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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 337 132
Rank change year-on-year -24 -205 +292
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 232 546 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.77% 2.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% 2.81% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 174 350 343
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,123 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year -7.69% -6.77% +1.31%

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 21,217 19,460 21,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.42% 27.47% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,872 12,205 8,200
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,118 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,563
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.34% +8.30%

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 14 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 14 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 +17 67 £70,000 +7.69% 91
North of England -67 59 £62,500 +13.64% 48
Midlands +11 43 £51,750 -17.20% 36
North West -36 42 £71,991 +17.62% 25
South West +113 28 £55,000 -4.35% 13
West Midlands +29 28 £65,000 -3.70% 28
East of England +38 18 £28,125 -30.98% 16
Yorkshire +23 17 £52,500 - 15
East Midlands +8 15 £31,500 -42.73% 8
Wales +42 9 £38,094 - 2
Scotland +87 6 £75,500 +16.15% 15
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -
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 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.16%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) IIS
4 3 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 232 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (31.90%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (31.47%) AWS
4 56 (24.14%) Entra ID
5 54 (23.28%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (19.40%) IaaS
7 43 (18.53%) Power Platform
8 42 (18.10%) PaaS
9 35 (15.09%) SaaS
10 27 (11.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (9.48%) GCP
14 20 (8.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 19 (8.19%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (7.33%) Power Automate
17 16 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (6.03%) Azure AI
18 14 (6.03%) GitHub
19 12 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 47 (20.26%) DNS
2 46 (19.83%) Firewall
3 30 (12.93%) VPN
4 25 (10.78%) WAN
5 22 (9.48%) DHCP
5 22 (9.48%) SD-WAN
6 16 (6.90%) Network Security
7 12 (5.17%) SAN
8 9 (3.88%) NAS
8 9 (3.88%) VLAN
9 7 (3.02%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.59%) LAN
11 5 (2.16%) VSAN
12 4 (1.72%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.72%) Wireshark
13 3 (1.29%) DMZ
14 2 (0.86%) FTP
14 2 (0.86%) HTTP
14 2 (0.86%) SMTP
14 2 (0.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.66%) Power BI
2 24 (10.34%) Data Lake
3 22 (9.48%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.33%) MySQL
5 15 (6.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 6 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.16%) Big Data
11 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.29%) Metadata
14 2 (0.86%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.86%) Tableau
15 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (9.48%) Git
2 10 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.02%) JIRA
4 5 (2.16%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.86%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.43%) ERwin
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 98 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.95%) Finance
3 21 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.74%) Retail
5 8 (3.45%) Automotive
5 8 (3.45%) Law
5 8 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.45%) Welsh Language
6 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.59%) Legal
7 5 (2.16%) Banking
8 4 (1.72%) Advertising
8 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (21.98%) Senior
2 40 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (15.95%) Architect
4 36 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (9.91%) Data Engineer
7 21 (9.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (8.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (7.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
10 16 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) Analyst
13 11 (4.74%) Lead
13 11 (4.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.45%) Server Engineer
15 8 (3.45%) Support Specialist
16 7 (3.02%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.62%) .NET
2 18 (7.76%) ARM Templates
3 7 (3.02%) Middleware
4 4 (1.72%) HTML
4 4 (1.72%) Kafka
4 4 (1.72%) XML
5 3 (1.29%) CSS
5 3 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.29%) Node.js
5 3 (1.29%) RESTful
5 3 (1.29%) SAML
6 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.86%) PySpark
6 2 (0.86%) React
6 2 (0.86%) REST
6 2 (0.86%) Vue
7 1 (0.43%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.43%) Akka
7 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.43%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.76%) Data Centre
1 18 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (6.03%) NHS
3 12 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.45%) IoT
5 8 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.29%) PKI
9 3 (1.29%) Replication
10 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.29%) Windows
2 37 (15.95%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.48%) Linux
4 7 (3.02%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.59%) VMS
5 6 (2.59%) Windows 7
6 5 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.29%) CentOS
8 3 (1.29%) Unix
8 3 (1.29%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.86%) Android
9 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.93%) DevOps
2 82 (35.34%) Agile
3 76 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 65 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (27.16%) ITIL
6 52 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (21.55%) Migration
8 46 (19.83%) Analytics
8 46 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 42 (18.10%) Roadmaps
10 39 (16.81%) Mentoring
10 39 (16.81%) Service Management
11 36 (15.52%) Containerisation
12 33 (14.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (12.50%) TOGAF
14 27 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (11.64%) Project Management
15 26 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (11.21%) Cloud Security
16 25 (10.78%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 83 (35.78%) PowerShell
2 72 (31.03%) SQL
3 58 (25.00%) Python
4 30 (12.93%) C#
5 25 (10.78%) Bicep
6 8 (3.45%) Bash
6 8 (3.45%) Java
7 7 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (3.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.86%) Groovy
9 2 (0.86%) Perl
9 2 (0.86%) R
9 2 (0.86%) Scala
9 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 84 (36.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (19.83%) Degree
3 43 (18.53%) AWS Certification
4 25 (10.78%) DBS Check
5 20 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (6.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 13 (5.60%) CCNA
8 13 (5.60%) MCSA
8 13 (5.60%) Security Cleared
9 11 (4.74%) A+ Certification
10 10 (4.31%) MCSE
11 9 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (3.45%) SC Cleared
12 8 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (2.59%) MCP
14 5 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.72%) CCNP
15 4 (1.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.93%) GDPR
2 14 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.60%) HIPAA
4 12 (5.17%) SLA
5 11 (4.74%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.88%) NIST
6 9 (3.88%) QA
7 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.86%) NCSC
9 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (25.86%) Active Directory
2 37 (15.95%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (14.22%) Docker
4 25 (10.78%) Hyper-V
5 21 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (7.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.16%) vSphere
9 3 (1.29%) Dovecot
9 3 (1.29%) Postfix
10 2 (0.86%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.43%) KVM
11 1 (0.43%) XenApp
11 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (20.69%) Terraform
2 35 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (7.76%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (6.03%) Ansible
6 8 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.16%) SCCM
8 4 (1.72%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.29%) Grafana
9 3 (1.29%) Iperf
9 3 (1.29%) Puppet
10 2 (0.86%) Autotask
10 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.43%) Nessus
11 1 (0.43%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 150 (64.66%) Microsoft
2 44 (18.97%) Databricks
3 40 (17.24%) VMware
4 21 (9.05%) Google
5 14 (6.03%) Meraki
6 9 (3.88%) Citrix
6 9 (3.88%) Oracle
7 7 (3.02%) Veeam
8 6 (2.59%) Apple
9 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.72%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.29%) Okta
11 3 (1.29%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.29%) Ruckus Wireless
11 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.86%) Freshdesk
12 2 (0.86%) SAP
13 1 (0.43%) IBM