Azure Certification Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 316 152
Rank change year-on-year -22 -164 +330
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 422 765 2,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.89% 2.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.71% 3.13% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 282 555 580
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £45,875 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,919 £87,419
90th Percentile £94,700 £105,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year -7.69% -6.77% +1.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,714 24,462 29,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.35% 28.47% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,159 15,788 13,473
10th Percentile £32,110 £28,477 £31,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,400 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
London +50 200 £65,000 -16.13% 163
South East +16 68 £70,000 +7.69% 89
North of England -70 59 £62,500 +13.64% 47
Midlands +22 44 £46,000 -26.40% 35
North West -30 42 £71,991 +17.62% 24
South West +126 29 £55,000 -4.35% 14
West Midlands +23 28 £65,000 -3.70% 27
East of England +32 18 £28,125 -30.98% 15
Yorkshire +21 17 £52,500 - 15
East Midlands +10 16 £31,500 -42.73% 8
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 40 (9.48%) SharePoint
2 37 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.95%) Confluence
4 4 (0.95%) IIS
5 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 422 (100.00%) Azure
2 152 (36.02%) AWS
3 94 (22.27%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (16.35%) Entra ID
5 69 (16.35%) GCP
6 65 (15.40%) Power Platform
7 52 (12.32%) PaaS
8 47 (11.14%) IaaS
8 47 (11.14%) SaaS
9 46 (10.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 38 (9.00%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (8.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 30 (7.11%) Azure AI
13 22 (5.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 22 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (4.98%) Power Automate
15 20 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
16 19 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (4.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.74%) Firewall
2 57 (13.51%) DNS
3 50 (11.85%) VPN
4 48 (11.37%) WAN
5 35 (8.29%) DHCP
6 29 (6.87%) LAN
7 24 (5.69%) TCP/IP
8 23 (5.45%) SD-WAN
9 22 (5.21%) Network Security
10 13 (3.08%) VLAN
11 12 (2.84%) SAN
12 9 (2.13%) NAS
13 6 (1.42%) Wireless
14 5 (1.18%) VSAN
14 5 (1.18%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.95%) HTTPS
16 3 (0.71%) DMZ
16 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
17 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
17 2 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.69%) Data Lake
2 50 (11.85%) Power BI
3 36 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (8.29%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.16%) Metadata
6 25 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (4.03%) MySQL
8 16 (3.79%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.37%) Big Data
9 10 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.90%) Power Query
10 8 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.18%) Tableau
14 4 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (6.40%) Git
2 19 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.55%) JIRA
4 5 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.95%) JMeter
6 3 (0.71%) JUnit
6 3 (0.71%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.71%) TestRail
7 2 (0.47%) GitLab
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.24%) ERwin
8 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (44.31%) Social Skills
2 101 (23.93%) Finance
3 65 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.09%) Banking
5 34 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.87%) Law
7 26 (6.16%) Financial Institution
8 23 (5.45%) Retail Banking
9 20 (4.74%) Public Sector
9 20 (4.74%) Retail
10 8 (1.90%) Automotive
11 7 (1.66%) Humanities
11 7 (1.66%) Legal
11 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
12 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Billing
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (22.99%) Architect
2 78 (18.48%) Senior
3 60 (14.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 41 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (7.82%) Data Engineer
8 31 (7.35%) Data Architect
9 25 (5.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.69%) Cloud Architect
11 23 (5.45%) Analyst
11 23 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (5.21%) Lead
13 20 (4.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.27%) Developer
14 18 (4.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 17 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 11 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 11 (2.61%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.16%) ARM Templates
2 22 (5.21%) .NET
3 10 (2.37%) PySpark
4 9 (2.13%) Middleware
5 7 (1.66%) JSON
6 6 (1.42%) HTML
6 6 (1.42%) Kafka
6 6 (1.42%) Node.js
6 6 (1.42%) RESTful
7 5 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.18%) CSS
8 4 (0.95%) XML
9 3 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (0.71%) REST
9 3 (0.71%) SAML
10 2 (0.47%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.47%) ADO
10 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.58%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.55%) NHS
6 14 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.08%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.95%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.99%) Windows
2 64 (15.17%) Windows Server
3 26 (6.16%) Linux
4 14 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.66%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.66%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.42%) VMS
9 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.95%) Unix
10 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.71%) CentOS
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.65%) DevOps
2 141 (33.41%) Agile
3 124 (29.38%) CI/CD
4 123 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (24.64%) ITIL
6 90 (21.33%) Migration
7 80 (18.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (17.77%) Analytics
9 71 (16.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 68 (16.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 67 (15.88%) Computer Science
12 65 (15.40%) Roadmaps
13 59 (13.98%) Mentoring
14 55 (13.03%) Data Modelling
15 52 (12.32%) Containerisation
16 50 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (11.61%) TOGAF
18 48 (11.37%) Disaster Recovery
19 47 (11.14%) Data Privacy
20 43 (10.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (30.33%) PowerShell
2 111 (26.30%) SQL
3 91 (21.56%) Python
4 38 (9.00%) C#
5 27 (6.40%) Bicep
6 15 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.84%) Java
8 11 (2.61%) Scala
9 10 (2.37%) Bash
9 10 (2.37%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.71%) R
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.24%) Delphi
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (32.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 104 (24.64%) AWS Certification
3 98 (23.22%) Degree
4 55 (13.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (8.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (6.87%) Security Cleared
8 26 (6.16%) CCNA
9 23 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 19 (4.50%) DBS Check
10 19 (4.50%) SC Cleared
11 13 (3.08%) CISSP
11 13 (3.08%) Master's Degree
12 12 (2.84%) A+ Certification
12 12 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (2.61%) CCNP
13 11 (2.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 11 (2.61%) MCSE
13 11 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (13.74%) GDPR
2 24 (5.69%) HIPAA
2 24 (5.69%) SLA
3 22 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.74%) Data Quality
5 18 (4.27%) NIST
6 15 (3.55%) SOC 2
7 14 (3.32%) QA
8 13 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.47%) NCSC
10 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 87 (20.62%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.56%) Docker
3 48 (11.37%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (9.00%) Hyper-V
5 36 (8.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.90%) vSphere
9 5 (1.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.71%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.71%) Postfix
11 2 (0.47%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.24%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.24%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.24%) KVM
12 1 (0.24%) XenApp
12 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (17.77%) Terraform
2 61 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 37 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (6.87%) Ansible
5 23 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (3.32%) SCCM
7 9 (2.13%) NetBackup
7 9 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.13%) SCOM
8 6 (1.42%) Grafana
9 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.71%) Iperf
10 3 (0.71%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) Autotask
12 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 276 (65.40%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.98%) VMware
3 57 (13.51%) Databricks
4 51 (12.09%) Google
5 24 (5.69%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.27%) Cisco
7 17 (4.03%) Meraki
7 17 (4.03%) Veeam
8 14 (3.32%) SAP
9 13 (3.08%) Citrix
10 12 (2.84%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.61%) OpenAI
11 11 (2.61%) Workday
12 10 (2.37%) Fortinet
12 10 (2.37%) Oracle
13 9 (2.13%) Apple
14 5 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.95%) Acronis
15 4 (0.95%) NetApp
15 4 (0.95%) SonicWALL