Azure Certification Job Trends 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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 267 318
Rank change year-on-year +222 +51 -188
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 3,125 403 702
As % of all permanent jobs in England 4.21% 1.10% 0.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.02% 2.72% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 466 287 558
10th Percentile - £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £31,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -47.50% -7.69% -7.14%

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 19,512 14,816 22,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.28% 40.45% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,041 7,014 15,548
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,553 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.09% +4.55% -4.35%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 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
North of England +165 996 £30,500 -46.96% 94
Midlands +154 651 £31,500 -42.73% 93
South East +131 576 £42,500 -39.29% 120
Yorkshire +106 559 £30,500 -37.76% 41
South West +113 399 £31,250 -43.18% 59
East Midlands +87 339 £57,500 +82.54% 51
West Midlands +119 310 £30,500 -46.96% 42
North West +108 298 £30,500 -57.63% 32
London +46 289 £62,500 -5.66% 108
East of England +93 251 £37,500 +36.36% 56
North East - 139 £30,500 - 21
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 66 (2.11%) WordPress
2 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.38%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.096%) Confluence
5 3 (0.096%) IIS
6 2 (0.064%) Apache
6 2 (0.064%) Camunda
7 1 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.032%) Drupal
7 1 (0.032%) nginx
Applications
1 847 (27.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.096%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.032%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.032%) Magento
2 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.032%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,125 (100.00%) Azure
2 1,003 (32.10%) Azure AI
3 883 (28.26%) Power Platform
4 372 (11.90%) AWS
5 259 (8.29%) GitHub
6 77 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
7 71 (2.27%) GCP
8 51 (1.63%) Entra ID
9 48 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (1.44%) IaaS
11 37 (1.18%) Serverless
12 29 (0.93%) PaaS
13 27 (0.86%) Azure AKS
14 24 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 23 (0.74%) SaaS
16 22 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (0.54%) Azure Storage
19 15 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 237 (7.58%) Internet
2 73 (2.34%) Firewall
3 59 (1.89%) DNS
4 51 (1.63%) VPN
5 42 (1.34%) DHCP
6 30 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 29 (0.93%) WAN
8 28 (0.90%) VLAN
8 28 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (0.80%) Network Security
10 20 (0.64%) SAN
11 19 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.51%) LAN
13 9 (0.29%) Wireless
14 6 (0.19%) VoIP
15 5 (0.16%) DMZ
15 5 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.16%) STUN
16 4 (0.13%) NetScaler
17 3 (0.096%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 876 (28.03%) Power BI
2 855 (27.36%) Tableau
3 37 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 35 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 29 (0.93%) Metadata
6 17 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.16%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.096%) MySQL
11 2 (0.064%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.064%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.064%) QlikView
11 2 (0.064%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.032%) Big Data
12 1 (0.032%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.032%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.032%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 250 (8.00%) Git
2 12 (0.38%) Chocolatey
3 9 (0.29%) MLflow
4 8 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.13%) JIRA
6 4 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.096%) GitLab
8 1 (0.032%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.032%) ERwin
8 1 (0.032%) Gatling
8 1 (0.032%) JMeter
8 1 (0.032%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.032%) Vagrant
General
1 2,677 (85.66%) Social Skills
2 237 (7.58%) Multimedia
3 96 (3.07%) Finance
4 65 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (1.54%) Banking
6 40 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 27 (0.86%) Law
9 21 (0.67%) Public Sector
10 17 (0.54%) Retail Banking
11 13 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (0.42%) Legal
11 13 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.22%) Retail
13 6 (0.19%) Advertising
14 5 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.13%) Marketing
15 4 (0.13%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.096%) Military
17 2 (0.064%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,698 (54.34%) Analyst
2 1,696 (54.27%) Junior
3 1,694 (54.21%) Junior Analyst
4 849 (27.17%) Data Analyst
5 847 (27.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 847 (27.10%) Junior Data Analyst
5 847 (27.10%) Junior Security Analyst
5 847 (27.10%) Security Analyst
6 564 (18.05%) Ethical Hacker
7 237 (7.58%) Trainee
8 159 (5.09%) Network Engineer
9 145 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 105 (3.36%) Developer
11 96 (3.07%) Architect
12 92 (2.94%) Trainee Developer
13 85 (2.72%) Software Developer
13 85 (2.72%) Trainee Software Developer
14 80 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
15 69 (2.21%) Administrator
15 69 (2.21%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (7.58%) CSS
1 237 (7.58%) HTML
2 13 (0.42%) .NET
3 12 (0.38%) PySpark
4 10 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 9 (0.29%) Kafka
5 9 (0.29%) LangChain
6 7 (0.22%) React
6 7 (0.22%) REST
6 7 (0.22%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (0.16%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (0.13%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.13%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (0.13%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.13%) RESTful
8 4 (0.13%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.096%) ADO
10 2 (0.064%) Drools
10 2 (0.064%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.064%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 568 (18.18%) Cyberattack
2 34 (1.09%) Cloud Native
3 27 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (0.74%) Public Cloud
5 15 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (0.42%) Data Centre
7 12 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (0.32%) Management Information System
8 10 (0.32%) PKI
9 9 (0.29%) AI Agents
9 9 (0.29%) Onboarding
9 9 (0.29%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.22%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.19%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.16%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.16%) PACS
13 4 (0.13%) CMDB
13 4 (0.13%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.78%) Windows
2 47 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 40 (1.28%) Linux
4 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.16%) Debian
5 5 (0.16%) VMS
5 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.032%) CentOS
7 1 (0.032%) SUSE
7 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.032%) Unix
7 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,614 (51.65%) Cybersecurity
2 1,095 (35.04%) Mentoring
3 1,044 (33.41%) AI
4 877 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
5 568 (18.18%) Ethical Hacking
6 143 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 88 (2.82%) DevOps
7 88 (2.82%) Migration
8 79 (2.53%) ITIL
9 77 (2.46%) Agile
10 75 (2.40%) CI/CD
11 73 (2.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (2.30%) Web Development
13 62 (1.98%) Computer Science
14 59 (1.89%) Data Modelling
15 57 (1.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 53 (1.70%) Problem-Solving
18 51 (1.63%) Analytics
19 49 (1.57%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1,308 (41.86%) Python
2 896 (28.67%) SQL
3 257 (8.22%) JavaScript
4 148 (4.74%) R
5 87 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 35 (1.12%) C#
7 31 (0.99%) Java
8 27 (0.86%) Bicep
9 17 (0.54%) Bash
9 17 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.19%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.19%) Scala
11 3 (0.096%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.064%) C++
12 2 (0.064%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.064%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.032%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.032%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.032%) Perl
13 1 (0.032%) PHP
Qualifications
1 854 (27.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 850 (27.20%) CompTIA CySA+
3 567 (18.14%) CEH
4 339 (10.85%) AWS Certification
5 337 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 243 (7.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 178 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
8 158 (5.06%) CCNA
9 150 (4.80%) Network+ Certification
10 90 (2.88%) Degree
11 49 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 39 (1.25%) Security Cleared
14 34 (1.09%) SC Cleared
15 30 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.70%) CCNP
17 21 (0.67%) CISSP
18 12 (0.38%) CISM
18 12 (0.38%) Master's Degree
19 9 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (1.22%) GDPR
2 35 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (0.86%) NIST
4 17 (0.54%) SLA
5 14 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.29%) NCSC
7 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.16%) DICOM
9 5 (0.16%) QA
10 4 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.096%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.032%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.032%) COBIT
12 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.032%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 38 (1.22%) Docker
3 31 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.35%) vSphere
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.032%) Firmware
11 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 72 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 69 (2.21%) Terraform
3 36 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.61%) Ansible
5 16 (0.51%) SCCM
6 9 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.16%) Packer
9 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.13%) logstash
9 4 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.096%) Grafana
11 2 (0.064%) Control-M
11 2 (0.064%) Nessus
11 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.064%) WSUS
12 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.032%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2,852 (91.26%) Microsoft
2 1,552 (49.66%) ForeScout
3 185 (5.92%) Cisco
4 54 (1.73%) VMware
5 30 (0.96%) Databricks
6 21 (0.67%) SolarWinds
7 18 (0.58%) Google
8 15 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 15 (0.48%) Palo Alto
9 12 (0.38%) AppDynamics
9 12 (0.38%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.38%) Meraki
9 12 (0.38%) Tenable
10 11 (0.35%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.26%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.22%) Citrix
12 7 (0.22%) F5
12 7 (0.22%) Splunk
12 7 (0.22%) Veeam
13 6 (0.19%) EMC