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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 407 423 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.37% 23.97% 25.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.42% 49.82% 50.95%
Number of salaries quoted 306 330 565
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £59,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +10.34% +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 1,007 849 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.62% 48.10% 50.79%
Number of salaries quoted 750 693 1,063
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,495 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 September 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 12 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.72%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.72%) Mule
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.72%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (25.06%) AWS
2 65 (15.97%) GCP
3 61 (14.99%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (11.06%) Entra ID
6 42 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (6.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (5.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.41%) SaaS
9 22 (5.41%) Serverless
10 21 (5.16%) PaaS
11 19 (4.67%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.18%) GitHub
13 16 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (3.69%) IaaS
15 14 (3.44%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.44%) PowerApps
16 10 (2.46%) dbt
17 9 (2.21%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.35%) Firewall
2 20 (4.91%) Network Security
3 12 (2.95%) DNS
4 9 (2.21%) VPN
4 9 (2.21%) WAN
5 8 (1.97%) SSL
6 7 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (1.72%) DHCP
6 7 (1.72%) LAN
6 7 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.47%) BGP
7 6 (1.47%) OSPF
7 6 (1.47%) VLAN
7 6 (1.47%) Wireless
8 5 (1.23%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.23%) WLAN
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.74%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.35%) Power BI
2 29 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (3.93%) Data Lake
4 15 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.44%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.21%) Spark SQL
8 8 (1.97%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.97%) Tableau
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.23%) Looker
10 5 (1.23%) Milvus
10 5 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.98%) Metadata
11 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.62%) Git
2 13 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.70%) GitLab
4 9 (2.21%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.97%) JIRA
5 8 (1.97%) MLflow
6 7 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.47%) Maven
8 5 (1.23%) JUnit
8 5 (1.23%) Mockito
9 4 (0.98%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.74%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.74%) Spock
10 3 (0.74%) TestRail
10 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.49%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) Vite
12 1 (0.25%) Appium
12 1 (0.25%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 115 (28.26%) Finance
2 68 (16.71%) Social Skills
3 35 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.90%) Law
5 17 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.93%) Banking
7 10 (2.46%) Legal
8 9 (2.21%) Retail
9 8 (1.97%) Front Office
10 5 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.74%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Back Office
13 2 (0.49%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.25%) French Language
14 1 (0.25%) iGaming
14 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 76 (18.67%) Architect
2 72 (17.69%) Lead
3 71 (17.44%) Senior
4 56 (13.76%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (12.53%) Developer
6 30 (7.37%) Data Engineer
7 29 (7.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (7.13%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (6.14%) Azure Architect
10 21 (5.16%) Consultant
11 19 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.93%) Analyst
13 16 (3.93%) Azure Developer
13 16 (3.93%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.69%) IT Architect
15 14 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.44%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (3.44%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.95%) Terraform
2 37 (9.09%) .NET
3 19 (4.67%) LangChain
4 16 (3.93%) REST
5 15 (3.69%) OAuth
6 14 (3.44%) PySpark
7 11 (2.70%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.70%) React
8 10 (2.46%) Django
8 10 (2.46%) Kafka
8 10 (2.46%) Spring
8 10 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.46%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.97%) JWT
9 8 (1.97%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.97%) OpenID
10 7 (1.72%) Blazor
10 7 (1.72%) MUnit
10 7 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.72%) Clustering
10 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.23%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.07%) Windows
2 26 (6.39%) Linux
3 17 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.72%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (27.52%) DevOps
2 103 (25.31%) CI/CD
3 69 (16.95%) Agile
4 68 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (16.46%) AI
6 64 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (13.51%) Data Engineering
8 52 (12.78%) Roadmaps
9 49 (12.04%) Mentoring
10 44 (10.81%) Microservices
11 42 (10.32%) Analytics
12 39 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (9.34%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (8.60%) Machine Learning
16 32 (7.86%) Data Architecture
16 32 (7.86%) Generative AI
16 32 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 90 (22.11%) Python
2 83 (20.39%) SQL
3 45 (11.06%) C#
4 39 (9.58%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.65%) Java
6 20 (4.91%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.46%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.97%) Bash
10 7 (1.72%) Bicep
10 7 (1.72%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.47%) C++
12 5 (1.23%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.98%) C
13 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.98%) Go
14 3 (0.74%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.74%) Perl
14 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (8.35%) Degree
2 27 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.90%) Azure Certification
4 22 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.67%) CISSP
6 18 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.21%) CEH
9 6 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.23%) CFA
11 4 (0.98%) CCSP
11 4 (0.98%) CISM
11 4 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.74%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.74%) GIAC
12 3 (0.74%) GXPN
12 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.42%) QA
3 17 (4.18%) GDPR
4 9 (2.21%) NIST
5 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.49%) NCSC
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.49%) PMO
9 2 (0.49%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) COBIT
10 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) PSD2
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.16%) Docker
3 15 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.49%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.91%) Ansible
2 20 (4.91%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.72%) CloudHub
5 6 (1.47%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.23%) SCCM
7 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.49%) Grafana
8 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.49%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) Cilium
9 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 132 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.81%) Databricks
3 26 (6.39%) VMware
4 21 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.42%) Google
6 17 (4.18%) Cisco
7 12 (2.95%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.70%) Guidewire
8 11 (2.70%) SAP
9 9 (2.21%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.47%) Dell
11 6 (1.47%) Foundry
11 6 (1.47%) Okta
12 5 (1.23%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.23%) iManage
12 5 (1.23%) Red Hat