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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 500 488 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.91% 25.67% 24.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.81% 51.59% 48.44%
Number of salaries quoted 374 385 586
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £78,500 £73,375
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +6.98% +4.82%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,275 £112,000 £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 1,168 946 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.16% 49.76% 49.67%
Number of salaries quoted 875 773 1,167
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -
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% -

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 24 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 24 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.40%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.40%) Mule
6 4 (0.80%) Apache
7 3 (0.60%) Confluence
8 2 (0.40%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (2.20%) PlantUML
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.80%) AWS
2 76 (15.20%) GCP
3 72 (14.40%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (14.00%) Power Platform
5 67 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (11.00%) Entra ID
7 34 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (5.80%) SaaS
9 28 (5.60%) PaaS
10 23 (4.60%) Serverless
11 21 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (3.80%) GitHub
12 19 (3.80%) IaaS
13 18 (3.60%) Azure AKS
13 18 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.60%) Power Automate
14 16 (3.20%) dbt
15 14 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 41 (8.20%) Firewall
2 22 (4.40%) Network Security
3 18 (3.60%) DNS
4 15 (3.00%) VPN
5 13 (2.60%) DHCP
6 10 (2.00%) WAN
6 10 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.80%) LAN
7 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.60%) BGP
8 8 (1.60%) OSPF
9 7 (1.40%) SSL
9 7 (1.40%) WLAN
10 6 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (1.20%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.00%) Wireless
12 4 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.80%) VLAN
13 3 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.60%) Power BI
2 42 (8.40%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.20%) BigQuery
6 20 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (2.20%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.00%) Db2
11 10 (2.00%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.80%) Tableau
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.40%) Metabase
13 7 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.20%) Looker
14 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (6.40%) Git
2 13 (2.60%) Eclipse
2 13 (2.60%) JIRA
3 12 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.40%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.20%) GitLab
5 10 (2.00%) MLflow
6 4 (0.80%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) TestRail
6 4 (0.80%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.60%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.60%) JUnit
7 3 (0.60%) Mockito
7 3 (0.60%) Spock
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.40%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (28.40%) Finance
2 87 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 39 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.80%) Law
5 17 (3.40%) Banking
6 13 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.40%) Legal
8 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.80%) Retail
10 7 (1.40%) Front Office
11 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.60%) Advertising
12 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.60%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.20%) French Language
13 1 (0.20%) Marketing
13 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (19.40%) Architect
2 88 (17.60%) Senior
3 84 (16.80%) Lead
4 63 (12.60%) Azure Engineer
5 48 (9.60%) Developer
6 36 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
7 34 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 33 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (6.20%) Azure Architect
10 30 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (5.60%) Analyst
12 24 (4.80%) IT Architect
13 21 (4.20%) Consultant
14 20 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 18 (3.60%) IT Support
16 17 (3.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.20%) IT Analyst
17 16 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (3.20%) Security Engineer
17 16 (3.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.80%) .NET
2 20 (4.00%) React
2 20 (4.00%) REST
3 19 (3.80%) LangChain
4 18 (3.60%) OAuth
5 17 (3.40%) Django
6 16 (3.20%) PySpark
7 15 (3.00%) Kafka
8 13 (2.60%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.20%) OpenID
9 11 (2.20%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.00%) Spring
10 10 (2.00%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.80%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (1.80%) RESTful
12 8 (1.60%) Blazor
12 8 (1.60%) JWT
12 8 (1.60%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.60%) YAML
13 7 (1.40%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.80%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.20%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.00%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.40%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.60%) Clustering
11 8 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.60%) Windows
2 29 (5.80%) Linux
3 23 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.20%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (28.80%) DevOps
2 111 (22.20%) CI/CD
3 87 (17.40%) Agile
4 86 (17.20%) AI
5 75 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (12.80%) Mentoring
7 59 (11.80%) Data Engineering
8 56 (11.20%) Microservices
9 53 (10.60%) Roadmaps
10 49 (9.80%) Analytics
11 47 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (9.00%) Machine Learning
13 41 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (7.80%) Generative AI
14 39 (7.80%) Software Engineering
15 38 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (7.40%) Data Architecture
16 37 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (21.60%) SQL
2 107 (21.40%) Python
3 54 (10.80%) C#
4 46 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.60%) Java
7 14 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.00%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.80%) Bash
9 9 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.40%) Bicep
10 7 (1.40%) C++
10 7 (1.40%) DataWeave
11 5 (1.00%) C
11 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.00%) Go
12 4 (0.80%) R
12 4 (0.80%) Scala
13 3 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (8.40%) Degree
2 26 (5.20%) CISSP
2 26 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 26 (5.20%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 21 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.20%) CEH
7 9 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.20%) CISM
9 5 (1.00%) CCSP
9 5 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.00%) GIAC
10 4 (0.80%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.80%) GPEN
10 4 (0.80%) GXPN
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.80%) OSCE
10 4 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.40%) GDPR
3 16 (3.20%) QA
4 13 (2.60%) NIST
5 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) COBIT
9 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 61 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.40%) Docker
3 19 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) NLBS
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (15.20%) Terraform
2 68 (13.60%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (5.00%) Ansible
5 22 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.80%) SCCM
7 7 (1.40%) CloudHub
8 5 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.00%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Cilium
10 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.20%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 168 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.80%) Databricks
3 34 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 31 (6.20%) VMware
5 23 (4.60%) Google
6 18 (3.60%) Cisco
7 13 (2.60%) Guidewire
7 13 (2.60%) SAP
8 12 (2.40%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.60%) iManage
11 8 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.40%) Dell
13 6 (1.20%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.20%) Okta
13 6 (1.20%) Workday
14 5 (1.00%) Thales