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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 146 459
Rank change year-on-year -165 +313 -61
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 748 2,363 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.88% 2.52% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 7.72% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 556 620 556
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,148 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,689 £49,021 £52,256
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 £106,875
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 24,250 30,628 34,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.55% 32.70% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,777 13,783 16,683
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,960 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.38% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -

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 25 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 25 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 -54 273 £77,500 +6.90% 130
North of England -151 186 £55,000 -29.03% 47
South East +15 151 £65,000 +16.07% 37
Midlands -159 87 £63,750 +41.67% 34
North West -174 78 £61,206 -25.81% 26
Yorkshire -65 71 £52,500 -25.00% 15
West Midlands -147 50 £67,500 +31.71% 22
North East +29 37 £32,500 -48.00% 6
East Midlands -64 37 £58,750 +83.59% 12
East of England -65 27 £40,000 +2.27% 18
South West -60 21 £58,750 +17.50% 22
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 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.74%) WebLogic
4 12 (1.60%) Confluence
5 10 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.80%) IIS
7 4 (0.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (2.94%) 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 (3.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.13%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 748 (100.00%) Azure
2 213 (28.48%) AWS
3 188 (25.13%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (12.30%) PaaS
6 85 (11.36%) IaaS
7 76 (10.16%) Entra ID
8 74 (9.89%) Power Platform
9 49 (6.55%) GCP
10 42 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (5.61%) SaaS
10 42 (5.61%) Serverless
11 40 (5.35%) IBM Cloud
12 39 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (3.34%) Azure AKS
17 24 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 102 (13.64%) Firewall
2 95 (12.70%) DNS
3 60 (8.02%) WAN
4 50 (6.68%) VPN
5 47 (6.28%) TCP/IP
6 41 (5.48%) DHCP
7 38 (5.08%) Network Security
7 38 (5.08%) SD-WAN
8 36 (4.81%) SAN
9 33 (4.41%) SSL
10 28 (3.74%) BGP
11 23 (3.07%) VLAN
12 22 (2.94%) Wireless
13 16 (2.14%) LAN
14 13 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.07%) Internet
15 8 (1.07%) Intranet
15 8 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.94%) MPLS
16 7 (0.94%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.36%) SQL Server
2 51 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 49 (6.55%) Data Lake
4 47 (6.28%) Power BI
5 46 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
6 43 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (4.55%) Oracle Database
9 29 (3.88%) RDBMS
10 28 (3.74%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.94%) 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 (1.60%) Redis
16 11 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.94%) MariaDB
17 7 (0.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (5.48%) Git
2 30 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.27%) JIRA
4 7 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.53%) 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
1 276 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 159 (21.26%) Finance
3 95 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 44 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 28 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.21%) Law
8 22 (2.94%) Banking
9 19 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 19 (2.54%) Legal
10 18 (2.41%) Retail
11 16 (2.14%) Marketing
12 14 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.94%) Police
15 5 (0.67%) Local Government
15 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 226 (30.21%) Architect
2 113 (15.11%) Lead
3 105 (14.04%) Senior
4 73 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
5 71 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
6 64 (8.56%) Azure Architect
7 58 (7.75%) Lead Architect
8 54 (7.22%) Developer
9 53 (7.09%) Security Architect
10 51 (6.82%) Cloud Architect
11 50 (6.68%) Support Engineer
12 48 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (6.28%) Consultant
13 47 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (5.75%) IT Support
15 42 (5.61%) Infrastructure Architect
16 35 (4.68%) IT Engineer
17 34 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
18 31 (4.14%) Analyst
18 31 (4.14%) Citrix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.75%) Spring Boot
2 40 (5.35%) .NET
3 30 (4.01%) ARM Templates
4 28 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
4 28 (3.74%) REST
5 20 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 19 (2.54%) Web Services
6 19 (2.54%) XML
7 18 (2.41%) JSON
8 17 (2.27%) Node.js
9 15 (2.01%) Spring
10 14 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.74%) React
12 12 (1.60%) .NET Core
12 12 (1.60%) Middleware
12 12 (1.60%) OAuth
13 11 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (1.47%) OpenID
13 11 (1.47%) SAML
14 10 (1.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.36%) Public Cloud
2 67 (8.96%) Management Information System
3 56 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 41 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (5.35%) Blockchain
6 40 (5.35%) Cloud Native
7 31 (4.14%) Data Centre
7 31 (4.14%) Driving Licence
8 21 (2.81%) Enterprise Storage
9 19 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.60%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.07%) Clustering
13 8 (1.07%) IoT
13 8 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 124 (16.58%) Windows
2 111 (14.84%) Linux
3 51 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 40 (5.35%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (5.35%) CentOS
4 40 (5.35%) Debian
5 28 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (3.48%) 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 (1.60%) Unix
12 8 (1.07%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.94%) Solaris
14 5 (0.67%) Android
15 4 (0.53%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.40%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (28.88%) DevOps
2 169 (22.59%) Agile
3 159 (21.26%) CI/CD
4 154 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 112 (14.97%) ITIL
7 91 (12.17%) Migration
7 91 (12.17%) Scrum
8 87 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
8 87 (11.63%) Information Security
9 78 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
10 74 (9.89%) Computer Science
11 72 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 72 (9.63%) Project Management
12 65 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 65 (8.69%) Mentoring
13 63 (8.42%) Cloud Security
14 62 (8.29%) Customer Service
14 62 (8.29%) Kanban
15 61 (8.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.71%) SQL
2 100 (13.37%) PowerShell
3 61 (8.16%) C#
4 58 (7.75%) Python
5 48 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.21%) Java
7 26 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.21%) Bicep
9 16 (2.14%) Bash
9 16 (2.14%) PHP
10 8 (1.07%) Go
10 8 (1.07%) Groovy
10 8 (1.07%) Scala
10 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.94%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) R
13 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.40%) Dart
15 2 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 220 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 173 (23.13%) AWS Certification
3 169 (22.59%) Degree
4 95 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
5 94 (12.57%) Security Cleared
6 82 (10.96%) SC Cleared
7 70 (9.36%) CISSP
8 68 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (6.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 50 (6.68%) MCSE
11 46 (6.15%) CCSP
12 44 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 44 (5.88%) MCSA
13 39 (5.21%) CISM
14 35 (4.68%) 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 (1.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.49%) NIST
2 51 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (4.41%) SLA
4 24 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.54%) QA
7 17 (2.27%) GDPR
8 13 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.53%) PMO
12 3 (0.40%) NCSC
13 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (19.39%) Active Directory
2 123 (16.44%) Docker
3 57 (7.62%) Hyper-V
4 45 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.80%) XenApp
8 6 (0.80%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.67%) Firmware
10 4 (0.53%) pfSense
10 4 (0.53%) 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 (23.13%) Terraform
2 149 (19.92%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (4.01%) Ansible
6 22 (2.94%) SCCM
7 13 (1.74%) Grafana
7 13 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.60%) 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 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.53%) SmoothWall
14 3 (0.40%) Suricata
15 2 (0.27%) Cisco Prime
15 2 (0.27%) Istio
15 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 426 (56.95%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.29%) VMware
3 73 (9.76%) Cisco
4 52 (6.95%) Citrix
5 44 (5.88%) IBM
5 44 (5.88%) Oracle
6 41 (5.48%) Red Hat
7 30 (4.01%) Fortinet
8 28 (3.74%) Sparx
9 23 (3.07%) 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%) Palo Alto