Azure Certification Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 241 263
Rank change year-on-year +80 +22 -58
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 264 174 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.56% 1.28% 1.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.17% 3.82% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 146 92 208
10th Percentile - £40,200 £53,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £105,625 £110,000
England median annual salary £31,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -51.54% +4.00% -12.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,278 4,556 5,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.25% 33.55% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,294 1,959 4,156
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in London

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in London

Azure Certification
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Central London -4 27 £82,500 +17.86% 18
West London -7 10 £32,000 -44.35% 14
East London -8 6 £30,500 -47.64% 20
South London +37 3 £30,000 - 4
North London - 2 £55,000 - 4
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (4.55%) WordPress
2 8 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.14%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) Azure
2 123 (46.59%) AWS
3 62 (23.48%) GCP
4 58 (21.97%) GitHub
5 39 (14.77%) Power Platform
6 33 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (9.47%) Entra ID
9 23 (8.71%) Azure AI
10 21 (7.95%) IaaS
11 20 (7.58%) PaaS
12 17 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.55%) SaaS
13 12 (4.55%) Serverless
14 10 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (3.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.41%) Datadog
16 8 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.42%) Internet
2 33 (12.50%) VPN
3 32 (12.12%) Firewall
4 23 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (7.95%) DNS
6 17 (6.44%) DHCP
6 17 (6.44%) WAN
7 14 (5.30%) SD-WAN
7 14 (5.30%) VLAN
8 12 (4.55%) Network Security
8 12 (4.55%) SAN
8 12 (4.55%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.27%) LAN
10 5 (1.89%) BGP
10 5 (1.89%) OSPF
11 4 (1.52%) Wireless
12 3 (1.14%) EIGRP
12 3 (1.14%) VoIP
13 2 (0.76%) SSL
13 2 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.77%) Data Lake
2 35 (13.26%) Power BI
3 32 (12.12%) Metadata
4 21 (7.95%) Tableau
5 18 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.52%) DataStage
8 4 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.52%) QlikView
9 3 (1.14%) MySQL
9 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
11 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (20.08%) Git
2 9 (3.41%) Chocolatey
3 8 (3.03%) MLflow
4 5 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.52%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.52%) ERwin
5 4 (1.52%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.14%) JIRA
6 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 94 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 80 (30.30%) Finance
3 47 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (17.80%) Banking
4 45 (17.05%) Multimedia
5 39 (14.77%) Financial Institution
6 35 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (9.09%) Retail Banking
8 13 (4.92%) Law
8 13 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.41%) Retail
10 8 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.89%) Legal
12 4 (1.52%) Advertising
13 3 (1.14%) Marketing
14 2 (0.76%) Billing
14 2 (0.76%) International Banking
15 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 58 (21.97%) Architect
2 45 (17.05%) Trainee
3 43 (16.29%) Senior
4 34 (12.88%) Data Architect
5 33 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (10.98%) Analyst
7 28 (10.61%) Junior
8 26 (9.85%) Junior Analyst
9 23 (8.71%) Developer
10 19 (7.20%) Lead
11 18 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (6.44%) Trainee Developer
13 16 (6.06%) Senior Architect
14 15 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (5.68%) Software Developer
14 15 (5.68%) Trainee Software Developer
15 13 (4.92%) Administrator
15 13 (4.92%) Data Analyst
15 13 (4.92%) Junior Data Analyst
15 13 (4.92%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.05%) CSS
1 45 (17.05%) HTML
2 9 (3.41%) .NET
2 9 (3.41%) PySpark
3 8 (3.03%) Kafka
4 7 (2.65%) LangChain
5 5 (1.89%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.89%) REST
6 4 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.14%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.14%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.14%) React
7 3 (1.14%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.76%) Drools
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.76%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.76%) RESTful
8 2 (0.76%) Swagger
8 2 (0.76%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (0.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.58%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.17%) Cyberattack
6 9 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.27%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.27%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.89%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.52%) Insider Threat
10 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.52%) PKI
10 4 (1.52%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.14%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.91%) Windows
2 20 (7.58%) Linux
3 19 (7.20%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.65%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) SUSE
7 1 (0.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.06%) Mentoring
2 64 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (23.11%) Migration
4 52 (19.70%) DevOps
5 51 (19.32%) CI/CD
6 50 (18.94%) AI
7 46 (17.42%) Agile
8 45 (17.05%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.15%) Analytics
10 39 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (14.39%) ITIL
12 35 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (13.26%) Data Architecture
13 34 (12.88%) Computer Science
14 33 (12.50%) Data Management
15 32 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (11.74%) Data Strategy
17 29 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (10.61%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 87 (32.95%) Python
2 47 (17.80%) JavaScript
3 37 (14.02%) SQL
4 36 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 29 (10.98%) R
6 18 (6.82%) Bicep
7 14 (5.30%) C#
8 10 (3.79%) Java
9 6 (2.27%) Bash
9 6 (2.27%) Scala
10 5 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 100 (37.88%) AWS Certification
2 88 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 50 (18.94%) Degree
4 46 (17.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 28 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (7.20%) Security Cleared
7 18 (6.82%) SC Cleared
8 17 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (5.68%) CompTIA CySA+
9 15 (5.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (4.92%) CCNP
11 10 (3.79%) CCNA
11 10 (3.79%) CISSP
11 10 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.41%) CEH
12 9 (3.41%) Master's Degree
13 8 (3.03%) CISM
14 6 (2.27%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (8.33%) GDPR
3 17 (6.44%) NIST
4 13 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.92%) SLA
5 5 (1.89%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.52%) NCSC
7 3 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 32 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.33%) Docker
3 12 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.65%) vSphere
5 6 (2.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (16.29%) Terraform
2 32 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.79%) Ansible
5 9 (3.41%) SCCM
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.52%) logstash
7 4 (1.52%) SCOM
8 2 (0.76%) Control-M
8 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 190 (71.97%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.74%) VMware
3 24 (9.09%) Databricks
4 21 (7.95%) Cisco
5 20 (7.58%) ForeScout
6 13 (4.92%) SolarWinds
7 12 (4.55%) Google
8 9 (3.41%) AppDynamics
8 9 (3.41%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.41%) Tenable
9 8 (3.03%) OpenAI
9 8 (3.03%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.27%) Meraki
10 6 (2.27%) Splunk
11 5 (1.89%) IBM
11 5 (1.89%) Informatica
11 5 (1.89%) SAP
12 4 (1.52%) Adobe
12 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.52%) Veeam