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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 628 526 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.29% 26.10% 24.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.72% 52.13% 47.52%
Number of salaries quoted 475 430 685
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,500 £115,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +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 1,263 1,009 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.74% 50.07% 52.13%
Number of salaries quoted 938 821 1,391
10th Percentile £42,500 £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% - -

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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

Azure
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 33 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.43%) 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 (1.59%) PlantUML
2 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.11%) 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
1 125 (19.90%) AWS
2 104 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (14.49%) GCP
5 84 (13.38%) Power Platform
6 61 (9.71%) Entra ID
7 37 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (5.73%) PaaS
9 34 (5.41%) SaaS
10 27 (4.30%) Serverless
11 25 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (3.66%) GitHub
13 22 (3.50%) dbt
14 20 (3.18%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.87%) IaaS
15 18 (2.87%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (2.55%) OneDrive
17 14 (2.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.24%) Firewall
2 28 (4.46%) VPN
3 26 (4.14%) DNS
4 21 (3.34%) DHCP
5 18 (2.87%) Network Security
6 15 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.91%) WAN
8 11 (1.75%) LAN
9 8 (1.27%) WLAN
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%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.80%) OSPF
12 4 (0.64%) WebEx
13 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.92%) SQL Server
2 54 (8.60%) Power BI
3 35 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (4.94%) BigQuery
6 25 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.75%) DB2
11 10 (1.59%) Metabase
11 10 (1.59%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.43%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.27%) Tableau
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.11%) 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 30 (4.78%) Git
2 20 (3.18%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.07%) JIRA
4 10 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.43%) GitLab
5 9 (1.43%) MLflow
6 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.80%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.64%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.48%) TestRail
9 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.16%) Appium
11 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Postman
11 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.16%) Vite
11 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 182 (28.98%) Finance
2 108 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 48 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.34%) Law
5 18 (2.87%) Banking
6 15 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.91%) Legal
8 10 (1.59%) Retail
9 9 (1.43%) Front Office
10 7 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.64%) Advertising
13 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Billing
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
Job Titles
1 115 (18.31%) Senior
2 95 (15.13%) Architect
3 92 (14.65%) Lead
4 67 (10.67%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (8.60%) Developer
6 46 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (6.05%) Analyst
9 34 (5.41%) Azure Architect
9 34 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 29 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 28 (4.46%) Software Engineer
13 26 (4.14%) Support Engineer
14 23 (3.66%) IT Support
15 22 (3.50%) IT Architect
16 21 (3.34%) Consultant
16 21 (3.34%) IT Analyst
16 21 (3.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.74%) .NET
2 28 (4.46%) Django
3 23 (3.66%) React
4 16 (2.55%) Kafka
4 16 (2.55%) REST
5 15 (2.39%) PySpark
5 15 (2.39%) RESTful
6 14 (2.23%) LangChain
7 12 (1.91%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.75%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.59%) Blazor
9 10 (1.59%) OAuth
9 10 (1.59%) OpenID
10 9 (1.43%) YAML
11 8 (1.27%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.11%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.11%) CSS
12 7 (1.11%) HTML
12 7 (1.11%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.21%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.89%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.73%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.98%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.71%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.07%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.11%) Clustering
14 6 (0.96%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 89 (14.17%) Windows
2 29 (4.62%) Linux
2 29 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 21 (3.34%) 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 (31.85%) DevOps
2 115 (18.31%) CI/CD
3 106 (16.88%) Agile
4 105 (16.72%) AI
5 93 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (12.42%) Mentoring
8 75 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (11.78%) Analytics
10 64 (10.19%) Microservices
11 58 (9.24%) Roadmaps
12 56 (8.92%) Data Engineering
13 54 (8.60%) ITIL
14 53 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
14 53 (8.44%) Data Pipeline
15 51 (8.12%) Software Engineering
16 46 (7.32%) Machine Learning
17 44 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
18 42 (6.69%) Computer Science
19 40 (6.37%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 152 (24.20%) Python
2 144 (22.93%) SQL
3 78 (12.42%) C#
4 63 (10.03%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.98%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.03%) Java
7 12 (1.91%) Bicep
8 11 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.75%) VB.NET
9 10 (1.59%) Bash
9 10 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.11%) C++
10 7 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.96%) Go
12 5 (0.80%) C
12 5 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.64%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.48%) Scala
14 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (9.71%) Degree
2 35 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 26 (4.14%) CISSP
5 17 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.91%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.75%) CEH
9 9 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.27%) GIAC
10 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.11%) CISM
11 7 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.11%) 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 31 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.46%) NIST
3 25 (3.98%) GDPR
4 19 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.07%) QA
6 8 (1.27%) 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 72 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.62%) Docker
3 19 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.16%) NLBS
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (12.26%) Terraform
2 64 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (3.50%) Ansible
6 13 (2.07%) SCCM
7 11 (1.75%) Grafana
8 7 (1.11%) 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
1 203 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.60%) Databricks
3 36 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.57%) VMware
5 32 (5.10%) Google
6 17 (2.71%) Cisco
7 14 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.43%) Guidewire
9 9 (1.43%) iManage
10 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.27%) SAP
11 7 (1.11%) Dell
11 7 (1.11%) Okta
12 6 (0.96%) Citrix
12 6 (0.96%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.96%) Oracle
12 6 (0.96%) Rapid7
12 6 (0.96%) Thales