Azure Certification Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 127 142
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +61
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 23 37 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.07% 1.38% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.67% 4.42% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 21
10th Percentile £54,125 £54,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £63,125 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.67% +11.94%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,250 £79,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £92,500 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.81% -6.90% +8.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 492 837 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.81% 31.21% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 365 468 556
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -9.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £121,625 £115,625
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the City of London

Azure Certification
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 Certification within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 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 - 2 £87,500 -
Azure Certification
Central London

Azure Certification
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 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Power Platform
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
7 2 (8.70%) Alation
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (8.70%) IaaS
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
2 1 (4.35%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) VSAN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 6 (26.09%) Data Lake
3 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (13.04%) Metadata
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (8.70%) DataStage
5 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
5 2 (8.70%) QlikView
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.70%) Tableau
6 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (8.70%) ER Studio
3 2 (8.70%) ERwin
3 2 (8.70%) PowerDesigner
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Retail
4 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) GCP Architect
4 2 (8.70%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Web Services
1 2 (8.70%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
1 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) AI
3 7 (30.43%) Analytics
3 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) Data Governance
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) ETL
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) Data Management
5 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (21.74%) ITIL
5 5 (21.74%) Presales
6 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
5 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (8.70%) MCSE
5 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
5 2 (8.70%) PMP
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (4.35%) CCNP
6 1 (4.35%) CISSP
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (21.74%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.70%) XenDesktop
5 1 (4.35%) Docker
5 1 (4.35%) KVM
5 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle
4 3 (13.04%) Google
4 3 (13.04%) Informatica
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix
5 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
5 2 (8.70%) Pure Storage
5 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 2 (8.70%) SAP