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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 471 717 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 20.00% 27.13% 24.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.98% 51.96% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 375 535 638
10th Percentile £51,600 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,875
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.45% -3.33%

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 889 1,380 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.75% 52.21% 51.18%
Number of salaries quoted 700 945 1,345
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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

Azure
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 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

Azure
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the City of London region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £87,500 -
Azure
Central London

Azure
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 36 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.64%) IIS
5 2 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 21 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (22.51%) Power Platform
2 104 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
3 99 (21.02%) AWS
4 81 (17.20%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (13.59%) GCP
6 42 (8.92%) Power Automate
7 37 (7.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (7.86%) PowerApps
8 35 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (6.58%) Entra ID
10 28 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (4.46%) PaaS
12 19 (4.03%) GitHub
13 17 (3.61%) SaaS
13 17 (3.61%) Serverless
13 17 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 16 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (2.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.07%) Firewall
2 21 (4.46%) VPN
3 15 (3.18%) DNS
4 12 (2.55%) DHCP
4 12 (2.55%) WAN
5 11 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.12%) LAN
7 7 (1.49%) Network Security
7 7 (1.49%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.49%) VoIP
8 5 (1.06%) NetScaler
8 5 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.64%) Wireless
10 2 (0.42%) BGP
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.42%) MPLS
10 2 (0.42%) OSPF
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) VSAN
10 2 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (16.77%) Power BI
2 46 (9.77%) SQL Server
3 44 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.76%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.27%) Metabase
11 6 (1.27%) Metadata
11 6 (1.27%) Power Query
12 4 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.85%) Tableau
13 3 (0.64%) Big Data
13 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.64%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 37 (7.86%) Git
2 23 (4.88%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 12 (2.55%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.34%) Eclipse
6 10 (2.12%) JIRA
7 5 (1.06%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.64%) GitLab
8 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.42%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.42%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.42%) ERwin
9 2 (0.42%) MLflow
9 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.21%) NUnit
10 1 (0.21%) Postman
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
10 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 152 (32.27%) Finance
2 115 (24.42%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.22%) Legal
5 30 (6.37%) Law
6 18 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.82%) Retail
7 15 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.97%) Banking
8 14 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.27%) Advertising
10 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.42%) Marketing
12 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (18.05%) Senior
2 78 (16.56%) Lead
3 57 (12.10%) Developer
4 48 (10.19%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.86%) Architect
6 32 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (5.73%) Analyst
8 26 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 26 (5.52%) Support Engineer
9 21 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.40%) Network Engineer
12 14 (2.97%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.97%) IT Support
12 14 (2.97%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.76%) Azure Architect
13 13 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.62%) .NET
2 20 (4.25%) REST
2 20 (4.25%) Web Services
3 17 (3.61%) React
4 15 (3.18%) SOAP
5 13 (2.76%) Django
6 11 (2.34%) HTML
7 10 (2.12%) CSS
7 10 (2.12%) RESTful
8 9 (1.91%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.91%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (1.91%) Node.js
8 9 (1.91%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.70%) LangChain
9 8 (1.70%) PySpark
9 8 (1.70%) WPF
10 7 (1.49%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.49%) Kafka
10 7 (1.49%) YAML
11 6 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (4.03%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.03%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.18%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.55%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.70%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.70%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.49%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
15 4 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.31%) Windows
2 17 (3.61%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.34%) Linux
5 7 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.27%) Unix
7 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.42%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (31.85%) DevOps
2 117 (24.84%) Agile
3 114 (24.20%) CI/CD
4 107 (22.72%) AI
5 101 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (14.44%) Analytics
7 62 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (12.74%) Mentoring
10 54 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
10 54 (11.46%) ITIL
11 51 (10.83%) ETL
12 49 (10.40%) Data Modelling
13 47 (9.98%) Migration
14 46 (9.77%) Computer Science
15 44 (9.34%) Software Engineering
16 39 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 39 (8.28%) Machine Learning
17 38 (8.07%) Decision-Making
17 38 (8.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 134 (28.45%) Python
2 130 (27.60%) SQL
3 62 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 52 (11.04%) C#
5 26 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (3.18%) Java
8 12 (2.55%) Bicep
8 12 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.55%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.70%) Bash
10 4 (0.85%) Rust
10 4 (0.85%) Scala
11 3 (0.64%) Go
12 2 (0.42%) C++
12 2 (0.42%) R
12 2 (0.42%) VBA
13 1 (0.21%) Groovy
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (12.53%) Degree
2 34 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (5.10%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.03%) Security Cleared
6 18 (3.82%) CISSP
7 17 (3.61%) SC Cleared
8 14 (2.97%) CISM
9 10 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.70%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.49%) CEH
12 4 (0.85%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.85%) MCP
13 3 (0.64%) CCNP
13 3 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (6.16%) GDPR
3 23 (4.88%) NIST
4 10 (2.12%) QA
5 9 (1.91%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.06%) NCSC
7 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.42%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (9.55%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.37%) Docker
3 13 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.27%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.64%) vSphere
7 3 (0.64%) XenApp
8 2 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (10.40%) Terraform
2 31 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.03%) SCCM
5 13 (2.76%) Ansible
6 12 (2.55%) Grafana
7 10 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.27%) Kibana
9 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.42%) SCOM
11 1 (0.21%) Ambari
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) Autotask
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 187 (39.70%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.68%) Databricks
3 29 (6.16%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.25%) Google
5 18 (3.82%) VMware
6 14 (2.97%) Cisco
7 13 (2.76%) Citrix
8 12 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 11 (2.34%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.91%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.70%) Meraki
12 7 (1.49%) Oracle
13 6 (1.27%) iManage
14 5 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (1.06%) Sophos
15 4 (0.85%) Apple
15 4 (0.85%) Commvault
15 4 (0.85%) EMC
15 4 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.85%) SAP