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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 457 451 699
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.82% 24.50% 25.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.36% 50.90% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 340 350 567
10th Percentile £51,925 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,313 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% +6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £107,625 £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 1,105 886 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.00% 48.13% 50.57%
Number of salaries quoted 820 721 1,085
10th Percentile £47,425 £40,532 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,360
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.24% -2.19%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,825 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -2.03%

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 17 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 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.53%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.53%) Mule
6 4 (0.88%) Apache
7 3 (0.66%) Confluence
8 2 (0.44%) Camunda
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.97%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (23.85%) AWS
2 71 (15.54%) GCP
3 67 (14.66%) Power Platform
4 56 (12.25%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (11.38%) Entra ID
7 31 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (5.69%) SaaS
8 26 (5.69%) Serverless
9 25 (5.47%) PaaS
10 24 (5.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.38%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.16%) GitHub
13 17 (3.72%) IaaS
14 15 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.06%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.84%) dbt
17 10 (2.19%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.32%) Firewall
2 22 (4.81%) Network Security
3 12 (2.63%) DNS
4 10 (2.19%) WAN
5 9 (1.97%) VPN
6 8 (1.75%) BGP
6 8 (1.75%) LAN
6 8 (1.75%) OSPF
6 8 (1.75%) SSL
7 7 (1.53%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (1.53%) DHCP
7 7 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.53%) WLAN
8 6 (1.31%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.31%) Wireless
9 5 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.88%) VLAN
11 3 (0.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.53%) Power BI
2 35 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.16%) BigQuery
4 19 (4.16%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.19%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.19%) Spark SQL
9 9 (1.97%) Tableau
10 7 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.31%) Db2
11 6 (1.31%) Looker
11 6 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.09%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.88%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 34 (7.44%) Git
2 13 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.41%) GitLab
3 11 (2.41%) JIRA
4 10 (2.19%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.97%) MLflow
5 9 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.31%) Maven
7 5 (1.09%) JUnit
7 5 (1.09%) Mockito
7 5 (1.09%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.88%) TestRail
9 3 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.66%) Spock
9 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.44%) Selenium
10 2 (0.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) JMeter
11 1 (0.22%) Postman
11 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 133 (29.10%) Finance
2 76 (16.63%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.03%) Law
5 19 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.72%) Banking
7 11 (2.41%) Legal
8 9 (1.97%) Front Office
8 9 (1.97%) Retail
9 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.66%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Advertising
12 2 (0.44%) Back Office
12 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.44%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (18.82%) Architect
2 82 (17.94%) Senior
3 78 (17.07%) Lead
4 60 (13.13%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (12.04%) Developer
6 31 (6.78%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.91%) Azure Architect
10 24 (5.25%) Analyst
11 20 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Consultant
12 18 (3.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.94%) IT Architect
13 17 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) Lead Developer
14 16 (3.50%) Azure Developer
14 16 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.28%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.19%) .NET
2 21 (4.60%) LangChain
3 20 (4.38%) REST
4 17 (3.72%) OAuth
5 16 (3.50%) PySpark
5 16 (3.50%) React
6 15 (3.28%) Django
7 13 (2.84%) Kafka
7 13 (2.84%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.41%) TensorFlow
9 10 (2.19%) LlamaIndex
9 10 (2.19%) OpenID
9 10 (2.19%) Spring
9 10 (2.19%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.75%) Blazor
10 8 (1.75%) JWT
10 8 (1.75%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.75%) RESTful
10 8 (1.75%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.53%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.75%) Clustering
10 8 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.72%) Windows
2 28 (6.13%) Linux
3 19 (4.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (26.48%) DevOps
2 108 (23.63%) CI/CD
3 81 (17.72%) Agile
4 78 (17.07%) AI
5 73 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (12.91%) Mentoring
8 58 (12.69%) Data Engineering
9 56 (12.25%) Roadmaps
10 52 (11.38%) Microservices
11 47 (10.28%) Analytics
12 44 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (9.19%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (9.19%) Machine Learning
14 38 (8.32%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (7.66%) Generative AI
16 35 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (7.66%) Software Engineering
17 33 (7.22%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 102 (22.32%) Python
2 96 (21.01%) SQL
3 51 (11.16%) C#
4 44 (9.63%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.03%) Java
7 14 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.75%) Bash
9 8 (1.75%) Bicep
10 7 (1.53%) DataWeave
10 7 (1.53%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.31%) C++
11 6 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Go
13 4 (0.88%) Scala
14 3 (0.66%) Perl
14 3 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (8.75%) Degree
2 28 (6.13%) Azure Certification
3 27 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.81%) CISSP
5 22 (4.81%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.19%) CEH
8 7 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.09%) CFA
10 4 (0.88%) CCSP
10 4 (0.88%) CISM
10 4 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.66%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.66%) GPEN
11 3 (0.66%) GXPN
11 3 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.16%) GDPR
2 19 (4.16%) QA
3 11 (2.41%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.44%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (11.16%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.81%) Docker
3 18 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) vSphere
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (15.75%) Terraform
2 56 (12.25%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.81%) Ansible
4 21 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.75%) SCCM
7 7 (1.53%) CloudHub
8 6 (1.31%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.44%) Grafana
10 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Cilium
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 152 (33.26%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.28%) Databricks
3 30 (6.56%) VMware
4 27 (5.91%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.03%) Google
6 17 (3.72%) Cisco
7 13 (2.84%) SAP
8 12 (2.63%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.63%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.19%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.97%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.53%) Dell
12 7 (1.53%) iManage
12 7 (1.53%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.53%) Okta
13 6 (1.31%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.31%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.09%) Foundry
14 5 (1.09%) Rapid7