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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 619 548 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.73% 26.44% 24.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.95% 52.39% 47.04%
Number of salaries quoted 477 449 690
10th Percentile £48,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £103,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +4.29%

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 1,215 1,046 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.88% 50.46% 52.52%
Number of salaries quoted 907 841 1,419
10th Percentile £42,150 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 4 May 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 32 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.29%) PlantUML
4 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (20.19%) AWS
2 112 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
3 101 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (14.38%) GCP
5 88 (14.22%) Power Platform
6 61 (9.85%) Entra ID
7 39 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (5.49%) PaaS
8 34 (5.49%) SaaS
9 26 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (4.20%) Serverless
10 25 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 25 (4.04%) dbt
10 25 (4.04%) GitHub
11 20 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 19 (3.07%) Azure AKS
13 16 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (2.58%) OneDrive
14 15 (2.42%) IaaS
15 14 (2.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.37%) Firewall
2 27 (4.36%) DNS
3 26 (4.20%) VPN
4 24 (3.88%) DHCP
5 17 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.58%) Network Security
7 15 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.94%) LAN
8 12 (1.94%) WAN
9 8 (1.29%) WLAN
10 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.97%) Wireless
11 5 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.81%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.81%) WebEx
12 4 (0.65%) BGP
12 4 (0.65%) OSPF
13 3 (0.48%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.53%) SQL Server
2 57 (9.21%) Power BI
3 39 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.49%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (4.85%) BigQuery
6 26 (4.20%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.94%) Metabase
10 11 (1.78%) DB2
10 11 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.45%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.45%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.29%) Tableau
13 7 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.97%) Looker
14 6 (0.97%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (4.85%) Git
2 19 (3.07%) Eclipse
3 13 (2.10%) JIRA
4 12 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.45%) MLflow
6 7 (1.13%) GitLab
7 6 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.81%) Balsamiq
9 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.48%) TestRail
10 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.16%) Appium
12 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (0.16%) Postman
12 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.16%) Vite
12 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 180 (29.08%) Finance
2 111 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.23%) Law
5 19 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (2.91%) Banking
7 12 (1.94%) Legal
8 9 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.45%) Retail
9 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.13%) Front Office
9 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.97%) Advertising
10 6 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 115 (18.58%) Senior
2 89 (14.38%) Architect
3 88 (14.22%) Lead
4 62 (10.02%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (8.72%) Developer
6 46 (7.43%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (5.98%) Analyst
8 37 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 32 (5.17%) Azure Architect
10 28 (4.52%) Software Engineer
10 28 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (4.52%) Support Engineer
11 25 (4.04%) IT Support
11 25 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (3.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (3.55%) IT Analyst
14 21 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 20 (3.23%) IT Architect
15 20 (3.23%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.76%) .NET
2 27 (4.36%) Django
3 24 (3.88%) React
4 16 (2.58%) RESTful
5 15 (2.42%) LangChain
6 14 (2.26%) Kafka
6 14 (2.26%) REST
7 13 (2.10%) OAuth
7 13 (2.10%) PySpark
8 12 (1.94%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.78%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.62%) OpenID
10 10 (1.62%) YAML
11 9 (1.45%) Blazor
12 8 (1.29%) CSS
12 8 (1.29%) HTML
12 8 (1.29%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (1.29%) Node.js
13 7 (1.13%) LlamaIndex
13 7 (1.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 26 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.88%) Algorithms
5 24 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.42%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.13%) Clustering
15 6 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 91 (14.70%) Windows
2 29 (4.68%) Windows Server
3 26 (4.20%) Linux
4 22 (3.55%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.65%) Android
7 4 (0.65%) VMS
8 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (32.47%) DevOps
2 116 (18.74%) CI/CD
3 108 (17.45%) AI
4 105 (16.96%) Agile
5 90 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 83 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (12.44%) Analytics
9 76 (12.28%) Mentoring
10 64 (10.34%) Microservices
11 57 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (9.21%) Roadmaps
12 55 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
13 54 (8.72%) ITIL
14 51 (8.24%) Data Engineering
14 51 (8.24%) Software Engineering
15 47 (7.59%) Machine Learning
16 45 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
17 42 (6.79%) Computer Science
17 42 (6.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 153 (24.72%) Python
2 146 (23.59%) SQL
3 75 (12.12%) C#
4 66 (10.66%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.07%) Java
7 14 (2.26%) Bicep
8 11 (1.78%) Bash
8 11 (1.78%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.78%) VB.NET
9 9 (1.45%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.13%) C++
10 7 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.13%) Go
11 5 (0.81%) C
12 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.65%) Perl
12 4 (0.65%) R
12 4 (0.65%) Ruby
13 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (9.85%) Degree
2 36 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.52%) Azure Certification
4 26 (4.20%) CISSP
5 15 (2.42%) Security Cleared
6 11 (1.78%) CEH
6 11 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (1.78%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.13%) GIAC
9 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.97%) CISM
10 6 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.81%) GPEN
11 5 (0.81%) OSCP
12 4 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.65%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.52%) NIST
3 25 (4.04%) GDPR
4 17 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.26%) QA
6 8 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.81%) COBIT
9 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.48%) NCSC
10 3 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
11 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 74 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.01%) Docker
3 16 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) NLBS
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (12.12%) Terraform
2 61 (9.85%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (3.39%) Ansible
6 13 (2.10%) SCCM
7 11 (1.78%) Grafana
8 7 (1.13%) Kibana
9 6 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.16%) Argo
12 1 (0.16%) Cilium
12 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.16%) QRadar
12 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 207 (33.44%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.40%) Databricks
3 37 (5.98%) ServiceNow
4 33 (5.33%) Google
5 31 (5.01%) VMware
6 17 (2.75%) CyberArk
7 16 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (2.26%) Cisco
8 14 (2.26%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.78%) iManage
10 9 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.29%) Guidewire
11 8 (1.29%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.29%) SAP
12 7 (1.13%) Dell
12 7 (1.13%) Okta
12 7 (1.13%) Thales
13 6 (0.97%) Citrix
13 6 (0.97%) Commvault
13 6 (0.97%) Oracle