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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 476 472 689
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.00% 25.20% 25.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.01% 51.98% 50.40%
Number of salaries quoted 354 371 566
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £78,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +7.90% +3.93%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,938
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 1,133 908 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.95% 48.48% 50.24%
Number of salaries quoted 841 741 1,092
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -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 10 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 20 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.47%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.47%) Mule
6 4 (0.84%) Apache
7 3 (0.63%) Confluence
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (2.10%) PlantUML
2 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (23.32%) AWS
2 72 (15.13%) GCP
3 69 (14.50%) Power Platform
4 61 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (11.34%) Entra ID
7 31 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (5.67%) SaaS
8 27 (5.67%) Serverless
9 26 (5.46%) PaaS
10 24 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (3.99%) GitHub
11 19 (3.99%) Power Automate
12 18 (3.78%) IaaS
13 16 (3.36%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.94%) dbt
14 14 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (2.73%) PowerApps
16 11 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.40%) Firewall
2 24 (5.04%) Network Security
3 14 (2.94%) DNS
4 11 (2.31%) WAN
5 10 (2.10%) LAN
5 10 (2.10%) VPN
6 9 (1.89%) DHCP
7 8 (1.68%) BGP
7 8 (1.68%) OSPF
7 8 (1.68%) SSL
7 8 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (1.47%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.47%) WLAN
9 6 (1.26%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.26%) Wireless
10 5 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.84%) VLAN
12 3 (0.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.82%) Power BI
2 39 (8.19%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (3.99%) BigQuery
4 19 (3.99%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.10%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.10%) Spark SQL
8 9 (1.89%) Db2
8 9 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.89%) Tableau
9 7 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.26%) Looker
10 6 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (6.93%) Git
2 14 (2.94%) JIRA
3 13 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.31%) Eclipse
4 11 (2.31%) GitLab
5 9 (1.89%) MLflow
5 9 (1.89%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.05%) Maven
6 5 (1.05%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.84%) JUnit
7 4 (0.84%) Mockito
7 4 (0.84%) TestRail
8 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.63%) Spock
8 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.42%) Selenium
9 2 (0.42%) Vite
10 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.21%) JMeter
10 1 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (29.41%) Finance
2 78 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.83%) Law
5 19 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.57%) Banking
7 11 (2.31%) Legal
8 9 (1.89%) Front Office
8 9 (1.89%) Retail
9 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.63%) Advertising
11 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.63%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Billing
13 1 (0.21%) French Language
13 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (19.12%) Architect
2 86 (18.07%) Senior
3 81 (17.02%) Lead
4 61 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (11.34%) Developer
6 32 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 31 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (5.88%) Azure Architect
10 26 (5.46%) Analyst
11 20 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (4.20%) Consultant
12 19 (3.99%) IT Architect
13 18 (3.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.57%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.36%) Azure Developer
15 16 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
16 15 (3.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.45%) .NET
2 21 (4.41%) LangChain
2 21 (4.41%) REST
3 18 (3.78%) OAuth
4 17 (3.57%) React
5 16 (3.36%) PySpark
6 15 (3.15%) Django
7 14 (2.94%) Kafka
8 13 (2.73%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.31%) OpenID
9 11 (2.31%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.10%) LlamaIndex
10 10 (2.10%) Spring
10 10 (2.10%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.68%) Blazor
11 8 (1.68%) JWT
11 8 (1.68%) OAuth2
11 8 (1.68%) RESTful
11 8 (1.68%) SAML
11 8 (1.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.15%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.68%) Clustering
10 8 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (11.76%) Windows
2 28 (5.88%) Linux
3 21 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.42%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (27.52%) DevOps
2 109 (22.90%) CI/CD
3 83 (17.44%) Agile
4 80 (16.81%) AI
5 73 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (12.39%) Data Engineering
7 59 (12.39%) Mentoring
8 56 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 53 (11.13%) Microservices
10 47 (9.87%) Analytics
11 46 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
12 43 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (8.82%) Machine Learning
14 38 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
15 37 (7.77%) Generative AI
16 36 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (7.35%) Data Architecture
17 35 (7.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (21.64%) Python
2 101 (21.22%) SQL
3 53 (11.13%) C#
4 45 (9.45%) PowerShell
5 25 (5.25%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.83%) Java
7 14 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.10%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.10%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.68%) Bash
10 8 (1.68%) Bicep
11 7 (1.47%) DataWeave
12 6 (1.26%) C++
13 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.84%) C
14 4 (0.84%) Go
14 4 (0.84%) R
14 4 (0.84%) Scala
15 3 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (8.82%) Degree
2 28 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 27 (5.67%) Security Cleared
4 25 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.04%) CISSP
6 22 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.10%) CEH
9 7 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.05%) CFA
10 5 (1.05%) CISM
11 4 (0.84%) CCSP
11 4 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.63%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.63%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.63%) GIAC
12 3 (0.63%) GXPN
12 3 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.78%) GDPR
3 17 (3.57%) QA
4 11 (2.31%) NIST
5 10 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.63%) SLA
10 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.42%) PMO
10 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.21%) COBIT
11 1 (0.21%) PSD2
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (11.34%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.83%) Docker
3 19 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) NLBS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (15.76%) Terraform
2 61 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.83%) Ansible
4 22 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.89%) SCCM
6 7 (1.47%) CloudHub
7 6 (1.26%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.42%) Grafana
9 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) Cilium
10 1 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 162 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.66%) Databricks
3 31 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.51%) VMware
4 22 (4.62%) Google
5 19 (3.99%) Cisco
6 14 (2.94%) SAP
7 13 (2.73%) Guidewire
8 12 (2.52%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (2.10%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.47%) Dell
12 7 (1.47%) iManage
12 7 (1.47%) Okta
13 6 (1.26%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.26%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.26%) Workday
14 5 (1.05%) Rapid7