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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 107 127
Rank change year-on-year +72 +20 -47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 148 16 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 5.03% 0.82% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.87% 2.21% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 20
10th Percentile £29,075 - £58,250
25th Percentile £30,875 £32,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,695 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -30.77% +100.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £58,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £60,125 £91,250
England median annual salary £32,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -50.77% - -10.34%

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 709 723 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 36.83% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 228 203 449
10th Percentile £28,750 £24,649 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,001
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% 0.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £59,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £66,436
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the East Midlands

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 18 February 2026. 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 - 51 £38,945 - 8
Nottinghamshire +24 25 £60,000 +71.43% 12
Northamptonshire +19 25 £47,500 - 7
Derbyshire +4 23 - - 5
Lincolnshire -1 23 - - 5
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 2 (1.35%) WordPress
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 61 (41.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (43.24%) Power Platform
3 60 (40.54%) Azure AI
4 6 (4.05%) AWS
5 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.03%) GitHub
5 3 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.68%) Datadog
6 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (43.24%) Power BI
2 62 (41.89%) Tableau
3 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 141 (95.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.03%) Finance
3 2 (1.35%) Multimedia
3 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (1.35%) Social Housing
4 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 120 (81.08%) Analyst
1 120 (81.08%) Junior
1 120 (81.08%) Junior Analyst
2 60 (40.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 60 (40.54%) Data Analyst
2 60 (40.54%) Junior Data Analyst
2 60 (40.54%) Junior Security Analyst
2 60 (40.54%) Security Analyst
3 18 (12.16%) Ethical Hacker
4 2 (1.35%) Administrator
4 2 (1.35%) Data Scientist
4 2 (1.35%) Developer
4 2 (1.35%) Trainee
4 2 (1.35%) Trainee Administrator
4 2 (1.35%) Web Administrator
5 1 (0.68%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (0.68%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (0.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.68%) Professional Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) CSS
1 2 (1.35%) HTML
2 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.68%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Cyberattack
2 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.38%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (41.22%) AI
3 61 (41.22%) Mentoring
4 18 (12.16%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (2.03%) DevOps
5 3 (2.03%) Visualisation
6 2 (1.35%) Analytics
6 2 (1.35%) Anomaly Detection
6 2 (1.35%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (1.35%) Data Analytics
6 2 (1.35%) Data Science
6 2 (1.35%) Decision-Making
6 2 (1.35%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (1.35%) Machine Learning
6 2 (1.35%) Predictive Analysis
6 2 (1.35%) Predictive Analytics
6 2 (1.35%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (1.35%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (1.35%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (43.92%) Python
2 63 (42.57%) SQL
3 4 (2.70%) R
4 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) Bicep
5 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (40.54%) CompTIA CySA+
1 60 (40.54%) CompTIA Security+
2 18 (12.16%) CEH
3 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Grafana
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 147 (99.32%) Microsoft
2 78 (52.70%) ForeScout
3 2 (1.35%) Civica
3 2 (1.35%) Google
3 2 (1.35%) Northgate
3 2 (1.35%) Orchard
4 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds