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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 232 81
Rank change year-on-year +22 -151 +235
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 44 92 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 0.77% 4.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.10% 3.13% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 31 67 44
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +38.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £78,750 £107,500 £76,250
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 3,988 2,942 3,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 56.42% 24.75% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,868 1,266
10th Percentile £26,525 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 12 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 12 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 +36 28 £65,000 -3.70% 28
East Midlands +19 16 £31,500 -42.73% 8
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 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (36.36%) AWS
3 15 (34.09%) IaaS
4 14 (31.82%) PaaS
5 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 10 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
7 7 (15.91%) SaaS
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (13.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (11.36%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (11.36%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (9.09%) Azure AI
10 4 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (9.09%) Power Automate
10 4 (9.09%) Route 53
11 3 (6.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (45.45%) Firewall
2 14 (31.82%) DNS
3 12 (27.27%) VPN
4 11 (25.00%) Network Security
5 10 (22.73%) SD-WAN
5 10 (22.73%) WAN
6 8 (18.18%) DHCP
7 6 (13.64%) VLAN
8 4 (9.09%) HTTPS
9 2 (4.55%) FTP
9 2 (4.55%) HTTP
9 2 (4.55%) LAN
9 2 (4.55%) SMTP
9 2 (4.55%) SSH
10 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Power BI
2 6 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.09%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.27%) DB2
6 1 (2.27%) Metadata
6 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) JIRA
3 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.27%) ERwin
4 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Advertising
3 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Local Government
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) IT Support
5 6 (13.64%) IT Support Specialist
5 6 (13.64%) Support Specialist
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Lead
6 5 (11.36%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Backup Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) ICT Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Monitoring Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.27%) Middleware
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 4 (9.09%) NHS
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Windows
2 17 (38.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Windows 7
4 3 (6.82%) Linux
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (4.55%) VMS
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Migration
2 17 (38.64%) DevOps
3 13 (29.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 11 (25.00%) ITIL
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
6 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (20.45%) Data Analysis
7 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
7 9 (20.45%) Project Management
7 9 (20.45%) Service Management
8 8 (18.18%) Analytics
9 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (15.91%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (59.09%) PowerShell
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
4 4 (9.09%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) Groovy
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (4.55%) R
6 1 (2.27%) Bash
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (15.91%) Degree
3 5 (11.36%) DBS Check
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.82%) CCNA
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.27%) CISM
7 1 (2.27%) CISSP
7 1 (2.27%) HND
7 1 (2.27%) MCITP
7 1 (2.27%) MCSA
7 1 (2.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 8 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) Docker
4 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.55%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Autotask
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Databricks
3 5 (11.36%) VMware
4 4 (9.09%) Meraki
5 3 (6.82%) Veeam
6 2 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Sophos
6 2 (4.55%) TP-LINK
7 1 (2.27%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.27%) Datto
7 1 (2.27%) IBM
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) SAP
7 1 (2.27%) Zscaler