Azure Certification Jobs 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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 224 137
Rank change year-on-year -58 -87 +85
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 68 177 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 0.94% 2.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.13% 4.43% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 38 121 102
10th Percentile £44,775 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £46,750 £37,500 £42,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £83,667
90th Percentile £83,125 £84,919 £89,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 6,017 3,996 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 45.52% 21.27% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,409 2,508 1,668
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,711
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -8.61% +16.41%
75th Percentile £59,081 £62,500 £67,978
90th Percentile £72,750 £79,600 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -15 50 £71,991 +15.19% 98
Yorkshire -10 14 £62,500 +13.64% 74
North East +15 4 £47,500 +25.00% 28
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.41%) IIS
4 3 (4.41%) SAS
5 2 (2.94%) Confluence
5 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (47.06%) AWS
3 22 (32.35%) GCP
4 20 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 12 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (16.18%) PaaS
7 10 (14.71%) IaaS
8 9 (13.24%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (13.24%) SaaS
9 6 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (7.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (7.35%) GitHub
11 4 (5.88%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (5.88%) OneDrive
11 4 (5.88%) Power Automate
12 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) DNS
1 9 (13.24%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) NAS
2 5 (7.35%) SAN
2 5 (7.35%) VPN
3 4 (5.88%) DHCP
3 4 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.88%) VSAN
3 4 (5.88%) WAN
4 3 (4.41%) PuTTY
4 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) Junos
6 1 (1.47%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 10 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (13.24%) MySQL
5 7 (10.29%) Power BI
6 6 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.88%) Metadata
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (4.41%) Big Data
8 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.41%) HBase
8 3 (4.41%) Impala
8 3 (4.41%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (4.41%) Neo4j
8 3 (4.41%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (4.41%) QlikView
8 3 (4.41%) Spark SQL
8 3 (4.41%) SQLite
8 3 (4.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Git
2 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Finance
3 5 (7.35%) Banking
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Law
4 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Billing
5 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Senior
2 21 (30.88%) Architect
3 17 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (22.06%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (20.59%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (17.65%) DevOps Architect
8 11 (16.18%) AWS Architect
8 11 (16.18%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (16.18%) AWS Solution Architect
8 11 (16.18%) Senior Architect
8 11 (16.18%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (16.18%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 11 (16.18%) TOGAF Architect
9 10 (14.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (13.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (7.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (7.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (5.88%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.88%) Kafka
2 4 (5.88%) Middleware
3 3 (4.41%) .NET
3 3 (4.41%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.41%) Plotly
3 3 (4.41%) PySpark
3 3 (4.41%) Regular Expression
3 3 (4.41%) Shiny
4 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.94%) Node.js
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) Vue
5 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.47%) Blazor
5 1 (1.47%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
4 6 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.88%) NHS
6 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.47%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 9 (13.24%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) Unix
4 4 (5.88%) CentOS
4 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) DevOps
2 37 (54.41%) Agile
3 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
4 28 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (27.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (27.94%) Roadmaps
7 19 (27.94%) TOGAF
8 17 (25.00%) Microservices
9 16 (23.53%) Architectural Design
9 16 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (20.59%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (19.12%) Data Management
12 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
12 12 (17.65%) Migration
13 11 (16.18%) Data Privacy
13 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (16.18%) Technology Roadmap
14 10 (14.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.12%) SQL
2 22 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 22 (32.35%) Python
3 15 (22.06%) Java
4 13 (19.12%) Bash
4 13 (19.12%) C#
5 11 (16.18%) Bicep
6 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) PROC SQL
7 3 (4.41%) R
8 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) AWS Certification
2 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (19.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (17.65%) Degree
5 5 (7.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
6 4 (5.88%) Linux+ Certification
6 4 (5.88%) RHCE
7 3 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.47%) CCSA
9 1 (1.47%) CCSE
9 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.41%) GDPR
2 19 (27.94%) HIPAA
3 13 (19.12%) NIST
4 5 (7.35%) QA
5 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
5 4 (5.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (36.76%) Docker
2 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (16.18%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.88%) Dovecot
6 4 (5.88%) Postfix
6 4 (5.88%) VMware NSX
7 3 (4.41%) Apache Flume
7 3 (4.41%) HDFS
8 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.94%) vSphere
9 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.47%) XenApp
9 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 25 (36.76%) Terraform
3 11 (16.18%) Ansible
4 5 (7.35%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.88%) SCCM
5 4 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.41%) Kibana
6 3 (4.41%) logstash
6 3 (4.41%) Oozie
7 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.47%) Grafana
8 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (51.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (25.00%) Google
3 15 (22.06%) VMware
4 8 (11.76%) Databricks
5 6 (8.82%) Oracle
6 5 (7.35%) Meraki
6 5 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.35%) SAP
7 4 (5.88%) Okta
7 4 (5.88%) Ping Identity
8 3 (4.41%) Informatica
8 3 (4.41%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.47%) Aruba
10 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.47%) Cisco
10 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.47%) Veeam
10 1 (1.47%) Zerto