Azure Certification Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 73 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 +115
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 13 43 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.13% 2.84% 2.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.50% 7.75% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 24
10th Percentile £41,375 - £51,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £64,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £65,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -2.99% +143.64%
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £85,375
90th Percentile - £75,000 £115,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% -2.99% +27.62%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 371 555 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 32.32% 36.66% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 285 260 216
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £28,625
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £90,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.30% +9.52% +0.96%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Surrey

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in Surrey

Azure Certification
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Woking +31 8 £100,000 -
Epsom -7 2 £42,500 -34.62%
Guildford - 1 £50,000 - 2
Redhill - 1 - -
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) CloudFront
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) LAN
2 7 (53.85%) SD-WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Unified Communications
2 7 (53.85%) VoIP
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
2 7 (53.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (53.85%) Telecoms
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Head of IT
1 7 (53.85%) Head of IT Operations
1 7 (53.85%) Head of Operations
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Operational Technology
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Computer Science
2 9 (69.23%) ITIL
3 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (61.54%) Service Management
3 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
4 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
4 7 (53.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 7 (53.85%) ERP
4 7 (53.85%) High Availability
4 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Management
4 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 7 (53.85%) ITSM
4 7 (53.85%) Logistics
4 7 (53.85%) Problem Management
4 7 (53.85%) Project Management
4 7 (53.85%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Certification
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 7 (53.85%) CCNP
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (53.85%) Master's Degree
2 7 (53.85%) PMI Certification
2 7 (53.85%) PMP
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Adobe
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle