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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 207 222
Rank change year-on-year +181 +15 -160
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 1,200 52 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.59% 0.73% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.18% 1.64% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 149 38 144
10th Percentile - £43,725 £31,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -51.20% +16.28% -32.50%
75th Percentile £42,500 £75,659 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £81,075 £84,919
England median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -7.69% -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 4,963 3,177 3,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.27% 44.63% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,508 1,308 2,574
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -5.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +116 684 £30,500 -37.76% 31
North West +115 348 £30,500 -57.63% 32
North East - 168 £30,500 - 23
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 23 (1.92%) WordPress
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 316 (26.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1,200 (100.00%) Azure
2 407 (33.92%) Azure AI
3 320 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 133 (11.08%) AWS
5 104 (8.67%) GitHub
6 21 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (1.42%) Entra ID
7 17 (1.42%) Serverless
8 8 (0.67%) IaaS
8 8 (0.67%) SaaS
9 7 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.42%) Intacct
11 4 (0.33%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.33%) PaaS
12 3 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.25%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.25%) dbt
12 3 (0.25%) GCP
12 3 (0.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 99 (8.25%) Internet
2 15 (1.25%) Firewall
3 8 (0.67%) VPN
4 7 (0.58%) VLAN
5 6 (0.50%) DNS
6 5 (0.42%) DHCP
6 5 (0.42%) DMZ
6 5 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.42%) STUN
6 5 (0.42%) VoIP
7 3 (0.25%) Network Security
7 3 (0.25%) SAN
8 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.17%) WAN
9 1 (0.083%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.083%) LAN
9 1 (0.083%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (26.67%) Power BI
2 317 (26.42%) Tableau
3 6 (0.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.25%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.17%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.17%) Metadata
6 2 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.083%) Big Data
7 1 (0.083%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.083%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 99 (8.25%) Git
2 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 1,075 (89.58%) Social Skills
2 99 (8.25%) Multimedia
3 12 (1.00%) Finance
4 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (0.42%) Legal
5 4 (0.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.25%) Retail
7 2 (0.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.083%) Games
8 1 (0.083%) Law
Job Titles
1 634 (52.83%) Analyst
2 632 (52.67%) Junior
2 632 (52.67%) Junior Analyst
3 317 (26.42%) Data Analyst
4 316 (26.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 316 (26.33%) Junior Data Analyst
4 316 (26.33%) Junior Security Analyst
4 316 (26.33%) Security Analyst
5 225 (18.75%) Ethical Hacker
6 99 (8.25%) Trainee
7 91 (7.58%) Network Engineer
8 90 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 44 (3.67%) Developer
10 43 (3.58%) Trainee Developer
11 41 (3.42%) Software Developer
11 41 (3.42%) Trainee Software Developer
12 24 (2.00%) Administrator
13 23 (1.92%) Trainee Administrator
13 23 (1.92%) Web Administrator
14 22 (1.83%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.25%) CSS
1 99 (8.25%) HTML
2 5 (0.42%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.17%) React
3 2 (0.17%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.083%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 225 (18.75%) Cyberattack
2 14 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (0.42%) PACS
4 4 (0.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.083%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.083%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.083%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.083%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.083%) PKI
7 1 (0.083%) PMI
7 1 (0.083%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.33%) Windows
2 8 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.50%) Linux
4 5 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (51.67%) Cybersecurity
2 415 (34.58%) AI
3 413 (34.42%) Mentoring
4 320 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 225 (18.75%) Ethical Hacking
6 90 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 25 (2.08%) Web Development
8 23 (1.92%) Computer Science
9 20 (1.67%) Migration
9 20 (1.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (1.67%) TOGAF
10 18 (1.50%) Data Modelling
11 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Architecture
12 16 (1.33%) Application Security
12 16 (1.33%) Architectural Patterns
12 16 (1.33%) DevOps
13 15 (1.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (1.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (1.17%) EAI
14 14 (1.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 538 (44.83%) Python
2 325 (27.08%) SQL
3 113 (9.42%) JavaScript
4 56 (4.67%) R
5 20 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.17%) C#
6 14 (1.17%) Java
6 14 (1.17%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.75%) Bicep
8 6 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.083%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 316 (26.33%) CompTIA CySA+
1 316 (26.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 225 (18.75%) CEH
3 130 (10.83%) AWS Certification
3 130 (10.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 103 (8.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 92 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
6 91 (7.58%) CCNA
7 90 (7.50%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (2.33%) Degree
9 20 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.42%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.25%) MBA
14 2 (0.17%) CCNP
14 2 (0.17%) Security Cleared
15 1 (0.083%) CISSP
15 1 (0.083%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.42%) DICOM
3 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.083%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.083%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.33%) Docker
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.083%) Firmware
6 1 (0.083%) XenApp
6 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (1.08%) Terraform
2 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.42%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.083%) Ansible
4 1 (0.083%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.083%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,091 (90.92%) Microsoft
2 631 (52.58%) ForeScout
3 97 (8.08%) Cisco
4 11 (0.92%) VMware
5 5 (0.42%) Sage
5 5 (0.42%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (0.33%) Databricks
6 4 (0.33%) Google
7 2 (0.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.083%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.083%) Citrix
8 1 (0.083%) Commvault
8 1 (0.083%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.083%) F5
8 1 (0.083%) HP
8 1 (0.083%) Mitel
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle
8 1 (0.083%) Veeam