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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 249 235
Rank change year-on-year +219 -14 -65
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 922 61 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.29% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.59% 1.60% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 78 30 96
10th Percentile £28,025 £42,375 £30,875
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +14.42% -10.42%
75th Percentile £64,688 £73,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £81,825 £84,919
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% -3.70%

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 3,342 3,814 3,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.54% 39.88% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 1,220 1,821
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,480 £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 £88,509 £76,250 £78,750
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 1 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 1 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 +140 518 £42,500 -32.00% 27
North West +145 268 £47,500 -26.92% 29
North East +38 136 £45,000 -5.26% 15
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 (1.63%) WordPress
2 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.43%) IIS
5 3 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 211 (22.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 922 (100.00%) Azure
2 304 (32.97%) Azure AI
3 224 (24.30%) Power Platform
4 44 (4.77%) AWS
5 27 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.60%) GitHub
7 23 (2.49%) Entra ID
8 12 (1.30%) IaaS
9 11 (1.19%) GCP
10 9 (0.98%) SaaS
11 8 (0.87%) PaaS
12 7 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.54%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.43%) dbt
15 4 (0.43%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (0.33%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.06%) Firewall
1 19 (2.06%) Internet
2 17 (1.84%) DNS
3 16 (1.74%) DHCP
4 7 (0.76%) VPN
5 6 (0.65%) WAN
6 5 (0.54%) SAN
6 5 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.54%) Wireless
7 4 (0.43%) LAN
7 4 (0.43%) SNMP
7 4 (0.43%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) DMZ
8 3 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.33%) STUN
8 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) Network Security
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (23.75%) Power BI
2 212 (22.99%) Tableau
3 5 (0.54%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.43%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.43%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.33%) Metadata
5 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.22%) Looker
7 1 (0.11%) Big Data
7 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (2.06%) Git
2 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 851 (92.30%) Social Skills
2 19 (2.06%) Multimedia
3 13 (1.41%) Finance
4 8 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (0.76%) Public Sector
6 6 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.54%) Law
7 5 (0.54%) Legal
8 4 (0.43%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.33%) Retail
10 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 430 (46.64%) Analyst
2 422 (45.77%) Junior
2 422 (45.77%) Junior Analyst
3 225 (24.40%) Ethical Hacker
4 214 (23.21%) Data Analyst
5 211 (22.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 211 (22.89%) Junior Data Analyst
5 211 (22.89%) Junior Security Analyst
5 211 (22.89%) Security Analyst
6 92 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 91 (9.87%) Network Engineer
8 20 (2.17%) Administrator
9 19 (2.06%) Trainee
10 18 (1.95%) Architect
11 15 (1.63%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (1.63%) Web Administrator
12 13 (1.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (1.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (1.08%) Support Engineer
14 8 (0.87%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.06%) CSS
1 19 (2.06%) HTML
2 4 (0.43%) Kafka
2 4 (0.43%) LangChain
2 4 (0.43%) LlamaIndex
2 4 (0.43%) SAML
3 3 (0.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.33%) EDI
3 3 (0.33%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (0.33%) JWT
3 3 (0.33%) OAuth
3 3 (0.33%) RESTful
4 2 (0.22%) React
4 2 (0.22%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (0.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.40%) Cyberattack
2 9 (0.98%) Cloud Native
2 9 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (0.87%) Data Centre
4 6 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (0.54%) PKI
6 4 (0.43%) Clustering
6 4 (0.43%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (0.43%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.22%) PACS
7 2 (0.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.22%) SystemC
8 1 (0.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.11%) NHS
8 1 (0.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.80%) Windows
2 30 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (0.65%) Linux
5 3 (0.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (48.81%) Cybersecurity
2 318 (34.49%) AI
3 225 (24.40%) Ethical Hacking
4 224 (24.30%) Mentoring
5 219 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
6 94 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 29 (3.15%) CI/CD
8 28 (3.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (2.82%) ITIL
10 25 (2.71%) DevOps
11 23 (2.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (2.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (2.39%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (1.84%) Web Development
14 14 (1.52%) Agile
15 13 (1.41%) Business Continuity
15 13 (1.41%) Roadmaps
16 11 (1.19%) Containerisation
16 11 (1.19%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 338 (36.66%) Python
2 228 (24.73%) SQL
3 31 (3.36%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.63%) R
6 14 (1.52%) Bicep
7 5 (0.54%) Bash
8 3 (0.33%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.11%) Java
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (24.40%) CEH
2 212 (22.99%) CompTIA CySA+
3 211 (22.89%) CompTIA Security+
4 97 (10.52%) CCNA
4 97 (10.52%) Cisco Certification
5 90 (9.76%) Network+ Certification
6 37 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 36 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (1.41%) Degree
10 9 (0.98%) Security Cleared
11 8 (0.87%) SC Cleared
12 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.43%) MCSA
13 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.11%) GCFA
15 1 (0.11%) GCIH
15 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.22%) DICOM
4 2 (0.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.43%) Docker
4 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.39%) Terraform
2 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.43%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
7 1 (0.11%) Grafana
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) linkerd
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 796 (86.33%) Microsoft
2 526 (57.05%) ForeScout
3 99 (10.74%) Cisco
4 21 (2.28%) VMware
5 10 (1.08%) Veeam
6 6 (0.65%) Databricks
7 4 (0.43%) Aderant
7 4 (0.43%) iManage
7 4 (0.43%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.33%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.33%) webMethods
9 2 (0.22%) Google
9 2 (0.22%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.22%) Sage
9 2 (0.22%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.11%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.11%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.11%) F5
10 1 (0.11%) HP
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle