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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 326 383 732
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.92% 23.60% 25.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.40% 48.79% 51.66%
Number of salaries quoted 251 312 536
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,750
25th Percentile £66,125 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £92,688
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £83,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.10% +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 807 785 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.97% 48.37% 50.19%
Number of salaries quoted 625 658 965
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £44,400
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £117,875 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £79,200 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% - +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 15 October 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 14 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.15%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.15%) Mule
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.61%) Apache
5 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.53%) PlantUML
2 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.15%) AWS
2 61 (18.71%) Power Platform
3 49 (15.03%) GCP
4 43 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (13.19%) Entra ID
5 37 (11.35%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (7.67%) Serverless
7 24 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (7.06%) Power Automate
9 20 (6.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 20 (6.13%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (5.83%) SaaS
11 17 (5.21%) PaaS
11 17 (5.21%) PowerApps
12 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (4.29%) IaaS
14 13 (3.99%) GitHub
15 12 (3.68%) Azure AI
15 12 (3.68%) Azure Functions
16 11 (3.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.44%) Firewall
2 16 (4.91%) Network Security
3 11 (3.37%) DNS
4 10 (3.07%) VPN
5 9 (2.76%) SSL
6 7 (2.15%) VLAN
6 7 (2.15%) Wireless
7 6 (1.84%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (1.84%) DHCP
7 6 (1.84%) WAN
7 6 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.53%) BGP
8 5 (1.53%) OSPF
9 4 (1.23%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.23%) LAN
9 4 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.92%) MPLS
11 2 (0.61%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.20%) Power BI
2 26 (7.98%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.84%) Metadata
8 5 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.53%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.92%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.61%) Chroma
10 2 (0.61%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.61%) Tableau
11 1 (0.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (7.98%) Git
2 13 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.15%) GitLab
3 7 (2.15%) Maven
4 6 (1.84%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.84%) JIRA
4 6 (1.84%) JUnit
4 6 (1.84%) Mockito
5 5 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.92%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.92%) MLflow
6 3 (0.92%) Selenium
6 3 (0.92%) Spock
6 3 (0.92%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.61%) TestRail
7 2 (0.61%) Vite
8 1 (0.31%) Appium
8 1 (0.31%) Postman
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 95 (29.14%) Finance
2 57 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.98%) Law
4 22 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.99%) Legal
7 8 (2.45%) Marketing
8 7 (2.15%) Banking
9 6 (1.84%) Front Office
9 6 (1.84%) Retail
10 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.92%) Back Office
12 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.92%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.61%) Billing
13 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (18.10%) Architect
2 56 (17.18%) Senior
3 50 (15.34%) Lead
4 48 (14.72%) Developer
5 29 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (8.28%) Consultant
7 26 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (7.36%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (5.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.91%) Azure Architect
13 15 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.60%) Data Consultant
14 14 (4.29%) Lead Developer
15 13 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (3.68%) Analyst
16 12 (3.68%) IT Architect
17 10 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 10 (3.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.26%) Terraform
2 20 (6.13%) .NET
3 19 (5.83%) REST
4 15 (4.60%) LangChain
5 13 (3.99%) OAuth
5 13 (3.99%) React
6 11 (3.37%) Spring
6 11 (3.37%) Spring Boot
7 10 (3.07%) PySpark
8 8 (2.45%) JWT
8 8 (2.45%) LangGraph
8 8 (2.45%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.15%) MUnit
9 7 (2.15%) RAML
10 6 (1.84%) Django
10 6 (1.84%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.84%) OpenID
11 5 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
11 5 (1.53%) Kafka
11 5 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.44%) AI Agents
3 15 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.84%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.67%) Windows
2 15 (4.60%) Linux
3 11 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.22%) CI/CD
2 91 (27.91%) DevOps
3 71 (21.78%) AI
4 54 (16.56%) Agile
5 52 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (13.19%) Data Engineering
8 39 (11.96%) Roadmaps
9 37 (11.35%) Mentoring
10 35 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (10.12%) Microservices
12 33 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (9.82%) Data Architecture
14 30 (9.20%) Analytics
15 29 (8.90%) LLM
15 29 (8.90%) Machine Learning
16 28 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (8.28%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 67 (20.55%) Python
2 65 (19.94%) SQL
3 34 (10.43%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.06%) C#
5 21 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.52%) Java
7 14 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 14 (4.29%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.15%) Bash
8 7 (2.15%) Bicep
8 7 (2.15%) DataWeave
9 4 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.61%) R
10 2 (0.61%) Scala
10 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.61%) VBA
10 2 (0.61%) XPath
11 1 (0.31%) C
11 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (8.59%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.67%) Degree
3 23 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.52%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.37%) CISSP
6 10 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.84%) CFA
8 6 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.53%) CEH
10 4 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) CCNP
12 2 (0.61%) CCSP
12 2 (0.61%) CISM
12 2 (0.61%) GIAC
12 2 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.61%) MOS
12 2 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.52%) QA
3 14 (4.29%) GDPR
4 8 (2.45%) NIST
5 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.31%) PSD2
8 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (9.51%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.44%) Docker
3 14 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.92%) vSphere
6 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.60%) Ansible
3 13 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.15%) CloudHub
5 5 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.23%) SCCM
7 3 (0.92%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.92%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Argo
8 2 (0.61%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 118 (36.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.59%) Databricks
3 18 (5.52%) VMware
4 16 (4.91%) Cisco
4 16 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.29%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.68%) Google
7 11 (3.37%) SAP
8 10 (3.07%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.45%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.45%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.84%) Foundry
11 5 (1.53%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.23%) Citrix
12 4 (1.23%) Meraki
13 3 (0.92%) Adobe
13 3 (0.92%) Mistral
13 3 (0.92%) Oracle
13 3 (0.92%) Workday
13 3 (0.92%) Zscaler