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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 40 108
Rank change year-on-year -38 +68 +33
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 31 53 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.66% 5.00% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.57% 9.96% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4 50 10
10th Percentile £54,500 £47,250 £15,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £22,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +21.74% +109.09%
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £75,000 £62,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -39.29% +21.74% -8.00%

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 679 532 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 36.41% 50.14% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 233 242 343
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,938 £66,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% +2.24%

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 25 February 2026.

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 25 February 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
Guildford - 27 £45,000 -
Woking -3 2 £100,000 - 1
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:

Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) Azure AI
2 11 (35.48%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) LAN
1 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.45%) Unified Communications
1 2 (6.45%) VoIP
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
1 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Power BI
1 11 (35.48%) Tableau
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 27 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Analyst
1 22 (70.97%) Junior
1 22 (70.97%) Junior Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Data Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Junior Data Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Junior Security Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Security Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Ethical Hacker
4 2 (6.45%) Head of IT
4 2 (6.45%) Head of IT Operations
4 2 (6.45%) Head of Operations
5 1 (3.23%) Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Digital Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) JSON
1 1 (3.23%) OAuth
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) SOAP
1 1 (3.23%) XML
1 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cyberattack
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (38.71%) Mentoring
3 11 (35.48%) AI
3 11 (35.48%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (9.68%) ITIL
6 2 (6.45%) Agile
6 2 (6.45%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.45%) ERP
6 2 (6.45%) High Availability
6 2 (6.45%) ITSM
6 2 (6.45%) Logistics
6 2 (6.45%) Project Management
6 2 (6.45%) Resource Management
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) Service Management
6 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 11 (35.48%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) CompTIA CySA+
1 11 (35.48%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.90%) CEH
3 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) CCNP
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Argo
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (93.55%) Microsoft
2 15 (48.39%) ForeScout
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle