Azure Certification Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microsoft Azure Certification
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 79 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 8 24 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.48% 2.01% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 4.15% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 3
10th Percentile £44,650 £26,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,250 £26,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £27,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +136.36% -54.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £47,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £62,500 £72,250
East of England median annual salary £34,000 £27,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -22.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 572 578 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 34.29% 48.41% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 207 164 189
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,125 £72,500
East of England median annual salary £46,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.62% -2.73% +10.00%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in Hertfordshire

Azure Certification
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Watford -11 2 £41,500 +50.91% 2
Hatfield - 1 £55,000 - 1
Azure Certification
East of England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) SAN
3 4 (50.00%) WAN
4 3 (37.50%) LAN
5 2 (25.00%) VPN
6 1 (12.50%) DHCP
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) Internet
6 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
6 1 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Trainee
4 1 (12.50%) Trainee Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (37.50%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCSA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler