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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 238 238
Rank change year-on-year +215 0 -177
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 1,003 64 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.03% 0.78% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.69% 1.77% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 101 37 135
10th Percentile - £44,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +13.64% -16.61%
75th Percentile £53,750 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £69,762 £81,100 £84,919
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -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 3,268 3,623 3,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.40% 44.32% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,612 1,216 2,660
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +135 566 £33,000 -42.61% 38
North West +146 295 £37,500 -47.91% 43
North East +43 142 £42,500 -10.53% 29
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 (1.50%) WordPress
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 241 (24.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1,003 (100.00%) Azure
2 332 (33.10%) Azure AI
3 252 (25.12%) Power Platform
4 68 (6.78%) AWS
5 48 (4.79%) GitHub
6 29 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.00%) IaaS
9 8 (0.80%) SaaS
10 6 (0.60%) PaaS
10 6 (0.60%) Serverless
11 5 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.50%) Intacct
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.40%) dbt
12 4 (0.40%) GCP
12 4 (0.40%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.30%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.30%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.19%) Internet
2 22 (2.19%) Firewall
3 11 (1.10%) DNS
4 10 (1.00%) DHCP
5 9 (0.90%) VPN
6 6 (0.60%) SAN
6 6 (0.60%) VLAN
7 5 (0.50%) DMZ
7 5 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.50%) STUN
7 5 (0.50%) VoIP
7 5 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.20%) SNMP
10 1 (0.100%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.100%) LAN
10 1 (0.100%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.100%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.100%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (24.63%) Power BI
2 242 (24.13%) Tableau
3 7 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (0.40%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.30%) Metadata
6 3 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.20%) Looker
8 1 (0.100%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.100%) Big Data
8 1 (0.100%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (4.19%) Git
2 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.20%) JIRA
3 2 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 921 (91.82%) Social Skills
2 42 (4.19%) Multimedia
3 14 (1.40%) Finance
4 7 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (0.60%) Legal
6 5 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (0.50%) Law
7 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.30%) Retail
9 2 (0.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.100%) Games
10 1 (0.100%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 488 (48.65%) Analyst
2 482 (48.06%) Junior
2 482 (48.06%) Junior Analyst
3 244 (24.33%) Data Analyst
4 241 (24.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 241 (24.03%) Junior Data Analyst
4 241 (24.03%) Junior Security Analyst
4 241 (24.03%) Security Analyst
5 225 (22.43%) Ethical Hacker
6 91 (9.07%) Network Engineer
7 90 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 42 (4.19%) Trainee
9 20 (1.99%) Administrator
9 20 (1.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (1.79%) Developer
11 17 (1.69%) Trainee Developer
12 16 (1.60%) Architect
13 15 (1.50%) Software Developer
13 15 (1.50%) Support Engineer
13 15 (1.50%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.19%) CSS
1 42 (4.19%) HTML
2 5 (0.50%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.20%) React
4 2 (0.20%) SAML
4 2 (0.20%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.100%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 225 (22.43%) Cyberattack
2 10 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (0.70%) Cloud Native
3 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
4 5 (0.50%) Management Information System
4 5 (0.50%) PACS
4 5 (0.50%) PKI
5 4 (0.40%) Clustering
5 4 (0.40%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.100%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.100%) NHS
7 1 (0.100%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.100%) PMI
7 1 (0.100%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.49%) Windows
2 27 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.80%) Linux
4 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.50%) Debian
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (50.05%) Cybersecurity
2 342 (34.10%) AI
3 279 (27.82%) Mentoring
4 247 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
5 225 (22.43%) Ethical Hacking
6 90 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 24 (2.39%) ITIL
8 20 (1.99%) DevOps
9 19 (1.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (1.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (1.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (1.79%) CI/CD
10 18 (1.79%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (1.69%) Web Development
12 16 (1.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (1.30%) Computer Science
14 12 (1.20%) Business Continuity
15 11 (1.10%) High Availability
15 11 (1.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 10 (1.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 398 (39.68%) Python
2 255 (25.42%) SQL
3 46 (4.59%) JavaScript
4 30 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.49%) R
6 11 (1.10%) Bicep
7 7 (0.70%) Bash
8 4 (0.40%) C#
8 4 (0.40%) Java
8 4 (0.40%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.100%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.100%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (24.13%) CompTIA CySA+
2 241 (24.03%) CompTIA Security+
3 225 (22.43%) CEH
4 97 (9.67%) CCNA
4 97 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
5 90 (8.97%) Network+ Certification
6 71 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 64 (6.38%) AWS Certification
8 45 (4.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 19 (1.89%) Degree
10 8 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.80%) Security Cleared
11 7 (0.70%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.40%) MCSA
13 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.100%) GCFA
14 1 (0.100%) GCIH
14 1 (0.100%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.50%) DICOM
3 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.100%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.100%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.30%) Docker
4 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.100%) XenApp
5 1 (0.100%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.99%) Terraform
2 13 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.30%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.100%) Argo
6 1 (0.100%) Grafana
6 1 (0.100%) Istio
6 1 (0.100%) linkerd
6 1 (0.100%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.100%) SCCM
Vendors
1 884 (88.14%) Microsoft
2 556 (55.43%) ForeScout
3 98 (9.77%) Cisco
4 19 (1.89%) VMware
5 10 (1.00%) Veeam
6 5 (0.50%) Databricks
6 5 (0.50%) Google
6 5 (0.50%) Sage
6 5 (0.50%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.20%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.100%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.100%) Citrix
8 1 (0.100%) Commvault
8 1 (0.100%) F5
8 1 (0.100%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.100%) HP
8 1 (0.100%) Oracle