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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 79 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 25 19 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.00% 1.67% 2.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.34% 5.01% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 34
10th Percentile - £41,138 -
25th Percentile £48,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -17.31% -2.99%
75th Percentile £70,313 £103,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,175 £105,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% -21.15% -

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 468 379 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.75% 33.39% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 293 274 296
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,040 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.36% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,925 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.54% +7.56%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -11 15 - - 3
Reigate - 6 £49,500 - 1
Woking -26 2 £75,500 -20.53% 3
Staines - 1 £70,000 -
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 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Azure AI
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Mimecast
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.00%) Datadog
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
1 5 (20.00%) LAN
1 5 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) IPsec
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) SNMP
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
1 3 (12.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MSI
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
1 6 (24.00%) Junior
1 6 (24.00%) Junior Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) IT Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) IT Support
2 4 (16.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Support Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Ethical Hacker
3 3 (12.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Junior Security Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) ADO
2 2 (8.00%) OpenTofu
2 2 (8.00%) YAML
3 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) AI
2 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (16.00%) Active Listening
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (16.00%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (16.00%) Presales
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (16.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) CCNA
2 3 (12.00%) CEH
2 3 (12.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Argo
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) ForeScout
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Acronis
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) N-able
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) EMC
5 1 (4.00%) New Relic