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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 221 226
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 65 99 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.71% 0.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 2.98% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 34 50 76
10th Percentile - £35,975 £31,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £51,250 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -15.29% -19.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,275 £66,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £61,000 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.31% -8.93% -3.45%

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 3,526 3,322 2,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.87% 23.69% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,393 1,444
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,207 £79,600 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,952
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.01% +7.18%

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

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 September 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 15 September 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 +10 40 £62,500 +21.95% 80
Yorkshire -14 19 £30,500 -41.90% 44
North East +11 6 £45,000 +7.78% 21
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 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.62%) IIS
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.62%) SAS
1 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (63.08%) AWS
3 18 (27.69%) GCP
4 16 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (23.08%) GitHub
6 11 (16.92%) IaaS
6 11 (16.92%) PaaS
7 10 (15.38%) Power Platform
8 9 (13.85%) Entra ID
8 9 (13.85%) SaaS
9 5 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (6.15%) Azure AI
10 4 (6.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
10 4 (6.15%) Serverless
11 3 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Firewall
1 10 (15.38%) Internet
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) VPN
3 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
3 4 (6.15%) WAN
4 3 (4.62%) PuTTY
4 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.08%) Network Security
5 2 (3.08%) Wireless
6 1 (1.54%) Junos
6 1 (1.54%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.85%) MySQL
3 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.77%) Power BI
5 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.15%) Metadata
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (4.62%) Apache Hive
8 3 (4.62%) Big Data
8 3 (4.62%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.62%) HBase
8 3 (4.62%) Impala
8 3 (4.62%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (4.62%) Neo4j
8 3 (4.62%) QlikView
8 3 (4.62%) SQLite
8 3 (4.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (15.38%) Multimedia
1 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.62%) Law
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Senior
2 23 (35.38%) Architect
3 15 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (18.46%) AWS Architect
4 12 (18.46%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (18.46%) AWS Solution Architect
4 12 (18.46%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (18.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (18.46%) DevOps Architect
4 12 (18.46%) Senior Architect
4 12 (18.46%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (18.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 12 (18.46%) TOGAF Architect
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Trainee
6 7 (10.77%) Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) ARM Templates
2 10 (15.38%) CSS
2 10 (15.38%) HTML
3 3 (4.62%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.62%) Kafka
3 3 (4.62%) Plotly
3 3 (4.62%) PySpark
3 3 (4.62%) Regular Expression
3 3 (4.62%) Shiny
4 2 (3.08%) .NET
4 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.08%) Node.js
4 2 (3.08%) React
4 2 (3.08%) Vue
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) ADO
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 12 (18.46%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.15%) NHS
6 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.54%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Unix
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) CentOS
3 1 (1.54%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) DevOps
2 29 (44.62%) Agile
3 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
4 23 (35.38%) TOGAF
5 19 (29.23%) Containerisation
5 19 (29.23%) Mentoring
6 17 (26.15%) Roadmaps
7 16 (24.62%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (23.08%) Microservices
9 14 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (20.00%) Data Management
10 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (18.46%) Architectural Design
11 12 (18.46%) Data Privacy
11 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (18.46%) Technology Roadmap
12 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (15.38%) Migration
14 8 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) SQL
3 18 (27.69%) Java
4 16 (24.62%) C#
4 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.92%) PowerShell
6 9 (13.85%) Bash
6 9 (13.85%) Bicep
7 8 (12.31%) R
8 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.62%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (53.85%) AWS Certification
2 22 (33.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (24.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (15.38%) Degree
5 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
8 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.08%) CCNA
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.54%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.54%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.54%) MCSD
9 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.54%) PMP
9 1 (1.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) GDPR
2 13 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 13 (20.00%) NIST
3 5 (7.69%) QA
4 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Docker
2 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.62%) Apache Flume
4 3 (4.62%) HDFS
5 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.54%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.54%) Postfix
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.54%) XenApp
6 1 (1.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.54%) Terraform
3 11 (16.92%) Ansible
4 4 (6.15%) SCCM
4 4 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.62%) Kibana
5 3 (4.62%) logstash
5 3 (4.62%) Oozie
6 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.54%) Grafana
6 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.00%) Google
3 8 (12.31%) Databricks
4 6 (9.23%) Meraki
4 6 (9.23%) SAP
5 5 (7.69%) VMware
6 3 (4.62%) Informatica
6 3 (4.62%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.08%) Aruba
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle
7 2 (3.08%) Veeam
7 2 (3.08%) Zerto
8 1 (1.54%) Ariba
8 1 (1.54%) Citrix
8 1 (1.54%) Commvault
8 1 (1.54%) Juniper
8 1 (1.54%) Red Hat