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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 227 204
Rank change year-on-year +103 -23 -97
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 167 85 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.74% 0.69% 1.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.62% 2.43% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 118 27 69
10th Percentile - - £31,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% -22.13% -23.75%
75th Percentile £58,000 £54,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% -2.99% -7.59%

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 3,612 3,491 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.72% 28.47% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,181 1,250
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,050 £40,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £54,291
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -7.80% +8.58%
75th Percentile £60,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +2.90%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +78 71 £30,500 -41.90% 83
Yorkshire +35 71 £30,500 -35.79% 48
North East +32 25 £30,500 - 22
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 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.80%) WordPress
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) Azure
2 111 (66.47%) AWS
3 86 (51.50%) GitHub
4 18 (10.78%) Power Platform
5 17 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.18%) Serverless
6 15 (8.98%) Azure AI
7 10 (5.99%) GCP
8 8 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.80%) IaaS
11 3 (1.80%) PaaS
12 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.20%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.20%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (45.51%) Internet
2 5 (2.99%) Firewall
3 3 (1.80%) SAN
4 2 (1.20%) PuTTY
4 2 (1.20%) Wireless
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Junos
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.18%) Power BI
1 17 (10.18%) Tableau
2 9 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.80%) Metadata
3 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.20%) Big Data
4 2 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.20%) HBase
4 2 (1.20%) Impala
4 2 (1.20%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (1.20%) MySQL
4 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.20%) QlikView
4 2 (1.20%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 81 (48.50%) Git
2 3 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (45.51%) Multimedia
2 56 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.39%) Finance
4 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Law
5 2 (1.20%) Legal
5 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.20%) Retail
6 1 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (45.51%) Trainee
2 39 (23.35%) Developer
3 38 (22.75%) Software Developer
3 38 (22.75%) Trainee Developer
3 38 (22.75%) Trainee Software Developer
4 30 (17.96%) Analyst
4 30 (17.96%) Junior
4 30 (17.96%) Junior Analyst
5 27 (16.17%) Architect
6 15 (8.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 15 (8.98%) Data Analyst
6 15 (8.98%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (8.98%) Junior Security Analyst
6 15 (8.98%) Security Analyst
7 11 (6.59%) Senior
7 11 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.79%) Applications Architect
9 7 (4.19%) AWS Architect
9 7 (4.19%) DevOps Architect
9 7 (4.19%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (45.51%) CSS
1 76 (45.51%) HTML
2 4 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.20%) Kafka
3 2 (1.20%) Plotly
3 2 (1.20%) PySpark
3 2 (1.20%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.20%) Shiny
4 1 (0.60%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.60%) RESTful
4 1 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.98%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.60%) IoT
5 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) CentOS
3 1 (0.60%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (65.27%) Mentoring
2 95 (56.89%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (17.37%) TOGAF
4 24 (14.37%) Enterprise Architecture
5 21 (12.57%) Microservices
6 20 (11.98%) DevOps
6 20 (11.98%) Migration
6 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
8 18 (10.78%) AI
9 17 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (9.58%) Application Security
10 16 (9.58%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.98%) Agile
11 15 (8.98%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.38%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (8.38%) EAI
12 14 (8.38%) ITIL
13 13 (7.78%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 121 (72.46%) Python
2 90 (53.89%) JavaScript
3 40 (23.95%) R
4 27 (16.17%) SQL
5 23 (13.77%) Java
6 22 (13.17%) C#
7 14 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.99%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.59%) Bicep
10 5 (2.99%) Bash
11 2 (1.20%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (65.87%) AWS Certification
2 101 (60.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 78 (46.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (14.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (14.37%) Degree
5 20 (11.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 18 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (8.98%) CompTIA CySA+
7 15 (8.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.59%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.80%) CISSP
11 3 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.80%) MBA
12 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.20%) CCNA
13 1 (0.60%) CCNP
13 1 (0.60%) CSPO
13 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) NIST
2 9 (5.39%) GDPR
3 8 (4.79%) HIPAA
4 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.20%) QA
7 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.19%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Flume
4 2 (1.20%) HDFS
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.59%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Kibana
3 2 (1.20%) logstash
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.20%) Oozie
4 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 147 (88.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.98%) ForeScout
3 9 (5.39%) Google
4 6 (3.59%) VMware
5 4 (2.40%) Mitel
5 4 (2.40%) SAP
6 3 (1.80%) Cisco
6 3 (1.80%) Databricks
6 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.20%) Aruba
7 2 (1.20%) Informatica
7 2 (1.20%) Meraki
7 2 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.20%) Veeam
7 2 (1.20%) Zerto
8 1 (0.60%) Ariba
8 1 (0.60%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.60%) Juniper
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat