Azure Certification Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 174 131
Rank change year-on-year +22 -43 +77
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 29 21 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.82% 0.49% 1.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.33% 1.49% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 49
10th Percentile £29,000 £45,400 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,813 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% -13.06% +10.64%
75th Percentile £80,531 £63,213 £74,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £67,750 £74,400
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,246 1,413 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 35.40% 32.82% 44.78%
Number of salaries quoted 497 564 958
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £53,825
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.47% +4.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.96%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Berkshire +8 18 £37,500 -42.31% 62
Buckinghamshire +12 10 £74,125 +47.51% 18
Oxfordshire +25 1 - - 7
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (24.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Commercetools
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) IaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (10.34%) PaaS
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
8 2 (6.90%) GitHub
8 2 (6.90%) SaaS
8 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 2 (6.90%) FTP
3 2 (6.90%) HTTP
3 2 (6.90%) Internet
3 2 (6.90%) SAN
3 2 (6.90%) SMTP
3 2 (6.90%) SSH
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
2 7 (24.14%) Big Data
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (24.14%) Hadoop
2 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Data Hub
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.90%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Back Office
2 8 (27.59%) Retail
3 7 (24.14%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Multimedia
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Head of Architecture
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analytics Director
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Trainee
4 2 (6.90%) Trainee Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Trainee Software Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) CSS
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) SAML
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (24.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) NHS
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) Analytics
3 10 (34.48%) TOGAF
4 9 (31.03%) AI
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Data Architecture
4 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
6 7 (24.14%) Data Analytics
6 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
6 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
6 7 (24.14%) Data Security
6 7 (24.14%) ETL
6 7 (24.14%) High Availability
6 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) Groovy
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) AWS Certification
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (10.34%) CCNA
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (6.90%) CCNP
6 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
6 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
7 1 (3.45%) HND
7 1 (3.45%) MCP
7 1 (3.45%) MCSA
7 1 (3.45%) MCSE
7 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (24.14%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.90%) DFS Replication
3 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 3 (10.34%) Veeam
5 2 (6.90%) Meraki
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.90%) VMware
6 1 (3.45%) Commvault
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds