Azure Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 322 133
Rank change year-on-year -32 -189 +294
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 227 554 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.77% 2.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.07% 2.84% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 159 349 341
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £81,050 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -7.69% -6.40% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,254 19,532 21,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.87% 27.20% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,613 12,211 8,038
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +8 66 £65,000 - 337
North of England -75 59 £62,500 +13.64% 252
Midlands +21 46 £57,500 -14.81% 230
North West -41 44 £71,991 +17.62% 118
West Midlands +46 32 £67,500 -3.57% 134
South West +104 24 £55,000 -4.35% 126
East of England +28 15 £28,750 -30.72% 175
Yorkshire +8 14 £57,500 +6.98% 98
East Midlands +6 14 £31,500 -48.36% 81
Wales +35 8 £38,094 - 32
Scotland +91 7 £96,500 +48.46% 70
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -
North East +10 1 £47,500 +46.15% 36
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (10.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.08%) Confluence
5 3 (1.32%) IIS
5 3 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.88%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 227 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (33.92%) AWS
3 70 (30.84%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (23.35%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (22.03%) Entra ID
6 48 (21.15%) IaaS
7 44 (19.38%) Power Platform
8 43 (18.94%) PaaS
9 34 (14.98%) SaaS
10 27 (11.89%) GCP
11 24 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (10.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (8.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 20 (8.81%) Azure Key Vault
14 17 (7.49%) Power Automate
15 16 (7.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (7.05%) GitHub
16 14 (6.17%) Azure AI
17 12 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 46 (20.26%) DNS
2 43 (18.94%) Firewall
3 28 (12.33%) VPN
4 24 (10.57%) WAN
5 21 (9.25%) SD-WAN
6 19 (8.37%) DHCP
7 14 (6.17%) Network Security
7 14 (6.17%) SAN
8 9 (3.96%) NAS
9 8 (3.52%) VLAN
10 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.20%) LAN
11 5 (2.20%) VSAN
12 4 (1.76%) FTP
12 4 (1.76%) HTTP
12 4 (1.76%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.76%) SMTP
12 4 (1.76%) SSH
12 4 (1.76%) Wireshark
13 3 (1.32%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.42%) Power BI
2 26 (11.45%) Data Lake
3 23 (10.13%) SQL Server
4 19 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (7.93%) MySQL
6 16 (7.05%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.41%) Big Data
8 10 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.96%) Hadoop
10 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.76%) Metadata
14 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
15 3 (1.32%) Tableau
16 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
16 2 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (11.45%) Git
2 14 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.96%) JIRA
4 5 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.76%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.44%) ERwin
7 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 96 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.18%) Finance
3 20 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.73%) Law
5 11 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.41%) Retail
7 8 (3.52%) Automotive
7 8 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.52%) Welsh Language
8 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Advertising
9 5 (2.20%) Banking
10 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Billing
11 2 (0.88%) Marketing
11 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (22.91%) Senior
2 39 (17.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (16.74%) Architect
4 32 (14.10%) Azure Engineer
5 31 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (10.57%) Data Engineer
7 20 (8.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (7.05%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (6.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.85%) Lead
13 9 (3.96%) Analyst
13 9 (3.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.52%) Server Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Support Specialist
15 7 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.81%) .NET
2 19 (8.37%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.96%) Kafka
4 7 (3.08%) Middleware
5 5 (2.20%) SAML
6 4 (1.76%) HTML
6 4 (1.76%) XML
7 3 (1.32%) CSS
7 3 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.32%) Node.js
7 3 (1.32%) PySpark
7 3 (1.32%) REST
7 3 (1.32%) RESTful
8 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.88%) LDAP
8 2 (0.88%) React
8 2 (0.88%) Vue
9 1 (0.44%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.44%) ADO
9 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (7.93%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.17%) NHS
4 13 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.73%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.52%) IoT
7 6 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.20%) PKI
8 5 (2.20%) Replication
9 4 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.76%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.87%) Windows
2 36 (15.86%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.69%) Linux
4 8 (3.52%) VMS
5 7 (3.08%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.08%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.64%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (1.76%) Unix
8 3 (1.32%) CentOS
8 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.88%) Android
9 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (40.97%) DevOps
2 85 (37.44%) Agile
3 81 (35.68%) CI/CD
4 66 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (26.87%) ITIL
6 55 (24.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (21.59%) Analytics
8 48 (21.15%) Migration
9 44 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (17.62%) Roadmaps
11 39 (17.18%) Service Management
12 38 (16.74%) Mentoring
13 35 (15.42%) Containerisation
14 33 (14.54%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (13.66%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (13.22%) TOGAF
17 28 (12.33%) Artificial Intelligence
17 28 (12.33%) Project Management
18 27 (11.89%) Computer Science
19 25 (11.01%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 83 (36.56%) PowerShell
2 79 (34.80%) SQL
3 62 (27.31%) Python
4 29 (12.78%) C#
5 23 (10.13%) Bicep
6 12 (5.29%) Java
7 9 (3.96%) Bash
8 7 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.64%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.76%) Groovy
11 3 (1.32%) R
12 2 (0.88%) Perl
12 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.44%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (33.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (22.47%) Degree
3 49 (21.59%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.01%) DBS Check
5 23 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (7.05%) Security Cleared
7 16 (7.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.61%) CCNA
9 13 (5.73%) MCSA
10 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
11 10 (4.41%) MCSE
12 9 (3.96%) A+ Certification
13 8 (3.52%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (3.08%) Master's Degree
15 6 (2.64%) CCNP
15 6 (2.64%) MCP
16 4 (1.76%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.98%) GDPR
2 14 (6.17%) HIPAA
2 14 (6.17%) SLA
3 12 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.85%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.41%) NIST
5 10 (4.41%) QA
6 6 (2.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.88%) NCSC
10 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (25.55%) Active Directory
2 37 (16.30%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (15.42%) Docker
4 23 (10.13%) Hyper-V
5 17 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (7.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.20%) Dovecot
8 5 (2.20%) Postfix
8 5 (2.20%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.20%) vSphere
9 4 (1.76%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.88%) Squid
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.44%) HDFS
11 1 (0.44%) KVM
11 1 (0.44%) XenApp
11 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (23.79%) Terraform
2 37 (16.30%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.37%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (6.61%) Ansible
6 8 (3.52%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.64%) Grafana
8 5 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.20%) SCCM
9 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.32%) Iperf
10 3 (1.32%) Nessus
10 3 (1.32%) Puppet
11 2 (0.88%) Autotask
11 2 (0.88%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.44%) Kibana
12 1 (0.44%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Oozie
12 1 (0.44%) OpenVAS
12 1 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 139 (61.23%) Microsoft
2 42 (18.50%) Databricks
3 37 (16.30%) VMware
4 25 (11.01%) Google
5 14 (6.17%) Meraki
6 9 (3.96%) Citrix
6 9 (3.96%) Oracle
6 9 (3.96%) Veeam
7 6 (2.64%) Apple
7 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.76%) Cisco
9 4 (1.76%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.32%) Okta
10 3 (1.32%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.32%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (1.32%) SAP
10 3 (1.32%) SonicWALL
11 2 (0.88%) Freshdesk
11 2 (0.88%) Jaspersoft