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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 245 234
Rank change year-on-year +211 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 810 57 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.64% 0.59% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.55% 1.49% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 28 76
10th Percentile £27,575 £42,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -14.98%
75th Percentile £67,813 £72,813 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £82,975 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 3,300 3,832 3,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.83% 39.74% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,203 1,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,985 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,258 £77,500
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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +134 455 £42,500 -32.00% 30
North West +134 236 £47,500 -22.76% 45
North East +28 119 £65,000 +36.84% 24
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 (1.85%) WordPress
2 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.62%) IIS
5 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 180 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 810 (100.00%) Azure
2 273 (33.70%) Azure AI
3 192 (23.70%) Power Platform
4 43 (5.31%) AWS
5 23 (2.84%) GitHub
5 23 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 13 (1.60%) GCP
8 11 (1.36%) IaaS
9 10 (1.23%) SaaS
10 7 (0.86%) PaaS
11 6 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.62%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.62%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.49%) dbt
14 3 (0.37%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.37%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.35%) Internet
2 17 (2.10%) DHCP
2 17 (2.10%) DNS
3 15 (1.85%) Firewall
4 7 (0.86%) WAN
5 5 (0.62%) SNMP
5 5 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.62%) Wireless
6 4 (0.49%) LAN
6 4 (0.49%) SAN
6 4 (0.49%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.49%) VPN
7 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.25%) Network Security
8 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 1 (0.12%) DMZ
9 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.12%) STUN
9 1 (0.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (23.09%) Power BI
2 181 (22.35%) Tableau
3 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.49%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.37%) Metadata
5 3 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.37%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.25%) Looker
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Flink
7 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (2.35%) Git
2 1 (0.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 739 (91.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (2.35%) Multimedia
3 13 (1.60%) Finance
4 8 (0.99%) Public Sector
5 7 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (0.62%) Legal
7 4 (0.49%) Law
7 4 (0.49%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.37%) Retail
9 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.12%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.12%) Local Government
10 1 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 369 (45.56%) Analyst
2 360 (44.44%) Junior
2 360 (44.44%) Junior Analyst
3 183 (22.59%) Data Analyst
4 180 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 180 (22.22%) Ethical Hacker
4 180 (22.22%) Junior Data Analyst
4 180 (22.22%) Junior Security Analyst
4 180 (22.22%) Security Analyst
5 93 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 91 (11.23%) Network Engineer
7 19 (2.35%) Administrator
7 19 (2.35%) Trainee
8 17 (2.10%) Architect
9 15 (1.85%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (1.85%) Web Administrator
10 9 (1.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (1.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (0.86%) Developer
11 7 (0.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.35%) CSS
1 19 (2.35%) HTML
2 5 (0.62%) LangChain
2 5 (0.62%) LlamaIndex
2 5 (0.62%) SAML
3 4 (0.49%) Kafka
4 3 (0.37%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.37%) EDI
4 3 (0.37%) JWT
4 3 (0.37%) OAuth
4 3 (0.37%) RESTful
4 3 (0.37%) Web Services
5 2 (0.25%) React
5 2 (0.25%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.12%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (0.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 180 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 9 (1.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (1.11%) Onboarding
3 7 (0.86%) Data Centre
4 6 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (0.49%) Clustering
5 4 (0.49%) Driving Licence
5 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
5 4 (0.49%) PKI
6 3 (0.37%) SystemC
7 2 (0.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.25%) Life Science
7 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.12%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.12%) NHS
8 1 (0.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.83%) Windows
2 29 (3.58%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (0.62%) Linux
5 2 (0.25%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Debian
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (46.30%) Cybersecurity
2 286 (35.31%) AI
3 194 (23.95%) Mentoring
4 187 (23.09%) Business Intelligence
5 180 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
6 95 (11.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 30 (3.70%) CI/CD
8 29 (3.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (3.33%) ITIL
10 25 (3.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (3.09%) DevOps
11 23 (2.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 23 (2.84%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (2.10%) Web Development
13 16 (1.98%) Agile
13 16 (1.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (1.60%) Business Continuity
14 13 (1.60%) Observability
15 12 (1.48%) Containerisation
16 11 (1.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.65%) Python
2 196 (24.20%) SQL
3 27 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 19 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.85%) R
6 13 (1.60%) Bicep
7 4 (0.49%) Bash
8 3 (0.37%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.12%) Java
9 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (22.35%) CompTIA CySA+
2 180 (22.22%) CEH
2 180 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 97 (11.98%) CCNA
3 97 (11.98%) Cisco Certification
4 90 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
5 36 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (1.48%) Degree
9 9 (1.11%) Security Cleared
10 8 (0.99%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.49%) MCSA
12 4 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.12%) CCNP
14 1 (0.12%) GCIH
14 1 (0.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.37%) NCSC
4 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.12%) QA
System Software
1 30 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.62%) Docker
4 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (2.35%) Terraform
2 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.74%) Ansible
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.12%) Argo
6 1 (0.12%) Grafana
6 1 (0.12%) Istio
6 1 (0.12%) linkerd
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 684 (84.44%) Microsoft
2 450 (55.56%) ForeScout
3 97 (11.98%) Cisco
4 20 (2.47%) VMware
5 9 (1.11%) Veeam
6 6 (0.74%) Databricks
7 5 (0.62%) Aderant
7 5 (0.62%) iManage
7 5 (0.62%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.37%) Google
8 3 (0.37%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.37%) webMethods
9 2 (0.25%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.12%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.12%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat