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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 247 236
Rank change year-on-year +224 -11 -100
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 980 67 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.72% 0.71% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.01% 1.74% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 79 37 121
10th Percentile £28,100 £44,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £55,875 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £84,919
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,378 3,843 3,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.28% 40.94% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 1,236 2,488
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,722 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,835 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +1.01% -6.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.11% -9.34%

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 July 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 11 July 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 +140 554 £42,500 -32.00% 38
North West +140 288 £40,000 -44.44% 37
North East +40 138 £42,500 -10.53% 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 15 (1.53%) WordPress
2 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 241 (24.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 980 (100.00%) Azure
2 333 (33.98%) Azure AI
3 253 (25.82%) Power Platform
4 41 (4.18%) AWS
5 28 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (2.76%) GitHub
7 26 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 10 (1.02%) IaaS
9 8 (0.82%) SaaS
10 7 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.61%) PaaS
12 5 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.51%) Intacct
13 4 (0.41%) dbt
13 4 (0.41%) GCP
13 4 (0.41%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.31%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.31%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.45%) Firewall
2 21 (2.14%) Internet
3 12 (1.22%) DNS
4 11 (1.12%) DHCP
5 9 (0.92%) VPN
6 6 (0.61%) SAN
6 6 (0.61%) VLAN
7 5 (0.51%) DMZ
7 5 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.51%) STUN
7 5 (0.51%) VoIP
7 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.31%) LAN
8 3 (0.31%) Network Security
8 3 (0.31%) WAN
8 3 (0.31%) Wireless
9 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.20%) SNMP
9 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.10%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (25.31%) Power BI
2 242 (24.69%) Tableau
3 7 (0.71%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.41%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.31%) Metadata
6 3 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.20%) Looker
8 1 (0.10%) Big Data
8 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (2.14%) Git
2 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.20%) JIRA
3 2 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 917 (93.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (2.14%) Multimedia
3 15 (1.53%) Finance
4 7 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (0.51%) Law
6 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (0.31%) Legal
7 3 (0.31%) Retail
8 2 (0.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.10%) Games
9 1 (0.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 488 (49.80%) Analyst
2 482 (49.18%) Junior
2 482 (49.18%) Junior Analyst
3 244 (24.90%) Data Analyst
4 241 (24.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 241 (24.59%) Junior Data Analyst
4 241 (24.59%) Junior Security Analyst
4 241 (24.59%) Security Analyst
5 225 (22.96%) Ethical Hacker
6 91 (9.29%) Network Engineer
7 90 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (2.14%) Trainee
9 20 (2.04%) Administrator
10 18 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (1.53%) Architect
11 15 (1.53%) Support Engineer
11 15 (1.53%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (1.53%) Web Administrator
12 11 (1.12%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (1.02%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.14%) CSS
1 21 (2.14%) HTML
2 5 (0.51%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (0.31%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.20%) EDI
4 2 (0.20%) JWT
4 2 (0.20%) Kafka
4 2 (0.20%) OAuth
4 2 (0.20%) React
4 2 (0.20%) RESTful
4 2 (0.20%) SAML
4 2 (0.20%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 225 (22.96%) Cyberattack
2 10 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (0.71%) Cloud Native
3 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
4 5 (0.51%) PACS
4 5 (0.51%) PKI
5 4 (0.41%) Clustering
5 4 (0.41%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.10%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.10%) NHS
7 1 (0.10%) PMI
7 1 (0.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.67%) Windows
2 28 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.82%) Linux
4 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.51%) Debian
6 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (48.98%) Cybersecurity
2 343 (35.00%) AI
3 254 (25.92%) Mentoring
4 248 (25.31%) Business Intelligence
5 225 (22.96%) Ethical Hacking
6 90 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 24 (2.45%) ITIL
8 22 (2.24%) DevOps
9 20 (2.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (1.94%) CI/CD
11 18 (1.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (1.84%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (1.73%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (1.73%) Web Development
13 16 (1.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (1.22%) Business Continuity
15 10 (1.02%) Agile
15 10 (1.02%) High Availability
15 10 (1.02%) Roadmaps
16 8 (0.82%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 373 (38.06%) Python
2 258 (26.33%) SQL
3 33 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 21 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.53%) R
6 12 (1.22%) Bicep
7 7 (0.71%) Bash
8 2 (0.20%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (24.69%) CompTIA CySA+
2 241 (24.59%) CompTIA Security+
3 225 (22.96%) CEH
4 97 (9.90%) CCNA
4 97 (9.90%) Cisco Certification
5 90 (9.18%) Network+ Certification
6 42 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (3.57%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 15 (1.53%) Degree
10 8 (0.82%) Security Cleared
11 7 (0.71%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.41%) MCSA
12 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.10%) GCFA
15 1 (0.10%) GCIH
15 1 (0.10%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.51%) DICOM
3 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.31%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.31%) Docker
4 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.10%) XenApp
6 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (2.14%) Terraform
2 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.10%) Argo
6 1 (0.10%) Grafana
6 1 (0.10%) Istio
6 1 (0.10%) linkerd
6 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 858 (87.55%) Microsoft
2 556 (56.73%) ForeScout
3 100 (10.20%) Cisco
4 19 (1.94%) VMware
5 10 (1.02%) Veeam
6 5 (0.51%) Databricks
6 5 (0.51%) Sage
6 5 (0.51%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Google
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.20%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.20%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.20%) webMethods
8 1 (0.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.10%) Commvault
8 1 (0.10%) F5
8 1 (0.10%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.10%) HP