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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 463 720 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 20.07% 27.12% 24.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.85% 51.80% 47.18%
Number of salaries quoted 367 538 624
10th Percentile £51,400 £41,775 £45,600
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -4.61%
75th Percentile £92,500 £94,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 876 1,390 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.97% 52.35% 51.23%
Number of salaries quoted 689 953 1,324
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the City of London

Azure
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the City of London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £87,500 -
Azure
Central London

Azure
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 36 (7.78%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 21 (4.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (22.46%) Power Platform
2 102 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
3 96 (20.73%) AWS
4 81 (17.49%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (13.39%) GCP
6 40 (8.64%) Power Automate
7 37 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 36 (7.78%) PowerApps
9 35 (7.56%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (6.70%) Entra ID
11 28 (6.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (4.54%) PaaS
13 19 (4.10%) GitHub
14 17 (3.67%) Serverless
14 17 (3.67%) Snowflake
15 16 (3.46%) Azure Sentinel
15 16 (3.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.46%) SaaS
16 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.42%) Firewall
2 21 (4.54%) VPN
3 15 (3.24%) DNS
4 13 (2.81%) WAN
5 12 (2.59%) DHCP
6 11 (2.38%) LAN
6 11 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.73%) VoIP
8 7 (1.51%) Network Security
8 7 (1.51%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.08%) NetScaler
9 5 (1.08%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.65%) Wireless
11 2 (0.43%) BGP
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.43%) MPLS
11 2 (0.43%) OSPF
11 2 (0.43%) SAN
11 2 (0.43%) VSAN
11 2 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (16.85%) Power BI
2 44 (9.50%) SQL Server
3 43 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.81%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.51%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.30%) Metadata
11 6 (1.30%) Power Query
12 5 (1.08%) Metabase
13 4 (0.86%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.86%) Tableau
14 3 (0.65%) Big Data
14 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.65%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (8.21%) Git
2 22 (4.75%) Visual Studio
3 13 (2.81%) Octopus Deploy
4 12 (2.59%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 10 (2.16%) JIRA
7 5 (1.08%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.65%) GitLab
8 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.43%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.43%) ERwin
9 2 (0.43%) MLflow
9 2 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.22%) NUnit
10 1 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 147 (31.75%) Finance
2 112 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.34%) Legal
5 29 (6.26%) Law
6 18 (3.89%) Retail
7 17 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.24%) Public Sector
9 14 (3.02%) Banking
9 14 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.30%) Advertising
11 5 (1.08%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.43%) Marketing
14 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (18.36%) Senior
2 78 (16.85%) Lead
3 59 (12.74%) Developer
4 48 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 36 (7.78%) Architect
6 31 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 26 (5.62%) Support Engineer
8 25 (5.40%) Analyst
9 21 (4.54%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Network Engineer
12 14 (3.02%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.81%) Azure Architect
13 13 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.81%) IT Analyst
13 13 (2.81%) IT Support
13 13 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.15%) .NET
2 21 (4.54%) Web Services
3 19 (4.10%) React
3 19 (4.10%) REST
4 15 (3.24%) SOAP
5 14 (3.02%) Django
6 11 (2.38%) HTML
7 10 (2.16%) CSS
7 10 (2.16%) RESTful
8 9 (1.94%) .NET Core
8 9 (1.94%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (1.94%) Node.js
8 9 (1.94%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.73%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.73%) LangChain
9 8 (1.73%) WPF
10 7 (1.51%) Kafka
10 7 (1.51%) PySpark
10 7 (1.51%) Vue
11 6 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (4.10%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.10%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.24%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.59%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.73%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.51%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.08%) PKI
14 5 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (12.74%) Windows
2 17 (3.67%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.59%) Linux
5 7 (1.51%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.51%) Unix
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (31.97%) DevOps
2 115 (24.84%) Agile
3 111 (23.97%) CI/CD
4 108 (23.33%) AI
5 99 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (14.90%) Analytics
7 60 (12.96%) Mentoring
8 59 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
8 59 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
9 53 (11.45%) ITIL
10 51 (11.02%) ETL
11 48 (10.37%) Data Modelling
12 47 (10.15%) Computer Science
13 46 (9.94%) Migration
14 45 (9.72%) Software Engineering
15 40 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 38 (8.21%) Machine Learning
16 38 (8.21%) Microservices
17 37 (7.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (28.94%) Python
2 127 (27.43%) SQL
3 60 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 51 (11.02%) C#
5 27 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (3.24%) Java
8 12 (2.59%) Bicep
8 12 (2.59%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.73%) Bash
10 4 (0.86%) Rust
10 4 (0.86%) Scala
11 3 (0.65%) Go
12 2 (0.43%) C++
12 2 (0.43%) R
12 2 (0.43%) VBA
13 1 (0.22%) Groovy
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 60 (12.96%) Degree
2 34 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.89%) Security Cleared
6 17 (3.67%) CISSP
7 16 (3.46%) SC Cleared
8 13 (2.81%) CISM
9 10 (2.16%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.51%) CEH
10 7 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.86%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.86%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.86%) MCP
13 3 (0.65%) CCNP
13 3 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.83%) GDPR
3 20 (4.32%) NIST
4 9 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.73%) QA
6 5 (1.08%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (9.94%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.48%) Docker
3 14 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.51%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.86%) XenApp
7 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.65%) vSphere
8 2 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.22%) KVM
9 1 (0.22%) vCloud
9 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (10.58%) Terraform
2 31 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (4.32%) SCCM
5 13 (2.81%) Ansible
6 12 (2.59%) Grafana
7 11 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.30%) Kibana
9 3 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.43%) Puppet
10 2 (0.43%) SCOM
11 1 (0.22%) Ambari
11 1 (0.22%) Autotask
11 1 (0.22%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 186 (40.17%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.10%) Databricks
3 28 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.32%) Google
5 17 (3.67%) VMware
6 14 (3.02%) Cisco
6 14 (3.02%) Citrix
7 12 (2.59%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.16%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.73%) Meraki
11 6 (1.30%) iManage
11 6 (1.30%) Oracle
12 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.08%) Sophos
13 4 (0.86%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.86%) Apple
13 4 (0.86%) EMC
13 4 (0.86%) Intapp
13 4 (0.86%) Salesforce