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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 596 557 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 17.66% 26.68% 25.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.37% 53.20% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 462 462 699
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,420 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +0.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £102,250 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%

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 1,138 1,047 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.72% 50.14% 52.92%
Number of salaries quoted 858 846 1,447
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 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,750 £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

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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

Azure
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 April 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 38 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 26 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.85%) 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 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (1.85%) 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 (21.14%) AWS
2 115 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
3 108 (18.12%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (17.95%) Power Platform
5 88 (14.77%) GCP
6 53 (8.89%) Entra ID
7 40 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (5.03%) Power Automate
8 30 (5.03%) SaaS
9 29 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 27 (4.53%) PaaS
11 25 (4.19%) dbt
11 25 (4.19%) PowerApps
12 24 (4.03%) GitHub
13 23 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (3.69%) Serverless
15 18 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (2.68%) OneDrive
17 16 (2.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (9.06%) Firewall
2 27 (4.53%) VPN
3 24 (4.03%) DHCP
3 24 (4.03%) DNS
4 16 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (2.18%) Network Security
6 12 (2.01%) LAN
6 12 (2.01%) WAN
7 8 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.01%) WLAN
9 5 (0.84%) WebEx
9 5 (0.84%) Wireless
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.50%) BGP
11 3 (0.50%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.50%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.50%) OSPF
11 3 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.58%) Power BI
2 63 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 45 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (5.37%) BigQuery
6 27 (4.53%) Data Lake
7 26 (4.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.18%) Metabase
10 12 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.85%) DB2
12 9 (1.51%) Tableau
13 8 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.17%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.01%) Looker
15 6 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.01%) Spark SQL
16 5 (0.84%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (5.87%) Git
2 20 (3.36%) Visual Studio
3 18 (3.02%) Eclipse
4 13 (2.18%) JIRA
5 9 (1.51%) MLflow
6 8 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (1.34%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.84%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.84%) GitLab
8 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.34%) Postman
10 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.34%) TestRail
10 2 (0.34%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.17%) Selenium
11 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 180 (30.20%) Finance
2 126 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 47 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (4.36%) Banking
6 24 (4.03%) Legal
7 23 (3.86%) Law
8 15 (2.52%) Retail
9 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Advertising
12 6 (1.01%) Front Office
13 5 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.84%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Billing
15 1 (0.17%) International Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (17.45%) Senior
2 94 (15.77%) Lead
3 67 (11.24%) Architect
4 56 (9.40%) Developer
5 50 (8.39%) Data Engineer
6 46 (7.72%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (6.71%) Analyst
8 39 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 34 (5.70%) Support Engineer
10 32 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.70%) IT Support
12 27 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 23 (3.86%) IT Analyst
14 21 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.36%) Azure Architect
15 20 (3.36%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) IT Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Network Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
17 18 (3.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.08%) .NET
2 28 (4.70%) Django
3 22 (3.69%) React
4 20 (3.36%) REST
5 17 (2.85%) RESTful
6 16 (2.68%) LangChain
7 15 (2.52%) Kafka
8 14 (2.35%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.01%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.85%) OAuth
10 11 (1.85%) PySpark
10 11 (1.85%) YAML
11 9 (1.51%) Node.js
12 8 (1.34%) Blazor
12 8 (1.34%) CSS
12 8 (1.34%) OpenID
13 7 (1.17%) HTML
13 7 (1.17%) SOAP
13 7 (1.17%) Web Services
13 7 (1.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.87%) Data Structures
3 33 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 24 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.52%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 15 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
11 13 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.18%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.68%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.60%) Windows
2 29 (4.87%) Windows Server
3 24 (4.03%) Windows 10
4 21 (3.52%) Linux
5 8 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.67%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Unix
10 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.88%) DevOps
2 119 (19.97%) AI
3 117 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 115 (19.30%) Agile
5 95 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 94 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (13.93%) Mentoring
8 82 (13.76%) Analytics
9 66 (11.07%) ITIL
10 65 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
11 64 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (9.90%) Microservices
13 52 (8.72%) Software Engineering
14 50 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
14 50 (8.39%) ETL
15 49 (8.22%) Computer Science
16 48 (8.05%) Machine Learning
17 47 (7.89%) Roadmaps
18 46 (7.72%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (27.85%) Python
2 161 (27.01%) SQL
3 74 (12.42%) PowerShell
4 69 (11.58%) C#
5 26 (4.36%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.68%) Java
7 13 (2.18%) Bicep
8 12 (2.01%) Bash
9 11 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.85%) VB.NET
10 9 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.17%) Go
12 5 (0.84%) Rust
13 4 (0.67%) C
13 4 (0.67%) C++
13 4 (0.67%) Perl
13 4 (0.67%) Ruby
13 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 66 (11.07%) Degree
2 43 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.20%) CISSP
4 27 (4.53%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.35%) CISM
6 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.18%) Security Cleared
7 12 (2.01%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.85%) CEH
9 10 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (1.01%) GIAC
12 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.84%) GPEN
13 5 (0.84%) OSCP
14 4 (0.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (5.37%) NIST
3 30 (5.03%) GDPR
4 15 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.68%) QA
6 8 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.84%) NCSC
9 4 (0.67%) COBIT
9 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (12.25%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.03%) Docker
3 16 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) NLBS
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (10.23%) Terraform
2 50 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (3.02%) Ansible
5 15 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.18%) SCCM
7 12 (2.01%) Grafana
8 7 (1.17%) Kibana
9 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.17%) Ambari
12 1 (0.17%) Argo
12 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 220 (36.91%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.07%) Databricks
3 39 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 36 (6.04%) Google
5 27 (4.53%) VMware
6 16 (2.68%) CyberArk
7 15 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 14 (2.35%) Cisco
9 13 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.68%) iManage
11 9 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.17%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.17%) Oracle
12 7 (1.17%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.17%) SAP
13 6 (1.01%) Citrix
13 6 (1.01%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.01%) Commvault
13 6 (1.01%) Dell
13 6 (1.01%) Thales