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 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 249 232
Rank change year-on-year +219 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 858 60 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.89% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.74% 1.57% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 76 29 81
10th Percentile £27,875 £42,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +15.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £82,400 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -7.41%

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 3,333 3,822 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.10% 39.75% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,218 1,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £89,500 £75,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +140 482 £42,500 -32.00% 36
North West +137 249 £47,500 -24.00% 45
North East +36 127 £51,000 +7.37% 21
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 (1.75%) WordPress
2 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.58%) IIS
5 4 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 195 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 858 (100.00%) Azure
2 288 (33.57%) Azure AI
3 208 (24.24%) Power Platform
4 44 (5.13%) AWS
5 25 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (2.68%) GitHub
7 21 (2.45%) Entra ID
8 13 (1.52%) GCP
9 12 (1.40%) IaaS
10 11 (1.28%) SaaS
11 7 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.82%) PaaS
12 6 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.58%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.47%) dbt
15 3 (0.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.35%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.21%) Internet
2 17 (1.98%) DHCP
2 17 (1.98%) DNS
2 17 (1.98%) Firewall
3 7 (0.82%) WAN
4 5 (0.58%) SNMP
4 5 (0.58%) VPN
4 5 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.58%) Wireless
5 4 (0.47%) LAN
5 4 (0.47%) SAN
5 4 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) VLAN
7 2 (0.23%) DMZ
7 2 (0.23%) Network Security
7 2 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.23%) STUN
7 2 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (23.66%) Power BI
2 196 (22.84%) Tableau
3 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.47%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.47%) Data Vault
4 4 (0.47%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.35%) Metadata
5 3 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.23%) Looker
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.12%) Flink
7 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.21%) Git
2 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.12%) JIRA
General
1 787 (91.72%) Social Skills
2 19 (2.21%) Multimedia
3 13 (1.52%) Finance
4 8 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (0.93%) Public Sector
5 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (0.70%) Legal
7 4 (0.47%) Law
7 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.35%) Retail
9 2 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.12%) Local Government
10 1 (0.12%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 399 (46.50%) Analyst
2 390 (45.45%) Junior
2 390 (45.45%) Junior Analyst
3 198 (23.08%) Data Analyst
4 195 (22.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 195 (22.73%) Ethical Hacker
4 195 (22.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 195 (22.73%) Junior Security Analyst
4 195 (22.73%) Security Analyst
5 93 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 91 (10.61%) Network Engineer
7 19 (2.21%) Administrator
7 19 (2.21%) Trainee
8 17 (1.98%) Architect
9 15 (1.75%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (1.75%) Web Administrator
10 11 (1.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (1.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (0.93%) Developer
12 8 (0.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.21%) CSS
1 19 (2.21%) HTML
2 5 (0.58%) LangChain
2 5 (0.58%) LlamaIndex
2 5 (0.58%) SAML
3 4 (0.47%) Kafka
4 3 (0.35%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.35%) EDI
4 3 (0.35%) JWT
4 3 (0.35%) OAuth
4 3 (0.35%) RESTful
4 3 (0.35%) Web Services
5 2 (0.23%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.23%) React
5 2 (0.23%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 195 (22.73%) Cyberattack
2 9 (1.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 7 (0.82%) Data Centre
5 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.47%) Clustering
6 4 (0.47%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (0.47%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.47%) PKI
7 3 (0.35%) SystemC
8 2 (0.23%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.23%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.12%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.12%) Life Science
9 1 (0.12%) NHS
9 1 (0.12%) PACS
9 1 (0.12%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.73%) Windows
2 29 (3.38%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (0.58%) Linux
5 2 (0.23%) Debian
5 2 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (47.20%) Cybersecurity
2 302 (35.20%) AI
3 208 (24.24%) Mentoring
4 203 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
5 195 (22.73%) Ethical Hacking
6 95 (11.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 30 (3.50%) CI/CD
8 28 (3.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (3.15%) ITIL
10 26 (3.03%) DevOps
11 25 (2.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (2.80%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (2.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (1.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (1.98%) Web Development
15 16 (1.86%) Agile
16 13 (1.52%) Business Continuity
16 13 (1.52%) Observability
17 12 (1.40%) Containerisation
18 11 (1.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 321 (37.41%) Python
2 212 (24.71%) SQL
3 28 (3.26%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.75%) R
6 13 (1.52%) Bicep
7 4 (0.47%) Bash
8 3 (0.35%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.12%) Java
9 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (22.84%) CompTIA CySA+
2 195 (22.73%) CEH
2 195 (22.73%) CompTIA Security+
3 97 (11.31%) CCNA
3 97 (11.31%) Cisco Certification
4 90 (10.49%) Network+ Certification
5 37 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 35 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (1.52%) Degree
9 9 (1.05%) Security Cleared
10 8 (0.93%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.47%) MCSA
12 4 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.12%) GCFA
14 1 (0.12%) GCIH
14 1 (0.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.35%) NCSC
4 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.12%) DICOM
System Software
1 31 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.58%) Docker
4 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (2.33%) Terraform
2 15 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.70%) Ansible
4 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.58%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Istio
6 1 (0.12%) linkerd
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 732 (85.31%) Microsoft
2 480 (55.94%) ForeScout
3 98 (11.42%) Cisco
4 20 (2.33%) VMware
5 9 (1.05%) Veeam
6 6 (0.70%) Databricks
7 5 (0.58%) Aderant
7 5 (0.58%) iManage
7 5 (0.58%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.35%) Google
8 3 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.35%) webMethods
9 2 (0.23%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.12%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.12%) Sage
10 1 (0.12%) Ubiquiti