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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 461 456 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.84% 24.95% 25.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.42% 51.53% 50.36%
Number of salaries quoted 340 355 564
10th Percentile £51,125 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,313 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,500 £73,375
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +6.98% +4.82%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 1,113 885 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.00% 48.41% 50.26%
Number of salaries quoted 824 719 1,085
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,000 £55,250
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 £106,600 £117,500 £105,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -0.68%

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 14 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 18 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.52%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.52%) Mule
6 4 (0.87%) Apache
7 3 (0.65%) Confluence
8 2 (0.43%) Camunda
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.95%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (23.86%) AWS
2 73 (15.84%) GCP
3 68 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 57 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (11.06%) Entra ID
7 30 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (5.64%) SaaS
8 26 (5.64%) Serverless
9 25 (5.42%) PaaS
10 24 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.34%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.12%) GitHub
13 17 (3.69%) IaaS
14 16 (3.47%) Azure AKS
15 15 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (3.04%) dbt
16 14 (3.04%) PowerApps
17 10 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.24%) Firewall
2 22 (4.77%) Network Security
3 12 (2.60%) DNS
4 10 (2.17%) WAN
5 9 (1.95%) VPN
6 8 (1.74%) BGP
6 8 (1.74%) LAN
6 8 (1.74%) OSPF
6 8 (1.74%) SSL
7 7 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (1.52%) DHCP
7 7 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.52%) WLAN
8 6 (1.30%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.30%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.30%) Wireless
9 5 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.87%) VLAN
11 3 (0.65%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.68%) Power BI
2 37 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.12%) BigQuery
4 19 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.17%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.17%) Spark SQL
8 9 (1.95%) Tableau
9 7 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.52%) Db2
10 6 (1.30%) Looker
10 6 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.08%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.87%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 34 (7.38%) Git
2 14 (3.04%) JIRA
3 13 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.39%) GitLab
5 10 (2.17%) Eclipse
6 9 (1.95%) MLflow
6 9 (1.95%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.30%) Maven
8 5 (1.08%) JUnit
8 5 (1.08%) Mockito
8 5 (1.08%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.87%) TestRail
10 3 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.65%) Spock
10 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.43%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) Vite
12 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 137 (29.72%) Finance
2 77 (16.70%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.99%) Law
5 19 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.69%) Banking
7 11 (2.39%) Legal
8 9 (1.95%) Front Office
8 9 (1.95%) Retail
9 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.65%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Back Office
12 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.22%) Billing
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (18.66%) Architect
2 84 (18.22%) Senior
3 78 (16.92%) Lead
4 60 (13.02%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (11.93%) Developer
6 31 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.86%) Azure Architect
10 25 (5.42%) Analyst
11 20 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.34%) Consultant
12 18 (3.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.90%) IT Architect
13 17 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 16 (3.47%) Azure Developer
14 16 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.33%) .NET
2 21 (4.56%) LangChain
3 20 (4.34%) REST
4 17 (3.69%) OAuth
5 16 (3.47%) PySpark
5 16 (3.47%) React
6 15 (3.25%) Django
7 13 (2.82%) Kafka
7 13 (2.82%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.39%) TensorFlow
9 10 (2.17%) LlamaIndex
9 10 (2.17%) OpenID
9 10 (2.17%) Spring
9 10 (2.17%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.74%) Blazor
10 8 (1.74%) JWT
10 8 (1.74%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.74%) RESTful
10 8 (1.74%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.52%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.04%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.74%) Clustering
10 8 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (10.85%) Windows
2 27 (5.86%) Linux
3 19 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) Android
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (27.11%) DevOps
2 108 (23.43%) CI/CD
3 83 (18.00%) Agile
4 81 (17.57%) AI
5 73 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 61 (13.23%) Mentoring
8 59 (12.80%) Data Engineering
9 56 (12.15%) Roadmaps
10 52 (11.28%) Microservices
11 46 (9.98%) Analytics
12 45 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (9.11%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (9.11%) Machine Learning
14 38 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
15 37 (8.03%) Generative AI
16 35 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (7.59%) Software Engineering
17 34 (7.38%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.56%) Python
2 97 (21.04%) SQL
3 52 (11.28%) C#
4 43 (9.33%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.99%) Java
7 14 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.74%) Bash
9 8 (1.74%) Bicep
9 8 (1.74%) VB.NET
10 7 (1.52%) DataWeave
10 7 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.30%) C++
12 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.87%) C
13 4 (0.87%) Go
13 4 (0.87%) R
13 4 (0.87%) Scala
14 3 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (8.68%) Degree
2 28 (6.07%) Azure Certification
3 27 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.77%) CISSP
5 22 (4.77%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.17%) CEH
8 7 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.08%) CFA
10 4 (0.87%) CCSP
10 4 (0.87%) CISM
10 4 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.65%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.65%) GXPN
11 3 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.12%) GDPR
3 18 (3.90%) QA
4 11 (2.39%) NIST
5 9 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.43%) NCSC
10 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) SLA
10 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) PSD2
11 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) SEPA
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (10.85%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.77%) Docker
3 18 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (15.84%) Terraform
2 58 (12.58%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.77%) Ansible
4 21 (4.56%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.74%) SCCM
7 7 (1.52%) CloudHub
8 6 (1.30%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.43%) Grafana
10 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Cilium
11 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 154 (33.41%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.20%) Databricks
3 30 (6.51%) VMware
4 28 (6.07%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.99%) Google
6 17 (3.69%) Cisco
7 13 (2.82%) SAP
8 12 (2.60%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.60%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.39%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.74%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.52%) Dell
12 7 (1.52%) iManage
12 7 (1.52%) Okta
13 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.30%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.08%) Rapid7
14 5 (1.08%) Workday