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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 623 489 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 14.91% 25.70% 24.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.79% 51.58% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 470 394 676
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,590 £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 £95,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £112,500
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 1,277 948 1,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.56% 49.82% 51.61%
Number of salaries quoted 950 767 1,367
10th Percentile £44,000 £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 £118,750 £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

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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 23 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 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Apache
5 3 (0.48%) Confluence
6 2 (0.32%) 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 (1.77%) PlantUML
2 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (20.22%) AWS
2 103 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.57%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (14.77%) GCP
5 76 (12.20%) Power Platform
6 65 (10.43%) Entra ID
7 36 (5.78%) PaaS
7 36 (5.78%) SaaS
8 35 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (4.49%) Serverless
10 23 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (3.69%) GitHub
11 22 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (3.37%) dbt
13 20 (3.21%) Azure AKS
14 19 (3.05%) IaaS
15 16 (2.57%) Power Automate
16 15 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (2.41%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.31%) Firewall
2 29 (4.65%) VPN
3 27 (4.33%) DNS
4 22 (3.53%) DHCP
5 19 (3.05%) Network Security
6 15 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.93%) WAN
8 11 (1.77%) LAN
9 8 (1.28%) WLAN
10 6 (0.96%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.96%) Wireless
11 5 (0.80%) BGP
11 5 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.80%) OSPF
12 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.48%) WebEx
13 2 (0.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.70%) Power BI
3 35 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (4.98%) BigQuery
5 30 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.77%) DB2
11 10 (1.61%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.44%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.44%) Metabase
13 8 (1.28%) Tableau
14 7 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.12%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.96%) Looker
15 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (4.98%) Git
2 20 (3.21%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.09%) JIRA
4 9 (1.44%) GitLab
4 9 (1.44%) MLflow
4 9 (1.44%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.80%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.48%) TestRail
7 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.16%) Appium
9 1 (0.16%) JUnit
9 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Maven
9 1 (0.16%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) Spock
9 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 178 (28.57%) Finance
2 108 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 49 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.53%) Law
5 19 (3.05%) Banking
6 14 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.77%) Legal
9 10 (1.61%) Retail
10 9 (1.44%) Front Office
11 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Advertising
14 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.16%) Billing
15 1 (0.16%) French Language
15 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 111 (17.82%) Senior
2 99 (15.89%) Architect
3 94 (15.09%) Lead
4 68 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
5 53 (8.51%) Developer
6 42 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 42 (6.74%) Data Engineer
7 37 (5.94%) Analyst
8 36 (5.78%) Azure Architect
9 34 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 27 (4.33%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.17%) Support Engineer
15 23 (3.69%) IT Architect
16 22 (3.53%) Consultant
16 22 (3.53%) IT Support
17 21 (3.37%) Network Engineer
18 20 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.36%) .NET
2 27 (4.33%) Django
3 23 (3.69%) React
4 18 (2.89%) REST
5 16 (2.57%) Kafka
6 15 (2.41%) LangChain
6 15 (2.41%) PySpark
6 15 (2.41%) RESTful
7 13 (2.09%) OAuth
8 12 (1.93%) OpenID
8 12 (1.93%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.77%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.44%) YAML
11 8 (1.28%) Blazor
11 8 (1.28%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
11 8 (1.28%) SAML
12 7 (1.12%) LDAP
12 7 (1.12%) Spring
12 7 (1.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.94%) Cloud Native
1 37 (5.94%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.78%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (4.01%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.09%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.12%) Clustering
12 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (13.96%) Windows
2 30 (4.82%) Linux
2 30 (4.82%) Windows Server
3 20 (3.21%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.64%) Android
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) Unix
8 2 (0.32%) VMS
8 2 (0.32%) 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
1 198 (31.78%) DevOps
2 118 (18.94%) CI/CD
3 106 (17.01%) AI
4 103 (16.53%) Agile
5 94 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 80 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (12.36%) Mentoring
8 74 (11.88%) Analytics
9 72 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (10.75%) Microservices
11 61 (9.79%) Roadmaps
12 56 (8.99%) Data Engineering
12 56 (8.99%) ITIL
13 53 (8.51%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (8.03%) Software Engineering
15 49 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (7.38%) Machine Learning
17 45 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (6.90%) Computer Science
19 41 (6.58%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 146 (23.43%) Python
2 139 (22.31%) SQL
3 76 (12.20%) C#
4 63 (10.11%) PowerShell
5 24 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.21%) Java
7 11 (1.77%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.77%) VB.NET
8 10 (1.61%) Bash
8 10 (1.61%) Bicep
9 7 (1.12%) C++
10 6 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.96%) Go
11 5 (0.80%) C
11 5 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.64%) Perl
12 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.48%) R
13 3 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (10.11%) Degree
2 36 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.49%) CISSP
4 26 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.73%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.93%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.77%) CEH
9 9 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.12%) CISM
11 7 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.12%) GIAC
11 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.80%) GPEN
13 5 (0.80%) OSCP
14 4 (0.64%) GXPN
14 4 (0.64%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.01%) GDPR
2 25 (4.01%) NIST
3 19 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.09%) QA
5 8 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.80%) COBIT
6 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.48%) NCSC
7 3 (0.48%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) PMO
8 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
8 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 74 (11.88%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.82%) Docker
3 20 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.32%) vSphere
7 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.16%) NLBS
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (12.52%) Terraform
2 65 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.69%) Ansible
6 13 (2.09%) SCCM
7 11 (1.77%) Grafana
8 7 (1.12%) Kibana
9 5 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.16%) Cilium
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.16%) QRadar
11 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 202 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.67%) Databricks
3 38 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.62%) VMware
5 33 (5.30%) Google
6 17 (2.73%) Cisco
7 13 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
7 13 (2.09%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.93%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.61%) SAP
10 9 (1.44%) Guidewire
10 9 (1.44%) iManage
11 8 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.12%) Dell
12 7 (1.12%) Okta
13 6 (0.96%) Citrix
13 6 (0.96%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.96%) Oracle
13 6 (0.96%) Rapid7
13 6 (0.96%) Workday