Azure Certification Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 149 466
Rank change year-on-year -171 +317 -56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 747 2,303 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.88% 2.47% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 7.55% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 553 608 557
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,752 £49,021 £51,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £84,919 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £106,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in England.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in England

Azure Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -48 273 £78,250 +7.93% 65
North of England -149 187 £55,000 -30.93% 27
South East +30 150 £65,000 +15.04% 27
Midlands -154 87 £63,750 +41.67% 16
North West -171 79 £61,206 -25.81% 17
Yorkshire -60 71 £52,500 -28.81% 7
West Midlands -133 50 £67,500 +31.71% 11
North East +27 37 £32,500 -48.00% 3
East Midlands -58 37 £58,750 +83.59% 5
East of England -75 27 £40,000 +2.27% 11
South West -41 20 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 63 (8.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.75%) WebLogic
4 12 (1.61%) Confluence
5 10 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.80%) IIS
7 4 (0.54%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (3.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 747 (100.00%) Azure
2 213 (28.51%) AWS
3 187 (25.03%) Microsoft 365
4 145 (19.41%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (12.18%) PaaS
6 84 (11.24%) IaaS
7 77 (10.31%) Entra ID
8 75 (10.04%) Power Platform
9 49 (6.56%) GCP
10 41 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (5.49%) SaaS
10 41 (5.49%) Serverless
11 40 (5.35%) IBM Cloud
12 39 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (3.35%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 22 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 102 (13.65%) Firewall
2 95 (12.72%) DNS
3 60 (8.03%) WAN
4 49 (6.56%) VPN
5 47 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 40 (5.35%) DHCP
7 38 (5.09%) Network Security
7 38 (5.09%) SD-WAN
8 35 (4.69%) SAN
9 33 (4.42%) SSL
10 28 (3.75%) BGP
11 22 (2.95%) VLAN
11 22 (2.95%) Wireless
12 16 (2.14%) LAN
13 12 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (1.07%) Internet
14 8 (1.07%) Intranet
14 8 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (0.94%) MPLS
15 7 (0.94%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 50 (6.69%) Relational Database
3 49 (6.56%) Data Lake
4 47 (6.29%) Power BI
5 46 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
6 43 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (4.55%) Oracle Database
9 29 (3.88%) RDBMS
10 27 (3.61%) NoSQL
11 21 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.87%) Metadata
13 14 (1.87%) MySQL
14 13 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (1.61%) Redis
16 11 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.94%) MariaDB
17 7 (0.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (5.35%) Git
2 29 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.28%) JIRA
4 7 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.13%) GitLab
7 1 (0.13%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.13%) Moq
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 275 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 158 (21.15%) Finance
3 94 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 44 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (5.89%) Presentation Skills
6 28 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (3.35%) Law
8 22 (2.95%) Banking
9 19 (2.54%) Legal
10 18 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 18 (2.41%) Retail
11 17 (2.28%) Marketing
12 14 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.61%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.94%) Police
15 5 (0.67%) Automotive
15 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 227 (30.39%) Architect
2 113 (15.13%) Lead
3 107 (14.32%) Senior
4 73 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
5 72 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
6 64 (8.57%) Azure Architect
7 58 (7.76%) Lead Architect
8 53 (7.10%) Developer
8 53 (7.10%) Security Architect
9 51 (6.83%) Cloud Architect
10 49 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (6.56%) Support Engineer
11 47 (6.29%) Consultant
12 46 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (5.76%) IT Support
14 42 (5.62%) Infrastructure Architect
15 35 (4.69%) IT Engineer
16 33 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support
17 31 (4.15%) Citrix Architect
17 31 (4.15%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.62%) Spring Boot
2 40 (5.35%) .NET
3 31 (4.15%) ARM Templates
4 28 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
5 27 (3.61%) REST
6 19 (2.54%) Web Services
7 18 (2.41%) AngularJS
7 18 (2.41%) XML
8 17 (2.28%) JSON
9 16 (2.14%) Node.js
10 14 (1.87%) .NET Framework
10 14 (1.87%) Spring
11 13 (1.74%) OAuth
12 12 (1.61%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.61%) Middleware
12 12 (1.61%) OpenID
12 12 (1.61%) React
12 12 (1.61%) SAML
13 11 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (1.34%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.51%) Public Cloud
2 67 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 56 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 41 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (5.35%) Blockchain
6 40 (5.35%) Cloud Native
7 31 (4.15%) Data Centre
8 30 (4.02%) Driving Licence
9 21 (2.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 19 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.61%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.07%) Clustering
14 8 (1.07%) IoT
14 8 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 123 (16.47%) Windows
2 113 (15.13%) Linux
3 50 (6.69%) Windows Server
4 40 (5.35%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (5.35%) CentOS
4 40 (5.35%) Debian
5 28 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (3.35%) Windows 10
7 21 (2.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (2.41%) VMS
9 14 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (1.61%) Unix
12 8 (1.07%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.94%) Solaris
14 5 (0.67%) Android
15 4 (0.54%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (29.18%) DevOps
2 172 (23.03%) Agile
3 162 (21.69%) CI/CD
4 154 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (14.86%) ITIL
7 93 (12.45%) Scrum
8 91 (12.18%) Migration
9 88 (11.78%) Information Security
10 87 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
11 78 (10.44%) Artificial Intelligence
12 73 (9.77%) Computer Science
13 72 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 72 (9.64%) Project Management
14 67 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (8.70%) Mentoring
16 63 (8.43%) Cloud Security
16 63 (8.43%) Kanban
17 62 (8.30%) Analytics
17 62 (8.30%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 108 (14.46%) SQL
2 101 (13.52%) PowerShell
3 61 (8.17%) C#
4 58 (7.76%) Python
5 46 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.22%) Java
7 26 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.21%) Bicep
9 17 (2.28%) Bash
10 16 (2.14%) PHP
11 8 (1.07%) Go
11 8 (1.07%) Groovy
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
11 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.94%) Ruby
13 6 (0.80%) R
14 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.40%) Dart
16 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 220 (29.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 172 (23.03%) AWS Certification
3 165 (22.09%) Degree
4 96 (12.85%) Security Cleared
5 95 (12.72%) Cisco Certification
6 84 (11.24%) SC Cleared
7 71 (9.50%) CISSP
8 67 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (6.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 50 (6.69%) MCSE
11 46 (6.16%) CCSP
12 44 (5.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.89%) MCSA
13 39 (5.22%) CISM
14 35 (4.69%) CCNA
15 34 (4.55%) CCSK
16 26 (3.48%) CCNP
17 14 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (1.74%) PMI Certification
19 12 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.50%) NIST
2 51 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (4.28%) SLA
4 24 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 20 (2.68%) QA
6 17 (2.28%) GDPR
7 13 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.54%) PMO
11 3 (0.40%) NCSC
12 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (19.41%) Active Directory
2 124 (16.60%) Docker
3 56 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 45 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.80%) XenApp
8 6 (0.80%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.67%) Firmware
10 4 (0.54%) pfSense
10 4 (0.54%) vSphere
11 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.13%) LXC
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.13%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 173 (23.16%) Terraform
2 150 (20.08%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (5.09%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (3.88%) Ansible
6 21 (2.81%) SCCM
7 13 (1.74%) Grafana
7 13 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.61%) SCOM
9 9 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.07%) Puppet
11 7 (0.94%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.54%) SmoothWall
14 3 (0.40%) Suricata
15 2 (0.27%) Cisco Prime
15 2 (0.27%) Istio
15 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 424 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.17%) VMware
3 73 (9.77%) Cisco
4 52 (6.96%) Citrix
5 44 (5.89%) IBM
5 44 (5.89%) Oracle
6 41 (5.49%) Red Hat
7 30 (4.02%) Fortinet
8 28 (3.75%) Sparx
9 23 (3.08%) Databricks
10 21 (2.81%) Veeam
11 13 (1.74%) Apple
12 11 (1.47%) Commvault
12 11 (1.47%) Google
13 10 (1.34%) WSO2
14 9 (1.20%) Dell
15 8 (1.07%) Juniper
15 8 (1.07%) Meraki
16 7 (0.94%) New Relic
16 7 (0.94%) SaltStack