Azure Certification Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 205 49
Rank change year-on-year -40 -156 +210
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 44 86 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% 0.83% 6.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.88% 3.54% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27 62 57
10th Percentile £47,000 £37,500 £40,450
25th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £61,206 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +17.62% -23.14% +59.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,919 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.77% +1.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,991 2,430 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 63.60% 23.36% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,653 901
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the North West

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Manchester +30 30 £71,991 +19.99% 15
Lancashire -63 7 £52,500 -34.25% 14
Cheshire +8 5 £76,250 +69.44% 5
Merseyside +16 2 £77,500 +24.00%
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) AWS
3 16 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (27.27%) GCP
5 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
8 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (9.09%) IaaS
9 4 (9.09%) PaaS
9 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
10 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (6.82%) OneDrive
10 3 (6.82%) SaaS
11 2 (4.55%) Azure AI
11 2 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
11 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) DNS
1 7 (15.91%) NAS
1 7 (15.91%) SAN
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) VSAN
3 2 (4.55%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 2 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) Big Data
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Senior
2 14 (31.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) Architect
3 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (22.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (20.45%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (15.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) AWS Architect
7 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (13.64%) AWS Solution Architect
7 6 (13.64%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Senior Architect
7 6 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (13.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 6 (13.64%) TOGAF Architect
8 5 (11.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Service Desk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (11.36%) Middleware
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.55%) NHS
5 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) CentOS
3 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) DevOps
2 22 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Containerisation
3 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
5 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (34.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (29.55%) Roadmaps
8 12 (27.27%) Architectural Design
8 12 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (27.27%) Microservices
9 11 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (25.00%) TOGAF
10 9 (20.45%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (18.18%) Configuration Management
12 7 (15.91%) Analytics
12 7 (15.91%) Data Management
12 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (15.91%) ITIL
12 7 (15.91%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) SQL
2 11 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.45%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) Java
5 6 (13.64%) C#
6 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (9.09%) Bicep
7 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) AWS Certification
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (15.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
3 7 (15.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.82%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Linux+ Certification
4 3 (6.82%) RHCE
5 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CCSP
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CISSP
6 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (29.55%) GDPR
1 13 (29.55%) HIPAA
2 7 (15.91%) NIST
3 4 (9.09%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 7 (15.91%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
3 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.82%) Dovecot
4 3 (6.82%) Postfix
5 1 (2.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 18 (40.91%) Terraform
3 8 (18.18%) Ansible
4 6 (13.64%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (29.55%) Google
3 10 (22.73%) VMware
4 6 (13.64%) Oracle
5 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.82%) Databricks
6 3 (6.82%) Okta
6 3 (6.82%) Ping Identity
7 2 (4.55%) Meraki
8 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.27%) SAP