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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 595 555 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.25% 26.62% 25.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.03% 53.01% 47.84%
Number of salaries quoted 464 462 706
10th Percentile £46,625 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,625 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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 1,122 1,047 1,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.42% 50.22% 52.35%
Number of salaries quoted 849 840 1,438
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £96,625
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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 26 March 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 45 (7.56%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (21.18%) AWS
2 118 (19.83%) Microsoft 365
3 114 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (18.32%) Power Platform
5 87 (14.62%) GCP
6 56 (9.41%) Entra ID
7 40 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (5.38%) Power Automate
9 29 (4.87%) SaaS
10 26 (4.37%) PaaS
10 26 (4.37%) PowerApps
11 25 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (4.20%) dbt
12 23 (3.87%) GitHub
13 22 (3.70%) Serverless
14 21 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
16 19 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (3.03%) Snowflake
18 16 (2.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.57%) Firewall
2 29 (4.87%) VPN
3 23 (3.87%) DHCP
3 23 (3.87%) DNS
4 15 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.68%) LAN
5 10 (1.68%) WAN
6 9 (1.51%) Network Security
7 7 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.84%) NetScaler
8 5 (0.84%) WebEx
9 4 (0.67%) VoIP
9 4 (0.67%) Wireless
10 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.50%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) Broadband
11 2 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.28%) Power BI
2 64 (10.76%) SQL Server
3 50 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (5.21%) BigQuery
6 28 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 27 (4.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.18%) Metabase
10 12 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.85%) DB2
12 10 (1.68%) Tableau
13 9 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.18%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.01%) Looker
15 6 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (0.84%) Big Data
16 5 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (5.55%) Git
2 20 (3.36%) Visual Studio
3 18 (3.03%) Eclipse
4 13 (2.18%) JIRA
5 9 (1.51%) MLflow
5 9 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (1.51%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.67%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.50%) GitLab
7 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.34%) ERwin
8 2 (0.34%) Postman
8 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.34%) TestRail
8 2 (0.34%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 182 (30.59%) Finance
2 127 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 47 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.54%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (4.20%) Legal
6 24 (4.03%) Banking
6 24 (4.03%) Law
7 13 (2.18%) Retail
8 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.18%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.01%) Advertising
12 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Front Office
13 5 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.17%) Back Office
16 1 (0.17%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (17.48%) Senior
2 89 (14.96%) Lead
3 66 (11.09%) Architect
4 52 (8.74%) Developer
5 50 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 45 (7.56%) Analyst
7 42 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.05%) Support Engineer
10 29 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.71%) IT Support
11 28 (4.71%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.54%) IT Analyst
13 20 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.19%) IT Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Security Engineer
15 18 (3.03%) Applications Support
15 18 (3.03%) Azure Architect
15 18 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.60%) .NET
2 26 (4.37%) Django
3 20 (3.36%) React
4 19 (3.19%) REST
5 17 (2.86%) Kafka
6 16 (2.69%) RESTful
7 15 (2.52%) LangChain
8 14 (2.35%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.02%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.85%) OAuth
10 11 (1.85%) PySpark
10 11 (1.85%) YAML
11 9 (1.51%) .NET Core
11 9 (1.51%) CSS
11 9 (1.51%) Node.js
12 8 (1.34%) HTML
13 7 (1.18%) OpenID
13 7 (1.18%) SOAP
13 7 (1.18%) Web Services
13 7 (1.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 29 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (3.03%) Reinsurance
8 17 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (2.52%) Security Posture
11 14 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
11 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.35%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.01%) Clustering
14 6 (1.01%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (16.47%) Windows
2 29 (4.87%) Windows Server
3 28 (4.71%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.86%) Linux
5 8 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.84%) Unix
7 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Android
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%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (31.26%) DevOps
2 122 (20.50%) AI
3 115 (19.33%) Agile
4 113 (18.99%) CI/CD
5 98 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (14.12%) Analytics
8 83 (13.95%) Mentoring
9 69 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (11.60%) ITIL
10 66 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (9.58%) Microservices
12 56 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 53 (8.91%) Software Engineering
14 52 (8.74%) ETL
15 49 (8.24%) Data Modelling
16 48 (8.07%) Computer Science
16 48 (8.07%) Machine Learning
17 47 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
18 45 (7.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 164 (27.56%) Python
2 162 (27.23%) SQL
3 74 (12.44%) PowerShell
4 64 (10.76%) C#
5 25 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.52%) Java
7 13 (2.18%) Bicep
8 12 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.85%) VB.NET
10 10 (1.68%) Bash
10 10 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.84%) Go
11 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.67%) Rust
13 3 (0.50%) C++
13 3 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.50%) R
13 3 (0.50%) Scala
14 2 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (10.59%) Degree
2 42 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (4.87%) CISSP
4 26 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.35%) CISM
6 14 (2.35%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.18%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.68%) CEH
8 10 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.01%) GIAC
11 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.67%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.67%) CISA
13 4 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (5.71%) GDPR
3 32 (5.38%) NIST
4 15 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.85%) QA
6 8 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.84%) NCSC
9 4 (0.67%) COBIT
10 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 2 (0.34%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 33 (5.55%) Docker
3 16 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 16 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) NLBS
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 56 (9.41%) Terraform
2 49 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 48 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (3.36%) SCCM
5 15 (2.52%) Ansible
5 15 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.02%) Grafana
7 7 (1.18%) Kibana
8 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.17%) Ambari
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.17%) Puppet
11 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 226 (37.98%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.42%) Databricks
3 43 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.88%) Google
5 26 (4.37%) VMware
6 17 (2.86%) Cisco
7 15 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.18%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.51%) Citrix
10 9 (1.51%) iManage
10 9 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.34%) Dell
11 8 (1.34%) Oracle
12 7 (1.18%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.18%) Meraki
12 7 (1.18%) SAP
12 7 (1.18%) Sophos
13 6 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.01%) Rapid7