Azure Certification Jobs 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 214 63
Rank change year-on-year -47 -151 +242
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 51 186 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.47% 1.08% 5.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 4.80% 17.08%
Number of salaries quoted 38 143 167
10th Percentile £43,725 £31,125 £34,694
25th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -29.03% +14.81%
75th Percentile £75,659 £66,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £81,075 £84,919 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% 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 6,483 3,877 5,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 59.27% 22.46% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,653 1,780
10th Percentile £27,525 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,013 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -8.55% +10.24%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £68,813
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,273 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,960
% change year-on-year - -5.11% +5.38%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the North of England

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -8 37 £71,991 +17.62% 29
Yorkshire +15 14 £49,000 -6.67% 8
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.88%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
4 2 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) AWS
3 13 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (23.53%) GCP
5 7 (13.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (7.84%) PaaS
8 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (5.88%) IaaS
9 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
9 3 (5.88%) SaaS
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.92%) GitHub
10 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.92%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) NAS
1 7 (13.73%) SAN
2 6 (11.76%) DNS
3 5 (9.80%) DHCP
3 5 (9.80%) VSAN
4 4 (7.84%) Firewall
5 2 (3.92%) Network Security
5 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 28 (54.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Law
5 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Billing
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (21.57%) Senior
4 9 (17.65%) Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Service Manager
8 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Manager
8 3 (5.88%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) ARM Templates
2 5 (9.80%) Middleware
3 3 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.92%) Node.js
4 2 (3.92%) React
4 2 (3.92%) Vue
5 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.96%) ADO
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.96%) Blazor
5 1 (1.96%) JSON
5 1 (1.96%) PySpark
5 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 10 (19.61%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) CentOS
3 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.92%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (45.10%) DevOps
2 21 (41.18%) Agile
2 21 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (39.22%) Containerisation
4 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 17 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
8 10 (19.61%) Roadmaps
9 9 (17.65%) Architectural Design
9 9 (17.65%) ITIL
9 9 (17.65%) Microservices
10 8 (15.69%) Migration
11 7 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (13.73%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (13.73%) TOGAF
12 6 (11.76%) Analytics
12 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) SQL
2 16 (31.37%) PowerShell
3 9 (17.65%) Python
4 6 (11.76%) Bash
5 5 (9.80%) Bicep
5 5 (9.80%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 14 (27.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (17.65%) Degree
4 8 (15.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (9.80%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.88%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (5.88%) RHCE
7 3 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.96%) CCSP
8 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.96%) CISSP
8 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.96%) MCSD
8 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) GDPR
1 10 (19.61%) HIPAA
2 4 (7.84%) NIST
2 4 (7.84%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Docker
2 10 (19.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (9.80%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.80%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.88%) Dovecot
5 3 (5.88%) Postfix
5 3 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.88%) vSphere
6 1 (1.96%) KVM
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.96%) XenApp
6 1 (1.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (41.18%) Terraform
2 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Ansible
3 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.88%) SCCM
4 3 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (33.33%) VMware
3 10 (19.61%) Google
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle
5 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.88%) Okta
6 3 (5.88%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.96%) Citrix
7 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.96%) Commvault
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.96%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) SonicWALL