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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 360 380 739
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.60% 22.63% 25.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.40% 47.15% 51.68%
Number of salaries quoted 274 309 537
10th Percentile £54,125 £47,500 £46,850
25th Percentile £66,938 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,250 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% +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 891 806 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.18% 48.00% 50.12%
Number of salaries quoted 679 670 972
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £117,625 £108,625
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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 30 September 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 13 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.94%) Anypoint
3 7 (1.94%) Mule
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.83%) Apache
5 3 (0.83%) Confluence
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.94%) PlantUML
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (23.89%) AWS
2 58 (16.11%) Power Platform
3 51 (14.17%) GCP
4 46 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (12.22%) Entra ID
6 34 (9.44%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (6.39%) Serverless
9 21 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (5.83%) PaaS
9 21 (5.83%) Power Automate
10 19 (5.28%) SaaS
11 18 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (4.72%) IaaS
13 16 (4.44%) PowerApps
14 14 (3.89%) GitHub
15 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (3.06%) Azure AKS
17 10 (2.78%) Azure AI
17 10 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.78%) Firewall
2 17 (4.72%) Network Security
3 12 (3.33%) DNS
4 9 (2.50%) SSL
5 8 (2.22%) VPN
5 8 (2.22%) WAN
6 7 (1.94%) DHCP
7 6 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (1.67%) LAN
7 6 (1.67%) VLAN
7 6 (1.67%) Wireless
8 5 (1.39%) BGP
8 5 (1.39%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.39%) OSPF
8 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.11%) WLAN
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.83%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.06%) Power BI
2 25 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.94%) Spark SQL
7 6 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.67%) Metadata
7 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.56%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.56%) Tableau
12 1 (0.28%) Chroma
12 1 (0.28%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 31 (8.61%) Git
2 13 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.78%) GitLab
4 7 (1.94%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.94%) JIRA
4 7 (1.94%) Maven
5 6 (1.67%) JUnit
5 6 (1.67%) Mockito
6 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.11%) MLflow
8 3 (0.83%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.83%) Spock
8 3 (0.83%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.56%) Selenium
9 2 (0.56%) TestRail
9 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.56%) Vite
10 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 107 (29.72%) Finance
2 60 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.94%) Law
5 17 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.06%) Banking
6 11 (3.06%) Legal
7 9 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (1.94%) Front Office
9 5 (1.39%) Marketing
10 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Back Office
11 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) French Language
Job Titles
1 66 (18.33%) Architect
2 62 (17.22%) Senior
3 57 (15.83%) Lead
4 51 (14.17%) Developer
5 43 (11.94%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (7.78%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (6.11%) Consultant
10 21 (5.83%) Azure Architect
10 21 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.89%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.33%) Azure Developer
15 12 (3.33%) Data Consultant
15 12 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.33%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (18.89%) Terraform
2 28 (7.78%) .NET
3 20 (5.56%) REST
4 14 (3.89%) LangChain
4 14 (3.89%) OAuth
5 12 (3.33%) PySpark
5 12 (3.33%) React
6 11 (3.06%) Spring
6 11 (3.06%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.22%) JWT
7 8 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.94%) Django
8 7 (1.94%) MUnit
8 7 (1.94%) OpenID
8 7 (1.94%) RAML
9 6 (1.67%) ASP.NET
9 6 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (1.67%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.67%) Middleware
9 6 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.44%) AI Agents
3 16 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.94%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.78%) Windows
2 23 (6.39%) Linux
3 13 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.89%) CI/CD
2 102 (28.33%) DevOps
3 66 (18.33%) AI
4 62 (17.22%) Agile
4 62 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (13.06%) Data Engineering
6 47 (13.06%) Roadmaps
7 40 (11.11%) Microservices
8 38 (10.56%) Mentoring
9 37 (10.28%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (9.72%) Analytics
12 33 (9.17%) Data Architecture
12 33 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (8.06%) Machine Learning
14 29 (8.06%) Test Automation
15 28 (7.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.56%) Python
2 71 (19.72%) SQL
3 34 (9.44%) C#
3 34 (9.44%) PowerShell
4 21 (5.83%) Java
4 21 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.89%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.50%) Bicep
8 7 (1.94%) Bash
8 7 (1.94%) DataWeave
9 4 (1.11%) C++
9 4 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) C
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) R
10 2 (0.56%) Scala
10 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (8.06%) Degree
2 27 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.11%) Azure Certification
3 22 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.61%) CISSP
6 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.67%) CFA
7 6 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.39%) CEH
9 3 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.83%) CCSP
9 3 (0.83%) CISM
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) CCNP
10 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.00%) QA
3 13 (3.61%) GDPR
4 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.39%) NIST
6 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) PMO
7 3 (0.83%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) NCSC
8 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) COBIT
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (9.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.83%) Docker
3 14 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.83%) Ansible
3 18 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.94%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.39%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.83%) SCCM
8 2 (0.56%) Argo
8 2 (0.56%) Grafana
8 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) Cilium
9 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 123 (34.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.44%) Databricks
3 23 (6.39%) VMware
4 17 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.17%) Cisco
6 14 (3.89%) Google
7 11 (3.06%) OpenAI
7 11 (3.06%) SAP
8 9 (2.50%) Guidewire
8 9 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.22%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.67%) Foundry
11 5 (1.39%) Okta
11 5 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.11%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.83%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.83%) Oracle
13 3 (0.83%) Workday