Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 335 155 466
Rank change year-on-year -180 +311 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 838 2,476 1,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 2.37% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 7.22% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 605 662 667
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,333 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the UK 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
England -171 747 £65,000 -7.14% 164
UK excluding London -212 522 £57,500 -11.54% 101
Work from Home +87 385 £67,500 -2.80% 87
London -48 273 £78,250 +7.93% 65
North of England -149 187 £55,000 -30.93% 28
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% 4
East Midlands -58 37 £58,750 +83.59% 5
Scotland -134 35 £65,000 -6.40% 7
East of England -75 27 £40,000 +2.27% 11
South West -41 20 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Northern Ireland +37 10 - - 2
Wales +3 6 - - 1

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 46 (5.49%) WebLogic
4 12 (1.43%) Confluence
5 10 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.72%) IIS
7 5 (0.60%) Apache
8 3 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 49 (5.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.12%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 838 (100.00%) Azure
2 271 (32.34%) AWS
3 202 (24.11%) Microsoft 365
4 151 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
5 107 (12.77%) PaaS
6 105 (12.53%) IaaS
7 86 (10.26%) Entra ID
8 76 (9.07%) Power Platform
9 62 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (6.21%) GCP
11 50 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
12 48 (5.73%) SaaS
12 48 (5.73%) Serverless
13 46 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.77%) IBM Cloud
15 37 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (3.94%) Azure AKS
16 33 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 22 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 114 (13.60%) Firewall
2 113 (13.48%) DNS
3 66 (7.88%) TCP/IP
4 61 (7.28%) WAN
5 55 (6.56%) VPN
6 51 (6.09%) SSL
7 47 (5.61%) BGP
8 45 (5.37%) Network Security
9 42 (5.01%) SD-WAN
10 40 (4.77%) DHCP
11 35 (4.18%) SAN
12 34 (4.06%) LAN
13 26 (3.10%) VLAN
14 22 (2.63%) Wireless
15 13 (1.55%) NetScaler
16 12 (1.43%) Internet
16 12 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.95%) Intranet
17 8 (0.95%) MPLS
17 8 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 68 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 67 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (6.92%) Data Lake
5 53 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (6.32%) Oracle Database
6 48 (5.73%) Power BI
7 47 (5.61%) RDBMS
8 40 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 30 (3.58%) NoSQL
10 23 (2.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 21 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.79%) MySQL
14 14 (1.67%) Big Data
14 14 (1.67%) Metadata
14 14 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (1.43%) Redis
16 11 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (4.89%) Git
2 31 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.03%) JIRA
4 7 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.60%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Moq
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 2 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.12%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.12%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 326 (38.90%) Social Skills
2 172 (20.53%) Finance
3 102 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 74 (8.83%) Presentation Skills
5 51 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (3.34%) Law
6 28 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (2.74%) Banking
8 19 (2.27%) Legal
9 18 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.15%) Marketing
9 18 (2.15%) Retail
10 14 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.95%) Police
14 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 279 (33.29%) Architect
2 132 (15.75%) Lead
3 128 (15.27%) Senior
4 101 (12.05%) Solutions Architect
5 82 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (9.07%) Lead Architect
7 72 (8.59%) Azure Architect
8 71 (8.47%) Security Architect
9 65 (7.76%) Cloud Architect
10 59 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (6.68%) Consultant
12 55 (6.56%) Developer
13 54 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (6.32%) Support Engineer
15 47 (5.61%) Infrastructure Architect
15 47 (5.61%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 43 (5.13%) IT Support
17 37 (4.42%) Senior Consultant
18 36 (4.30%) IT Engineer
19 33 (3.94%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.16%) Spring Boot
2 46 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
3 42 (5.01%) .NET
4 34 (4.06%) ARM Templates
5 27 (3.22%) REST
6 20 (2.39%) JSON
7 19 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.27%) Web Services
8 18 (2.15%) XML
9 16 (1.91%) Node.js
10 15 (1.79%) .NET Framework
11 14 (1.67%) Spring
12 13 (1.55%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.55%) OAuth
12 13 (1.55%) React
13 12 (1.43%) Middleware
13 12 (1.43%) OpenID
13 12 (1.43%) SAML
14 11 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 114 (13.60%) Public Cloud
2 91 (10.86%) Management Information System
3 59 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
5 50 (5.97%) Data Centre
6 49 (5.85%) Cloud Native
6 49 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (4.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 40 (4.77%) Blockchain
9 30 (3.58%) Driving Licence
10 22 (2.63%) Onboarding
11 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Storage
12 19 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (2.15%) Cyberattack
14 14 (1.67%) iPhone
14 14 (1.67%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.43%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.31%) IoT
16 11 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.06%) Linux
2 138 (16.47%) Windows
3 59 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 46 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (4.77%) Alpine Linux
5 40 (4.77%) CentOS
5 40 (4.77%) Debian
6 25 (2.98%) Windows 10
7 21 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (2.15%) VMS
9 15 (1.79%) Unix
10 14 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.95%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.84%) Solaris
14 5 (0.60%) Android
15 4 (0.48%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.36%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (28.28%) DevOps
2 200 (23.87%) Agile
3 167 (19.93%) CI/CD
4 166 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (13.72%) ITIL
6 115 (13.72%) Migration
7 114 (13.60%) Information Security
7 114 (13.60%) Scrum
8 113 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
9 95 (11.34%) Roadmaps
10 92 (10.98%) Project Management
11 91 (10.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 81 (9.67%) Kanban
13 80 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 79 (9.43%) TOGAF
15 77 (9.19%) Computer Science
16 76 (9.07%) Collaborative Working
16 76 (9.07%) Mentoring
17 75 (8.95%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 113 (13.48%) SQL
2 110 (13.13%) PowerShell
3 65 (7.76%) Python
4 63 (7.52%) C#
5 49 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.65%) Java
7 27 (3.22%) Bicep
7 27 (3.22%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.39%) Bash
9 17 (2.03%) PHP
10 9 (1.07%) Go
11 8 (0.95%) Groovy
11 8 (0.95%) Scala
11 8 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.84%) Ruby
13 6 (0.72%) R
13 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.36%) Dart
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (28.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 224 (26.73%) AWS Certification
3 172 (20.53%) Degree
4 139 (16.59%) Security Cleared
5 125 (14.92%) SC Cleared
6 107 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
7 95 (11.34%) CISSP
8 71 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (7.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 61 (7.28%) CISM
11 57 (6.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 55 (6.56%) MCSE
13 51 (6.09%) CCSP
14 44 (5.25%) MCSA
15 40 (4.77%) CCNA
16 34 (4.06%) CCSK
17 28 (3.34%) CCNP
18 16 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (1.79%) PMI Certification
20 14 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.16%) NIST
2 55 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (3.94%) SLA
4 29 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (3.10%) QA
6 21 (2.51%) GDPR
7 20 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.60%) IASME
12 4 (0.48%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.48%) PMO
13 3 (0.36%) NCSC
14 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.24%) WCAG
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 173 (20.64%) Active Directory
2 129 (15.39%) Docker
3 56 (6.68%) Hyper-V
4 53 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (1.31%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.72%) XenApp
11 5 (0.60%) Firmware
12 4 (0.48%) pfSense
12 4 (0.48%) vSphere
13 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.12%) LXC
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 187 (22.32%) Terraform
2 164 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 72 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (3.94%) Ansible
6 21 (2.51%) SCCM
7 13 (1.55%) Grafana
7 13 (1.55%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.43%) SCOM
9 9 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.95%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.95%) Puppet
11 7 (0.84%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.48%) SmoothWall
14 3 (0.36%) Suricata
15 2 (0.24%) Cisco Prime
15 2 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 454 (54.18%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.14%) VMware
3 83 (9.90%) Cisco
4 63 (7.52%) Oracle
5 57 (6.80%) Citrix
6 49 (5.85%) Sparx
7 44 (5.25%) IBM
8 41 (4.89%) Red Hat
9 31 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 26 (3.10%) Veeam
11 23 (2.74%) Databricks
12 14 (1.67%) Google
13 13 (1.55%) Apple
14 11 (1.31%) Commvault
15 10 (1.19%) WSO2
16 9 (1.07%) Dell
17 8 (0.95%) Juniper
17 8 (0.95%) Meraki
17 8 (0.95%) SAP
17 8 (0.95%) SolarWinds