Azure Certification Job Trends 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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 299 352
Rank change year-on-year +284 +53 -231
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 4,060 237 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.21% 0.82% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.80% 1.92% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 311 179 350
10th Percentile - £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,438 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £56,745 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% -1.31% -11.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% -7.69% -6.40%

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 15,739 12,363 18,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.06% 42.90% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 5,287 12,166
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,085 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Certification

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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 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
North of England +202 1,182 £30,500 -51.20% 101
Midlands +153 814 £47,500 +3.26% 57
South East +177 737 £57,500 -17.86% 105
Yorkshire +117 677 £30,500 -41.90% 38
South West +112 499 £35,750 -35.00% 55
East Midlands +110 430 £60,000 +90.48% 25
West Midlands +114 382 £30,500 -53.08% 32
North West +138 342 £31,250 -56.59% 38
East of England +129 305 £60,000 +113.33% 54
Scotland +122 299 £30,500 -59.60% 28
Wales +48 208 £31,000 -18.62% 21
North East - 163 £30,500 - 25
Northern Ireland - 71 £35,000 - 11
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (1.13%) WordPress
2 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.27%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.074%) Confluence
5 3 (0.074%) IIS
6 1 (0.025%) Apache
6 1 (0.025%) Drupal
6 1 (0.025%) nginx
Applications
1 1,135 (27.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.049%) Weka
4 1 (0.025%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.025%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4,060 (100.00%) Azure
2 1,460 (35.96%) Azure AI
3 1,153 (28.40%) Power Platform
4 212 (5.22%) AWS
5 162 (3.99%) GitHub
6 42 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (0.96%) IaaS
8 34 (0.84%) Entra ID
9 32 (0.79%) Azure AKS
10 27 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 27 (0.67%) Azure Storage
11 26 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (0.54%) Serverless
13 15 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (0.32%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (0.27%) PaaS
15 11 (0.27%) SaaS
16 10 (0.25%) Azure Functions
16 10 (0.25%) GCP
17 7 (0.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 161 (3.97%) Internet
2 45 (1.11%) DNS
3 36 (0.89%) Firewall
4 17 (0.42%) DHCP
4 17 (0.42%) VPN
5 14 (0.34%) VLAN
6 12 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.25%) WAN
8 9 (0.22%) LAN
9 8 (0.20%) Network Security
10 5 (0.12%) DMZ
10 5 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.12%) SAN
10 5 (0.12%) STUN
10 5 (0.12%) VoIP
10 5 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.099%) Wireless
12 3 (0.074%) SSL
13 2 (0.049%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.025%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,146 (28.23%) Power BI
2 1,138 (28.03%) Tableau
3 18 (0.44%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (0.12%) Metadata
6 4 (0.099%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.099%) Data Vault
6 4 (0.099%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.074%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.074%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.049%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.049%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.025%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.025%) Big Data
9 1 (0.025%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.025%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.025%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 159 (3.92%) Git
2 5 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.074%) JIRA
4 2 (0.049%) GitLab
4 2 (0.049%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.049%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.025%) Gatling
5 1 (0.025%) JMeter
5 1 (0.025%) Vagrant
General
1 3,797 (93.52%) Social Skills
2 161 (3.97%) Multimedia
3 30 (0.74%) Law
4 26 (0.64%) Finance
5 20 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (0.22%) Public Sector
9 5 (0.12%) Legal
9 5 (0.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.074%) Retail
11 2 (0.049%) Military
11 2 (0.049%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.049%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.025%) Advertising
12 1 (0.025%) Games
12 1 (0.025%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.025%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2,274 (56.01%) Analyst
2 2,270 (55.91%) Junior
2 2,270 (55.91%) Junior Analyst
3 1,136 (27.98%) Data Analyst
4 1,135 (27.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1,135 (27.96%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1,135 (27.96%) Junior Security Analyst
4 1,135 (27.96%) Security Analyst
5 810 (19.95%) Ethical Hacker
6 327 (8.05%) Network Engineer
7 324 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 161 (3.97%) Trainee
9 79 (1.95%) Developer
10 66 (1.63%) Trainee Developer
11 61 (1.50%) Software Developer
12 55 (1.35%) Azure Engineer
12 55 (1.35%) Trainee Software Developer
13 48 (1.18%) Administrator
14 45 (1.11%) Trainee Administrator
14 45 (1.11%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (3.97%) CSS
1 161 (3.97%) HTML
2 14 (0.34%) .NET
3 11 (0.27%) React
3 11 (0.27%) Tailwind CSS
4 6 (0.15%) ARM Templates
5 5 (0.12%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.074%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.049%) PySpark
7 2 (0.049%) RESTful
7 2 (0.049%) Web Services
8 1 (0.025%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.025%) JSON
8 1 (0.025%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.025%) Memcached
8 1 (0.025%) OAuth
8 1 (0.025%) REST
8 1 (0.025%) SOAP
8 1 (0.025%) XML
8 1 (0.025%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 810 (19.95%) Cyberattack
2 19 (0.47%) Cloud Native
3 14 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (0.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (0.15%) PKI
6 5 (0.12%) PACS
7 4 (0.099%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.099%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.074%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.074%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.074%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.049%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.049%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.049%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.049%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.049%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.049%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.025%) Clustering
10 1 (0.025%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.025%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.01%) Windows
2 30 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 14 (0.34%) Linux
4 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.12%) Debian
5 5 (0.12%) VMS
6 2 (0.049%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,085 (51.35%) Cybersecurity
2 1,476 (36.35%) AI
3 1,283 (31.60%) Mentoring
4 1,146 (28.23%) Business Intelligence
5 810 (19.95%) Ethical Hacking
6 324 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 56 (1.38%) Web Development
8 45 (1.11%) Agile
9 41 (1.01%) High Availability
10 39 (0.96%) Containerisation
11 38 (0.94%) CI/CD
12 34 (0.84%) Computer Science
12 34 (0.84%) ITIL
12 34 (0.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (0.81%) DevOps
14 31 (0.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (0.76%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (0.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (0.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 25 (0.62%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1,660 (40.89%) Python
2 1,164 (28.67%) SQL
3 173 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 97 (2.39%) R
5 61 (1.50%) PowerShell
6 28 (0.69%) C#
7 14 (0.34%) Java
8 12 (0.30%) Bicep
8 12 (0.30%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.25%) Bash
10 2 (0.049%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.025%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.025%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.025%) PHP
11 1 (0.025%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,139 (28.05%) CompTIA Security+
2 1,136 (27.98%) CompTIA CySA+
3 811 (19.98%) CEH
4 333 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
5 332 (8.18%) Network+ Certification
6 328 (8.08%) CCNA
7 228 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 205 (5.05%) AWS Certification
9 164 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 41 (1.01%) Degree
11 25 (0.62%) Security Cleared
11 25 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.52%) SC Cleared
13 20 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.27%) CISSP
15 10 (0.25%) CISM
16 6 (0.15%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.12%) DBS Check
18 4 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (0.42%) GDPR
2 14 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.17%) NCSC
4 7 (0.17%) NIST
4 7 (0.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.12%) DICOM
6 3 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.074%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.049%) GxP
7 2 (0.049%) QA
8 1 (0.025%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.34%) Docker
4 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.20%) vSphere
6 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.025%) Firmware
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.025%) XenApp
8 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 27 (0.67%) Terraform
3 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.099%) Ansible
4 4 (0.099%) SCCM
4 4 (0.099%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (0.099%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.074%) Grafana
6 2 (0.049%) Argo
6 2 (0.049%) Nessus
6 2 (0.049%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.049%) WSUS
7 1 (0.025%) Consul
7 1 (0.025%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.025%) Packer
7 1 (0.025%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.025%) Puppet
7 1 (0.025%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3,661 (90.17%) Microsoft
2 2,269 (55.89%) ForeScout
3 336 (8.28%) Cisco
4 23 (0.57%) VMware
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle
6 7 (0.17%) Databricks
7 6 (0.15%) Google
8 5 (0.12%) Sage
8 5 (0.12%) SolarWinds
8 5 (0.12%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (0.12%) Veeam
9 4 (0.099%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.074%) Citrix
11 2 (0.049%) Civica
11 2 (0.049%) Juniper
11 2 (0.049%) Northgate
11 2 (0.049%) Orchard
11 2 (0.049%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.025%) Dataiku
12 1 (0.025%) LogicMonitor