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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 210 216
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 86 91 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.94% 0.71% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.54% 2.72% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 62 33 75
10th Percentile - £37,500 £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 £63,750 £55,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £63,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% -3.70% -6.90%

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 3,392 3,341 2,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.19% 26.09% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 1,176 1,369
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,027 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -9.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,225 £79,800
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +7 44 £35,000 -30.00% 76
Yorkshire -3 30 £30,500 -35.79% 41
North East +20 12 £45,000 -10.45% 29
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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.49%) SAS
2 1 (1.16%) IIS
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (75.58%) AWS
3 41 (47.67%) GitHub
4 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.28%) GCP
5 9 (10.47%) IaaS
5 9 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.47%) PaaS
5 9 (10.47%) Serverless
6 8 (9.30%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.30%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.30%) SaaS
7 5 (5.81%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.65%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (37.21%) Internet
2 9 (10.47%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) DNS
3 5 (5.81%) VPN
4 4 (4.65%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.65%) WAN
5 3 (3.49%) PuTTY
6 2 (2.33%) SAN
6 2 (2.33%) Wireless
7 1 (1.16%) Junos
7 1 (1.16%) Network Security
7 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.14%) MySQL
2 7 (8.14%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) Metadata
4 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.49%) Apache Hive
5 3 (3.49%) Big Data
5 3 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.49%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.49%) HBase
5 3 (3.49%) Impala
5 3 (3.49%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (3.49%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.49%) QlikView
5 3 (3.49%) SQLite
5 3 (3.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (47.67%) Git
2 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (37.21%) Multimedia
2 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.65%) Finance
3 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.33%) Law
4 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.16%) Banking
5 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Trainee
2 26 (30.23%) Architect
3 19 (22.09%) Senior
4 18 (20.93%) Developer
5 17 (19.77%) Software Developer
5 17 (19.77%) Trainee Developer
5 17 (19.77%) Trainee Software Developer
6 13 (15.12%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (11.63%) AWS Architect
7 10 (11.63%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (11.63%) AWS Solution Architect
7 10 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) DevOps Architect
7 10 (11.63%) Senior Architect
7 10 (11.63%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (11.63%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 10 (11.63%) TOGAF Architect
8 9 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.21%) CSS
1 32 (37.21%) HTML
2 7 (8.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.49%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (3.49%) Kafka
3 3 (3.49%) Plotly
3 3 (3.49%) PySpark
3 3 (3.49%) Regular Expression
3 3 (3.49%) Shiny
4 1 (1.16%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.16%) RESTful
4 1 (1.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Management Information System
2 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.47%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.65%) NHS
6 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) IoT
8 1 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Android
3 1 (1.16%) CentOS
3 1 (1.16%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (53.49%) Mentoring
2 37 (43.02%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (32.56%) DevOps
4 26 (30.23%) TOGAF
5 23 (26.74%) Agile
6 20 (23.26%) CI/CD
7 19 (22.09%) Roadmaps
8 18 (20.93%) Enterprise Architecture
8 18 (20.93%) Microservices
9 15 (17.44%) Migration
10 14 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (15.12%) Computer Science
11 13 (15.12%) Containerisation
11 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (13.95%) Technology Roadmap
13 11 (12.79%) Architectural Design
13 11 (12.79%) Data Management
13 11 (12.79%) Data Modelling
13 11 (12.79%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 58 (67.44%) Python
2 40 (46.51%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.42%) Java
4 20 (23.26%) SQL
5 19 (22.09%) C#
6 18 (20.93%) R
7 10 (11.63%) PowerShell
8 8 (9.30%) Bicep
8 8 (9.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (8.14%) Bash
10 3 (3.49%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (69.77%) AWS Certification
2 50 (58.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 33 (38.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (24.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (17.44%) Degree
6 12 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (11.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.33%) CCNA
10 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.16%) CCSE
11 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.16%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.16%) JNCIS
11 1 (1.16%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.16%) PMP
11 1 (1.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) GDPR
2 11 (12.79%) HIPAA
2 11 (12.79%) NIST
3 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.49%) QA
5 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (16.28%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.49%) Apache Flume
4 3 (3.49%) HDFS
5 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.16%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.47%) Terraform
3 8 (9.30%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.49%) Kibana
5 3 (3.49%) logstash
5 3 (3.49%) Oozie
6 1 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.16%) Puppet
6 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (70.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Google
3 8 (9.30%) Databricks
4 6 (6.98%) Meraki
5 5 (5.81%) SAP
5 5 (5.81%) VMware
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco
6 3 (3.49%) Informatica
6 3 (3.49%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (3.49%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.33%) Aruba
7 2 (2.33%) Veeam
7 2 (2.33%) Zerto
8 1 (1.16%) Ariba
8 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.16%) Juniper
8 1 (1.16%) Mitel
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow