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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 369 378 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.52% 22.34% 26.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.50% 47.01% 51.72%
Number of salaries quoted 279 306 559
10th Percentile £54,750 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £113,750 £109,000
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 911 804 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.90% 47.52% 50.79%
Number of salaries quoted 690 670 1,018
10th Percentile £48,625 £40,478 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,313 £55,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £118,750 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 25 September 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 12 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.90%) Anypoint
3 7 (1.90%) Mule
4 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.81%) Apache
5 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) PlantUML
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (23.85%) AWS
2 58 (15.72%) Power Platform
3 52 (14.09%) GCP
4 48 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (11.65%) Entra ID
6 34 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (6.50%) Serverless
9 23 (6.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (5.96%) PaaS
11 20 (5.42%) SaaS
12 19 (5.15%) Power Automate
13 18 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (4.61%) IaaS
15 15 (4.07%) PowerApps
16 14 (3.79%) GitHub
17 13 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (2.98%) Azure AKS
19 10 (2.71%) Azure Functions
19 10 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.13%) Firewall
2 19 (5.15%) Network Security
3 12 (3.25%) DNS
4 9 (2.44%) SSL
4 9 (2.44%) WAN
5 8 (2.17%) VPN
6 7 (1.90%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.90%) DHCP
6 7 (1.90%) LAN
6 7 (1.90%) Wireless
7 6 (1.63%) BGP
7 6 (1.63%) OSPF
7 6 (1.63%) VLAN
8 5 (1.36%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.36%) WLAN
9 4 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.81%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.86%) Power BI
2 23 (6.23%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.17%) Spark SQL
6 8 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.63%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.63%) Metadata
7 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.54%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.54%) Tableau
12 1 (0.27%) Chroma
12 1 (0.27%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 31 (8.40%) Git
2 13 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.71%) GitLab
4 7 (1.90%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.90%) JIRA
4 7 (1.90%) Maven
5 6 (1.63%) JUnit
5 6 (1.63%) Mockito
6 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.08%) MLflow
8 3 (0.81%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.81%) Spock
8 3 (0.81%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.54%) Selenium
9 2 (0.54%) TestRail
9 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.54%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.27%) Postman
10 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 111 (30.08%) Finance
2 62 (16.80%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.50%) Law
5 18 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.25%) Banking
7 9 (2.44%) Legal
7 9 (2.44%) Retail
8 8 (2.17%) Front Office
9 5 (1.36%) Marketing
10 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Back Office
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.81%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) French Language
Job Titles
1 70 (18.97%) Architect
2 63 (17.07%) Senior
3 61 (16.53%) Lead
4 52 (14.09%) Developer
5 46 (12.47%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 27 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (6.23%) Azure Architect
10 22 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.96%) Consultant
11 20 (5.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.34%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.79%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.79%) IT Architect
14 14 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (3.25%) Data Consultant
16 12 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (18.43%) Terraform
2 32 (8.67%) .NET
3 20 (5.42%) REST
4 15 (4.07%) OAuth
5 14 (3.79%) LangChain
6 13 (3.52%) PySpark
6 13 (3.52%) React
7 11 (2.98%) Spring
7 11 (2.98%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.17%) JWT
8 8 (2.17%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.17%) OpenID
9 7 (1.90%) Django
9 7 (1.90%) MUnit
9 7 (1.90%) RAML
10 6 (1.63%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (1.63%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.63%) Middleware
10 6 (1.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.34%) AI Agents
4 16 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.52%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.90%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.08%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.86%) Windows
2 24 (6.50%) Linux
3 13 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.00%) CI/CD
2 104 (28.18%) DevOps
3 69 (18.70%) AI
4 63 (17.07%) Agile
4 63 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (13.28%) Data Engineering
6 49 (13.28%) Roadmaps
7 41 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 40 (10.84%) Microservices
9 37 (10.03%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (9.76%) Analytics
11 34 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (8.94%) Data Architecture
13 32 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (8.40%) Machine Learning
14 31 (8.40%) Test Automation
15 30 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.14%) Python
2 72 (19.51%) SQL
3 40 (10.84%) C#
4 34 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.96%) Java
5 22 (5.96%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.71%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.44%) Bicep
9 8 (2.17%) Bash
10 7 (1.90%) DataWeave
11 5 (1.36%) C++
12 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.81%) C
13 3 (0.81%) Go
14 2 (0.54%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.54%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
14 2 (0.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (8.13%) Degree
2 27 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.23%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.07%) CISSP
6 14 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.63%) CEH
8 6 (1.63%) CFA
9 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.81%) CCSP
10 3 (0.81%) CISM
10 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.54%) CCNP
11 2 (0.54%) CCSAM
11 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.54%) GIAC
11 2 (0.54%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.88%) QA
3 13 (3.52%) GDPR
4 6 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.36%) NIST
6 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.81%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) PMO
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.69%) Docker
3 14 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.54%) vSphere
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.69%) Ansible
3 19 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.90%) CloudHub
6 6 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.81%) SCCM
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Grafana
8 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.54%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.54%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Cilium
9 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 125 (33.88%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.76%) Databricks
3 23 (6.23%) VMware
4 17 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.34%) Cisco
6 14 (3.79%) Google
7 11 (2.98%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.98%) SAP
8 9 (2.44%) Guidewire
8 9 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.17%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.90%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.63%) Foundry
12 5 (1.36%) Okta
12 5 (1.36%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.08%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.81%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.81%) Oracle
14 3 (0.81%) Workday