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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 388 758 732
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 22.53% 27.27% 24.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.79% 53.04% 47.97%
Number of salaries quoted 306 562 661
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +0.69% -4.00%

All Cloud 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 764 1,429 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 44.37% 51.40% 50.58%
Number of salaries quoted 620 982 1,415
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,456 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £115,000
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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 0 5 £87,500 +14.75%
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 38 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.03%) Moodle
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.77%) Confluence
6 2 (0.52%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 29 (7.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 107 (27.58%) Power Platform
2 96 (24.74%) AWS
3 86 (22.16%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (15.72%) GCP
6 47 (12.11%) Power Automate
7 46 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
8 44 (11.34%) PowerApps
9 42 (10.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (7.22%) Entra ID
11 24 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (4.90%) Serverless
13 18 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (4.12%) GitHub
14 16 (4.12%) Snowflake
15 14 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (3.61%) PaaS
16 12 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (3.09%) SaaS
17 11 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.51%) Firewall
2 14 (3.61%) Network Security
2 14 (3.61%) WAN
3 13 (3.35%) LAN
3 13 (3.35%) VoIP
4 12 (3.09%) DNS
5 11 (2.84%) VPN
6 9 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.06%) DHCP
8 5 (1.29%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.52%) BGP
10 2 (0.52%) MPLS
10 2 (0.52%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.52%) OSPF
10 2 (0.52%) SAN
10 2 (0.52%) VLAN
10 2 (0.52%) VSAN
10 2 (0.52%) Wireless
11 1 (0.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (21.13%) Power BI
2 41 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 35 (9.02%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (6.44%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.80%) Metadata
9 6 (1.55%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.55%) Power Query
10 5 (1.29%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.29%) Tableau
11 4 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.77%) Big Data
12 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.28%) Git
2 20 (5.15%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.58%) JIRA
4 8 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (2.06%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.55%) GitLab
6 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.52%) ERwin
8 2 (0.52%) MLflow
8 2 (0.52%) NUnit
8 2 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.26%) MSTest
9 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 146 (37.63%) Finance
2 116 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 50 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.25%) Legal
5 26 (6.70%) Law
6 20 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.90%) Retail
8 17 (4.38%) Banking
9 16 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.84%) Marketing
12 10 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.55%) Back Office
13 6 (1.55%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.03%) Advertising
15 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 77 (19.85%) Lead
2 73 (18.81%) Senior
3 50 (12.89%) Developer
4 40 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.22%) Architect
6 23 (5.93%) Analyst
6 23 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (4.64%) Software Engineer
8 17 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (3.87%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.09%) IT Manager
11 12 (3.09%) IT Support
11 12 (3.09%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.09%) Senior Developer
12 11 (2.84%) Data Architect
12 11 (2.84%) Power Platform Developer
12 11 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.08%) .NET
2 32 (8.25%) React
3 23 (5.93%) Web Services
4 18 (4.64%) REST
5 14 (3.61%) PySpark
5 14 (3.61%) SOAP
6 12 (3.09%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.84%) Node.js
8 10 (2.58%) HTML
8 10 (2.58%) Kafka
9 9 (2.32%) .NET Framework
9 9 (2.32%) CSS
9 9 (2.32%) Django
9 9 (2.32%) HTML5 Canvas
10 8 (2.06%) .NET Core
10 8 (2.06%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.80%) Vue
12 6 (1.55%) RESTful
12 6 (1.55%) YAML
13 5 (1.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.38%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.84%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.32%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.06%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.06%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.55%) PKI
10 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.18%) Windows
2 20 (5.15%) Windows Server
3 15 (3.87%) Linux
4 13 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.06%) Unix
6 6 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.77%) VMS
8 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (30.67%) DevOps
2 115 (29.64%) Agile
2 115 (29.64%) CI/CD
3 94 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (20.36%) AI
5 65 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
6 60 (15.46%) Analytics
7 58 (14.95%) Data Modelling
8 50 (12.89%) Mentoring
9 49 (12.63%) ETL
10 48 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (12.37%) Decision-Making
11 45 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (10.57%) ITIL
13 41 (10.57%) Migration
14 40 (10.31%) Computer Science
14 40 (10.31%) Software Engineering
14 40 (10.31%) Workflow
15 38 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (31.44%) Python
2 113 (29.12%) SQL
3 54 (13.92%) C#
4 52 (13.40%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.70%) Java
7 18 (4.64%) T-SQL
8 16 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.58%) Bash
11 5 (1.29%) Bicep
12 4 (1.03%) Go
12 4 (1.03%) Rust
12 4 (1.03%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.52%) X++
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (14.69%) Degree
2 30 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.87%) CISSP
7 14 (3.61%) SC Cleared
8 13 (3.35%) Master's Degree
9 12 (3.09%) CISM
10 7 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.55%) CEH
11 6 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.03%) CCNA
13 4 (1.03%) DV Cleared
13 4 (1.03%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.03%) PMP
14 3 (0.77%) CCNP
14 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.73%) GDPR
2 24 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.87%) NIST
4 12 (3.09%) QA
5 8 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.03%) NCSC
8 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.77%) SLA
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.44%) Docker
3 12 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.55%) XenDesktop
7 5 (1.29%) XenApp
8 4 (1.03%) vSphere
9 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.26%) KVM
11 1 (0.26%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (10.82%) Terraform
2 36 (9.28%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.15%) SCCM
5 16 (4.12%) Ansible
6 12 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.80%) Grafana
8 5 (1.29%) Autotask
9 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.77%) SCOM
10 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.52%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) Ambari
11 1 (0.26%) Argo
11 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 180 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.43%) Databricks
3 21 (5.41%) VMware
4 20 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.38%) Google
6 15 (3.87%) Cisco
7 13 (3.35%) Citrix
8 11 (2.84%) Oracle
9 10 (2.58%) Meraki
9 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.32%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.29%) iManage
11 5 (1.29%) Okta
11 5 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.29%) Siebel
11 5 (1.29%) SonicWALL
11 5 (1.29%) Sophos
12 4 (1.03%) Informatica
12 4 (1.03%) Intapp
12 4 (1.03%) Zscaler