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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 227 224
Rank change year-on-year +154 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 488 73 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.03% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.69% 2.01% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 64 45 45
10th Percentile £41,250 - £36,900
25th Percentile £44,750 £28,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -3.06% -18.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £84,700 £65,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -7.41%

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 3,321 3,631 3,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.81% 38.27% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,874 1,043 1,339
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -5.79%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +101 258 £42,500 +39.34% 49
North West +63 145 £52,500 -8.70% 50
North East +2 85 £80,500 +78.89% 27
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 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.23%) IIS
4 4 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 75 (15.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 488 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (34.43%) Azure AI
3 87 (17.83%) Power Platform
4 34 (6.97%) AWS
5 26 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.71%) GCP
7 21 (4.30%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.25%) IaaS
8 11 (2.25%) SaaS
9 7 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.43%) GitHub
9 7 (1.43%) PaaS
10 6 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.23%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.02%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.82%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.82%) dbt
12 4 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.61%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.89%) DHCP
1 19 (3.89%) DNS
2 14 (2.87%) Firewall
3 8 (1.64%) WAN
4 6 (1.23%) SNMP
5 5 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.02%) Wireless
6 4 (0.82%) LAN
6 4 (0.82%) SAN
7 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.61%) VPN
8 2 (0.41%) Network Security
8 2 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.80%) Power BI
2 76 (15.57%) Tableau
3 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.82%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.82%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.61%) Metadata
5 3 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.41%) Looker
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.20%) Big Data
7 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.20%) Flink
7 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Git
2 1 (0.20%) JIRA
General
1 425 (87.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (3.69%) Public Sector
3 17 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (2.66%) Finance
5 7 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.23%) Legal
7 5 (1.02%) Law
8 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.61%) Retail
10 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.20%) Local Government
11 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (32.79%) Analyst
2 150 (30.74%) Junior
2 150 (30.74%) Junior Analyst
3 99 (20.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 91 (18.65%) Network Engineer
5 78 (15.98%) Data Analyst
6 75 (15.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 75 (15.37%) Ethical Hacker
6 75 (15.37%) Junior Data Analyst
6 75 (15.37%) Junior Security Analyst
6 75 (15.37%) Security Analyst
7 22 (4.51%) Architect
8 17 (3.48%) Lead
9 8 (1.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (1.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (1.43%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (1.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (1.23%) Data Architect
11 6 (1.23%) Senior
11 6 (1.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.10%) Terraform
2 15 (3.07%) LangChain
2 15 (3.07%) LlamaIndex
3 9 (1.84%) Web Services
4 6 (1.23%) SAML
5 4 (0.82%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.82%) Kafka
6 3 (0.61%) EDI
6 3 (0.61%) JWT
6 3 (0.61%) OAuth
6 3 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.37%) Cyberattack
2 19 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (0.82%) Clustering
5 4 (0.82%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.82%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.82%) PKI
6 3 (0.61%) SystemC
7 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.41%) Life Science
7 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.20%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.20%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.20%) NHS
8 1 (0.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.76%) Windows
2 30 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.02%) Linux
5 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (38.93%) AI
2 163 (33.40%) Cybersecurity
3 105 (21.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 91 (18.65%) Mentoring
5 82 (16.80%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (15.37%) Ethical Hacking
7 40 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (7.99%) CI/CD
9 32 (6.56%) DevOps
9 32 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (5.74%) ITIL
11 26 (5.33%) Agile
12 25 (5.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (4.92%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (4.71%) Observability
15 19 (3.89%) Data Engineering
16 17 (3.48%) Knowledge Transfer
16 17 (3.48%) MLOps
16 17 (3.48%) Rainbow Teams
16 17 (3.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 186 (38.11%) Python
2 89 (18.24%) SQL
3 27 (5.53%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.87%) Bicep
5 4 (0.82%) Bash
6 3 (0.61%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.20%) Java
7 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 97 (19.88%) CCNA
1 97 (19.88%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (18.44%) Network+ Certification
3 76 (15.57%) CompTIA CySA+
4 75 (15.37%) CEH
4 75 (15.37%) CompTIA Security+
5 27 (5.53%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.66%) Degree
8 12 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.84%) Security Cleared
10 8 (1.64%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.82%) MCSA
11 4 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.20%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) GCIH
13 1 (0.20%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.84%) NCSC
2 6 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 32 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.07%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.23%) Docker
6 3 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.43%) Ansible
4 6 (1.23%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) Istio
5 1 (0.20%) linkerd
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 353 (72.34%) Microsoft
2 240 (49.18%) ForeScout
3 96 (19.67%) Cisco
4 21 (4.30%) VMware
5 9 (1.84%) Veeam
6 6 (1.23%) Aderant
6 6 (1.23%) iManage
6 6 (1.23%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.02%) Databricks
8 3 (0.61%) Google
8 3 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.61%) webMethods
9 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.20%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.20%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat