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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 467 458 695
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.94% 24.93% 25.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.73% 51.58% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 345 357 566
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £90,938
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £107,500
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 1,119 888 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.00% 48.34% 50.24%
Number of salaries quoted 829 721 1,085
10th Percentile £46,650 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -0.68%

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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 13 August 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 18 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.50%) Anypoint
4 7 (1.50%) Mule
5 4 (0.86%) Apache
6 3 (0.64%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (2.14%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (23.55%) AWS
2 73 (15.63%) GCP
3 68 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 59 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (11.13%) Entra ID
7 31 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (5.78%) Serverless
9 26 (5.57%) PaaS
9 26 (5.57%) SaaS
10 24 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.28%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.07%) GitHub
13 18 (3.85%) IaaS
14 16 (3.43%) Azure AKS
15 15 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (3.00%) dbt
16 14 (3.00%) PowerApps
17 10 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.14%) Firewall
2 22 (4.71%) Network Security
3 13 (2.78%) DNS
4 10 (2.14%) VPN
4 10 (2.14%) WAN
5 8 (1.71%) BGP
5 8 (1.71%) DHCP
5 8 (1.71%) LAN
5 8 (1.71%) OSPF
5 8 (1.71%) SSL
6 7 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.50%) WLAN
7 6 (1.28%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.28%) Wireless
8 5 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.86%) VLAN
10 3 (0.64%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.57%) Power BI
2 38 (8.14%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.07%) BigQuery
4 19 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.14%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.14%) Spark SQL
8 9 (1.93%) Tableau
9 8 (1.71%) Db2
10 7 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.28%) Looker
11 6 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.07%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.07%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.86%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 33 (7.07%) Git
2 14 (3.00%) JIRA
3 13 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.36%) GitLab
5 10 (2.14%) Eclipse
6 9 (1.93%) MLflow
6 9 (1.93%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.07%) Maven
7 5 (1.07%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.86%) JUnit
8 4 (0.86%) Mockito
8 4 (0.86%) TestRail
9 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.64%) Spock
9 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.43%) Selenium
10 2 (0.43%) Vite
11 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.21%) JMeter
11 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 139 (29.76%) Finance
2 79 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.93%) Law
5 19 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.64%) Banking
7 11 (2.36%) Legal
8 9 (1.93%) Front Office
8 9 (1.93%) Retail
9 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.64%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Billing
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
13 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (18.63%) Architect
2 85 (18.20%) Senior
3 79 (16.92%) Lead
4 60 (12.85%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (11.56%) Developer
6 32 (6.85%) Data Engineer
7 31 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.78%) Azure Architect
10 25 (5.35%) Analyst
11 20 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.28%) Consultant
12 18 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.85%) IT Architect
13 17 (3.64%) Lead Developer
14 16 (3.43%) Azure Developer
14 16 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.21%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.21%) .NET
2 21 (4.50%) LangChain
3 20 (4.28%) REST
4 17 (3.64%) OAuth
5 16 (3.43%) PySpark
5 16 (3.43%) React
6 15 (3.21%) Django
7 14 (3.00%) Kafka
8 13 (2.78%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.36%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.14%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (2.14%) OpenID
10 10 (2.14%) Spring
10 10 (2.14%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.71%) Blazor
11 8 (1.71%) JWT
11 8 (1.71%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.71%) RESTful
11 8 (1.71%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.50%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.36%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.71%) Clustering
10 8 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.71%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (11.35%) Windows
2 28 (6.00%) Linux
3 20 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.14%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Android
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (27.84%) DevOps
2 110 (23.55%) CI/CD
3 83 (17.77%) Agile
4 80 (17.13%) AI
5 75 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 60 (12.85%) Mentoring
8 59 (12.63%) Data Engineering
9 56 (11.99%) Roadmaps
10 53 (11.35%) Microservices
11 46 (9.85%) Analytics
12 44 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (8.78%) Machine Learning
15 38 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (7.92%) Generative AI
17 35 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (7.49%) Software Engineering
18 34 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.27%) Python
2 99 (21.20%) SQL
3 52 (11.13%) C#
4 44 (9.42%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.35%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.93%) Java
7 14 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.93%) VB.NET
10 8 (1.71%) Bash
10 8 (1.71%) Bicep
10 8 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.50%) DataWeave
12 6 (1.28%) C++
13 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.86%) C
14 4 (0.86%) Go
14 4 (0.86%) R
14 4 (0.86%) Scala
15 3 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (8.57%) Degree
2 28 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 27 (5.78%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.71%) CISSP
5 22 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.14%) CEH
8 7 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.07%) CFA
10 4 (0.86%) CCSP
10 4 (0.86%) CISM
10 4 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.64%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.64%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.64%) GXPN
11 3 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.07%) GDPR
3 17 (3.64%) QA
4 11 (2.36%) NIST
5 9 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.21%) COBIT
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (11.13%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.93%) Docker
3 19 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (15.85%) Terraform
2 60 (12.85%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.93%) Ansible
4 21 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.71%) SCCM
7 7 (1.50%) CloudHub
8 6 (1.28%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.43%) Grafana
10 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) Cilium
11 1 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 156 (33.40%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.06%) Databricks
3 31 (6.64%) VMware
4 30 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.93%) Google
6 17 (3.64%) Cisco
7 13 (2.78%) SAP
8 12 (2.57%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.71%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.50%) Dell
12 7 (1.50%) iManage
12 7 (1.50%) Okta
13 6 (1.28%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.28%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.07%) Rapid7
14 5 (1.07%) Workday