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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 229 209
Rank change year-on-year +150 -20 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 457 73 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.90% 2.00% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 63 45 44
10th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £28,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -4.04% -17.50%
75th Percentile £77,000 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £84,700 £65,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 3,287 3,650 3,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.67% 38.32% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 1,042 1,331
10th Percentile £31,213 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,988
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.49% -5.02%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +94 240 £42,500 +39.34% 51
North West +60 137 £52,500 -8.70% 52
North East +4 80 £80,500 +78.89% 26
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 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.31%) IIS
4 3 (0.66%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 75 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 457 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (33.48%) Azure AI
3 86 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 33 (7.22%) AWS
5 26 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (4.81%) GCP
7 21 (4.60%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.41%) IaaS
8 11 (2.41%) SaaS
9 7 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.53%) GitHub
9 7 (1.53%) PaaS
10 6 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.31%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.88%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (0.66%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.16%) DHCP
1 19 (4.16%) DNS
2 14 (3.06%) Firewall
3 8 (1.75%) WAN
4 6 (1.31%) SNMP
5 5 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.09%) Wireless
6 4 (0.88%) LAN
6 4 (0.88%) SAN
7 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.66%) VPN
8 2 (0.44%) Network Security
8 2 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.72%) Power BI
2 75 (16.41%) Tableau
3 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.66%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.66%) Metadata
5 3 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.44%) Looker
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Flink
7 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Git
General
1 395 (86.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (3.94%) Public Sector
3 17 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (2.84%) Finance
5 6 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.31%) Legal
6 5 (1.09%) Law
7 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.66%) Retail
9 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.22%) Local Government
10 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (34.79%) Analyst
2 150 (32.82%) Junior
2 150 (32.82%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (18.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 77 (16.85%) Data Analyst
5 76 (16.63%) Network Engineer
6 75 (16.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 75 (16.41%) Ethical Hacker
6 75 (16.41%) Junior Data Analyst
6 75 (16.41%) Junior Security Analyst
6 75 (16.41%) Security Analyst
7 22 (4.81%) Architect
8 16 (3.50%) Lead
9 8 (1.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (1.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (1.53%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (1.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (1.31%) Data Architect
11 6 (1.31%) Technical Architect
11 6 (1.31%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.38%) Terraform
2 15 (3.28%) LangChain
2 15 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
3 9 (1.97%) Web Services
4 6 (1.31%) SAML
5 4 (0.88%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.88%) Kafka
6 3 (0.66%) EDI
6 3 (0.66%) JWT
6 3 (0.66%) OAuth
6 3 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.41%) Cyberattack
2 19 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.53%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (0.88%) Clustering
5 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.88%) PKI
6 3 (0.66%) SystemC
7 2 (0.44%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.44%) Life Science
7 2 (0.44%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.22%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.22%) NHS
8 1 (0.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.22%) Windows
2 30 (6.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.09%) Linux
5 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (38.07%) AI
2 163 (35.67%) Cybersecurity
3 91 (19.91%) Mentoring
4 90 (19.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 81 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (16.41%) Ethical Hacking
7 40 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (8.53%) CI/CD
9 32 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (6.78%) DevOps
11 28 (6.13%) ITIL
12 25 (5.47%) Agile
12 25 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (5.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (5.03%) Observability
15 19 (4.16%) Data Engineering
16 17 (3.72%) Containerisation
16 17 (3.72%) Knowledge Transfer
16 17 (3.72%) MLOps
16 17 (3.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 170 (37.20%) Python
2 88 (19.26%) SQL
3 27 (5.91%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.06%) Bicep
5 4 (0.88%) Bash
6 3 (0.66%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.22%) Java
7 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (17.94%) CCNA
1 82 (17.94%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (16.63%) CompTIA CySA+
3 75 (16.41%) CEH
3 75 (16.41%) CompTIA Security+
3 75 (16.41%) Network+ Certification
4 27 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.84%) Degree
7 12 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.75%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.75%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.88%) MCSA
9 4 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) GCFA
11 1 (0.22%) GCIH
11 1 (0.22%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.97%) NCSC
2 6 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
5 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 32 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.28%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.31%) Docker
6 3 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.53%) Ansible
4 6 (1.31%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.22%) Argo
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) Istio
5 1 (0.22%) linkerd
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 338 (73.96%) Microsoft
2 225 (49.23%) ForeScout
3 81 (17.72%) Cisco
4 21 (4.60%) VMware
5 9 (1.97%) Veeam
6 6 (1.31%) Aderant
6 6 (1.31%) iManage
6 6 (1.31%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.88%) Databricks
8 3 (0.66%) Google
8 3 (0.66%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.66%) webMethods
9 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat