Azure Certification Job Trends 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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 252 233
Rank change year-on-year +216 -19 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 781 57 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.49% 0.59% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.72% 1.50% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 73 28 76
10th Percentile £27,650 £42,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -16.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,813 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £82,975 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -6.72%

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 3,293 3,812 3,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.71% 39.61% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,777 1,193 1,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,258 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Certification

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 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 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
Yorkshire +132 437 £42,500 -32.00% 38
North West +136 228 £47,500 -22.76% 49
North East +30 116 £65,500 +37.89% 24
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (1.92%) WordPress
2 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.64%) IIS
5 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.38%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 165 (21.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 781 (100.00%) Azure
2 258 (33.03%) Azure AI
3 177 (22.66%) Power Platform
4 44 (5.63%) AWS
5 23 (2.94%) GitHub
5 23 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 14 (1.79%) GCP
8 11 (1.41%) IaaS
9 10 (1.28%) SaaS
10 7 (0.90%) PaaS
11 6 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.64%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.64%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.51%) dbt
14 3 (0.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.38%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.43%) Internet
2 17 (2.18%) DHCP
2 17 (2.18%) DNS
3 15 (1.92%) Firewall
4 7 (0.90%) WAN
5 5 (0.64%) SNMP
5 5 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.64%) Wireless
6 4 (0.51%) LAN
6 4 (0.51%) SAN
6 4 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.51%) VPN
7 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.26%) Network Security
8 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.26%) VLAN
9 1 (0.13%) DMZ
9 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.13%) STUN
9 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (22.02%) Power BI
2 166 (21.25%) Tableau
3 5 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.51%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.38%) Metadata
5 3 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.26%) Looker
7 1 (0.13%) Big Data
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Flink
7 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.43%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 709 (90.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (2.43%) Multimedia
3 13 (1.66%) Finance
4 9 (1.15%) Public Sector
5 8 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (0.64%) Legal
8 4 (0.51%) Law
8 4 (0.51%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.38%) Retail
10 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.13%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.13%) Local Government
11 1 (0.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 339 (43.41%) Analyst
2 330 (42.25%) Junior
2 330 (42.25%) Junior Analyst
3 180 (23.05%) Ethical Hacker
4 168 (21.51%) Data Analyst
5 165 (21.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 165 (21.13%) Junior Data Analyst
5 165 (21.13%) Junior Security Analyst
5 165 (21.13%) Security Analyst
6 94 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 91 (11.65%) Network Engineer
8 19 (2.43%) Administrator
8 19 (2.43%) Trainee
9 17 (2.18%) Architect
10 15 (1.92%) Trainee Administrator
10 15 (1.92%) Web Administrator
11 9 (1.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (1.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (1.02%) Lead
13 7 (0.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.43%) CSS
1 19 (2.43%) HTML
2 6 (0.77%) LangChain
2 6 (0.77%) LlamaIndex
3 5 (0.64%) SAML
4 4 (0.51%) Kafka
4 4 (0.51%) Web Services
5 3 (0.38%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.38%) EDI
5 3 (0.38%) JWT
5 3 (0.38%) OAuth
5 3 (0.38%) RESTful
6 2 (0.26%) React
6 2 (0.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.13%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (0.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 180 (23.05%) Cyberattack
2 10 (1.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (1.28%) Onboarding
3 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
4 6 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (0.51%) Clustering
5 4 (0.51%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.51%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.51%) PKI
6 3 (0.38%) SystemC
7 2 (0.26%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.26%) Life Science
7 2 (0.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.26%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.13%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.13%) NHS
8 1 (0.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.97%) Windows
2 29 (3.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (0.64%) Linux
5 2 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (46.09%) Cybersecurity
2 272 (34.83%) AI
3 180 (23.05%) Ethical Hacking
3 180 (23.05%) Mentoring
4 172 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
5 96 (12.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 31 (3.97%) CI/CD
7 30 (3.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (3.46%) ITIL
9 26 (3.33%) DevOps
10 25 (3.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (3.07%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (2.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (2.18%) Agile
13 17 (2.18%) Web Development
14 16 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (1.79%) Observability
16 13 (1.66%) Business Continuity
16 13 (1.66%) Containerisation
17 11 (1.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 291 (37.26%) Python
2 181 (23.18%) SQL
3 27 (3.46%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.92%) R
6 13 (1.66%) Bicep
7 4 (0.51%) Bash
8 3 (0.38%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (23.05%) CEH
2 166 (21.25%) CompTIA CySA+
3 165 (21.13%) CompTIA Security+
4 97 (12.42%) CCNA
4 97 (12.42%) Cisco Certification
5 90 (11.52%) Network+ Certification
6 37 (4.74%) AWS Certification
7 33 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.54%) Degree
10 9 (1.15%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.02%) SC Cleared
12 7 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.51%) MCSA
13 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.13%) GCFA
15 1 (0.13%) GCIH
15 1 (0.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.51%) NCSC
3 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.13%) QA
System Software
1 30 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.64%) Docker
4 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (2.43%) Terraform
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.77%) Ansible
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.64%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.13%) Argo
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) Istio
6 1 (0.13%) linkerd
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 654 (83.74%) Microsoft
2 435 (55.70%) ForeScout
3 97 (12.42%) Cisco
4 20 (2.56%) VMware
5 9 (1.15%) Veeam
6 6 (0.77%) Databricks
7 5 (0.64%) Aderant
7 5 (0.64%) iManage
7 5 (0.64%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.38%) Google
8 3 (0.38%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.38%) webMethods
9 2 (0.26%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.13%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.13%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat