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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 213 219
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 169 86 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 0.91% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.44% 2.38% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 65 62 37
10th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £28,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £30,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +96.72% -35.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £80,875 £63,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.83% -8.52%

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 3,109 3,616 3,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.96% 38.35% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,949 1,020 1,194
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £31,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,335 £75,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -2 63 £42,500 +39.34% 17
North West -10 63 £49,500 +33.91% 15
North East -32 43 £80,500 +78.89% 9
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 19 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.55%) IIS
4 3 (1.78%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.78%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (21.30%) Azure AI
3 32 (18.93%) AWS
4 31 (18.34%) Power Platform
5 30 (17.75%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (14.20%) Entra ID
7 23 (13.61%) GCP
8 13 (7.69%) IaaS
9 12 (7.10%) SaaS
10 8 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.73%) Mimecast
11 7 (4.14%) PaaS
12 6 (3.55%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.96%) GitHub
14 4 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (1.78%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (1.78%) dbt
15 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.78%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.02%) DHCP
1 22 (13.02%) DNS
2 12 (7.10%) Firewall
3 8 (4.73%) SNMP
4 7 (4.14%) WAN
5 6 (3.55%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.96%) Wireless
7 4 (2.37%) SAN
7 4 (2.37%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.78%) LAN
9 2 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.18%) VPN
10 1 (0.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.43%) Power BI
2 15 (8.88%) Tableau
3 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.78%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.78%) Metadata
5 3 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.18%) Looker
6 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.59%) Flink
7 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
1 1 (0.59%) Git
1 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 100 (59.17%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.83%) Finance
2 20 (11.83%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.73%) Legal
6 6 (3.55%) Banking
6 6 (3.55%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Law
8 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Local Government
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (24.26%) Analyst
2 30 (17.75%) Junior
2 30 (17.75%) Junior Analyst
3 24 (14.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 23 (13.61%) Architect
5 20 (11.83%) Lead
6 17 (10.06%) Data Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Ethical Hacker
7 15 (8.88%) Junior Data Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Junior Security Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Network Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Security Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Senior
10 6 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.55%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Lead Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.65%) Terraform
2 15 (8.88%) LangChain
2 15 (8.88%) LlamaIndex
3 10 (5.92%) SAML
4 9 (5.33%) Web Services
5 4 (2.37%) Kafka
6 3 (1.78%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.78%) EDI
6 3 (1.78%) JWT
6 3 (1.78%) OAuth
6 3 (1.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.24%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.88%) Cyberattack
3 9 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.55%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (2.37%) Clustering
5 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.37%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.37%) PKI
6 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.78%) SystemC
7 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.18%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.18%) Life Science
7 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.89%) Windows
2 34 (20.12%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.51%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (6.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (2.96%) Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.46%) AI
2 48 (28.40%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (21.89%) CI/CD
3 37 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (18.34%) Mentoring
6 30 (17.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 30 (17.75%) ITIL
7 29 (17.16%) DevOps
7 29 (17.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.79%) Agile
10 22 (13.02%) Observability
10 22 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (12.43%) Data Engineering
12 20 (11.83%) High Availability
13 19 (11.24%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.06%) Knowledge Transfer
14 17 (10.06%) Rainbow Teams
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.95%) Python
2 30 (17.75%) SQL
3 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.51%) Bicep
5 9 (5.33%) Java
6 6 (3.55%) Go
6 6 (3.55%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.55%) Rust
6 6 (3.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.37%) Bash
8 3 (1.78%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 21 (12.43%) CCNA
2 21 (12.43%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (11.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (9.47%) CompTIA CySA+
5 15 (8.88%) CEH
5 15 (8.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 15 (8.88%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (8.28%) Degree
7 13 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.37%) MCSA
9 4 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.59%) ACCA
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) CIMA
10 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.33%) NCSC
2 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.78%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 34 (20.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.24%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.96%) Docker
6 3 (1.78%) vSphere
7 2 (1.18%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 20 (11.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.92%) FortiGate
2 10 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.14%) Ansible
5 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.59%) Argo
6 1 (0.59%) Grafana
6 1 (0.59%) Istio
6 1 (0.59%) linkerd
6 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 103 (60.95%) Microsoft
2 45 (26.63%) ForeScout
3 25 (14.79%) VMware
4 20 (11.83%) Cisco
5 9 (5.33%) Google
5 9 (5.33%) Veeam
6 8 (4.73%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.55%) Aderant
7 6 (3.55%) iManage
8 4 (2.37%) Aruba
8 4 (2.37%) Databricks
8 4 (2.37%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.78%) webMethods
10 2 (1.18%) Actian
10 2 (1.18%) Foundry
10 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.59%) Red Hat