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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 634 541 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.56% 26.24% 24.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.40% 52.27% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 483 445 690
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £102,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £74,375
% change year-on-year +6.67% +0.84% +6.25%

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 1,258 1,035 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.88% 50.19% 52.33%
Number of salaries quoted 936 844 1,409
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £118,450 £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 11 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 34 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) Apache
5 3 (0.47%) Confluence
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
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 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.42%) PlantUML
3 7 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.16%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (20.03%) AWS
2 109 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
4 93 (14.67%) GCP
5 89 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 61 (9.62%) Entra ID
7 37 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (5.68%) PaaS
9 35 (5.52%) SaaS
10 27 (4.26%) Serverless
11 26 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 25 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 24 (3.79%) dbt
13 24 (3.79%) GitHub
14 20 (3.15%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.00%) Power Automate
16 17 (2.68%) IaaS
16 17 (2.68%) OneDrive
17 15 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
18 14 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.46%) Firewall
2 29 (4.57%) VPN
3 27 (4.26%) DNS
4 23 (3.63%) DHCP
5 18 (2.84%) Network Security
6 16 (2.52%) TCP/IP
7 15 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.89%) WAN
9 11 (1.74%) LAN
10 8 (1.26%) WLAN
11 6 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.95%) Wireless
12 5 (0.79%) BGP
12 5 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.79%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.79%) OSPF
12 5 (0.79%) WebEx
13 3 (0.47%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.32%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 58 (9.15%) Power BI
3 36 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (4.89%) BigQuery
6 25 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.74%) DB2
10 11 (1.74%) Metabase
11 9 (1.42%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.42%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.26%) Tableau
13 7 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.95%) Looker
14 6 (0.95%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (4.89%) Git
2 20 (3.15%) Eclipse
3 14 (2.21%) JIRA
4 11 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.42%) GitLab
5 9 (1.42%) MLflow
6 6 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.79%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.47%) TestRail
9 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.16%) Appium
11 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Postman
11 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.16%) Vite
11 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 183 (28.86%) Finance
2 110 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 49 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.47%) Law
5 18 (2.84%) Banking
6 17 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.89%) Legal
8 10 (1.58%) Retail
9 9 (1.42%) Front Office
10 7 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Advertising
13 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Billing
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
Job Titles
1 117 (18.45%) Senior
2 94 (14.83%) Lead
3 93 (14.67%) Architect
4 67 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
5 54 (8.52%) Developer
6 48 (7.57%) Data Engineer
7 43 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (6.15%) Analyst
9 34 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 33 (5.21%) Azure Architect
11 30 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 29 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.26%) Support Engineer
15 24 (3.79%) IT Support
16 22 (3.47%) IT Analyst
17 21 (3.31%) IT Architect
17 21 (3.31%) Network Engineer
18 20 (3.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.62%) .NET
2 28 (4.42%) Django
3 24 (3.79%) React
4 16 (2.52%) RESTful
5 15 (2.37%) REST
6 14 (2.21%) Kafka
6 14 (2.21%) LangChain
6 14 (2.21%) PySpark
7 12 (1.89%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.74%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.58%) Blazor
9 10 (1.58%) OAuth
9 10 (1.58%) OpenID
10 9 (1.42%) YAML
11 8 (1.26%) CSS
11 8 (1.26%) HTML
11 8 (1.26%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.10%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.10%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (3.94%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.21%) Reinsurance
10 13 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.10%) Clustering
14 7 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.95%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 93 (14.67%) Windows
2 29 (4.57%) Linux
2 29 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 23 (3.63%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.63%) Android
6 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.63%) VMS
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.32%) Unix
8 2 (0.32%) 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%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (32.18%) DevOps
2 115 (18.14%) CI/CD
3 108 (17.03%) AI
4 106 (16.72%) Agile
5 93 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (12.15%) Mentoring
9 75 (11.83%) Analytics
10 64 (10.09%) Microservices
11 59 (9.31%) Roadmaps
12 56 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
13 55 (8.68%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (8.68%) ITIL
14 54 (8.52%) Data Engineering
15 53 (8.36%) Software Engineering
16 47 (7.41%) Machine Learning
17 44 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
18 43 (6.78%) Computer Science
19 41 (6.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 157 (24.76%) Python
2 147 (23.19%) SQL
3 77 (12.15%) C#
4 66 (10.41%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.00%) Java
7 13 (2.05%) Bicep
8 12 (1.89%) Bash
9 11 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.74%) VB.NET
10 9 (1.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.10%) C++
11 7 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.10%) Go
12 5 (0.79%) C
12 5 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.63%) Perl
13 4 (0.63%) R
13 4 (0.63%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (9.94%) Degree
2 37 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 27 (4.26%) CISSP
4 17 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (1.89%) CEH
6 12 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.10%) CISM
9 7 (1.10%) GIAC
9 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.79%) GPEN
11 5 (0.79%) OSCP
12 4 (0.63%) CISA
12 4 (0.63%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.26%) NIST
3 25 (3.94%) GDPR
4 19 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.21%) QA
6 8 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.79%) COBIT
8 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.47%) SLA
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) SOC 1
10 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 29 (4.57%) Docker
3 18 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.05%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.32%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.16%) NLBS
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (12.15%) Terraform
2 64 (10.09%) Kubernetes
3 42 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (3.47%) Ansible
4 22 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.21%) SCCM
6 11 (1.74%) Grafana
7 7 (1.10%) Kibana
8 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Cilium
10 1 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.16%) QRadar
10 1 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 210 (33.12%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.20%) Databricks
3 37 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 34 (5.36%) VMware
5 33 (5.21%) Google
6 16 (2.52%) Cisco
6 16 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
6 16 (2.52%) CyberArk
7 14 (2.21%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.74%) iManage
9 9 (1.42%) Guidewire
10 8 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.26%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.26%) SAP
11 7 (1.10%) Dell
11 7 (1.10%) Okta
11 7 (1.10%) Thales
12 6 (0.95%) Citrix
12 6 (0.95%) Oracle
12 6 (0.95%) Red Hat