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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 476 477 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.93% 25.43% 25.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.86% 51.79% 50.04%
Number of salaries quoted 355 373 566
10th Percentile £48,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +7.90% +3.93%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,938
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +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 1,137 921 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.88% 49.09% 50.16%
Number of salaries quoted 848 745 1,098
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% -2.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,375 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%

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 7 August 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 20 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.47%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.47%) Mule
6 4 (0.84%) Apache
7 3 (0.63%) Confluence
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (2.10%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (23.32%) AWS
2 73 (15.34%) GCP
3 66 (13.87%) Power Platform
4 61 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (11.55%) Entra ID
7 30 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (5.67%) SaaS
9 26 (5.46%) PaaS
9 26 (5.46%) Serverless
10 22 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (3.99%) GitHub
12 18 (3.78%) IaaS
12 18 (3.78%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.57%) Azure AKS
14 15 (3.15%) dbt
15 13 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (2.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.40%) Firewall
2 24 (5.04%) Network Security
3 14 (2.94%) DNS
4 11 (2.31%) WAN
5 10 (2.10%) LAN
5 10 (2.10%) VPN
6 9 (1.89%) DHCP
7 8 (1.68%) BGP
7 8 (1.68%) OSPF
7 8 (1.68%) SSL
7 8 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (1.47%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.47%) WLAN
9 6 (1.26%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.26%) Wireless
10 5 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.84%) VLAN
12 3 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.61%) Power BI
2 40 (8.40%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (3.99%) BigQuery
5 19 (3.99%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (2.10%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.10%) Spark SQL
10 9 (1.89%) Db2
10 9 (1.89%) Tableau
11 8 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.26%) Looker
13 6 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.05%) Metabase
14 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (6.93%) Git
2 14 (2.94%) JIRA
3 13 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.31%) Eclipse
4 11 (2.31%) GitLab
5 10 (2.10%) Visual Studio
6 9 (1.89%) MLflow
7 5 (1.05%) Maven
7 5 (1.05%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.84%) JUnit
8 4 (0.84%) Mockito
8 4 (0.84%) TestRail
9 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.63%) Spock
9 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) Vite
11 1 (0.21%) Appium
11 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 138 (28.99%) Finance
2 79 (16.60%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.83%) Law
5 17 (3.57%) Banking
6 16 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.52%) Legal
8 9 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.89%) Retail
9 8 (1.68%) Front Office
10 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.63%) Advertising
11 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Marketing
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
13 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.21%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 91 (19.12%) Architect
2 86 (18.07%) Senior
3 81 (17.02%) Lead
4 61 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (10.71%) Developer
6 32 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 31 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (5.88%) Azure Architect
10 26 (5.46%) Analyst
11 20 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.20%) Consultant
12 19 (3.99%) IT Architect
13 18 (3.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (3.36%) Azure Developer
15 16 (3.36%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
16 15 (3.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.45%) .NET
2 21 (4.41%) LangChain
2 21 (4.41%) REST
3 18 (3.78%) OAuth
4 17 (3.57%) React
5 16 (3.36%) PySpark
6 15 (3.15%) Django
7 14 (2.94%) Kafka
8 13 (2.73%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.31%) OpenID
9 11 (2.31%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.10%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (2.10%) Spring
10 10 (2.10%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.68%) Blazor
11 8 (1.68%) JWT
11 8 (1.68%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.68%) RESTful
11 8 (1.68%) SAML
11 8 (1.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.31%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.68%) Clustering
11 8 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (11.76%) Windows
2 28 (5.88%) Linux
3 21 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.42%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (27.94%) DevOps
2 110 (23.11%) CI/CD
3 83 (17.44%) Agile
4 80 (16.81%) AI
5 74 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (12.39%) Mentoring
8 58 (12.18%) Data Engineering
9 54 (11.34%) Roadmaps
10 53 (11.13%) Microservices
11 47 (9.87%) Analytics
12 45 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (8.82%) Machine Learning
15 38 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (7.77%) Generative AI
16 37 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (7.35%) Data Architecture
17 35 (7.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (21.43%) Python
2 101 (21.22%) SQL
3 52 (10.92%) C#
4 46 (9.66%) PowerShell
5 24 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.83%) Java
7 14 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.10%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.10%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.89%) Bash
9 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.68%) Bicep
11 7 (1.47%) DataWeave
12 6 (1.26%) C++
13 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.84%) C
14 4 (0.84%) Go
14 4 (0.84%) R
14 4 (0.84%) Scala
15 3 (0.63%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 41 (8.61%) Degree
2 27 (5.67%) Azure Certification
2 27 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.04%) CISSP
5 22 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.10%) CEH
8 7 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.05%) CISM
10 4 (0.84%) CCSP
10 4 (0.84%) CFA
10 4 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.63%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.63%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.63%) GPEN
11 3 (0.63%) GXPN
11 3 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.78%) GDPR
2 18 (3.78%) QA
3 11 (2.31%) NIST
4 10 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.42%) PMO
9 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (11.55%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.83%) Docker
3 19 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) NLBS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (15.97%) Terraform
2 62 (13.03%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.04%) Ansible
4 22 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.89%) SCCM
6 7 (1.47%) CloudHub
7 6 (1.26%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.42%) Grafana
9 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) Cilium
10 1 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 161 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.66%) Databricks
3 31 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.51%) VMware
4 22 (4.62%) Google
5 19 (3.99%) Cisco
6 14 (2.94%) SAP
7 13 (2.73%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.52%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.10%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.47%) Dell
12 7 (1.47%) iManage
12 7 (1.47%) Okta
13 6 (1.26%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.26%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.26%) Workday
14 5 (1.05%) Thales