Azure Certification Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 217 67
Rank change year-on-year -70 -150 +263
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 59 191 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 1.05% 4.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 4.88% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37 142 140
10th Percentile £45,750 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,125 £86,250
90th Percentile £81,100 £84,919 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,353 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.07% -7.14% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,636 3,915 5,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 57.34% 21.62% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,965 2,700 1,737
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,013 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -12.52% +15.54%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West -41 44 £71,991 +17.62% 33
Yorkshire +9 14 £57,500 +6.98% 13
North East +11 1 £47,500 +46.15% 4
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.08%) IIS
3 3 (5.08%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.39%) Confluence
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (38.98%) AWS
3 20 (33.90%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (23.73%) GCP
5 12 (20.34%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (18.64%) Entra ID
7 10 (16.95%) PaaS
8 9 (15.25%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (15.25%) IaaS
8 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
9 8 (13.56%) SaaS
10 5 (8.47%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (6.78%) Azure AI
11 4 (6.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (6.78%) Power Automate
12 3 (5.08%) GitHub
12 3 (5.08%) OneDrive
13 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) DNS
2 7 (11.86%) NAS
2 7 (11.86%) SAN
3 6 (10.17%) Firewall
4 5 (8.47%) DHCP
4 5 (8.47%) VPN
4 5 (8.47%) VSAN
5 4 (6.78%) SD-WAN
5 4 (6.78%) WAN
6 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.69%) Network Security
7 1 (1.69%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
3 7 (11.86%) MySQL
4 6 (10.17%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.47%) Power BI
6 2 (3.39%) Big Data
6 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.69%) HBase
7 1 (1.69%) Impala
7 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.69%) QlikView
7 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.69%) SQLite
7 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) GitLab
5 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Senior
2 17 (28.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (25.42%) Architect
4 13 (22.03%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (10.17%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
8 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Solution Architect
8 5 (8.47%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Architect
8 5 (8.47%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.47%) TOGAF Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) ARM Templates
2 5 (8.47%) Middleware
3 3 (5.08%) .NET
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) Node.js
4 2 (3.39%) PySpark
4 2 (3.39%) React
4 2 (3.39%) Vue
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.69%) Blazor
5 1 (1.69%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) Plotly
5 1 (1.69%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.69%) Shiny
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.78%) NHS
5 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) Unix
4 3 (5.08%) CentOS
4 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) DevOps
2 28 (47.46%) Agile
3 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
4 23 (38.98%) Containerisation
5 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (33.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (25.42%) Roadmaps
9 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
9 13 (22.03%) TOGAF
10 12 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (20.34%) Migration
11 11 (18.64%) Architectural Design
11 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (18.64%) ITIL
11 11 (18.64%) Microservices
12 10 (16.95%) Analytics
13 9 (15.25%) Enterprise Architecture
14 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
14 8 (13.56%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) SQL
2 21 (35.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (22.03%) Python
4 10 (16.95%) Bicep
5 8 (13.56%) Bash
5 8 (13.56%) Java
6 7 (11.86%) C#
7 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.69%) R
9 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) AWS Certification
2 15 (25.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (15.25%) Degree
4 8 (13.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
7 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (5.08%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (5.08%) RHCE
7 3 (5.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.69%) CCSP
8 1 (1.69%) CISSP
8 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.69%) MCSD
8 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) GDPR
1 12 (20.34%) HIPAA
2 6 (10.17%) NIST
3 4 (6.78%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.08%) QA
5 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (32.20%) Docker
2 13 (22.03%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
4 9 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (5.08%) Dovecot
6 3 (5.08%) Postfix
6 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.08%) vSphere
7 1 (1.69%) Apache Flume
7 1 (1.69%) HDFS
7 1 (1.69%) KVM
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.69%) XenApp
7 1 (1.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) Terraform
2 25 (42.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.64%) Ansible
4 6 (10.17%) Progress Chef
5 4 (6.78%) SCCM
5 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (5.08%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.69%) Grafana
7 1 (1.69%) Kibana
7 1 (1.69%) logstash
7 1 (1.69%) Oozie
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.81%) VMware
3 12 (20.34%) Google
4 6 (10.17%) Databricks
4 6 (10.17%) Oracle
5 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.78%) Meraki
7 3 (5.08%) Okta
7 3 (5.08%) Ping Identity
8 2 (3.39%) SAP
9 1 (1.69%) Citrix
9 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.69%) Commvault
9 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.69%) Informatica
9 1 (1.69%) MicroStrategy