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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 600 559 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.14% 26.49% 24.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.06% 52.44% 46.68%
Number of salaries quoted 460 460 691
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +1.40%
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 1,175 1,066 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.61% 50.52% 52.92%
Number of salaries quoted 873 853 1,442
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £117,750 £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 20 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 34 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (21.50%) AWS
2 107 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (17.17%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 89 (14.83%) GCP
6 56 (9.33%) Entra ID
7 40 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (5.17%) PaaS
9 30 (5.00%) SaaS
10 25 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 25 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (4.00%) dbt
12 22 (3.67%) GitHub
12 22 (3.67%) Serverless
13 21 (3.50%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.67%) OneDrive
14 16 (2.67%) PowerApps
15 15 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (2.33%) Snowflake
17 13 (2.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.67%) Firewall
2 26 (4.33%) DHCP
2 26 (4.33%) DNS
2 26 (4.33%) VPN
3 18 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (2.33%) Network Security
6 13 (2.17%) LAN
6 13 (2.17%) WAN
7 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.17%) WLAN
8 5 (0.83%) WebEx
8 5 (0.83%) Wireless
9 4 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.50%) BGP
10 3 (0.50%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.50%) OSPF
10 3 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.17%) Power BI
2 59 (9.83%) SQL Server
3 42 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (5.33%) BigQuery
6 26 (4.33%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (2.00%) Metabase
9 11 (1.83%) DB2
9 11 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.33%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.33%) Tableau
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.00%) Looker
11 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.83%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (5.50%) Git
2 17 (2.83%) Eclipse
3 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio
4 13 (2.17%) JIRA
5 9 (1.50%) MLflow
6 6 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.00%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.83%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.83%) GitLab
7 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.33%) TestRail
8 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 179 (29.83%) Finance
2 117 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 47 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (4.17%) Banking
6 21 (3.50%) Legal
7 19 (3.17%) Law
8 15 (2.50%) Retail
9 9 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.17%) Front Office
10 7 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.00%) Advertising
12 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.17%) Back Office
15 1 (0.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 107 (17.83%) Senior
2 91 (15.17%) Lead
3 76 (12.67%) Architect
4 58 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
5 53 (8.83%) Developer
6 45 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 39 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (6.33%) Analyst
9 36 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 30 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 27 (4.50%) Azure Architect
11 27 (4.50%) IT Support
12 24 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (3.67%) IT Analyst
13 22 (3.67%) Security Engineer
14 21 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) IT Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.67%) .NET
2 29 (4.83%) Django
3 22 (3.67%) React
4 17 (2.83%) RESTful
5 14 (2.33%) Kafka
5 14 (2.33%) LangChain
5 14 (2.33%) REST
6 13 (2.17%) YAML
7 12 (2.00%) OAuth
7 12 (2.00%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.83%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.67%) PySpark
10 9 (1.50%) OpenID
11 8 (1.33%) Blazor
11 8 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.17%) CSS
12 7 (1.17%) HTML
12 7 (1.17%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.17%) Node.js
12 7 (1.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.17%) Data Structures
2 36 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 27 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.33%) Algorithms
5 26 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.50%) Public Cloud
7 20 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.50%) Reinsurance
10 14 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (2.00%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.50%) Windows
2 32 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.17%) Linux
4 23 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.67%) DevOps
2 114 (19.00%) CI/CD
3 107 (17.83%) Agile
4 106 (17.67%) AI
5 97 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (13.33%) Analytics
7 80 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 70 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (10.50%) Microservices
10 58 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
10 58 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (9.17%) ITIL
12 53 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (8.83%) Roadmaps
12 53 (8.83%) Software Engineering
13 48 (8.00%) Data Engineering
14 47 (7.83%) Computer Science
15 45 (7.50%) ETL
15 45 (7.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 158 (26.33%) Python
2 147 (24.50%) SQL
3 74 (12.33%) C#
4 72 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 23 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.83%) Java
7 14 (2.33%) Bicep
8 11 (1.83%) Bash
8 11 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.83%) VB.NET
9 8 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.17%) Go
11 6 (1.00%) C++
11 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.67%) C
12 4 (0.67%) Perl
12 4 (0.67%) Ruby
13 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.50%) R
13 3 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (10.67%) Degree
2 42 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.50%) CISSP
4 30 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.33%) CISM
6 12 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.83%) CEH
7 11 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.83%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (1.00%) GIAC
11 6 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.83%) GPEN
12 5 (0.83%) OSCP
13 4 (0.67%) CISA
13 4 (0.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.17%) NIST
3 26 (4.33%) GDPR
4 17 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.83%) QA
6 8 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.83%) COBIT
8 5 (0.83%) NCSC
9 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.67%) Docker
3 16 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) NLBS
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (11.17%) Terraform
2 55 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.50%) Ansible
5 19 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.17%) SCCM
7 11 (1.83%) Grafana
8 8 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (1.17%) Kibana
10 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.17%) Argo
12 1 (0.17%) Cilium
12 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 214 (35.67%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.00%) Databricks
3 37 (6.17%) Google
4 35 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 30 (5.00%) VMware
6 17 (2.83%) CyberArk
7 15 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (2.50%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.00%) Cisco
9 11 (1.83%) iManage
10 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.33%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.17%) Commvault
11 7 (1.17%) Dell
11 7 (1.17%) Okta
11 7 (1.17%) SAP
11 7 (1.17%) Thales
12 6 (1.00%) Citrix
12 6 (1.00%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.00%) Oracle