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 11 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 226 203
Rank change year-on-year +66 -23 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 125 86 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.26% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.37% 2.52% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 105 28 75
10th Percentile - £41,600 £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 £60,000 £54,063 £76,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,125 £96,539
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -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 3,704 3,418 2,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.41% 27.81% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 1,148 1,304
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £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 £76,288 £79,225 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +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 11 November 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 11 November 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 +49 60 £30,500 -40.49% 80
Yorkshire +5 45 £30,500 -35.79% 53
North East +27 20 £30,500 - 28
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 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) SAS
2 3 (2.40%) WordPress
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 98 (78.40%) AWS
3 75 (60.00%) GitHub
4 17 (13.60%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (12.00%) Serverless
6 12 (9.60%) GCP
7 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.80%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.40%) IaaS
11 3 (2.40%) PaaS
12 2 (1.60%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.60%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (51.20%) Internet
2 5 (4.00%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) PuTTY
3 3 (2.40%) SAN
4 2 (1.60%) Wireless
5 1 (0.80%) DNS
5 1 (0.80%) Junos
5 1 (0.80%) Network Security
5 1 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.20%) Metadata
2 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.40%) Big Data
3 3 (2.40%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.40%) HBase
3 3 (2.40%) Impala
3 3 (2.40%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (2.40%) Neo4j
3 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 3 (2.40%) QlikView
3 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
3 3 (2.40%) SQLite
3 3 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (56.00%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (51.20%) Multimedia
2 24 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Finance
4 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.60%) Law
5 2 (1.60%) Legal
5 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.60%) Retail
6 1 (0.80%) Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (51.20%) Trainee
2 33 (26.40%) Developer
3 32 (25.60%) Software Developer
3 32 (25.60%) Trainee Developer
3 32 (25.60%) Trainee Software Developer
4 26 (20.80%) Architect
5 13 (10.40%) Senior
6 12 (9.60%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.40%) AWS Architect
7 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.40%) AWS Solution Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) DevOps Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.40%) TOGAF Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Applications Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Lead
10 5 (4.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (51.20%) CSS
1 64 (51.20%) HTML
2 5 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.40%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.40%) Kafka
3 3 (2.40%) Plotly
3 3 (2.40%) PySpark
3 3 (2.40%) Regular Expression
3 3 (2.40%) Shiny
4 1 (0.80%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.80%) RESTful
4 1 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (8.80%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.80%) IoT
6 1 (0.80%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.80%) CentOS
3 1 (0.80%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (64.80%) Mentoring
2 68 (54.40%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (21.60%) TOGAF
4 22 (17.60%) DevOps
4 22 (17.60%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (16.00%) Microservices
6 18 (14.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (13.60%) Agile
7 17 (13.60%) Computer Science
7 17 (13.60%) Migration
8 16 (12.80%) Roadmaps
9 15 (12.00%) Data Modelling
10 14 (11.20%) Application Security
10 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.40%) ITIL
11 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.60%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
12 12 (9.60%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 94 (75.20%) Python
2 76 (60.80%) JavaScript
3 35 (28.00%) R
4 23 (18.40%) Java
5 21 (16.80%) C#
6 14 (11.20%) SQL
7 12 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.80%) Bash
9 6 (4.80%) Bicep
10 3 (2.40%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (77.60%) AWS Certification
2 87 (69.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (52.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (18.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (16.80%) Degree
6 17 (13.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (12.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.00%) Master's Degree
9 4 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.40%) CISSP
10 3 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.60%) CCNA
11 2 (1.60%) MBA
12 1 (0.80%) CCSA
12 1 (0.80%) CCSE
12 1 (0.80%) CSPO
12 1 (0.80%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) NIST
2 10 (8.00%) GDPR
3 9 (7.20%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.40%) QA
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.40%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Flume
3 3 (2.40%) HDFS
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.80%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.80%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Ansible
3 3 (2.40%) Kibana
3 3 (2.40%) logstash
3 3 (2.40%) Oozie
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 104 (83.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) Google
3 6 (4.80%) VMware
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
5 4 (3.20%) Databricks
5 4 (3.20%) Mitel
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco
6 3 (2.40%) Informatica
6 3 (2.40%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.60%) Aruba
7 2 (1.60%) Meraki
7 2 (1.60%) Veeam
7 2 (1.60%) Zerto
8 1 (0.80%) Ariba
8 1 (0.80%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.80%) Juniper
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle
8 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow