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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 196 176
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +57
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 12 50 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.74% 1.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 1.94% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 39
10th Percentile - £26,500 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,688 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -11.30% -25.81%
75th Percentile £94,688 £81,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £91,125 £105,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,250
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.54% -0.43%

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 1,684 2,577 2,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 49.65% 38.36% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 440 1,575 1,042
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £34,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,850
Median % change year-on-year - +7.47% -6.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,500 £68,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% +3.00% -4.76%

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 10 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 10 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 +14 9 £43,750 +4.17% 20
Oxfordshire +31 2 £82,500 +32.00% 3
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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) IaaS
4 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Law
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics Director
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) RBAC
4 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (25.00%) Presales
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) CCNA
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Veeam
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Meraki