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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 255 319
Rank change year-on-year -57 +64 +96
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 482 650 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.35% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.86% 3.56% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 289 279 353
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,680 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,798 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £61,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +11.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,875 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £84,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +16.67%

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 16,873 18,275 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.85% 37.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,460 7,807 11,272
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,109
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -63 155 £55,000 -8.33% 16
South East +29 129 £65,000 -2.99% 18
Midlands -30 105 £62,500 +13.64% 22
North West -86 69 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Yorkshire +10 64 £55,000 -0.90% 8
West Midlands -43 58 £70,000 +16.67% 17
East Midlands +6 47 £45,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland -55 29 £68,750 -8.33% 2
South West -33 23 £52,500 -22.22% 9
North East +7 22 £39,000 -35.00% 2
East of England -15 22 £42,500 -26.09% 10
Wales +23 10 £40,000 -14.44%
Northern Ireland +23 9 - - 8
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 40 (8.30%) WebLogic
2 37 (7.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (6.64%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.90%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) IIS
6 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (8.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 482 (100.00%) Azure
2 178 (36.93%) AWS
3 125 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (10.58%) Entra ID
6 49 (10.17%) Cloud Computing
7 40 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (8.30%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (8.09%) Azure AI
8 39 (8.09%) IBM Cloud
8 39 (8.09%) PaaS
9 35 (7.26%) IaaS
10 32 (6.64%) Power Platform
11 29 (6.02%) GCP
12 24 (4.98%) SaaS
13 20 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (2.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (18.46%) DNS
2 71 (14.73%) Firewall
3 53 (11.00%) TCP/IP
4 46 (9.54%) SSL
5 40 (8.30%) BGP
5 40 (8.30%) WAN
6 35 (7.26%) VPN
7 27 (5.60%) SD-WAN
8 26 (5.39%) DHCP
9 24 (4.98%) Network Security
10 20 (4.15%) SAN
11 16 (3.32%) VLAN
12 11 (2.28%) Remote Desktop
12 11 (2.28%) Wireless
13 10 (2.07%) LAN
14 8 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.45%) Internet
15 7 (1.45%) NAS
16 6 (1.24%) NetScaler
17 5 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (12.03%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (11.00%) Data Lake
3 51 (10.58%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (9.54%) Relational Database
5 43 (8.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 42 (8.71%) Oracle Database
7 41 (8.51%) RDBMS
8 25 (5.19%) SQL Server
9 20 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (3.73%) Power BI
11 8 (1.66%) Big Data
12 7 (1.45%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.04%) Redis
14 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.62%) Metadata
17 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 29 (6.02%) JIRA
2 13 (2.70%) Git
3 12 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.07%) SonarQube
4 10 (2.07%) Terragrunt
5 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.21%) GitLab
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (14.73%) Finance
3 58 (12.03%) Presentation Skills
4 45 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.70%) Legal
6 13 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.28%) Law
8 9 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.45%) Marketing
10 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.83%) Automotive
11 4 (0.83%) Aviation
11 4 (0.83%) Avionics
11 4 (0.83%) Banking
11 4 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.83%) Retail
12 3 (0.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 127 (26.35%) Architect
2 85 (17.63%) Lead
3 80 (16.60%) Senior
4 60 (12.45%) Lead Architect
5 57 (11.83%) Consultant
5 57 (11.83%) Solutions Architect
6 47 (9.75%) Senior Consultant
7 41 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (8.30%) Data Consultant
8 40 (8.30%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 40 (8.30%) Senior Technology Consultant
8 40 (8.30%) Technology Consultant
9 37 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (6.02%) IT Manager
12 25 (5.19%) Security Architect
13 24 (4.98%) IT Engineer
13 24 (4.98%) Support Engineer
14 22 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (4.15%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.30%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (8.30%) Spring Boot
2 18 (3.73%) .NET
3 17 (3.53%) ARM Templates
4 15 (3.11%) Middleware
4 15 (3.11%) OAuth
4 15 (3.11%) OpenID
4 15 (3.11%) REST
4 15 (3.11%) SAML
5 10 (2.07%) Node.js
6 8 (1.66%) CSS
6 8 (1.66%) HTML
7 7 (1.45%) Loki
7 7 (1.45%) Web Services
8 6 (1.24%) React
9 5 (1.04%) YAML
10 3 (0.62%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.62%) ADO
10 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.24%) Public Cloud
2 51 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (8.92%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (8.51%) Management Information System
6 39 (8.09%) Blockchain
7 34 (7.05%) Cloud Native
8 27 (5.60%) Data Centre
9 23 (4.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 20 (4.15%) Driving Licence
11 15 (3.11%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 8 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (1.45%) iPhone
15 6 (1.24%) Replication
16 5 (1.04%) Housing Association
16 5 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 5 (1.04%) Operational Technology
16 5 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 120 (24.90%) Linux
2 88 (18.26%) Windows
3 41 (8.51%) CentOS
4 40 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (8.09%) Alpine Linux
5 39 (8.09%) Debian
6 35 (7.26%) Windows Server
7 24 (4.98%) VMS
8 18 (3.73%) Windows 10
9 13 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (2.49%) Unix
11 10 (2.07%) Ubuntu
12 9 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (1.66%) Solaris
14 5 (1.04%) Kali Linux
14 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.83%) Android
15 4 (0.83%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (28.22%) DevOps
2 120 (24.90%) Agile
3 110 (22.82%) CI/CD
4 96 (19.92%) ITIL
5 94 (19.50%) Scrum
6 90 (18.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 80 (16.60%) Roadmaps
8 75 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
10 69 (14.32%) Kanban
10 69 (14.32%) Project Management
11 62 (12.86%) Actionable Insight
11 62 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 60 (12.45%) Information Security
13 58 (12.03%) Open Source
14 57 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (11.41%) Migration
16 55 (11.41%) Presales
17 54 (11.20%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.37%) PowerShell
2 49 (10.17%) SQL
3 33 (6.85%) Python
4 28 (5.81%) C#
5 25 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.73%) Java
7 15 (3.11%) Bicep
8 9 (1.87%) PHP
9 8 (1.66%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.62%) Bash
10 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.41%) C
11 2 (0.41%) C++
11 2 (0.41%) C-shell
11 2 (0.41%) Fortran
12 1 (0.21%) Dart
12 1 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 147 (30.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 139 (28.84%) AWS Certification
3 102 (21.16%) Degree
4 82 (17.01%) Security Cleared
5 81 (16.80%) SC Cleared
6 63 (13.07%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (10.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (9.34%) MCSE
9 43 (8.92%) MCSA
10 40 (8.30%) CISSP
10 40 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (7.68%) CCNA
12 23 (4.77%) CCNP
13 22 (4.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (4.56%) CCSP
14 21 (4.36%) CISM
15 20 (4.15%) CCSK
16 18 (3.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (5.39%) NIST
3 24 (4.98%) SLA
4 16 (3.32%) GDPR
5 11 (2.28%) ISO 9001
5 11 (2.28%) QA
6 9 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.24%) NCSC
8 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.83%) PMO
10 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (20.12%) Active Directory
2 73 (15.15%) Docker
3 45 (9.34%) Hyper-V
4 36 (7.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.73%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.45%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.24%) vSphere
9 5 (1.04%) XenApp
10 4 (0.83%) pfSense
11 3 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.21%) Firmware
13 1 (0.21%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 107 (22.20%) Kubernetes
1 107 (22.20%) Terraform
2 46 (9.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (3.32%) Ansible
5 12 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.66%) SCCM
7 7 (1.45%) SCOM
8 5 (1.04%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.04%) Grafana
8 5 (1.04%) Suricata
9 4 (0.83%) SmoothWall
10 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.62%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.62%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 243 (50.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (12.86%) Cisco
3 48 (9.96%) VMware
4 47 (9.75%) Oracle
5 42 (8.71%) IBM
6 40 (8.30%) Sparx
7 39 (8.09%) Red Hat
8 29 (6.02%) Fortinet
9 19 (3.94%) Veeam
10 18 (3.73%) Citrix
11 16 (3.32%) Databricks
12 14 (2.90%) Juniper
13 12 (2.49%) ServiceNow
14 10 (2.07%) Black Duck
14 10 (2.07%) Dell
14 10 (2.07%) SolarWinds
15 9 (1.87%) Apple
16 6 (1.24%) HP
16 6 (1.24%) Palo Alto
16 6 (1.24%) Splunk