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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 383 741 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 23.76% 26.83% 24.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.26% 53.19% 47.88%
Number of salaries quoted 305 550 660
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,225
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.26% -8.06%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -6.67%

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 762 1,393 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 47.27% 50.43% 50.54%
Number of salaries quoted 631 960 1,421
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £111,250 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -0.68%

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 5 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 5 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 6 £87,500 +14.75% 1
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 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.31%) Moodle
5 3 (0.78%) Confluence
5 3 (0.78%) IIS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 34 (8.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 103 (26.89%) Power Platform
2 94 (24.54%) AWS
3 86 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (16.19%) GCP
6 50 (13.05%) Dynamics 365
7 46 (12.01%) Power Automate
8 44 (11.49%) PowerApps
9 41 (10.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (7.31%) Entra ID
11 22 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (4.44%) Serverless
14 16 (4.18%) Snowflake
15 15 (3.92%) GitHub
16 14 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (3.66%) PaaS
17 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 11 (2.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.09%) Firewall
2 14 (3.66%) Network Security
3 13 (3.39%) WAN
4 12 (3.13%) LAN
4 12 (3.13%) VoIP
5 11 (2.87%) VPN
6 9 (2.35%) DNS
7 8 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.31%) DHCP
8 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.78%) VLAN
9 3 (0.78%) Wireless
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%) SSL
10 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (20.89%) Power BI
2 40 (10.44%) SQL Server
3 31 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (6.53%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.83%) Metadata
7 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.57%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.57%) Power Query
8 6 (1.57%) Tableau
9 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.04%) Big Data
10 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (9.92%) Git
2 18 (4.70%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.35%) JIRA
4 8 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (2.09%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.57%) GitLab
5 6 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.52%) ERwin
7 2 (0.52%) MLflow
7 2 (0.52%) NUnit
7 2 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.26%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
8 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 146 (38.12%) Finance
2 115 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 48 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.62%) Legal
5 27 (7.05%) Law
6 21 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.96%) Retail
8 17 (4.44%) Banking
9 12 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.87%) Marketing
11 10 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.09%) Back Office
13 6 (1.57%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Advertising
15 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 76 (19.84%) Lead
2 72 (18.80%) Senior
3 53 (13.84%) Developer
4 36 (9.40%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.31%) Architect
6 24 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (5.74%) Analyst
8 20 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.66%) Support Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.13%) IT Manager
15 11 (2.87%) Data Architect
15 11 (2.87%) IT Support
15 11 (2.87%) Power Platform Developer
15 11 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (2.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.01%) .NET
2 35 (9.14%) React
3 23 (6.01%) Web Services
4 18 (4.70%) REST
5 14 (3.66%) PySpark
5 14 (3.66%) SOAP
6 12 (3.13%) .NET Framework
6 12 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.87%) Kafka
8 9 (2.35%) Django
8 9 (2.35%) HTML
8 9 (2.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (2.09%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.09%) CSS
9 8 (2.09%) Node.js
9 8 (2.09%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.57%) Vue
11 5 (1.31%) Next.js
11 5 (1.31%) Pandas
11 5 (1.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (4.44%) Security Posture
3 12 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 10 (2.61%) Private Cloud
4 10 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.09%) Reinsurance
7 7 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.57%) PKI
8 6 (1.57%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.31%) Learning Management System
9 5 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.36%) Windows
2 21 (5.48%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.18%) Linux
4 11 (2.87%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.09%) Unix
6 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
7 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.07%) CI/CD
2 118 (30.81%) Agile
3 116 (30.29%) DevOps
4 83 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (20.10%) AI
6 63 (16.45%) Business Intelligence
7 60 (15.67%) Analytics
8 58 (15.14%) Data Modelling
9 50 (13.05%) Mentoring
10 48 (12.53%) Decision-Making
10 48 (12.53%) ETL
11 46 (12.01%) Migration
12 44 (11.49%) CRM
13 43 (11.23%) Software Engineering
13 43 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
15 40 (10.44%) ITIL
15 40 (10.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 123 (32.11%) Python
2 114 (29.77%) SQL
3 57 (14.88%) C#
4 50 (13.05%) PowerShell
5 35 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.83%) Java
7 20 (5.22%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (3.92%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.61%) Bash
10 5 (1.31%) Scala
11 4 (1.04%) Go
11 4 (1.04%) Rust
12 3 (0.78%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) Bicep
13 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.52%) X++
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) PHP
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (14.10%) Degree
2 31 (8.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 26 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (6.01%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.44%) Security Cleared
6 13 (3.39%) CISSP
6 13 (3.39%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.13%) CISM
7 12 (3.13%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.04%) CCNA
10 4 (1.04%) CEH
10 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.04%) PMP
11 3 (0.78%) CCNP
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.09%) GDPR
2 19 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.39%) QA
4 12 (3.13%) NIST
5 8 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.78%) NCSC
8 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.78%) SLA
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 24 (6.27%) Docker
3 12 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.57%) XenDesktop
7 5 (1.31%) XenApp
8 4 (1.04%) vSphere
9 3 (0.78%) 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 41 (10.70%) Terraform
2 39 (10.18%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.96%) SCCM
5 15 (3.92%) Ansible
6 12 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.09%) Grafana
8 5 (1.31%) Autotask
9 3 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.78%) SCOM
10 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.52%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) Ambari
11 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 178 (46.48%) Microsoft
2 54 (14.10%) Databricks
3 19 (4.96%) Google
3 19 (4.96%) VMware
4 18 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.18%) Cisco
6 13 (3.39%) Citrix
7 11 (2.87%) Meraki
7 11 (2.87%) Oracle
7 11 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.09%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.83%) Siebel
10 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.31%) Informatica
11 5 (1.31%) Okta
11 5 (1.31%) SonicWALL
11 5 (1.31%) Sophos
11 5 (1.31%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.04%) Hitachi
12 4 (1.04%) Intapp