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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 334 386 743
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.78% 23.41% 26.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.68% 48.37% 51.96%
Number of salaries quoted 257 313 544
10th Percentile £50,750 £47,500 £48,855
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 821 798 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.42% 48.39% 50.37%
Number of salaries quoted 631 666 972
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £44,100
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 £97,490 £95,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.67% +2.76%

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 9 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 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.10%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.10%) Mule
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.90%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) PlantUML
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (23.95%) AWS
2 58 (17.37%) Power Platform
3 46 (13.77%) GCP
4 45 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (13.17%) Entra ID
6 37 (11.08%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (7.19%) Serverless
9 21 (6.29%) Power Automate
9 21 (6.29%) SaaS
10 20 (5.99%) PaaS
11 18 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (5.09%) IaaS
13 15 (4.49%) PowerApps
14 14 (4.19%) GitHub
14 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (3.59%) Azure AI
15 12 (3.59%) Azure AKS
16 10 (2.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.19%) Firewall
2 16 (4.79%) Network Security
3 12 (3.59%) DNS
4 10 (2.99%) VPN
5 9 (2.69%) SSL
6 7 (2.10%) DHCP
6 7 (2.10%) VLAN
6 7 (2.10%) WAN
6 7 (2.10%) Wireless
7 6 (1.80%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.50%) BGP
8 5 (1.50%) LAN
8 5 (1.50%) OSPF
8 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.20%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.90%) MPLS
11 2 (0.60%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.68%) Power BI
2 25 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.80%) Metadata
6 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.80%) Spark SQL
6 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.60%) Chroma
10 2 (0.60%) Tableau
11 1 (0.30%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 27 (8.08%) Git
2 13 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.40%) GitLab
4 7 (2.10%) Eclipse
4 7 (2.10%) JIRA
4 7 (2.10%) Maven
5 6 (1.80%) JUnit
5 6 (1.80%) Mockito
6 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.20%) MLflow
8 3 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.90%) Selenium
8 3 (0.90%) Spock
8 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.60%) TestRail
9 2 (0.60%) Vite
10 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (28.74%) Finance
2 56 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.78%) Law
4 24 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.89%) Legal
7 8 (2.40%) Banking
8 7 (2.10%) Retail
9 6 (1.80%) Front Office
10 5 (1.50%) Marketing
11 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Back Office
12 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (0.90%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.60%) Billing
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (18.56%) Architect
2 58 (17.37%) Senior
3 52 (15.57%) Lead
4 46 (13.77%) Developer
5 35 (10.48%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (7.49%) Data Engineer
8 24 (7.19%) Consultant
9 22 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.39%) Azure Architect
11 18 (5.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Analyst
14 12 (3.59%) Data Consultant
14 12 (3.59%) IT Architect
14 12 (3.59%) Lead Developer
15 11 (3.29%) Software Engineer
16 10 (2.99%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (17.37%) Terraform
2 22 (6.59%) .NET
3 19 (5.69%) REST
4 15 (4.49%) LangChain
5 13 (3.89%) OAuth
5 13 (3.89%) React
6 11 (3.29%) PySpark
6 11 (3.29%) Spring
6 11 (3.29%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.40%) JWT
7 8 (2.40%) LangGraph
7 8 (2.40%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.10%) MUnit
8 7 (2.10%) RAML
9 6 (1.80%) Django
9 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.80%) Kafka
9 6 (1.80%) Middleware
9 6 (1.80%) OpenID
10 5 (1.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.99%) AI Agents
3 15 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.78%) Windows
2 17 (5.09%) Linux
3 12 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (28.44%) DevOps
2 94 (28.14%) CI/CD
3 69 (20.66%) AI
4 55 (16.47%) Agile
4 55 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (12.87%) Data Engineering
7 37 (11.08%) Roadmaps
8 36 (10.78%) Mentoring
8 36 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (10.48%) Microservices
10 34 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (8.98%) Analytics
12 30 (8.98%) Data Architecture
13 28 (8.38%) LLM
13 28 (8.38%) Machine Learning
13 28 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (8.38%) Test Automation
14 27 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.36%) Python
2 66 (19.76%) SQL
3 33 (9.88%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.49%) C#
5 20 (5.99%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.69%) Java
7 15 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.89%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.40%) Bicep
10 7 (2.10%) Bash
10 7 (2.10%) DataWeave
11 4 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.60%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) R
12 2 (0.60%) Scala
12 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.60%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) XPath
13 1 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.49%) Degree
3 23 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.09%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.29%) CISSP
6 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.80%) CFA
8 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.50%) CEH
10 4 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.60%) CISM
12 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.60%) GIAC
12 2 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.60%) MOS
12 2 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.39%) QA
3 13 (3.89%) GDPR
4 7 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.10%) NIST
5 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.90%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) PSD2
9 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (9.58%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.89%) Docker
3 15 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.09%) Ansible
3 14 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.10%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.20%) SCCM
8 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 117 (35.03%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.98%) Databricks
3 20 (5.99%) VMware
4 17 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.79%) Cisco
6 14 (4.19%) OpenAI
7 12 (3.59%) Google
8 11 (3.29%) SAP
9 10 (2.99%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.69%) Guidewire
11 8 (2.40%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.80%) Foundry
13 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.20%) Citrix
14 4 (1.20%) Meraki
15 3 (0.90%) Okta
15 3 (0.90%) Oracle
15 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.90%) Workday
15 3 (0.90%) Zscaler