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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 611 492 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 14.72% 25.89% 24.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.30% 51.68% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 457 397 681
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,836 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,500 £120,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% +6.16% +4.29%

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 1,265 952 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.47% 50.11% 51.50%
Number of salaries quoted 936 769 1,363
10th Percentile £45,000 £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 £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £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

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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

Azure
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 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 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.49%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
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%) Mule
7 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (1.80%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 121 (19.80%) AWS
2 100 (16.37%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (14.89%) GCP
5 71 (11.62%) Power Platform
6 64 (10.47%) Entra ID
7 35 (5.73%) PaaS
8 34 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (5.56%) SaaS
9 29 (4.75%) Serverless
10 22 (3.60%) GitHub
11 21 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (3.27%) Azure AKS
12 20 (3.27%) dbt
13 19 (3.11%) IaaS
14 16 (2.62%) Power Automate
15 15 (2.45%) OneDrive
16 14 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.49%) Firewall
2 29 (4.75%) VPN
3 27 (4.42%) DNS
4 22 (3.60%) DHCP
5 19 (3.11%) Network Security
6 15 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.96%) WAN
8 11 (1.80%) LAN
9 8 (1.31%) WLAN
10 6 (0.98%) BGP
10 6 (0.98%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.98%) OSPF
10 6 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.98%) Wireless
11 5 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.49%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.49%) WebEx
13 2 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 44 (7.20%) Power BI
3 33 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
4 29 (4.75%) BigQuery
5 26 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.80%) DB2
10 11 (1.80%) Spark SQL
11 9 (1.47%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.47%) Metabase
12 8 (1.31%) Tableau
13 7 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.15%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.98%) Looker
14 6 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (4.58%) Git
2 21 (3.44%) Eclipse
3 12 (1.96%) JIRA
4 9 (1.47%) GitLab
4 9 (1.47%) MLflow
4 9 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.98%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.82%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.49%) TestRail
7 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.16%) Appium
9 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.16%) Spock
9 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 179 (29.30%) Finance
2 106 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.60%) Law
5 19 (3.11%) Banking
6 13 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.80%) Legal
9 10 (1.64%) Retail
10 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.31%) Front Office
11 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.49%) Advertising
13 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Billing
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
14 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 108 (17.68%) Senior
2 103 (16.86%) Architect
3 93 (15.22%) Lead
4 68 (11.13%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (8.51%) Developer
6 43 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 38 (6.22%) Azure Architect
9 36 (5.89%) Analyst
10 34 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.26%) IT Architect
14 26 (4.26%) Support Engineer
15 23 (3.76%) Software Engineer
16 22 (3.60%) Consultant
16 22 (3.60%) IT Support
16 22 (3.60%) Network Engineer
17 20 (3.27%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.60%) .NET
2 25 (4.09%) Django
3 21 (3.44%) React
4 18 (2.95%) REST
5 16 (2.62%) PySpark
6 15 (2.45%) Kafka
6 15 (2.45%) LangChain
7 14 (2.29%) RESTful
8 13 (2.13%) OAuth
9 12 (1.96%) OpenID
9 12 (1.96%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.80%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.47%) YAML
12 8 (1.31%) Blazor
12 8 (1.31%) LlamaIndex
12 8 (1.31%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (1.31%) SAML
13 7 (1.15%) LDAP
13 7 (1.15%) scikit-learn
13 7 (1.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.76%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.96%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.64%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.64%) Reinsurance
13 9 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.15%) Clustering
15 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (14.08%) Windows
2 30 (4.91%) Linux
2 30 (4.91%) Windows Server
3 20 (3.27%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.65%) Android
6 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.33%) Unix
8 2 (0.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.10%) DevOps
2 117 (19.15%) CI/CD
3 105 (17.18%) AI
4 99 (16.20%) Agile
5 91 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (12.27%) Mentoring
8 73 (11.95%) Analytics
9 69 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (10.80%) Microservices
11 61 (9.98%) Roadmaps
12 55 (9.00%) Data Engineering
12 55 (9.00%) ITIL
13 51 (8.35%) Data Pipeline
14 48 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (7.53%) Machine Learning
15 46 (7.53%) Software Engineering
16 43 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
17 41 (6.71%) Computer Science
18 40 (6.55%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 138 (22.59%) Python
2 134 (21.93%) SQL
3 73 (11.95%) C#
4 61 (9.98%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.11%) Java
7 11 (1.80%) Bash
7 11 (1.80%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.80%) VB.NET
8 10 (1.64%) Bicep
8 10 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.15%) C++
10 6 (0.98%) Go
11 5 (0.82%) C
11 5 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.65%) Perl
12 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.49%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (9.98%) Degree
2 34 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.42%) CISSP
4 26 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.78%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.96%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.64%) CEH
9 9 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.15%) CISM
11 7 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.98%) GIAC
12 6 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.82%) GPEN
13 5 (0.82%) OSCP
14 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.65%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.93%) GDPR
3 23 (3.76%) NIST
4 18 (2.95%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.13%) QA
6 8 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.82%) COBIT
7 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) NCSC
9 3 (0.49%) SLA
10 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) SOC 1
10 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 73 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.75%) Docker
3 21 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.33%) vSphere
7 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.16%) NLBS
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (12.77%) Terraform
2 65 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.93%) Ansible
4 24 (3.93%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.13%) SCCM
6 11 (1.80%) Grafana
7 7 (1.15%) Kibana
8 5 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) Cilium
10 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.16%) QRadar
10 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 196 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.67%) Databricks
3 38 (6.22%) ServiceNow
4 36 (5.89%) VMware
5 31 (5.07%) Google
6 17 (2.78%) Cisco
7 11 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.80%) CyberArk
7 11 (1.80%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.64%) Guidewire
9 9 (1.47%) SAP
10 8 (1.31%) iManage
10 8 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.15%) Dell
11 7 (1.15%) Okta
12 6 (0.98%) Citrix
12 6 (0.98%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.82%) Oracle
13 5 (0.82%) Splunk