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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 453 447 699
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.75% 24.44% 25.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.29% 50.97% 50.73%
Number of salaries quoted 336 349 567
10th Percentile £52,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,313 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +7.53% +4.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 1,097 877 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.88% 47.95% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 813 715 1,085
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,213 £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 £106,650 £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 18 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 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.55%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.55%) 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 (1.99%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (23.40%) AWS
2 68 (15.01%) GCP
3 67 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 54 (11.92%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (11.26%) Entra ID
7 31 (6.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (5.74%) Serverless
9 25 (5.52%) PaaS
9 25 (5.52%) SaaS
10 24 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.42%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.19%) GitHub
13 17 (3.75%) IaaS
14 16 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (3.31%) PowerApps
16 14 (3.09%) Azure AKS
17 12 (2.65%) dbt
18 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.39%) Firewall
2 23 (5.08%) Network Security
3 12 (2.65%) DNS
4 11 (2.43%) WAN
5 9 (1.99%) LAN
5 9 (1.99%) VPN
6 8 (1.77%) BGP
6 8 (1.77%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (1.77%) OSPF
6 8 (1.77%) SSL
7 7 (1.55%) DHCP
7 7 (1.55%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.55%) Wireless
7 7 (1.55%) WLAN
8 6 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.32%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.10%) VLAN
10 3 (0.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.39%) Power BI
2 34 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.19%) Data Lake
3 19 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (3.75%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.21%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.21%) Spark SQL
9 9 (1.99%) Tableau
10 7 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.32%) Db2
11 6 (1.32%) Looker
11 6 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.10%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (7.51%) Git
2 13 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.43%) GitLab
3 11 (2.43%) JIRA
4 10 (2.21%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.99%) MLflow
6 8 (1.77%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.32%) Maven
8 5 (1.10%) JUnit
8 5 (1.10%) Mockito
8 5 (1.10%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.88%) TestRail
10 3 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.66%) Spock
10 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.44%) Selenium
11 2 (0.44%) Vite
12 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 132 (29.14%) Finance
2 75 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.30%) Law
5 19 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.75%) Banking
7 12 (2.65%) Legal
8 9 (1.99%) Front Office
8 9 (1.99%) Retail
9 7 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.10%) 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%) Billing
13 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (18.76%) Architect
2 80 (17.66%) Senior
3 79 (17.44%) Lead
4 60 (13.25%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (12.14%) Developer
6 31 (6.84%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.96%) Azure Architect
10 23 (5.08%) Analyst
11 20 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.42%) Consultant
12 18 (3.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.97%) IT Architect
13 17 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.75%) Lead Developer
14 16 (3.53%) Azure Developer
15 15 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.27%) .NET
2 21 (4.64%) LangChain
3 20 (4.42%) REST
4 17 (3.75%) OAuth
5 16 (3.53%) PySpark
5 16 (3.53%) React
6 13 (2.87%) Django
6 13 (2.87%) Kafka
6 13 (2.87%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.43%) TensorFlow
8 10 (2.21%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (2.21%) OpenID
8 10 (2.21%) Spring
8 10 (2.21%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.77%) Blazor
9 8 (1.77%) JWT
9 8 (1.77%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.77%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.55%) MUnit
10 7 (1.55%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.53%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.77%) Clustering
9 8 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.60%) Windows
2 28 (6.18%) Linux
3 18 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (26.49%) DevOps
2 108 (23.84%) CI/CD
3 80 (17.66%) Agile
4 78 (17.22%) AI
5 72 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (13.02%) Mentoring
8 58 (12.80%) Data Engineering
8 58 (12.80%) Roadmaps
9 50 (11.04%) Microservices
10 47 (10.38%) Analytics
11 43 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (9.27%) Machine Learning
13 41 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (8.39%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (7.73%) Generative AI
17 34 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
18 33 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (22.08%) Python
2 95 (20.97%) SQL
3 51 (11.26%) C#
4 44 (9.71%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.08%) Java
7 14 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.21%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.77%) Bash
9 8 (1.77%) Bicep
10 7 (1.55%) DataWeave
10 7 (1.55%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.32%) C++
11 6 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Go
13 4 (0.88%) Scala
14 3 (0.66%) R
14 3 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (8.39%) Degree
2 28 (6.18%) Azure Certification
3 27 (5.96%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.86%) CISSP
4 22 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (4.86%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.21%) CEH
7 7 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.10%) CFA
9 4 (0.88%) CCSP
9 4 (0.88%) CISM
9 4 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.66%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.66%) GXPN
10 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.19%) GDPR
2 19 (4.19%) QA
3 10 (2.21%) NIST
4 8 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.44%) NCSC
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%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) SEPA
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (11.04%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.86%) Docker
3 17 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (15.89%) Terraform
2 56 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.86%) Ansible
4 21 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.77%) SCCM
7 7 (1.55%) CloudHub
7 7 (1.55%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.44%) Grafana
9 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.22%) Argo
10 1 (0.22%) Cilium
10 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 151 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.38%) Databricks
3 29 (6.40%) VMware
4 27 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.42%) Google
6 18 (3.97%) Cisco
7 12 (2.65%) Guidewire
7 12 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.65%) SAP
8 10 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.55%) Dell
10 7 (1.55%) iManage
10 7 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.55%) Okta
11 6 (1.32%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.32%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.32%) Foundry
12 5 (1.10%) Red Hat