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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 413 429 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.46% 24.14% 25.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.57% 50.12% 50.95%
Number of salaries quoted 310 334 565
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £59,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +6.38%
75th Percentile £99,688 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 1,018 856 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.72% 48.17% 50.80%
Number of salaries quoted 758 698 1,063
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,034 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,173 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £106,250
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 1 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 13 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.69%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.69%) Mule
6 3 (0.73%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.69%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (24.94%) AWS
2 66 (15.98%) GCP
3 63 (15.25%) Power Platform
4 51 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (11.38%) Entra ID
6 43 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (6.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (5.57%) Serverless
10 22 (5.33%) PaaS
10 22 (5.33%) SaaS
11 19 (4.60%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (4.12%) GitHub
13 16 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (3.63%) IaaS
15 14 (3.39%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.39%) PowerApps
16 11 (2.66%) dbt
17 9 (2.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.47%) Firewall
2 20 (4.84%) Network Security
3 12 (2.91%) DNS
4 10 (2.42%) VPN
5 9 (2.18%) WAN
6 8 (1.94%) SSL
7 7 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (1.69%) DHCP
7 7 (1.69%) LAN
7 7 (1.69%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.45%) BGP
8 6 (1.45%) OSPF
8 6 (1.45%) VLAN
8 6 (1.45%) Wireless
9 5 (1.21%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.21%) WLAN
10 4 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.73%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.72%) Power BI
2 30 (7.26%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.12%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (3.63%) BigQuery
5 15 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.18%) Spark SQL
7 9 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (2.18%) Tableau
8 8 (1.94%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.45%) Looker
10 6 (1.45%) Milvus
10 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.97%) Db2
11 4 (0.97%) Metadata
11 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (7.75%) Git
2 13 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.66%) GitLab
4 9 (2.18%) Eclipse
4 9 (2.18%) MLflow
5 8 (1.94%) JIRA
6 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.45%) Maven
8 5 (1.21%) JUnit
8 5 (1.21%) Mockito
9 4 (0.97%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.73%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.73%) Spock
10 3 (0.73%) TestRail
10 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.48%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) Vite
12 1 (0.24%) Appium
12 1 (0.24%) JMeter
12 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 118 (28.57%) Finance
2 70 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.81%) Law
5 17 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.87%) Banking
7 10 (2.42%) Legal
8 9 (2.18%) Retail
9 8 (1.94%) Front Office
10 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 2 (0.48%) Back Office
13 2 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.24%) Billing
14 1 (0.24%) Games
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (18.40%) Architect
2 73 (17.68%) Lead
2 73 (17.68%) Senior
3 56 (13.56%) Azure Engineer
4 52 (12.59%) Developer
5 30 (7.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (7.26%) Data Engineer
5 30 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.05%) Azure Architect
8 21 (5.08%) Consultant
9 20 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.12%) Analyst
11 17 (4.12%) Lead Developer
12 16 (3.87%) Azure Developer
13 15 (3.63%) IT Architect
14 14 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
14 14 (3.39%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.71%) Terraform
2 39 (9.44%) .NET
3 20 (4.84%) LangChain
4 17 (4.12%) REST
5 15 (3.63%) OAuth
6 14 (3.39%) PySpark
7 12 (2.91%) PyTorch
7 12 (2.91%) React
8 11 (2.66%) Kafka
8 11 (2.66%) TensorFlow
9 10 (2.42%) Django
9 10 (2.42%) Spring
9 10 (2.42%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.18%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.94%) JWT
11 8 (1.94%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.94%) OpenID
11 8 (1.94%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.69%) Blazor
12 7 (1.69%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.87%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.94%) Clustering
10 8 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.17%) Windows
2 26 (6.30%) Linux
3 17 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (27.36%) DevOps
2 103 (24.94%) CI/CD
3 70 (16.95%) Agile
4 69 (16.71%) AI
4 69 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (13.56%) Data Engineering
7 52 (12.59%) Roadmaps
8 51 (12.35%) Mentoring
9 44 (10.65%) Microservices
10 43 (10.41%) Analytics
11 41 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (8.96%) Machine Learning
15 36 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (7.99%) Generative AI
17 32 (7.75%) Data Architecture
17 32 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 93 (22.52%) Python
2 86 (20.82%) SQL
3 47 (11.38%) C#
4 40 (9.69%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.57%) Java
6 21 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.42%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.94%) Bash
9 8 (1.94%) Bicep
10 7 (1.69%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.45%) C++
11 6 (1.45%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.97%) C
12 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.97%) Go
12 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.73%) Perl
13 3 (0.73%) R
13 3 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (8.23%) Degree
2 27 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.81%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.60%) CISSP
6 18 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.18%) CEH
9 6 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.21%) CFA
11 4 (0.97%) CCSP
11 4 (0.97%) CISM
11 4 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.73%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.73%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.73%) GIAC
12 3 (0.73%) GXPN
12 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.36%) GDPR
2 18 (4.36%) QA
3 9 (2.18%) NIST
4 7 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) NCSC
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.48%) PMO
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (10.65%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.08%) Docker
3 15 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.84%) Ansible
2 20 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.69%) CloudHub
5 6 (1.45%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.45%) SCCM
6 4 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.48%) Grafana
7 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.24%) Argo
8 1 (0.24%) Cilium
8 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 135 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.90%) Databricks
3 26 (6.30%) VMware
4 21 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.36%) Google
6 17 (4.12%) Cisco
7 12 (2.91%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.66%) Guidewire
8 11 (2.66%) SAP
9 9 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (2.18%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.69%) Dell
10 7 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.69%) Okta
10 7 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.45%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.45%) Foundry
12 5 (1.21%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.21%) iManage
12 5 (1.21%) Red Hat