Azure Certification Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 131 106
Rank change year-on-year +1 -25 +15
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 5 31 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 0.90% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 3.36% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 15
10th Percentile - £35,750 £55,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,250 £58,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -8.00% +43.68%
75th Percentile £33,750 £71,250 £64,375
90th Percentile - £73,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -2.99% -7.59%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 705 923 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 32.03% 26.80% 23.51%
Number of salaries quoted 247 228 239
10th Percentile - £28,642 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £34,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £51,875 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £70,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leicestershire +22 3 £32,500 -59.38% 8
Nottinghamshire -7 2 - - 15
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (60.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Support Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki