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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 348 383 739
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.58% 22.87% 25.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.51% 47.64% 51.53%
Number of salaries quoted 267 313 540
10th Percentile £51,700 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £57,500 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 859 804 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.06% 48.00% 50.28%
Number of salaries quoted 658 671 975
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,480 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +0.69%

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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 4 October 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 14 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.01%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.01%) Mule
4 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Confluence
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.01%) PlantUML
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (25.00%) AWS
2 57 (16.38%) Power Platform
3 52 (14.94%) GCP
4 45 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (12.64%) Entra ID
6 36 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (6.61%) Serverless
9 21 (6.03%) PaaS
9 21 (6.03%) Power Automate
10 20 (5.75%) SaaS
11 18 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (5.17%) IaaS
12 17 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (4.31%) PowerApps
14 14 (4.02%) GitHub
15 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (3.16%) Azure AKS
17 10 (2.87%) Azure AI
18 9 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.18%) Firewall
2 15 (4.31%) Network Security
3 13 (3.74%) DNS
4 10 (2.87%) VPN
5 9 (2.59%) SSL
6 8 (2.30%) DHCP
7 7 (2.01%) VLAN
7 7 (2.01%) WAN
7 7 (2.01%) Wireless
8 6 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.44%) BGP
9 5 (1.44%) LAN
9 5 (1.44%) OSPF
10 4 (1.15%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.86%) MPLS
12 2 (0.57%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.33%) Power BI
2 25 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (1.72%) Metadata
6 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.72%) Spark SQL
6 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.44%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.86%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.57%) Chroma
10 2 (0.57%) Tableau
11 1 (0.29%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 29 (8.33%) Git
2 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.59%) GitLab
4 7 (2.01%) Eclipse
4 7 (2.01%) JIRA
4 7 (2.01%) Maven
5 6 (1.72%) JUnit
5 6 (1.72%) Mockito
6 5 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.15%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.86%) Spock
8 3 (0.86%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.57%) Selenium
9 2 (0.57%) TestRail
9 2 (0.57%) Vite
10 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.29%) Postman
10 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (29.31%) Finance
2 59 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 27 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.47%) Law
5 17 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.45%) Legal
7 9 (2.59%) Banking
8 7 (2.01%) Front Office
8 7 (2.01%) Retail
9 5 (1.44%) Marketing
10 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Back Office
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (0.86%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (18.68%) Architect
2 60 (17.24%) Senior
3 54 (15.52%) Lead
4 48 (13.79%) Developer
5 39 (11.21%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (7.18%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.90%) Consultant
8 24 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (5.75%) Azure Architect
10 19 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.74%) Lead Developer
13 12 (3.45%) Analyst
13 12 (3.45%) Data Consultant
13 12 (3.45%) IT Architect
14 11 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.82%) Terraform
2 24 (6.90%) .NET
3 19 (5.46%) REST
4 15 (4.31%) LangChain
5 13 (3.74%) OAuth
5 13 (3.74%) React
6 11 (3.16%) PySpark
6 11 (3.16%) Spring
6 11 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.30%) JWT
7 8 (2.30%) LangGraph
7 8 (2.30%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.01%) MUnit
8 7 (2.01%) RAML
9 6 (1.72%) Django
9 6 (1.72%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.72%) Middleware
9 6 (1.72%) OpenID
10 5 (1.44%) Kafka
10 5 (1.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.17%) AI Agents
3 16 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.72%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.86%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.05%) Windows
2 19 (5.46%) Linux
3 13 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.30%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.45%) CI/CD
2 97 (27.87%) DevOps
3 68 (19.54%) AI
4 60 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (16.38%) Agile
6 55 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (12.93%) Data Engineering
8 40 (11.49%) Roadmaps
9 38 (10.92%) Microservices
10 36 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
11 35 (10.06%) Mentoring
12 34 (9.77%) Analytics
13 31 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (8.62%) Data Architecture
15 29 (8.33%) Machine Learning
15 29 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (8.33%) Test Automation
16 28 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (20.11%) Python
2 67 (19.25%) SQL
3 33 (9.48%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.33%) C#
5 21 (6.03%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.75%) Java
7 16 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.45%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.59%) Bicep
10 7 (2.01%) Bash
10 7 (2.01%) DataWeave
11 4 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.86%) C++
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) R
13 2 (0.57%) Scala
13 2 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
13 2 (0.57%) XPath
14 1 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.47%) Degree
3 24 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.75%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.45%) CISSP
6 11 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.72%) CFA
9 5 (1.44%) CEH
10 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.86%) CCSP
11 3 (0.86%) CISM
11 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.57%) CCNP
12 2 (0.57%) GIAC
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.57%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.17%) QA
3 13 (3.74%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.72%) NIST
5 5 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.86%) PMO
7 3 (0.86%) SLA
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) PSD2
9 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (9.48%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.61%) Docker
3 15 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.17%) Ansible
3 15 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.01%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.44%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.15%) SCCM
8 3 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.86%) Puppet
9 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Grafana
9 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.57%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.29%) Cilium
10 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 119 (34.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.91%) Databricks
3 21 (6.03%) VMware
4 17 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.60%) Cisco
6 13 (3.74%) Google
6 13 (3.74%) OpenAI
7 11 (3.16%) SAP
8 9 (2.59%) Guidewire
8 9 (2.59%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.30%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.72%) Foundry
11 5 (1.44%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.15%) Citrix
12 4 (1.15%) Meraki
12 4 (1.15%) Okta
13 3 (0.86%) Oracle
13 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.86%) Workday
13 3 (0.86%) Zscaler