
6 11 (3.30%) Spring
6 11 (3.30%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.40%) JWT
7 8 (2.40%) LangGraph
7 8 (2.40%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.10%) MUnit
8 7 (2.10%) RAML
9 6 (1.80%) Django
9 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.80%) Kafka
9 6 (1.80%) Middleware
9 6 (1.80%) OpenID
10 5 (1.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.01%) AI Agents
3 15 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.80%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.81%) Windows
2 17 (5.11%) Linux
3 12 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (27.93%) CI/CD
1 93 (27.93%) DevOps
2 70 (21.02%) AI
3 55 (16.52%) Agile
4 54 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (13.21%) Data Engineering
7 38 (11.41%) Roadmaps
8 36 (10.81%) Mentoring
9 35 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
9 35 (10.51%) Microservices
9 35 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
10 31 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (9.01%) Analytics
11 30 (9.01%) Data Architecture
12 29 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (8.41%) LLM
13 28 (8.41%) Machine Learning
13 28 (8.41%) Test Automation
14 27 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (20.72%) Python
2 66 (19.82%) SQL
3 33 (9.91%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.51%) C#
5 21 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.71%) Java
7 15 (4.50%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.90%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.40%) Bicep
10 7 (2.10%) Bash
10 7 (2.10%) DataWeave
11 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.60%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) R
12 2 (0.60%) Scala
12 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.60%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) XPath
13 1 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.51%) Degree
3 23 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.30%) CISSP
6 10 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.80%) CFA
8 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.50%) CEH
10 4 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.60%) CCNP
12 2 (0.60%) CCSP
12 2 (0.60%) CISM
12 2 (0.60%) GIAC
12 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.60%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.41%) QA
3 13 (3.90%) GDPR
4 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.10%) NIST
5 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.90%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) PSD2
9 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.91%) Docker
3 15 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.11%) Ansible
3 14 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.10%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.20%) SCCM
8 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 117 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.01%) Databricks
3 20 (6.01%) VMware
4 16 (4.80%) Cisco
4 16 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.20%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.60%) Google
7 11 (3.30%) SAP
8 10 (3.00%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.40%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.40%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.80%) Foundry
11 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.20%) Citrix
12 4 (1.20%) Meraki
13 3 (0.90%) Okta
13 3 (0.90%) Oracle
13 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.90%) Workday
13 3 (0.90%) Zscaler