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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 210 199
Rank change year-on-year +38 -11 -87
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 119 87 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.67% 2.56% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 95 29 75
10th Percentile - £41,900 £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 £60,625 £55,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £57,468 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -11.59% -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 3,240 3,395 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.79% 27.19% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 1,167 1,307
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,900
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 7 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 7 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 +45 58 £30,500 -40.49% 98
Yorkshire +12 43 £30,500 -35.79% 63
North East +25 18 £36,500 -41.60% 30
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 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.52%) SAS
1 3 (2.52%) WordPress
2 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (78.15%) AWS
3 66 (55.46%) GitHub
4 15 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (12.61%) Serverless
5 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.08%) GCP
7 10 (8.40%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.88%) IaaS
9 7 (5.88%) PaaS
10 6 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.04%) SaaS
11 5 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.36%) Azure AI
12 4 (3.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.36%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (47.06%) Internet
2 9 (7.56%) Firewall
3 5 (4.20%) DNS
3 5 (4.20%) VPN
4 4 (3.36%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.36%) WAN
5 3 (2.52%) PuTTY
6 2 (1.68%) SAN
6 2 (1.68%) Wireless
7 1 (0.84%) Junos
7 1 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.24%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.88%) MySQL
2 7 (5.88%) Power BI
3 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.36%) Metadata
4 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.52%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.52%) Big Data
5 3 (2.52%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.52%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.52%) HBase
5 3 (2.52%) Impala
5 3 (2.52%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.52%) QlikView
5 3 (2.52%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.52%) SQLite
5 3 (2.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (55.46%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.84%) GitLab
3 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (47.06%) Multimedia
2 23 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Finance
4 6 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.68%) Law
5 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.68%) Retail
6 1 (0.84%) Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (47.06%) Trainee
2 29 (24.37%) Architect
3 28 (23.53%) Developer
4 27 (22.69%) Software Developer
4 27 (22.69%) Trainee Developer
4 27 (22.69%) Trainee Software Developer
5 13 (10.92%) Senior
6 11 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Architect
7 8 (6.72%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Solution Architect
7 8 (6.72%) DevOps Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Senior Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.72%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.72%) TOGAF Architect
8 7 (5.88%) Applications Architect
8 7 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Lead
10 5 (4.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.06%) CSS
1 56 (47.06%) HTML
2 5 (4.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.52%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.52%) Kafka
3 3 (2.52%) Plotly
3 3 (2.52%) PySpark
3 3 (2.52%) Regular Expression
3 3 (2.52%) Shiny
4 1 (0.84%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.84%) RESTful
4 1 (0.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (9.24%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.36%) NHS
5 3 (2.52%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Windows
2 3 (2.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Android
3 1 (0.84%) CentOS
3 1 (0.84%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.34%) Mentoring
2 60 (50.42%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (25.21%) TOGAF
4 25 (21.01%) DevOps
5 22 (18.49%) Enterprise Architecture
6 21 (17.65%) Agile
6 21 (17.65%) Migration
7 20 (16.81%) Microservices
8 19 (15.97%) Roadmaps
9 18 (15.13%) CI/CD
9 18 (15.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (14.29%) Computer Science
10 17 (14.29%) ITIL
11 15 (12.61%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.76%) Application Security
13 12 (10.08%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
13 12 (10.08%) EAI
13 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 85 (71.43%) Python
2 68 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 32 (26.89%) R
4 23 (19.33%) Java
5 21 (17.65%) C#
6 18 (15.13%) SQL
7 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
8 12 (10.08%) TypeScript
9 9 (7.56%) Bicep
10 6 (5.04%) Bash
11 3 (2.52%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (73.95%) AWS Certification
2 77 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 57 (47.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (19.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (17.65%) Degree
6 16 (13.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (13.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.36%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (2.52%) CISSP
9 3 (2.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.68%) CCNA
10 2 (1.68%) MBA
11 1 (0.84%) CCSA
11 1 (0.84%) CSPO
11 1 (0.84%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.84%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) NIST
2 10 (8.40%) GDPR
3 9 (7.56%) HIPAA
4 6 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.36%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.52%) QA
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.92%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Flume
3 3 (2.52%) HDFS
4 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.84%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.84%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.52%) Ansible
4 3 (2.52%) Kibana
4 3 (2.52%) logstash
4 3 (2.52%) Oozie
5 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 94 (78.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.56%) Google
3 8 (6.72%) Databricks
4 6 (5.04%) Meraki
5 5 (4.20%) SAP
6 4 (3.36%) Mitel
6 4 (3.36%) VMware
7 3 (2.52%) Cisco
7 3 (2.52%) Informatica
7 3 (2.52%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.68%) Aruba
8 2 (1.68%) Veeam
8 2 (1.68%) Zerto
9 1 (0.84%) Ariba
9 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.84%) Juniper
9 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow