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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 393 390 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.72% 22.69% 26.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.81% 47.85% 51.59%
Number of salaries quoted 297 313 562
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 £115,000 £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 963 815 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.17% 47.41% 50.47%
Number of salaries quoted 721 674 1,024
10th Percentile £47,500 £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 £110,000 £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

Azure
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 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 12 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.78%) Anypoint
4 7 (1.78%) Mule
5 4 (1.02%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) Confluence
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.78%) PlantUML
2 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.68%) AWS
2 62 (15.78%) GCP
2 62 (15.78%) Power Platform
3 50 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (11.45%) Entra ID
5 36 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (6.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 24 (6.11%) Serverless
9 23 (5.85%) SaaS
10 21 (5.34%) PaaS
11 18 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (4.58%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.33%) IaaS
13 16 (4.07%) GitHub
14 15 (3.82%) PowerApps
15 14 (3.56%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.80%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (2.54%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.63%) Firewall
2 20 (5.09%) Network Security
3 11 (2.80%) DNS
4 9 (2.29%) WAN
5 8 (2.04%) SSL
5 8 (2.04%) VPN
6 7 (1.78%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.78%) LAN
7 6 (1.53%) BGP
7 6 (1.53%) DHCP
7 6 (1.53%) OSPF
7 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.53%) VLAN
7 6 (1.53%) Wireless
8 5 (1.27%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.27%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.27%) WLAN
9 4 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.76%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.65%) Power BI
2 26 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.05%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.29%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.78%) Tableau
11 6 (1.53%) Metadata
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.02%) Looker
13 4 (1.02%) Milvus
13 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.89%) Git
2 12 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.54%) GitLab
4 8 (2.04%) Eclipse
4 8 (2.04%) JIRA
4 8 (2.04%) MLflow
5 7 (1.78%) Maven
6 6 (1.53%) JUnit
6 6 (1.53%) Mockito
7 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.02%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.76%) Spock
9 3 (0.76%) TestRail
9 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Vite
11 1 (0.25%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.25%) JMeter
11 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 120 (30.53%) Finance
2 65 (16.54%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.36%) Law
5 18 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.56%) Banking
7 10 (2.54%) Legal
8 9 (2.29%) Front Office
8 9 (2.29%) Retail
9 5 (1.27%) Marketing
10 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.76%) Back Office
11 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (18.83%) Architect
2 70 (17.81%) Senior
3 67 (17.05%) Lead
4 52 (13.23%) Developer
5 49 (12.47%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (7.63%) Data Engineer
7 29 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.85%) Azure Architect
11 21 (5.34%) Consultant
12 19 (4.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 17 (4.33%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.82%) Azure Developer
16 14 (3.56%) Analyst
16 14 (3.56%) IT Architect
16 14 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
17 13 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.81%) Terraform
2 35 (8.91%) .NET
3 19 (4.83%) LangChain
4 18 (4.58%) REST
5 15 (3.82%) OAuth
6 14 (3.56%) PySpark
7 12 (3.05%) React
8 11 (2.80%) Spring
8 11 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.54%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.29%) Kafka
10 9 (2.29%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.04%) Django
11 8 (2.04%) JWT
11 8 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (2.04%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.04%) OpenID
12 7 (1.78%) MUnit
12 7 (1.78%) RAML
13 6 (1.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (3.82%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.56%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Clustering
10 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.67%) Windows
2 27 (6.87%) Linux
3 17 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.78%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (28.50%) DevOps
2 110 (27.99%) CI/CD
3 74 (18.83%) AI
4 67 (17.05%) Agile
5 65 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (14.25%) Data Engineering
8 54 (13.74%) Roadmaps
9 45 (11.45%) Mentoring
10 42 (10.69%) Analytics
10 42 (10.69%) Microservices
11 39 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (9.67%) Machine Learning
13 37 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (8.65%) Generative AI
16 33 (8.40%) Data Architecture
17 32 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (8.14%) Test Automation
18 31 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 89 (22.65%) Python
2 80 (20.36%) SQL
3 44 (11.20%) C#
4 36 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.85%) Java
6 20 (5.09%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.54%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.04%) Bash
9 8 (2.04%) Bicep
10 7 (1.78%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.53%) C++
12 4 (1.02%) C
12 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (0.76%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.76%) Perl
13 3 (0.76%) Ruby
13 3 (0.76%) Scala
13 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (8.14%) Degree
2 26 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.60%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.07%) CISSP
5 16 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.78%) CEH
8 6 (1.53%) CFA
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.02%) CCSP
10 4 (1.02%) CISM
11 3 (0.76%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.76%) GIAC
11 3 (0.76%) GPEN
11 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.76%) OSCE
11 3 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.58%) QA
3 14 (3.56%) GDPR
4 7 (1.78%) NIST
5 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.51%) NCSC
8 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.51%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
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 39 (9.92%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.09%) Docker
3 16 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.51%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.34%) Ansible
3 20 (5.09%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.78%) CloudHub
6 6 (1.53%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.27%) SCCM
8 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.51%) Grafana
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Cilium
10 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 129 (32.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.94%) Databricks
3 27 (6.87%) VMware
4 18 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.33%) Cisco
6 16 (4.07%) Google
7 12 (3.05%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.80%) SAP
9 10 (2.54%) Guidewire
10 9 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.04%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.78%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.53%) Foundry
14 5 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (1.27%) Dell
14 5 (1.27%) Okta
14 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.02%) Cloudera
15 4 (1.02%) Zscaler
16 3 (0.76%) Meraki