Azure Certification Jobs 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 191 169
Rank change year-on-year +24 -22 +76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 17 51 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.50% 0.76% 1.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 1.98% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 40
10th Percentile - £26,500 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,688 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -11.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £91,125 £105,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -

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 1,764 2,576 2,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 51.50% 38.33% 41.83%
Number of salaries quoted 448 1,564 1,013
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,240 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,550 £83,750 £87,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £51,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +12.62% +0.98% -2.86%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the Thames Valley

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 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 17 May 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 +6 14 £32,500 -22.62% 19
Oxfordshire +34 2 £82,500 +32.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +34 1 £50,000 - 5
Azure Certification
South East

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Apache Spark
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 6 (35.29%) IaaS
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.76%) Azure AI
6 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (11.76%) PaaS
6 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Lake
2 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
3 6 (35.29%) Big Data
3 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (35.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (35.29%) Law
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Analytics Director
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) SAML
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
1 6 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) NHS
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Analytics
3 8 (47.06%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (35.29%) Data Analytics
5 6 (35.29%) Data Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
5 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Data Security
5 6 (35.29%) ETL
5 6 (35.29%) High Availability
5 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
5 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) AWS Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Master's Degree
3 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 4 (23.53%) CCNP
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (35.29%) GDPR
2 4 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Google
3 4 (23.53%) Veeam
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Databricks
4 2 (11.76%) Meraki