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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 626 561 794
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.27% 26.68% 24.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.08% 52.58% 47.04%
Number of salaries quoted 478 460 696
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,313
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £114,375
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +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 1,202 1,067 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.25% 50.74% 52.73%
Number of salaries quoted 894 854 1,437
10th Percentile £41,250 £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 £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,750 £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 27 April 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 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Confluence
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 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (21.41%) AWS
2 112 (17.89%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (16.45%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (14.70%) Power Platform
5 91 (14.54%) GCP
6 59 (9.42%) Entra ID
7 41 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (5.27%) PaaS
9 32 (5.11%) SaaS
10 26 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (3.99%) dbt
12 24 (3.83%) GitHub
12 24 (3.83%) Serverless
13 21 (3.35%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (2.56%) OneDrive
15 15 (2.40%) Azure AKS
15 15 (2.40%) PowerApps
16 14 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.11%) Firewall
2 26 (4.15%) DNS
2 26 (4.15%) VPN
3 25 (3.99%) DHCP
4 17 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (2.24%) Network Security
7 12 (1.92%) LAN
7 12 (1.92%) WAN
8 7 (1.12%) WLAN
9 6 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.80%) WebEx
10 5 (0.80%) Wireless
11 4 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.64%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.48%) BGP
12 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.48%) OSPF
13 2 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.74%) Power BI
2 58 (9.27%) SQL Server
3 42 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (5.11%) BigQuery
6 27 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (1.92%) Metabase
9 11 (1.76%) DB2
9 11 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.44%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.28%) Tableau
12 7 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.96%) Looker
13 6 (0.96%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (4.95%) Git
2 18 (2.88%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.08%) JIRA
3 13 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 9 (1.44%) MLflow
5 6 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.80%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.48%) TestRail
9 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.16%) Appium
10 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 184 (29.39%) Finance
2 121 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (4.15%) Banking
6 21 (3.35%) Legal
7 20 (3.19%) Law
8 16 (2.56%) Retail
9 9 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.12%) Front Office
10 7 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.96%) Advertising
12 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.16%) Back Office
15 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 114 (18.21%) Senior
2 95 (15.18%) Lead
3 81 (12.94%) Architect
4 59 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
5 57 (9.11%) Developer
6 48 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 38 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 37 (5.91%) Analyst
9 30 (4.79%) Azure Architect
9 30 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 28 (4.47%) Support Engineer
11 26 (4.15%) IT Support
11 26 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (3.51%) IT Analyst
12 22 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (3.51%) Security Engineer
13 20 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.78%) .NET
2 29 (4.63%) Django
3 23 (3.67%) React
4 17 (2.72%) RESTful
5 15 (2.40%) LangChain
6 14 (2.24%) Kafka
7 13 (2.08%) PySpark
7 13 (2.08%) PyTorch
7 13 (2.08%) REST
8 12 (1.92%) OAuth
8 12 (1.92%) TensorFlow
8 12 (1.92%) YAML
9 9 (1.44%) Blazor
9 9 (1.44%) OpenID
10 8 (1.28%) CSS
10 8 (1.28%) HTML
10 8 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.12%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.12%) Node.js
11 7 (1.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.91%) Cloud Native
1 37 (5.91%) Data Structures
1 37 (5.91%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.15%) Algorithms
3 26 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (3.04%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.40%) Reinsurance
8 14 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.12%) Clustering
14 6 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 91 (14.54%) Windows
2 30 (4.79%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.99%) Linux
4 22 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.64%) VMS
7 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
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%) Unix
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (31.95%) DevOps
2 118 (18.85%) CI/CD
3 112 (17.89%) AI
4 111 (17.73%) Agile
5 100 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 89 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (13.26%) Analytics
8 82 (13.10%) Mentoring
9 73 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (10.22%) Microservices
11 60 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
13 56 (8.95%) Roadmaps
14 55 (8.79%) ITIL
15 54 (8.63%) Software Engineering
16 53 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
16 53 (8.47%) Data Engineering
17 47 (7.51%) Machine Learning
18 46 (7.35%) Computer Science
19 45 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 161 (25.72%) Python
2 153 (24.44%) SQL
3 78 (12.46%) C#
4 69 (11.02%) PowerShell
5 26 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.04%) Java
7 14 (2.24%) Bicep
8 11 (1.76%) Bash
8 11 (1.76%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.76%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.12%) C++
11 7 (1.12%) Go
12 5 (0.80%) C
13 4 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.64%) Perl
13 4 (0.64%) R
13 4 (0.64%) Ruby
14 3 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (10.22%) Degree
2 40 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.43%) CISSP
4 28 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.40%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.24%) CISM
7 13 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.92%) CEH
9 11 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.12%) GIAC
12 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.80%) GPEN
14 5 (0.80%) OSCP
15 4 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.64%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (4.95%) NIST
3 26 (4.15%) GDPR
4 18 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.24%) QA
6 8 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.80%) COBIT
8 5 (0.80%) NCSC
9 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 75 (11.98%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.79%) Docker
3 15 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) NLBS
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (11.02%) Terraform
2 57 (9.11%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.35%) Ansible
4 21 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.08%) SCCM
6 11 (1.76%) Grafana
7 7 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Cilium
10 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 216 (34.50%) Microsoft
2 58 (9.27%) Databricks
3 36 (5.75%) Google
3 36 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.95%) VMware
5 17 (2.72%) CyberArk
6 15 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (2.24%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.92%) Cisco
9 11 (1.76%) iManage
10 9 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.28%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.12%) Commvault
12 7 (1.12%) Dell
12 7 (1.12%) Guidewire
12 7 (1.12%) Okta
12 7 (1.12%) SAP
12 7 (1.12%) Thales
13 6 (0.96%) Citrix
13 6 (0.96%) Oracle