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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 309 151
Rank change year-on-year -28 -158 +335
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 425 781 2,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.87% 2.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.73% 3.15% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 267 555 563
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,850 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,959 £87,419
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -6.92% -6.40% +2.88%

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 24,632 24,771 28,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.31% 27.69% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,782 15,756 13,083
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,938 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

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 30 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 30 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 +59 207 £65,000 -16.13% 149
South East +3 70 £65,000 - 335
North of England -67 59 £62,500 +13.64% 249
Midlands +28 46 £57,500 -14.81% 223
North West -33 44 £71,991 +17.62% 120
West Midlands +32 32 £67,500 -3.57% 126
South West +101 23 £51,250 -10.87% 127
East of England +36 14 £28,750 -30.72% 190
East Midlands +14 14 £31,500 -48.36% 83
Yorkshire +7 14 £57,500 +6.98% 100
North East +11 1 £47,500 +46.15% 30
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 35 (8.24%) SharePoint
2 33 (7.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (4.24%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.88%) Confluence
5 4 (0.94%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 425 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (37.18%) AWS
3 85 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (17.88%) Power Platform
6 75 (17.65%) GCP
7 63 (14.82%) Entra ID
8 55 (12.94%) PaaS
8 55 (12.94%) SaaS
9 54 (12.71%) IaaS
10 47 (11.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (9.88%) Azure Monitor
12 32 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (7.29%) Azure AI
14 24 (5.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 23 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 21 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (4.94%) Power Automate
17 20 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
18 19 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.88%) Firewall
2 58 (13.65%) DNS
3 52 (12.24%) VPN
4 51 (12.00%) WAN
5 32 (7.53%) DHCP
5 32 (7.53%) LAN
6 26 (6.12%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.18%) SD-WAN
8 20 (4.71%) Network Security
9 15 (3.53%) SAN
10 12 (2.82%) VLAN
11 9 (2.12%) NAS
12 5 (1.18%) VSAN
12 5 (1.18%) Wireless
12 5 (1.18%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.94%) FTP
13 4 (0.94%) HTTP
13 4 (0.94%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.94%) SSH
13 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.00%) Data Lake
2 51 (12.00%) Power BI
3 44 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (8.24%) SQL Server
5 29 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 26 (6.12%) Metadata
7 23 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (4.24%) Big Data
8 18 (4.24%) MySQL
9 14 (3.29%) Hadoop
10 13 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.35%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.88%) Power Query
14 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 6 (1.41%) Tableau
16 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.76%) Git
2 24 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.94%) JIRA
4 5 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.94%) JMeter
5 4 (0.94%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.71%) JUnit
6 3 (0.71%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.71%) TestRail
6 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.47%) GitLab
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.47%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) YouTrack
General
1 177 (41.65%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.71%) Finance
3 66 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.94%) Banking
5 41 (9.65%) Law
6 36 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (5.65%) Financial Institution
7 24 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.94%) Retail Banking
9 15 (3.53%) Retail
10 8 (1.88%) Automotive
10 8 (1.88%) Legal
10 8 (1.88%) Marketing
10 8 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.65%) Humanities
12 5 (1.18%) Advertising
13 4 (0.94%) Local Government
14 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (23.53%) Architect
2 80 (18.82%) Senior
3 58 (13.65%) Azure Engineer
4 55 (12.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 44 (10.35%) Solutions Architect
6 43 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.76%) Data Engineer
8 30 (7.06%) Data Architect
9 28 (6.59%) Analyst
10 27 (6.35%) Lead
11 23 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (5.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (4.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 18 (4.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (4.00%) Developer
16 17 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 14 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
18 13 (3.06%) DevOps Architect
18 13 (3.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.59%) ARM Templates
2 18 (4.24%) .NET
3 15 (3.53%) Kafka
4 11 (2.59%) PySpark
5 9 (2.12%) Middleware
6 7 (1.65%) Node.js
7 6 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.41%) HTML
8 5 (1.18%) CSS
8 5 (1.18%) RESTful
8 5 (1.18%) SAML
9 4 (0.94%) JSON
9 4 (0.94%) XML
10 3 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (0.71%) React
10 3 (0.71%) REST
10 3 (0.71%) YAML
11 2 (0.47%) Django
11 2 (0.47%) Flask
11 2 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.06%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.53%) NHS
6 14 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.18%) PKI
13 5 (1.18%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 100 (23.53%) Windows
2 69 (16.24%) Windows Server
3 25 (5.88%) Linux
4 14 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.88%) VMS
8 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.65%) Windows 7
9 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.18%) Unix
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.94%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.71%) CentOS
12 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (37.65%) DevOps
2 153 (36.00%) Agile
3 136 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 129 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (25.18%) ITIL
6 93 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 87 (20.47%) Migration
8 84 (19.76%) Analytics
9 81 (19.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 80 (18.82%) Computer Science
11 67 (15.76%) Roadmaps
12 65 (15.29%) Data Modelling
13 62 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 62 (14.59%) Mentoring
14 53 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (11.76%) TOGAF
16 48 (11.29%) Containerisation
17 47 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
17 47 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
18 45 (10.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 128 (30.12%) PowerShell
2 120 (28.24%) SQL
3 101 (23.76%) Python
4 35 (8.24%) C#
5 24 (5.65%) Bicep
6 16 (3.76%) Java
7 15 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.59%) Bash
9 11 (2.59%) Scala
10 6 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.94%) Groovy
12 4 (0.94%) R
13 2 (0.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (30.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 115 (27.06%) Degree
3 111 (26.12%) AWS Certification
4 68 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (8.47%) Security Cleared
6 33 (7.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (7.29%) CCNA
8 25 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 24 (5.65%) Master's Degree
9 24 (5.65%) SC Cleared
10 19 (4.47%) DBS Check
11 14 (3.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 11 (2.59%) CCNP
12 11 (2.59%) CISSP
12 11 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (2.59%) MCSE
13 10 (2.35%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (15.53%) GDPR
2 29 (6.82%) SLA
3 26 (6.12%) HIPAA
4 21 (4.94%) Data Quality
5 20 (4.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 19 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (4.24%) NIST
8 16 (3.76%) QA
9 14 (3.29%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.47%) NCSC
13 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.24%) COBIT
13 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (20.71%) Active Directory
2 53 (12.47%) Docker
3 48 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 27 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.88%) vSphere
8 5 (1.18%) Dovecot
8 5 (1.18%) Postfix
8 5 (1.18%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.94%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.47%) Squid
11 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.24%) Forefront TMG
11 1 (0.24%) HDFS
11 1 (0.24%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.24%) KVM
11 1 (0.24%) XenApp
11 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 81 (19.06%) Terraform
2 61 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (7.06%) Ansible
5 23 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (3.29%) SCCM
7 11 (2.59%) Grafana
8 9 (2.12%) NetBackup
8 9 (2.12%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.12%) SCOM
9 8 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.94%) Puppet
10 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.71%) Iperf
12 2 (0.47%) Autotask
12 2 (0.47%) Nessus
12 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.47%) Salt
13 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 274 (64.47%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.41%) Google
3 53 (12.47%) Databricks
4 49 (11.53%) VMware
5 26 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.47%) Veeam
7 18 (4.24%) Cisco
7 18 (4.24%) Meraki
8 16 (3.76%) SAP
8 16 (3.76%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.59%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.59%) Workday
10 10 (2.35%) Citrix
10 10 (2.35%) Oracle
11 9 (2.12%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.88%) Apple
13 5 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.18%) Splunk
14 4 (0.94%) NetApp
14 4 (0.94%) Palo Alto