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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 524 491 722
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.24% 25.71% 23.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.78% 51.85% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 395 388 612
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +6.53% +3.93%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £106,550 £112,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £83,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.10% +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 1,197 947 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.23% 49.58% 49.41%
Number of salaries quoted 901 773 1,223
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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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

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 July 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 26 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.34%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.34%) Mule
6 4 (0.76%) Apache
7 3 (0.57%) Confluence
8 2 (0.38%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (2.10%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (21.95%) AWS
2 79 (15.08%) GCP
2 79 (15.08%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (13.17%) Power Platform
5 59 (11.26%) Entra ID
6 33 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (5.73%) SaaS
8 26 (4.96%) PaaS
9 24 (4.58%) Serverless
10 22 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (3.82%) GitHub
12 19 (3.63%) Azure AKS
13 18 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.24%) IaaS
14 17 (3.24%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.05%) dbt
16 14 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.21%) Firewall
2 23 (4.39%) DNS
3 21 (4.01%) Network Security
4 18 (3.44%) DHCP
4 18 (3.44%) VPN
5 13 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.91%) WAN
8 9 (1.72%) LAN
9 8 (1.53%) BGP
9 8 (1.53%) OSPF
10 7 (1.34%) SSL
10 7 (1.34%) WLAN
11 6 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (1.15%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.95%) Wireless
13 4 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (0.76%) VLAN
14 3 (0.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.21%) Power BI
3 25 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.39%) BigQuery
5 20 (3.82%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (2.10%) Db2
11 10 (1.91%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.72%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.53%) Tableau
14 7 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.34%) Metabase
14 7 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.15%) Looker
15 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (6.30%) Git
2 14 (2.67%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.48%) JIRA
4 12 (2.29%) Visual Studio
5 11 (2.10%) GitLab
5 11 (2.10%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.91%) MLflow
7 4 (0.76%) Maven
7 4 (0.76%) TestRail
7 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.57%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.57%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Mockito
8 3 (0.57%) Spock
8 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.38%) Vite
10 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.19%) Postman
10 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 147 (28.05%) Finance
2 96 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 41 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.20%) Law
5 18 (3.44%) Banking
6 14 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.29%) Legal
8 10 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.72%) Front Office
9 9 (1.72%) Retail
10 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.57%) Advertising
12 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.57%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) French Language
13 1 (0.19%) Marketing
13 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (18.32%) Architect
2 94 (17.94%) Senior
3 88 (16.79%) Lead
4 65 (12.40%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (9.35%) Developer
6 37 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (6.49%) Data Engineer
9 31 (5.92%) Azure Architect
9 31 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (5.73%) Analyst
11 24 (4.58%) IT Architect
12 22 (4.20%) Consultant
13 21 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.24%) IT Support
15 17 (3.24%) Principal Engineer
15 17 (3.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.92%) .NET
2 21 (4.01%) React
3 20 (3.82%) Django
4 19 (3.63%) REST
5 18 (3.44%) LangChain
5 18 (3.44%) OAuth
6 14 (2.67%) Kafka
6 14 (2.67%) PySpark
7 13 (2.48%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.10%) OpenID
8 11 (2.10%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.91%) RESTful
10 9 (1.72%) LlamaIndex
10 9 (1.72%) Spring
10 9 (1.72%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.53%) Blazor
11 8 (1.53%) JWT
11 8 (1.53%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.34%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.34%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 14 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.29%) AI Agents
10 11 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.53%) Clustering
13 8 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.34%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.15%) Security Posture
16 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.36%) Windows
2 29 (5.53%) Linux
3 26 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.24%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.76%) Android
7 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
8 2 (0.38%) VMS
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (29.20%) DevOps
2 113 (21.56%) CI/CD
3 87 (16.60%) Agile
4 85 (16.22%) AI
5 80 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (12.60%) Mentoring
8 58 (11.07%) Data Engineering
8 58 (11.07%) Microservices
9 54 (10.31%) Roadmaps
10 53 (10.11%) Analytics
11 48 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (8.78%) Machine Learning
13 41 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (7.82%) Software Engineering
14 40 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (7.25%) Generative AI
16 37 (7.06%) Platform Engineering
17 36 (6.87%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 111 (21.18%) Python
1 111 (21.18%) SQL
2 57 (10.88%) C#
3 49 (9.35%) PowerShell
4 23 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.01%) Java
6 13 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.10%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.72%) Bash
8 9 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.34%) Bicep
9 7 (1.34%) C++
9 7 (1.34%) DataWeave
10 5 (0.95%) C
10 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.95%) Go
11 4 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.57%) R
12 3 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (8.59%) Degree
2 28 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (4.96%) CISSP
4 24 (4.58%) Security Cleared
5 23 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.63%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.10%) CEH
9 9 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.15%) CISM
11 5 (0.95%) CCSP
11 5 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.95%) GIAC
12 4 (0.76%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.76%) GPEN
12 4 (0.76%) GXPN
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.76%) OSCE
12 4 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.44%) GDPR
3 17 (3.24%) NIST
4 16 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.05%) QA
5 7 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.76%) COBIT
8 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) SLA
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.38%) NCSC
9 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.96%) Docker
3 18 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) NLBS
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (14.89%) Terraform
2 67 (12.79%) Kubernetes
3 34 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (4.77%) Ansible
5 22 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.91%) SCCM
7 7 (1.34%) CloudHub
8 5 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.57%) Grafana
10 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.19%) Argo
11 1 (0.19%) Cilium
11 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 175 (33.40%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.16%) Databricks
3 36 (6.87%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.92%) VMware
5 26 (4.96%) Google
6 18 (3.44%) Cisco
7 14 (2.67%) SAP
8 13 (2.48%) Guidewire
9 12 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.91%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.72%) iManage
13 8 (1.53%) MuleSoft
14 7 (1.34%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.34%) Dell
15 6 (1.15%) Cloudera
15 6 (1.15%) Okta
15 6 (1.15%) Oracle
15 6 (1.15%) Workday