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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 626 521 777
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.04% 25.83% 24.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.94% 52.00% 47.38%
Number of salaries quoted 472 427 678
10th Percentile £49,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,875 £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 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £112,875
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 1,279 1,002 1,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.72% 49.68% 51.90%
Number of salaries quoted 951 821 1,376
10th Percentile £42,750 £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 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +0.67%

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

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 20 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 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.76%) 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%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 10 (1.60%) PlantUML
2 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (20.29%) AWS
2 104 (16.61%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.50%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (14.86%) GCP
5 79 (12.62%) Power Platform
6 65 (10.38%) Entra ID
7 37 (5.91%) PaaS
8 36 (5.75%) SaaS
9 35 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (4.31%) Serverless
11 23 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 23 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (3.67%) GitHub
12 22 (3.51%) dbt
13 20 (3.19%) Azure AKS
14 19 (3.04%) IaaS
15 17 (2.72%) Power Automate
16 15 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
16 15 (2.40%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (9.42%) Firewall
2 29 (4.63%) VPN
3 28 (4.47%) DNS
4 23 (3.67%) DHCP
5 19 (3.04%) Network Security
6 15 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.92%) WAN
8 11 (1.76%) 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 4 (0.64%) WebEx
13 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 51 (8.15%) Power BI
3 35 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.95%) BigQuery
6 25 (3.99%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.76%) DB2
11 10 (1.60%) Metabase
11 10 (1.60%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.44%) Delta Lake
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 32 (5.11%) Git
2 20 (3.19%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.08%) JIRA
4 10 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.44%) GitLab
5 9 (1.44%) MLflow
6 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.80%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.80%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.48%) TestRail
8 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.16%) Appium
10 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 180 (28.75%) Finance
2 109 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 49 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.35%) Law
5 18 (2.88%) Banking
6 15 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.92%) Legal
8 10 (1.60%) Retail
9 9 (1.44%) Front Office
10 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.64%) 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
1 113 (18.05%) Senior
2 98 (15.65%) Architect
3 93 (14.86%) Lead
4 68 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (8.31%) Developer
6 43 (6.87%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (5.91%) Analyst
9 34 (5.43%) Azure Architect
9 34 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 29 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (4.31%) Software Engineer
13 26 (4.15%) Support Engineer
14 23 (3.67%) IT Support
15 22 (3.51%) IT Architect
16 21 (3.35%) Consultant
16 21 (3.35%) IT Analyst
16 21 (3.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.62%) .NET
2 28 (4.47%) Django
3 24 (3.83%) React
4 17 (2.72%) REST
5 16 (2.56%) Kafka
6 15 (2.40%) LangChain
6 15 (2.40%) PySpark
6 15 (2.40%) RESTful
7 12 (1.92%) OAuth
7 12 (1.92%) OpenID
7 12 (1.92%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.76%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.60%) Blazor
10 9 (1.44%) YAML
11 8 (1.28%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
11 8 (1.28%) SAML
12 7 (1.12%) CSS
12 7 (1.12%) HTML
12 7 (1.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.75%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.99%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.08%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.44%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.12%) Clustering
14 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (14.22%) Windows
2 30 (4.79%) Linux
2 30 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 21 (3.35%) 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
7 3 (0.48%) VMS
8 2 (0.32%) Unix
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
1 200 (31.95%) DevOps
2 116 (18.53%) CI/CD
3 109 (17.41%) AI
4 104 (16.61%) Agile
5 94 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (12.30%) Mentoring
8 74 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (11.66%) Analytics
10 66 (10.54%) Microservices
11 61 (9.74%) Roadmaps
12 55 (8.79%) Data Engineering
12 55 (8.79%) ITIL
13 51 (8.15%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (7.99%) Business Intelligence
14 50 (7.99%) Software Engineering
15 47 (7.51%) Machine Learning
16 45 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
17 43 (6.87%) Computer Science
18 40 (6.39%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (23.80%) Python
2 141 (22.52%) SQL
3 77 (12.30%) C#
4 63 (10.06%) PowerShell
5 26 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.04%) Java
7 11 (1.76%) Bicep
7 11 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.76%) VB.NET
8 10 (1.60%) Bash
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
13 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.48%) Scala
13 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (9.90%) Degree
2 36 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.47%) CISSP
4 27 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.72%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.92%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.76%) 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%) CISA
14 4 (0.64%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.15%) NIST
3 25 (3.99%) GDPR
4 19 (3.04%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.08%) QA
6 8 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.80%) COBIT
7 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.48%) NCSC
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (11.98%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.79%) Docker
3 20 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.08%) 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 79 (12.62%) Terraform
2 66 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.67%) Ansible
6 13 (2.08%) SCCM
7 11 (1.76%) 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%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.16%) QRadar
11 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 204 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.47%) Databricks
3 37 (5.91%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.59%) VMware
5 33 (5.27%) Google
6 17 (2.72%) Cisco
7 14 (2.24%) CyberArk
8 13 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.44%) Guidewire
10 9 (1.44%) iManage
11 8 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.28%) SAP
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%) Thales