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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 585 504 777
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.67% 26.10% 24.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.74% 52.07% 48.23%
Number of salaries quoted 432 397 660
10th Percentile £50,125 £42,300 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,688 £57,500 £56,250
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 £96,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,250 £107,500
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 1,279 968 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.88% 50.13% 50.22%
Number of salaries quoted 946 777 1,318
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,938 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

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 16 June 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 31 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.34%) CMS
6 2 (0.34%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (1.88%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 118 (20.17%) AWS
2 95 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (14.87%) GCP
4 86 (14.70%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (11.97%) Power Platform
6 59 (10.09%) Entra ID
7 32 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (5.47%) PaaS
7 32 (5.47%) SaaS
8 30 (5.13%) Serverless
9 23 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (3.93%) GitHub
10 20 (3.42%) Azure AKS
11 19 (3.25%) IaaS
11 19 (3.25%) Power Automate
12 18 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (3.08%) dbt
13 13 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (2.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 53 (9.06%) Firewall
2 25 (4.27%) DNS
3 24 (4.10%) VPN
4 21 (3.59%) Network Security
5 20 (3.42%) DHCP
6 14 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.05%) WAN
9 11 (1.88%) LAN
10 8 (1.37%) WLAN
11 7 (1.20%) BGP
11 7 (1.20%) OSPF
12 6 (1.03%) Kerberos
12 6 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.03%) Wireless
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.51%) MPLS
14 3 (0.51%) VLAN
14 3 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 43 (7.35%) Power BI
3 31 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (4.62%) BigQuery
5 24 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 20 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.88%) Db2
9 11 (1.88%) Spark SQL
10 9 (1.54%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.37%) Metabase
11 8 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.20%) Tableau
13 6 (1.03%) Looker
13 6 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (5.81%) Git
2 20 (3.42%) Eclipse
3 12 (2.05%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.88%) JIRA
5 10 (1.71%) GitLab
6 9 (1.54%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.37%) MLflow
8 4 (0.68%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.51%) JUnit
9 3 (0.51%) Maven
9 3 (0.51%) Mockito
9 3 (0.51%) Spock
9 3 (0.51%) TestRail
9 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.34%) Vite
10 2 (0.34%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.17%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.17%) Postman
General
1 170 (29.06%) Finance
2 99 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.93%) Law
5 19 (3.25%) Banking
6 14 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.88%) Legal
8 9 (1.54%) Front Office
8 9 (1.54%) Retail
9 8 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.68%) Advertising
12 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.17%) French Language
14 1 (0.17%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.17%) Marketing
14 1 (0.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (17.09%) Architect
1 100 (17.09%) Senior
2 90 (15.38%) Lead
3 66 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
4 54 (9.23%) Developer
5 42 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (6.50%) Data Engineer
7 36 (6.15%) Analyst
7 36 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 35 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (5.64%) Azure Architect
10 27 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 27 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.44%) IT Architect
12 24 (4.10%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.59%) Consultant
14 19 (3.25%) IT Support
14 19 (3.25%) Network Engineer
14 19 (3.25%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (3.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.97%) .NET
2 24 (4.10%) Django
3 21 (3.59%) React
4 18 (3.08%) REST
5 17 (2.91%) LangChain
6 15 (2.56%) PySpark
7 14 (2.39%) OAuth
8 13 (2.22%) Kafka
8 13 (2.22%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.05%) OpenID
9 12 (2.05%) RESTful
9 12 (2.05%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.54%) YAML
11 8 (1.37%) Blazor
11 8 (1.37%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.37%) SAML
12 7 (1.20%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.20%) pgvector
12 7 (1.20%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.71%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.71%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.37%) Clustering
14 7 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.68%) Windows
2 30 (5.13%) Linux
3 27 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.25%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.68%) Android
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.34%) Unix
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (30.43%) DevOps
2 120 (20.51%) CI/CD
3 99 (16.92%) AI
4 96 (16.41%) Agile
5 90 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 80 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (11.97%) Mentoring
8 68 (11.62%) Analytics
9 65 (11.11%) Microservices
10 63 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 57 (9.74%) Data Engineering
13 54 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
14 51 (8.72%) ITIL
15 48 (8.21%) Machine Learning
16 46 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
17 44 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (7.35%) Generative AI
18 43 (7.35%) Software Engineering
19 41 (7.01%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.56%) SQL
2 125 (21.37%) Python
3 69 (11.79%) C#
4 56 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 24 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.91%) Java
7 11 (1.88%) Bash
7 11 (1.88%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.88%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.88%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.20%) Bicep
9 7 (1.20%) C++
10 5 (0.85%) C
10 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.85%) Go
11 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.68%) Perl
12 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (9.06%) Degree
2 32 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.79%) CISSP
4 24 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 19 (3.25%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.39%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.88%) CEH
8 10 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.37%) CISM
10 7 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.03%) GIAC
11 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.85%) CCSP
12 5 (0.85%) GPEN
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.85%) OSCP
13 4 (0.68%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.93%) GDPR
1 23 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.76%) NIST
3 21 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.39%) QA
5 8 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.85%) COBIT
6 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) NCSC
8 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.34%) SOC 1
9 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (11.79%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.79%) Docker
3 18 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) NLBS
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (13.16%) Terraform
2 66 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.93%) Ansible
4 23 (3.93%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.05%) SCCM
6 9 (1.54%) Grafana
7 7 (1.20%) Kibana
8 5 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.34%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.17%) Cilium
10 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.17%) QRadar
10 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 187 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.40%) Databricks
3 38 (6.50%) ServiceNow
4 33 (5.64%) VMware
5 29 (4.96%) Google
6 17 (2.91%) Cisco
7 11 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.88%) Guidewire
7 11 (1.88%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.54%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.54%) SAP
10 8 (1.37%) iManage
11 7 (1.20%) Dell
12 6 (1.03%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.03%) Okta
12 6 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.85%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.85%) Thales
13 5 (0.85%) Workday