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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 399 390 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.85% 22.69% 26.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.09% 47.85% 51.59%
Number of salaries quoted 302 313 562
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +6.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £114,750 £115,000 £108,625
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +10.34% +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 971 815 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.27% 47.41% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 728 674 1,024
10th Percentile £48,375 £40,159 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,400
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 £109,125 £118,375 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +0.69%

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 17 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 13 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.75%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.75%) Mule
6 4 (1.00%) Apache
7 3 (0.75%) Confluence
8 2 (0.50%) CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) PlantUML
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (24.81%) AWS
2 64 (16.04%) Power Platform
3 62 (15.54%) GCP
4 51 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (11.78%) Entra ID
6 39 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (6.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 25 (6.27%) Serverless
9 23 (5.76%) SaaS
10 22 (5.51%) PaaS
11 19 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (4.76%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.26%) GitHub
12 17 (4.26%) IaaS
13 15 (3.76%) PowerApps
14 14 (3.51%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
16 10 (2.51%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.02%) Firewall
2 20 (5.01%) Network Security
3 12 (3.01%) DNS
4 9 (2.26%) SSL
4 9 (2.26%) VPN
4 9 (2.26%) WAN
5 7 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
5 7 (1.75%) DHCP
5 7 (1.75%) LAN
5 7 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.75%) Wireless
6 6 (1.50%) BGP
6 6 (1.50%) OSPF
6 6 (1.50%) VLAN
7 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.25%) WLAN
8 4 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.52%) Power BI
2 26 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.01%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.26%) Spark SQL
7 9 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.01%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.75%) Tableau
10 6 (1.50%) Metadata
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.00%) Looker
12 4 (1.00%) Milvus
12 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (8.27%) Git
2 13 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.51%) GitLab
4 8 (2.01%) Eclipse
4 8 (2.01%) JIRA
4 8 (2.01%) MLflow
5 7 (1.75%) Maven
6 6 (1.50%) JUnit
6 6 (1.50%) Mockito
7 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.00%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.75%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.75%) Spock
9 3 (0.75%) TestRail
9 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 2 (0.50%) Vite
11 1 (0.25%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 120 (30.08%) Finance
2 66 (16.54%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.27%) Law
5 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.51%) Banking
7 10 (2.51%) Legal
8 9 (2.26%) Front Office
8 9 (2.26%) Retail
9 5 (1.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.75%) Back Office
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (18.80%) Architect
2 71 (17.79%) Senior
3 68 (17.04%) Lead
4 53 (13.28%) Developer
5 50 (12.53%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (7.52%) Data Engineer
6 30 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (5.76%) Azure Architect
10 21 (5.26%) Consultant
11 20 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.76%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.51%) Analyst
15 14 (3.51%) IT Architect
15 14 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.79%) Terraform
2 35 (8.77%) .NET
3 20 (5.01%) REST
4 19 (4.76%) LangChain
5 15 (3.76%) OAuth
6 14 (3.51%) PySpark
7 13 (3.26%) React
8 11 (2.76%) Spring
8 11 (2.76%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.51%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.26%) Django
10 9 (2.26%) Kafka
10 9 (2.26%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.01%) JWT
11 8 (2.01%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (2.01%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.01%) OpenID
12 7 (1.75%) MUnit
12 7 (1.75%) RAML
13 6 (1.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.50%) Clustering
10 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.77%) Windows
2 27 (6.77%) Linux
3 18 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (28.57%) DevOps
2 112 (28.07%) CI/CD
3 76 (19.05%) AI
4 67 (16.79%) Agile
4 67 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (14.04%) Data Engineering
7 54 (13.53%) Roadmaps
8 47 (11.78%) Mentoring
9 42 (10.53%) Analytics
9 42 (10.53%) Microservices
10 39 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (9.52%) Machine Learning
11 38 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (8.52%) Data Architecture
13 34 (8.52%) Generative AI
14 33 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (8.02%) Test Automation
16 31 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 93 (23.31%) Python
2 82 (20.55%) SQL
3 44 (11.03%) C#
4 39 (9.77%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.76%) Java
6 22 (5.51%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.51%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.26%) Bash
9 9 (2.26%) Bicep
10 7 (1.75%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.50%) C++
12 4 (1.00%) C
12 4 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.00%) Go
13 3 (0.75%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) Ruby
13 3 (0.75%) Scala
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (8.27%) Degree
2 26 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.76%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.01%) CISSP
5 16 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.75%) CEH
9 6 (1.50%) CFA
10 5 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.00%) CCSP
11 4 (1.00%) CISM
12 3 (0.75%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.75%) GIAC
12 3 (0.75%) GPEN
12 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.75%) OSCE
12 3 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.51%) QA
3 15 (3.76%) GDPR
4 7 (1.75%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.50%) NCSC
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (10.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.26%) Docker
3 16 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.51%) Ansible
3 20 (5.01%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.75%) CloudHub
6 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.25%) SCCM
8 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.50%) Argo
9 2 (0.50%) Grafana
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) Cilium
10 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 133 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.78%) Databricks
3 27 (6.77%) VMware
4 18 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.26%) Cisco
6 16 (4.01%) Google
7 12 (3.01%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.76%) SAP
9 10 (2.51%) Guidewire
10 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.01%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.75%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.50%) Foundry
14 5 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (1.25%) Dell
14 5 (1.25%) Okta
14 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.00%) Cloudera
15 4 (1.00%) Zscaler
16 3 (0.75%) Citrix