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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 217 227
Rank change year-on-year +61 +10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 239 86 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.00% 0.91% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.58% 2.33% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 64 62 40
10th Percentile £41,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £44,188 £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 £76,000 £65,625 £57,813
90th Percentile £87,000 £81,250 £62,625
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -1.64% -8.96%

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 3,151 3,687 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.17% 38.88% 25.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 1,032 1,213
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £42,000 £31,250 £39,500
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,042 £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 12 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 12 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 +29 107 £42,500 +39.34% 32
North West +8 81 £49,500 +16.47% 26
North East -29 51 £80,500 +78.89% 12
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 18 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.51%) IIS
4 3 (1.26%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.26%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 30 (12.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 239 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (26.36%) Azure AI
3 43 (17.99%) Power Platform
4 32 (13.39%) AWS
5 29 (12.13%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (10.04%) Entra ID
7 22 (9.21%) GCP
8 13 (5.44%) IaaS
9 12 (5.02%) SaaS
10 8 (3.35%) Mimecast
11 7 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.93%) PaaS
12 6 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.09%) GitHub
14 4 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.67%) Snowflake
15 3 (1.26%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (1.26%) Azure AKS
15 3 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.26%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.21%) DHCP
1 22 (9.21%) DNS
2 13 (5.44%) Firewall
3 8 (3.35%) SNMP
3 8 (3.35%) WAN
4 5 (2.09%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (2.09%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.09%) Wireless
5 4 (1.67%) LAN
5 4 (1.67%) SAN
6 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.26%) VPN
7 2 (0.84%) Network Security
7 2 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.06%) Power BI
2 30 (12.55%) Tableau
3 6 (2.51%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.26%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.26%) Metadata
5 3 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.84%) Looker
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.42%) Flink
7 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Git
General
1 171 (71.55%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.95%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.53%) Finance
3 18 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.93%) Legal
6 5 (2.09%) Banking
6 5 (2.09%) Law
6 5 (2.09%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (29.71%) Analyst
2 60 (25.10%) Junior
2 60 (25.10%) Junior Analyst
3 39 (16.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 32 (13.39%) Data Analyst
5 31 (12.97%) Network Engineer
6 30 (12.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 30 (12.55%) Ethical Hacker
6 30 (12.55%) Junior Data Analyst
6 30 (12.55%) Junior Security Analyst
6 30 (12.55%) Security Analyst
7 22 (9.21%) Architect
8 17 (7.11%) Lead
9 9 (3.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.51%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.51%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.51%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.53%) Terraform
2 15 (6.28%) LangChain
2 15 (6.28%) LlamaIndex
3 9 (3.77%) SAML
3 9 (3.77%) Web Services
4 4 (1.67%) Kafka
5 3 (1.26%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.26%) EDI
5 3 (1.26%) JWT
5 3 (1.26%) OAuth
5 3 (1.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.55%) Cyberattack
2 19 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.28%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.09%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (1.67%) Clustering
7 4 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.67%) PKI
8 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) SystemC
9 2 (0.84%) Life Science
9 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.84%) Replication
10 1 (0.42%) NHS
10 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.06%) Windows
2 33 (13.81%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (2.09%) Linux
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (37.66%) AI
2 77 (32.22%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (19.25%) Mentoring
4 45 (18.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 37 (15.48%) CI/CD
5 37 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (15.06%) Business Intelligence
7 33 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (12.55%) Ethical Hacking
8 30 (12.55%) ITIL
9 29 (12.13%) DevOps
10 28 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.46%) Agile
13 22 (9.21%) Observability
14 20 (8.37%) Data Engineering
15 19 (7.95%) High Availability
15 19 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (7.53%) Roadmaps
17 17 (7.11%) Rainbow Teams
Programming Languages
1 83 (34.73%) Python
2 44 (18.41%) SQL
3 29 (12.13%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.02%) Bicep
5 7 (2.93%) Java
6 5 (2.09%) Go
6 5 (2.09%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.09%) Rust
6 5 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.67%) Bash
8 3 (1.26%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (15.48%) CCNA
1 37 (15.48%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (12.97%) CompTIA CySA+
3 30 (12.55%) CEH
3 30 (12.55%) CompTIA Security+
3 30 (12.55%) Network+ Certification
4 26 (10.88%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.44%) Degree
7 12 (5.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.35%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.67%) MCSA
9 4 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.42%) GCFA
11 1 (0.42%) GCIH
11 1 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.77%) NCSC
2 6 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 34 (14.23%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.53%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.09%) Docker
6 3 (1.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 19 (7.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.77%) FortiGate
2 9 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (3.35%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.51%) Ansible
4 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.42%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Istio
5 1 (0.42%) linkerd
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 160 (66.95%) Microsoft
2 90 (37.66%) ForeScout
3 35 (14.64%) Cisco
4 24 (10.04%) VMware
5 9 (3.77%) Veeam
6 8 (3.35%) Google
6 8 (3.35%) SolarWinds
7 6 (2.51%) Aderant
7 6 (2.51%) iManage
8 4 (1.67%) Databricks
9 3 (1.26%) Aruba
9 3 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.26%) webMethods
9 3 (1.26%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.42%) Actian
10 1 (0.42%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.42%) Red Hat