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 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 222 214
Rank change year-on-year +36 -8 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 112 88 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.19% 0.71% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.32% 2.63% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 89 31 77
10th Percentile - £39,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% -24.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £61,750 £56,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,500 £63,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -2.99% -7.59%

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 3,378 3,351 2,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.76% 26.87% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 1,175 1,350
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,600 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.99% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,775
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,713 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.70% +0.37% +4.55%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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
North West +28 57 £30,500 -41.90% 67
Yorkshire +1 39 £30,500 -35.79% 46
North East +27 16 £36,500 -27.36% 20
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 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.68%) SAS
1 3 (2.68%) WordPress
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (76.79%) AWS
3 61 (54.46%) GitHub
4 14 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.61%) GCP
6 12 (10.71%) Serverless
7 9 (8.04%) Entra ID
7 9 (8.04%) IaaS
7 9 (8.04%) PaaS
8 8 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 8 (7.14%) SaaS
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.57%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (45.54%) Internet
2 9 (8.04%) Firewall
3 5 (4.46%) DNS
3 5 (4.46%) VPN
4 4 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.57%) WAN
5 3 (2.68%) PuTTY
6 2 (1.79%) SAN
6 2 (1.79%) Wireless
7 1 (0.89%) Junos
7 1 (0.89%) Network Security
7 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.25%) MySQL
2 7 (6.25%) Power BI
3 5 (4.46%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.57%) Metadata
4 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.68%) Big Data
5 3 (2.68%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.68%) HBase
5 3 (2.68%) Impala
5 3 (2.68%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (2.68%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.68%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (2.68%) QlikView
5 3 (2.68%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.68%) SQLite
5 3 (2.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (54.46%) Git
2 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (45.54%) Multimedia
2 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Finance
4 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.79%) Law
5 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.89%) Banking
6 1 (0.89%) Legal
6 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (45.54%) Trainee
2 28 (25.00%) Architect
3 26 (23.21%) Developer
4 25 (22.32%) Software Developer
4 25 (22.32%) Trainee Developer
4 25 (22.32%) Trainee Software Developer
5 16 (14.29%) Senior
6 12 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.04%) AWS Architect
7 9 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (8.04%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) DevOps Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Senior Architect
7 9 (8.04%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (8.04%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.04%) TOGAF Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Applications Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (45.54%) CSS
1 51 (45.54%) HTML
2 6 (5.36%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.68%) Kafka
3 3 (2.68%) Plotly
3 3 (2.68%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) Regular Expression
3 3 (2.68%) Shiny
4 1 (0.89%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.89%) RESTful
4 1 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.82%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.57%) NHS
6 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Unix
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Android
3 1 (0.89%) CentOS
3 1 (0.89%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) Mentoring
2 55 (49.11%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 26 (23.21%) DevOps
5 22 (19.64%) Agile
6 20 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 20 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 19 (16.96%) Microservices
7 19 (16.96%) Roadmaps
8 18 (16.07%) Migration
9 17 (15.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (13.39%) Computer Science
10 15 (13.39%) ITIL
10 15 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.61%) Containerisation
11 13 (11.61%) Data Modelling
12 12 (10.71%) Application Security
13 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.82%) Technology Roadmap
14 10 (8.93%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 79 (70.54%) Python
2 61 (54.46%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.89%) R
4 22 (19.64%) Java
5 20 (17.86%) C#
6 19 (16.96%) SQL
7 13 (11.61%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.93%) TypeScript
9 9 (8.04%) Bicep
10 7 (6.25%) Bash
11 3 (2.68%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (72.32%) AWS Certification
2 71 (63.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 52 (46.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (19.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (16.07%) Degree
6 14 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (11.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.57%) DBS Check
9 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.68%) CISSP
10 3 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.79%) CCNA
12 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.89%) CCNP
12 1 (0.89%) RHCE
12 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) NIST
2 11 (9.82%) GDPR
3 10 (8.93%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.68%) QA
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.68%) Apache Flume
4 3 (2.68%) HDFS
5 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.14%) Terraform
3 6 (5.36%) Ansible
4 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.68%) Kibana
5 3 (2.68%) logstash
5 3 (2.68%) Oozie
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.89%) Puppet
7 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 87 (77.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Google
3 8 (7.14%) Databricks
4 6 (5.36%) Meraki
5 5 (4.46%) SAP
5 5 (4.46%) VMware
6 3 (2.68%) Cisco
6 3 (2.68%) Informatica
6 3 (2.68%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.68%) Mitel
6 3 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.79%) Aruba
7 2 (1.79%) Veeam
7 2 (1.79%) Zerto
8 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.89%) Juniper
8 1 (0.89%) Okta
8 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.89%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow