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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 616 563 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.34% 26.64% 24.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.81% 52.42% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 470 461 694
10th Percentile £48,625 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £102,750 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,375
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.21% +4.82%

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 1,189 1,074 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.55% 50.83% 52.95%
Number of salaries quoted 881 859 1,439
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 24 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of 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 33 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (21.10%) AWS
2 111 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
3 102 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (14.94%) Power Platform
5 90 (14.61%) GCP
6 59 (9.58%) Entra ID
7 41 (6.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (5.19%) PaaS
9 31 (5.03%) SaaS
10 26 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (4.06%) dbt
12 24 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 23 (3.73%) GitHub
13 23 (3.73%) Serverless
14 21 (3.41%) Power Automate
15 16 (2.60%) OneDrive
16 15 (2.44%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (2.44%) PowerApps
17 14 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.25%) Firewall
2 26 (4.22%) DNS
2 26 (4.22%) VPN
3 25 (4.06%) DHCP
4 17 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (2.27%) Network Security
7 12 (1.95%) LAN
7 12 (1.95%) WAN
8 7 (1.14%) WLAN
9 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.81%) WebEx
10 5 (0.81%) Wireless
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.65%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.49%) BGP
12 3 (0.49%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.49%) OSPF
13 2 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.90%) Power BI
2 58 (9.42%) SQL Server
3 42 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (5.19%) BigQuery
6 27 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.95%) Metabase
9 11 (1.79%) DB2
9 11 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.46%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.46%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.30%) Tableau
12 7 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.97%) Looker
13 6 (0.97%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (5.03%) Git
2 18 (2.92%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.11%) JIRA
3 13 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 9 (1.46%) MLflow
5 6 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.81%) Balsamiq
6 5 (0.81%) GitLab
7 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.49%) TestRail
9 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 184 (29.87%) Finance
2 120 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 50 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (4.22%) Banking
6 21 (3.41%) Legal
7 19 (3.08%) Law
8 16 (2.60%) Retail
9 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.14%) Front Office
10 7 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.97%) Advertising
12 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.16%) Back Office
15 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 113 (18.34%) Senior
2 95 (15.42%) Lead
3 79 (12.82%) Architect
4 58 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (8.77%) Developer
6 48 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 38 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 37 (6.01%) Analyst
9 30 (4.87%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.71%) Azure Architect
11 28 (4.55%) Support Engineer
12 26 (4.22%) IT Support
13 24 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (3.57%) IT Analyst
15 21 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.41%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.08%) Network Engineer
16 19 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.50%) .NET
2 29 (4.71%) Django
3 23 (3.73%) React
4 17 (2.76%) RESTful
5 15 (2.44%) LangChain
6 14 (2.27%) Kafka
7 13 (2.11%) PySpark
7 13 (2.11%) PyTorch
7 13 (2.11%) REST
8 12 (1.95%) OAuth
8 12 (1.95%) TensorFlow
8 12 (1.95%) YAML
9 9 (1.46%) OpenID
10 8 (1.30%) Blazor
10 8 (1.30%) CSS
10 8 (1.30%) HTML
10 8 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.14%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.14%) Node.js
11 7 (1.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.01%) Data Structures
1 37 (6.01%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.22%) Algorithms
4 26 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.44%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.79%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.14%) Clustering
15 6 (0.97%) Low-Code
16 5 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 91 (14.77%) Windows
2 30 (4.87%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.06%) Linux
4 22 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.65%) VMS
8 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.49%) Android
9 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Unix
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (32.14%) DevOps
2 117 (18.99%) CI/CD
3 111 (18.02%) AI
4 109 (17.69%) Agile
5 99 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (13.47%) Analytics
8 81 (13.15%) Mentoring
9 73 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 63 (10.23%) Microservices
11 60 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (9.09%) Roadmaps
14 55 (8.93%) ITIL
15 53 (8.60%) Data Engineering
15 53 (8.60%) Software Engineering
16 52 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (7.63%) Machine Learning
18 45 (7.31%) Computer Science
18 45 (7.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 161 (26.14%) Python
2 152 (24.68%) SQL
3 75 (12.18%) C#
4 69 (11.20%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.08%) Java
7 14 (2.27%) Bicep
8 11 (1.79%) Bash
8 11 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.79%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.14%) C++
10 7 (1.14%) Go
10 7 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.81%) C
12 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.65%) Perl
12 4 (0.65%) R
12 4 (0.65%) Ruby
13 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (10.23%) Degree
2 40 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.36%) CISSP
4 28 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.27%) CISM
6 13 (2.11%) Security Cleared
7 12 (1.95%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.79%) CEH
8 11 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.97%) GIAC
12 6 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.81%) GPEN
13 5 (0.81%) OSCP
14 4 (0.65%) GXPN
14 4 (0.65%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.87%) NIST
3 26 (4.22%) GDPR
4 18 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.11%) QA
6 8 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.81%) COBIT
9 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.65%) NCSC
10 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.49%) SLA
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 75 (12.18%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.87%) Docker
3 15 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NLBS
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (11.20%) Terraform
2 57 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.41%) Ansible
4 21 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.11%) SCCM
6 11 (1.79%) Grafana
7 7 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.14%) Kibana
8 4 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Cilium
10 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 215 (34.90%) Microsoft
2 58 (9.42%) Databricks
3 36 (5.84%) Google
3 36 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.03%) VMware
5 17 (2.76%) CyberArk
6 15 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.27%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.95%) Cisco
9 11 (1.79%) iManage
10 9 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.30%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.14%) Commvault
12 7 (1.14%) Dell
12 7 (1.14%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.14%) Okta
12 7 (1.14%) SAP
12 7 (1.14%) Thales
13 6 (0.97%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.97%) Oracle