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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 252 243
Rank change year-on-year +223 -9 -81
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 919 61 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.28% 0.64% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.61% 1.60% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 76 30 94
10th Percentile £27,875 £42,375 £30,725
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £61,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% +14.42% -10.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £81,825 £84,919
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%

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 3,328 3,812 3,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.50% 40.02% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 1,218 1,880
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,250 £35,392
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -8.12%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,208 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +142 518 £42,500 -32.00% 21
North West +146 268 £47,500 -26.92% 24
North East +42 133 £45,000 -5.26% 14
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 (1.63%) WordPress
2 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 211 (22.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 919 (100.00%) Azure
2 304 (33.08%) Azure AI
3 224 (24.37%) Power Platform
4 42 (4.57%) AWS
5 27 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 24 (2.61%) GitHub
7 11 (1.20%) IaaS
8 8 (0.87%) GCP
8 8 (0.87%) SaaS
9 7 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.76%) PaaS
10 6 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.54%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.44%) dbt
12 4 (0.44%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.33%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.07%) Firewall
1 19 (2.07%) Internet
2 16 (1.74%) DNS
3 15 (1.63%) DHCP
4 7 (0.76%) VPN
5 6 (0.65%) WAN
6 5 (0.54%) SAN
6 5 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.54%) Wireless
7 4 (0.44%) LAN
7 4 (0.44%) SNMP
7 4 (0.44%) VLAN
8 3 (0.33%) DMZ
8 3 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.33%) STUN
8 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.33%) VoIP
9 2 (0.22%) Network Security
9 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (23.83%) Power BI
2 212 (23.07%) Tableau
3 5 (0.54%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.44%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.33%) Metadata
5 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.22%) Looker
7 1 (0.11%) Big Data
7 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (2.07%) Git
2 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 851 (92.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (2.07%) Multimedia
3 13 (1.41%) Finance
4 8 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (0.54%) Law
5 5 (0.54%) Legal
6 4 (0.44%) Public Sector
6 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
7 3 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (0.33%) Retail
8 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 430 (46.79%) Analyst
2 422 (45.92%) Junior
2 422 (45.92%) Junior Analyst
3 225 (24.48%) Ethical Hacker
4 214 (23.29%) Data Analyst
5 211 (22.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 211 (22.96%) Junior Data Analyst
5 211 (22.96%) Junior Security Analyst
5 211 (22.96%) Security Analyst
6 91 (9.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 91 (9.90%) Network Engineer
7 20 (2.18%) Administrator
8 19 (2.07%) Trainee
9 17 (1.85%) Architect
10 15 (1.63%) Trainee Administrator
10 15 (1.63%) Web Administrator
11 13 (1.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (1.09%) Support Engineer
13 9 (0.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (0.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.07%) CSS
1 19 (2.07%) HTML
2 4 (0.44%) Kafka
2 4 (0.44%) SAML
3 3 (0.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.33%) EDI
3 3 (0.33%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (0.33%) JWT
3 3 (0.33%) OAuth
3 3 (0.33%) RESTful
4 2 (0.22%) LangChain
4 2 (0.22%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (0.22%) React
4 2 (0.22%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.11%) PySpark
5 1 (0.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 225 (24.48%) Cyberattack
2 9 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (0.87%) Cloud Native
3 8 (0.87%) Data Centre
4 5 (0.54%) PKI
5 4 (0.44%) Clustering
5 4 (0.44%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.33%) PACS
7 2 (0.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.22%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.11%) NHS
8 1 (0.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.11%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.81%) Windows
2 30 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (0.65%) Linux
5 3 (0.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (48.97%) Cybersecurity
2 316 (34.39%) AI
3 225 (24.48%) Ethical Hacking
4 223 (24.27%) Mentoring
5 219 (23.83%) Business Intelligence
6 92 (10.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 25 (2.72%) CI/CD
7 25 (2.72%) ITIL
8 24 (2.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (2.50%) DevOps
10 22 (2.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (2.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (2.29%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (1.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (1.85%) Web Development
13 13 (1.41%) Business Continuity
14 12 (1.31%) Agile
14 12 (1.31%) Roadmaps
15 9 (0.98%) Architectural Design
15 9 (0.98%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 338 (36.78%) Python
2 228 (24.81%) SQL
3 31 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.63%) R
6 13 (1.41%) Bicep
7 5 (0.54%) Bash
8 3 (0.33%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.11%) Java
9 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (24.48%) CEH
2 212 (23.07%) CompTIA CySA+
3 211 (22.96%) CompTIA Security+
4 97 (10.55%) CCNA
4 97 (10.55%) Cisco Certification
5 90 (9.79%) Network+ Certification
6 36 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 14 (1.52%) Degree
10 9 (0.98%) Security Cleared
11 8 (0.87%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.44%) MCSA
12 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.11%) GCFA
14 1 (0.11%) GCIH
14 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.33%) DICOM
3 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.44%) Docker
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (2.39%) Terraform
2 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (0.44%) Ansible
5 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Argo
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Istio
6 1 (0.11%) linkerd
6 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 795 (86.51%) Microsoft
2 526 (57.24%) ForeScout
3 99 (10.77%) Cisco
4 21 (2.29%) VMware
5 10 (1.09%) Veeam
6 6 (0.65%) Databricks
7 4 (0.44%) Aderant
7 4 (0.44%) iManage
7 4 (0.44%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.33%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.33%) webMethods
9 2 (0.22%) Google
9 2 (0.22%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.22%) Sage
9 2 (0.22%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.11%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.11%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.11%) F5
10 1 (0.11%) HP
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle