Azure Certification Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 238 82
Rank change year-on-year +33 -156 +226
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 38 87 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.75% 4.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 3.03% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 31 62 46
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £63,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +41.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £87,792 £65,275
90th Percentile £78,750 £106,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,944 2,872 3,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 56.78% 24.60% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 848 1,853 1,277
10th Percentile £26,675 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,625 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,014 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the Midlands

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +24 24 £62,500 -7.41% 20
East Midlands +27 14 £31,500 -46.38% 10
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) IaaS
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (23.68%) PaaS
4 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
5 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (13.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.53%) Route 53
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.89%) GCP
8 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.89%) Serverless
9 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) Firewall
2 11 (28.95%) Network Security
3 8 (21.05%) DHCP
3 8 (21.05%) DNS
3 8 (21.05%) VPN
4 6 (15.79%) SD-WAN
4 6 (15.79%) VLAN
4 6 (15.79%) WAN
5 4 (10.53%) HTTPS
6 2 (5.26%) LAN
7 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.89%) Power BI
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) DB2
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) ERwin
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.53%) Advertising
3 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Finance
6 1 (2.63%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) IT Support
3 6 (15.79%) IT Support Specialist
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 6 (15.79%) Support Specialist
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) ICT Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Monitoring Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Windows
1 17 (44.74%) Windows Server
2 6 (15.79%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Migration
2 13 (34.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (28.95%) Cost Management
4 11 (28.95%) DevOps
4 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (23.68%) Data Analysis
6 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
7 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
7 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (18.42%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
8 7 (18.42%) ITIL
9 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
9 6 (15.79%) High Availability
10 5 (13.16%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) PowerShell
2 9 (23.68%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
4 2 (5.26%) R
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 5 (13.16%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (7.89%) CCNA
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.63%) CISM
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.63%) HND
7 1 (2.63%) MCITP
7 1 (2.63%) MCSA
7 1 (2.63%) MCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (21.05%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.26%) Autotask
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) VMware
3 4 (10.53%) Databricks
4 3 (7.89%) Veeam
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Sophos
5 2 (5.26%) TP-LINK
6 1 (2.63%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.63%) Datto
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) Zscaler