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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 399 391 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.69% 22.92% 25.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.84% 48.27% 51.37%
Number of salaries quoted 300 312 560
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,563 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +6.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £107,625
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +10.34% +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 977 810 1,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.08% 47.48% 50.48%
Number of salaries quoted 728 668 1,023
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,372 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,838 £117,875 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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 15 September 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 12 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.51%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.75%) Anypoint
4 7 (1.75%) Mule
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.75%) PlantUML
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.06%) AWS
2 63 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 60 (15.04%) GCP
4 50 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (11.78%) Entra ID
6 39 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (6.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.02%) SaaS
9 24 (6.02%) Serverless
10 21 (5.26%) PaaS
11 19 (4.76%) Power Automate
12 18 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (4.01%) GitHub
13 16 (4.01%) IaaS
14 15 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (3.76%) PowerApps
15 14 (3.51%) Azure AKS
16 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (2.51%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.77%) Firewall
2 20 (5.01%) Network Security
3 11 (2.76%) DNS
4 9 (2.26%) WAN
5 8 (2.01%) SSL
5 8 (2.01%) VPN
6 7 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.75%) LAN
7 6 (1.50%) BGP
7 6 (1.50%) DHCP
7 6 (1.50%) OSPF
7 6 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.50%) VLAN
7 6 (1.50%) Wireless
8 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.25%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.25%) WLAN
9 4 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.77%) Power BI
2 27 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (3.76%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.01%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.26%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.01%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.75%) Tableau
12 6 (1.50%) Metadata
13 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.00%) Looker
14 4 (1.00%) Milvus
14 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (8.02%) Git
2 12 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.51%) GitLab
4 8 (2.01%) Eclipse
4 8 (2.01%) JIRA
5 7 (1.75%) Maven
5 7 (1.75%) MLflow
6 6 (1.50%) JUnit
6 6 (1.50%) Mockito
6 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.00%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.75%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.75%) Spock
8 3 (0.75%) TestRail
8 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
9 2 (0.50%) Vite
10 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.25%) JMeter
10 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (30.33%) Finance
2 67 (16.79%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.27%) Law
5 19 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.76%) Banking
7 10 (2.51%) Legal
8 9 (2.26%) Front Office
8 9 (2.26%) Retail
9 5 (1.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.75%) Back Office
11 3 (0.75%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.25%) French Language
13 1 (0.25%) iGaming
13 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 75 (18.80%) Architect
2 68 (17.04%) Lead
3 67 (16.79%) Senior
4 52 (13.03%) Developer
5 51 (12.78%) Azure Engineer
6 31 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 29 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (6.02%) Azure Architect
10 22 (5.51%) Consultant
11 19 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.76%) Analyst
14 15 (3.76%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.51%) IT Architect
15 14 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (17.04%) Terraform
2 35 (8.77%) .NET
3 18 (4.51%) LangChain
3 18 (4.51%) REST
4 15 (3.76%) OAuth
5 14 (3.51%) PySpark
6 12 (3.01%) React
7 11 (2.76%) Spring
7 11 (2.76%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.51%) PyTorch
9 9 (2.26%) Kafka
9 9 (2.26%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.01%) Django
10 8 (2.01%) JWT
10 8 (2.01%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.01%) OpenID
11 7 (1.75%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.75%) MUnit
11 7 (1.75%) RAML
12 6 (1.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.01%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.50%) Clustering
9 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.52%) Windows
2 27 (6.77%) Linux
3 17 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.75%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (28.07%) DevOps
2 109 (27.32%) CI/CD
3 71 (17.79%) AI
4 68 (17.04%) Agile
5 64 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 52 (13.03%) Roadmaps
8 46 (11.53%) Mentoring
9 43 (10.78%) Analytics
10 42 (10.53%) Microservices
11 40 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (8.77%) Machine Learning
14 33 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (8.27%) Data Architecture
14 33 (8.27%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (8.02%) Generative AI
15 32 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (22.56%) Python
2 82 (20.55%) SQL
3 44 (11.03%) C#
4 37 (9.27%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.76%) Java
6 20 (5.01%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.26%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.51%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.01%) Bash
9 8 (2.01%) Bicep
10 7 (1.75%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.50%) C++
12 4 (1.00%) C
12 4 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.00%) Go
13 3 (0.75%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.75%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) Ruby
13 3 (0.75%) Scala
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (8.02%) Degree
2 27 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.76%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.51%) CISSP
6 16 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.01%) CEH
9 6 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.50%) CFA
9 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.00%) CCSP
10 4 (1.00%) CISM
10 4 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.75%) GIAC
11 3 (0.75%) GPEN
11 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.75%) OSCE
11 3 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.51%) QA
3 14 (3.51%) GDPR
4 7 (1.75%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) NCSC
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (10.28%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.76%) Docker
3 16 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.01%) Ansible
2 20 (5.01%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.75%) CloudHub
5 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.25%) SCCM
7 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.50%) Grafana
8 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Cilium
9 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 134 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.03%) Databricks
3 27 (6.77%) VMware
4 18 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.26%) Cisco
6 16 (4.01%) Google
7 12 (3.01%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.76%) SAP
9 10 (2.51%) Guidewire
10 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.01%) MuleSoft
11 8 (2.01%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.50%) Foundry
12 6 (1.50%) Okta
13 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.25%) Dell
13 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.00%) Cloudera
14 4 (1.00%) iManage