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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 580 506 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.58% 26.10% 24.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.45% 52.27% 48.16%
Number of salaries quoted 430 398 656
10th Percentile £51,125 £41,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £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 £96,188 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,125 £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 1,276 968 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.87% 49.92% 50.02%
Number of salaries quoted 946 776 1,311
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,563 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £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% +1.72%

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 20 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 32 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.69%) Apache
6 3 (0.52%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.52%) Confluence
6 3 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Camunda
8 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 119 (20.52%) AWS
2 96 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (15.17%) GCP
4 87 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (12.24%) Power Platform
6 59 (10.17%) Entra ID
7 33 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (5.52%) PaaS
8 32 (5.52%) SaaS
9 29 (5.00%) Serverless
10 23 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (3.97%) GitHub
11 20 (3.45%) Azure AKS
12 19 (3.28%) IaaS
12 19 (3.28%) Power Automate
13 18 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.10%) dbt
14 14 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (2.41%) OneDrive
15 12 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (8.62%) Firewall
2 25 (4.31%) DNS
3 22 (3.79%) VPN
4 20 (3.45%) DHCP
4 20 (3.45%) Network Security
5 14 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.72%) LAN
7 10 (1.72%) WAN
8 7 (1.21%) BGP
8 7 (1.21%) OSPF
8 7 (1.21%) WLAN
9 6 (1.03%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.69%) Wireless
11 3 (0.52%) SSL
11 3 (0.52%) VLAN
11 3 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 44 (7.59%) Power BI
3 31 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (4.66%) BigQuery
5 24 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 22 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.62%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.90%) Db2
10 11 (1.90%) Spark SQL
11 9 (1.55%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.38%) Metabase
12 8 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.21%) Tableau
14 6 (1.03%) Looker
14 6 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (5.86%) Git
2 21 (3.62%) Eclipse
3 12 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.90%) JIRA
5 10 (1.72%) GitLab
6 9 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.38%) MLflow
8 4 (0.69%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.52%) JUnit
9 3 (0.52%) Maven
9 3 (0.52%) Mockito
9 3 (0.52%) Spock
9 3 (0.52%) TestRail
9 3 (0.52%) 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
1 167 (28.79%) Finance
2 100 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 43 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.14%) Law
5 19 (3.28%) Banking
6 14 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.72%) Legal
9 9 (1.55%) Front Office
9 9 (1.55%) Retail
10 8 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.52%) Advertising
14 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) French Language
15 1 (0.17%) Marketing
15 1 (0.17%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (17.41%) Architect
2 98 (16.90%) Senior
3 92 (15.86%) Lead
4 65 (11.21%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (9.48%) Developer
6 40 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.72%) Data Engineer
8 37 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (6.03%) Analyst
10 34 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (5.69%) Azure Architect
12 27 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.48%) IT Architect
14 25 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.79%) Support Engineer
16 21 (3.62%) Consultant
17 19 (3.28%) IT Analyst
17 19 (3.28%) IT Support
17 19 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.72%) .NET
2 24 (4.14%) Django
3 21 (3.62%) React
4 19 (3.28%) REST
5 17 (2.93%) LangChain
6 15 (2.59%) OAuth
6 15 (2.59%) PySpark
7 14 (2.41%) Kafka
8 13 (2.24%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.07%) OpenID
9 12 (2.07%) RESTful
9 12 (2.07%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.55%) YAML
11 8 (1.38%) Blazor
11 8 (1.38%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.38%) SAML
11 8 (1.38%) Spring
11 8 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.21%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.21%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 26 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.62%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.41%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.72%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.38%) Clustering
13 8 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.21%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.79%) Windows
2 30 (5.17%) Linux
3 27 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.69%) Android
6 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) 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 (30.69%) DevOps
2 119 (20.52%) CI/CD
3 100 (17.24%) AI
4 98 (16.90%) Agile
5 90 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 79 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (12.07%) Mentoring
8 67 (11.55%) Analytics
9 65 (11.21%) Microservices
10 60 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (10.17%) Roadmaps
12 58 (10.00%) Data Engineering
13 53 (9.14%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (8.62%) ITIL
15 48 (8.28%) Machine Learning
16 47 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
17 44 (7.59%) Generative AI
18 43 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (7.41%) Software Engineering
19 42 (7.24%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (22.59%) SQL
2 121 (20.86%) Python
3 65 (11.21%) C#
4 55 (9.48%) PowerShell
5 24 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.93%) Java
7 11 (1.90%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.90%) VB.NET
8 10 (1.72%) Bash
9 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.21%) Bicep
10 7 (1.21%) C++
11 5 (0.86%) C
11 5 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.86%) Go
12 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.52%) Perl
13 3 (0.52%) R
13 3 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (8.97%) Degree
2 32 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.66%) CISSP
4 25 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 15 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.90%) CEH
9 10 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.21%) CISM
12 6 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.86%) CCSP
13 5 (0.86%) GIAC
13 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.69%) CISA
14 4 (0.69%) GPEN
14 4 (0.69%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.97%) GDPR
2 22 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.62%) NIST
4 13 (2.24%) QA
5 8 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.86%) COBIT
6 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.52%) NCSC
8 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
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 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.83%) Docker
3 18 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.17%) NLBS
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (13.45%) Terraform
2 66 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 37 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.97%) Ansible
4 23 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.24%) SCCM
6 8 (1.38%) Grafana
7 6 (1.03%) Kibana
8 5 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.52%) CloudHub
11 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.17%) Cilium
12 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.17%) QRadar
12 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 185 (31.90%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.48%) Databricks
3 41 (7.07%) ServiceNow
4 32 (5.52%) VMware
5 29 (5.00%) Google
6 15 (2.59%) Cisco
7 13 (2.24%) Guidewire
8 11 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.72%) SAP
10 9 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.38%) CyberArk
11 8 (1.38%) iManage
12 7 (1.21%) Dell
13 6 (1.03%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.03%) Okta
13 6 (1.03%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.03%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.86%) Rapid7
14 5 (0.86%) Workday