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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 547 664 747
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 19.45% 26.74% 23.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.10% 51.31% 47.28%
Number of salaries quoted 437 504 702
10th Percentile £48,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +2.74% -2.67%

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 1,011 1,294 1,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.94% 52.11% 50.19%
Number of salaries quoted 793 909 1,442
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £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 21 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of 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 44 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Applications
1 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.55%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (21.76%) Azure DevOps
2 108 (19.74%) Power Platform
3 107 (19.56%) AWS
4 105 (19.20%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (12.98%) GCP
6 48 (8.78%) Entra ID
7 42 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 39 (7.13%) Power Automate
9 34 (6.22%) PowerApps
10 30 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (4.94%) SaaS
12 26 (4.75%) PaaS
13 21 (3.84%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (3.66%) GitHub
15 19 (3.47%) Serverless
16 17 (3.11%) dbt
17 15 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 14 (2.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.41%) Firewall
2 31 (5.67%) VPN
3 27 (4.94%) DNS
4 25 (4.57%) DHCP
5 19 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (2.56%) WAN
7 13 (2.38%) LAN
8 12 (2.19%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.28%) Network Security
11 5 (0.91%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.91%) VoIP
11 5 (0.91%) WebEx
12 4 (0.73%) Wireless
13 3 (0.55%) BGP
13 3 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (0.55%) OSPF
13 3 (0.55%) VSAN
13 3 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (14.81%) Power BI
2 59 (10.79%) SQL Server
3 44 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.57%) Data Lake
4 25 (4.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (3.47%) BigQuery
6 19 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.83%) Metabase
8 8 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.10%) DB2
11 5 (0.91%) Metadata
12 4 (0.73%) Big Data
12 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.73%) Power Query
12 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (6.22%) Git
2 23 (4.20%) Visual Studio
3 15 (2.74%) Eclipse
4 13 (2.38%) JIRA
4 13 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (2.19%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.55%) GitLab
7 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.55%) MLflow
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.37%) ERwin
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.37%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.18%) NUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 174 (31.81%) Finance
2 124 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.03%) Legal
5 32 (5.85%) Law
6 21 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.11%) Banking
8 14 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.56%) Retail
9 13 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.10%) Advertising
11 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Front Office
13 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.18%) International Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (17.55%) Senior
2 80 (14.63%) Lead
3 58 (10.60%) Developer
4 52 (9.51%) Architect
4 52 (9.51%) Data Engineer
5 42 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (6.95%) Analyst
7 35 (6.40%) Support Engineer
8 27 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.75%) Software Engineer
10 22 (4.02%) IT Support
11 21 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (3.84%) IT Analyst
11 21 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
12 19 (3.47%) Network Engineer
13 18 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.93%) Azure Architect
14 16 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (2.93%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.74%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.88%) .NET
2 20 (3.66%) Django
2 20 (3.66%) React
3 19 (3.47%) REST
4 13 (2.38%) Web Services
5 12 (2.19%) RESTful
5 12 (2.19%) SOAP
6 11 (2.01%) YAML
7 9 (1.65%) .NET Core
7 9 (1.65%) CSS
7 9 (1.65%) HTML
7 9 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
7 9 (1.65%) Kafka
7 9 (1.65%) Node.js
7 9 (1.65%) WPF
8 8 (1.46%) OAuth
9 7 (1.28%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.28%) LangChain
9 7 (1.28%) PySpark
9 7 (1.28%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.29%) Reinsurance
5 18 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 82 (14.99%) Windows
2 27 (4.94%) Windows 10
3 21 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.56%) Linux
5 8 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.10%) Unix
8 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.55%) Android
9 3 (0.55%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (32.91%) DevOps
2 122 (22.30%) Agile
3 121 (22.12%) AI
4 119 (21.76%) CI/CD
5 100 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (13.53%) Analytics
8 71 (12.98%) Mentoring
9 68 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
10 61 (11.15%) ITIL
11 58 (10.60%) Data Pipeline
12 51 (9.32%) Microservices
12 51 (9.32%) Software Engineering
13 50 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 49 (8.96%) Computer Science
15 47 (8.59%) ETL
16 46 (8.41%) Migration
17 45 (8.23%) Data Modelling
18 40 (7.31%) Machine Learning
19 39 (7.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 148 (27.06%) SQL
2 147 (26.87%) Python
3 69 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 59 (10.79%) C#
5 29 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.56%) Java
7 13 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.19%) Bicep
9 11 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.83%) Bash
11 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.10%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.73%) Go
13 4 (0.73%) Rust
14 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.55%) R
15 2 (0.37%) C++
15 2 (0.37%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (12.25%) Degree
2 41 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (4.20%) CISSP
3 23 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.29%) Security Cleared
6 17 (3.11%) SC Cleared
7 16 (2.93%) CISM
8 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.46%) CEH
8 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.91%) GIAC
12 4 (0.73%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.73%) CISA
12 4 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.55%) CCNA
13 3 (0.55%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (5.48%) GDPR
3 29 (5.30%) NIST
4 13 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.65%) QA
6 6 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.91%) NCSC
8 4 (0.73%) COBIT
8 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.55%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (11.88%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.03%) Docker
3 16 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.73%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.55%) vSphere
8 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) NLBS
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (10.24%) Terraform
2 45 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 44 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (3.29%) SCCM
5 16 (2.93%) Ansible
6 13 (2.38%) Grafana
6 13 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.28%) Kibana
8 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.18%) Ambari
11 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 217 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.42%) Databricks
3 38 (6.95%) ServiceNow
4 28 (5.12%) Google
5 21 (3.84%) VMware
6 17 (3.11%) Cisco
7 13 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.19%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.01%) Citrix
10 9 (1.65%) Meraki
11 8 (1.46%) iManage
11 8 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.46%) Oracle
12 6 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.10%) SAP
13 5 (0.91%) Commvault
13 5 (0.91%) Sophos
14 4 (0.73%) Apple
14 4 (0.73%) CheckPoint
14 4 (0.73%) EMC