Azure Certification Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 291 361
Rank change year-on-year +254 +70 -222
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 3,799 479 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.08% 1.08% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.87% 2.77% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 408 296 580
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,335 £34,850
25th Percentile £30,375 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -6.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,875 £84,919
90th Percentile £85,250 £95,000 £102,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £56,745 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.29% -1.31% -11.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18,207 17,317 27,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 38.88% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,546 7,332 17,241
10th Percentile £30,325 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 June 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
UK excluding London +283 3,498 £47,500 -16.29% 400
England +242 3,292 £57,500 -8.00% 397
North of England +209 1,004 £40,000 -36.00% 96
Midlands +154 707 £58,750 -11.32% 43
South East +188 646 £59,250 -5.95% 108
Yorkshire +134 568 £37,500 -34.78% 37
South West +113 434 £44,500 -13.17% 56
East Midlands +109 373 £60,000 +90.48% 17
West Midlands +108 333 £47,500 -32.14% 26
North West +142 294 £37,500 -47.91% 38
London +28 286 £70,000 +7.69% 104
East of England +123 261 £60,000 +20.00% 49
Scotland +121 253 £30,750 -68.13% 22
Work from Home +31 194 £62,500 - 73
Wales +39 180 £43,000 +12.88% 19
North East +39 142 £42,500 -10.53% 22
Northern Ireland - 62 £39,000 - 12

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 44 (1.16%) WordPress
2 27 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.13%) IIS
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.079%) Confluence
7 3 (0.079%) SAS
8 2 (0.053%) Apache
8 2 (0.053%) Camunda
9 1 (0.026%) Drupal
9 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 882 (23.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.053%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.026%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.026%) Magento
2 1 (0.026%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3,799 (100.00%) Azure
2 1,232 (32.43%) Azure AI
3 927 (24.40%) Power Platform
4 244 (6.42%) AWS
5 146 (3.84%) GitHub
6 96 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 79 (2.08%) IaaS
9 62 (1.63%) GCP
10 56 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (1.29%) Azure AKS
11 49 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 45 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
14 39 (1.03%) PaaS
15 38 (1.00%) SaaS
16 37 (0.97%) Serverless
17 29 (0.76%) Azure Storage
18 24 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (0.63%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (2.95%) Internet
2 102 (2.68%) Firewall
3 85 (2.24%) DNS
4 71 (1.87%) VPN
5 50 (1.32%) DHCP
6 41 (1.08%) Network Security
7 39 (1.03%) WAN
8 36 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (0.82%) VLAN
10 28 (0.74%) LAN
11 27 (0.71%) TCP/IP
12 25 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.55%) SAN
14 20 (0.53%) Wireless
15 8 (0.21%) BGP
15 8 (0.21%) VoIP
16 7 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
17 6 (0.16%) DMZ
18 5 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
18 5 (0.13%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 913 (24.03%) Power BI
2 889 (23.40%) Tableau
3 44 (1.16%) SQL Server
4 31 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 28 (0.74%) Metadata
6 22 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (0.29%) Delta Lake
9 10 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.18%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.16%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.16%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.079%) Big Data
14 3 (0.079%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.079%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.079%) Spark SQL
15 2 (0.053%) Looker
Development Applications
1 145 (3.82%) Git
2 13 (0.34%) Chocolatey
3 9 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (0.21%) MLflow
5 7 (0.18%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.16%) JIRA
7 5 (0.13%) GitLab
7 5 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.079%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.053%) MSI
11 1 (0.026%) Gatling
11 1 (0.026%) JMeter
11 1 (0.026%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.026%) Vagrant
General
1 3,427 (90.21%) Social Skills
2 112 (2.95%) Multimedia
3 99 (2.61%) Finance
4 75 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (1.13%) Law
6 35 (0.92%) Banking
7 32 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (0.45%) Financial Institution
8 17 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (0.42%) Legal
10 13 (0.34%) Public Sector
11 12 (0.32%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.18%) Advertising
14 7 (0.18%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.13%) Games
15 5 (0.13%) Retail
16 3 (0.079%) Marketing
17 2 (0.053%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,783 (46.93%) Analyst
2 1,764 (46.43%) Junior
3 1,762 (46.38%) Junior Analyst
4 885 (23.30%) Data Analyst
5 883 (23.24%) Security Analyst
6 881 (23.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 881 (23.19%) Junior Data Analyst
6 881 (23.19%) Junior Security Analyst
7 825 (21.72%) Ethical Hacker
8 348 (9.16%) Network Engineer
9 341 (8.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 112 (2.95%) Trainee
11 111 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
12 91 (2.40%) Architect
13 79 (2.08%) Senior
14 66 (1.74%) Cloud Engineer
15 62 (1.63%) Developer
16 53 (1.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 49 (1.29%) Administrator
18 43 (1.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (2.95%) CSS
1 112 (2.95%) HTML
2 24 (0.63%) .NET
3 18 (0.47%) PySpark
4 14 (0.37%) ARM Templates
5 12 (0.32%) Kafka
6 11 (0.29%) ADO
7 10 (0.26%) YAML
8 8 (0.21%) LangChain
8 8 (0.21%) React
8 8 (0.21%) REST
9 6 (0.16%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.16%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (0.16%) Pandas
10 5 (0.13%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (0.13%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (0.11%) JSON
11 4 (0.11%) RESTful
12 3 (0.079%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.079%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 825 (21.72%) Cyberattack
2 55 (1.45%) Cloud Native
3 27 (0.71%) Data Centre
4 26 (0.68%) Public Cloud
5 25 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (0.45%) PKI
7 16 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
7 16 (0.42%) Onboarding
8 14 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (0.37%) Management Information System
9 13 (0.34%) Security Posture
10 12 (0.32%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.24%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.18%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.16%) CMDB
13 6 (0.16%) Driving Licence
14 5 (0.13%) PACS
14 5 (0.13%) Replication
15 4 (0.11%) Clustering
15 4 (0.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.26%) Windows
2 75 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 48 (1.26%) Linux
4 15 (0.39%) VMS
5 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.13%) Debian
8 3 (0.079%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.079%) Unix
9 2 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.053%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.026%) CentOS
10 1 (0.026%) SUSE
10 1 (0.026%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.026%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.026%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,825 (48.04%) Cybersecurity
2 1,283 (33.77%) AI
3 1,023 (26.93%) Mentoring
4 922 (24.27%) Business Intelligence
5 825 (21.72%) Ethical Hacking
6 331 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 106 (2.79%) CI/CD
7 106 (2.79%) DevOps
7 106 (2.79%) ITIL
8 102 (2.68%) Agile
9 101 (2.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (2.66%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (2.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (2.03%) Analytics
12 75 (1.97%) High Availability
13 63 (1.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 62 (1.63%) Computer Science
14 62 (1.63%) Disaster Recovery
14 62 (1.63%) Migration
15 57 (1.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,434 (37.75%) Python
2 964 (25.38%) SQL
3 131 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 122 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 75 (1.97%) R
6 42 (1.11%) Bicep
6 42 (1.11%) C#
7 22 (0.58%) Bash
8 15 (0.39%) Java
9 10 (0.26%) Scala
10 8 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.21%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.079%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.079%) C++
11 3 (0.079%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.053%) PHP
12 2 (0.053%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.053%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.026%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.026%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 892 (23.48%) CompTIA Security+
2 889 (23.40%) CompTIA CySA+
3 829 (21.82%) CEH
4 393 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 366 (9.63%) CCNA
6 339 (8.92%) Network+ Certification
7 238 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 210 (5.53%) AWS Certification
9 117 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 108 (2.84%) Degree
11 48 (1.26%) Security Cleared
12 40 (1.05%) SC Cleared
13 38 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (0.84%) CCNP
15 26 (0.68%) CISSP
16 23 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
17 20 (0.53%) CISM
18 12 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 10 (0.26%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (1.03%) GDPR
2 38 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (0.71%) SLA
4 26 (0.68%) NIST
5 24 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.26%) NCSC
7 10 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.13%) DICOM
10 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.11%) QA
11 3 (0.079%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.053%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.053%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.026%) COBIT
13 1 (0.026%) GRC
13 1 (0.026%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.026%) NIST 800
System Software
1 119 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 57 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (1.24%) Docker
4 21 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.45%) vSphere
6 12 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.026%) KVM
10 1 (0.026%) XenApp
10 1 (0.026%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 101 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 95 (2.50%) Terraform
3 54 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.87%) Ansible
5 18 (0.47%) SCCM
6 12 (0.32%) Grafana
7 10 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.24%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (0.24%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.21%) Argo
10 7 (0.18%) Packer
10 7 (0.18%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.13%) Control-M
13 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.11%) SolarWinds Orion
14 2 (0.053%) QRadar
15 1 (0.026%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.026%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3,275 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 2,036 (53.59%) ForeScout
3 387 (10.19%) Cisco
4 73 (1.92%) VMware
5 43 (1.13%) Databricks
6 25 (0.66%) SolarWinds
7 23 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 20 (0.53%) Palo Alto
8 20 (0.53%) Veeam
9 19 (0.50%) Google
10 15 (0.39%) Meraki
11 13 (0.34%) AppDynamics
11 13 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 13 (0.34%) Fortinet
11 13 (0.34%) Tenable
12 11 (0.29%) Foundry
12 11 (0.29%) Splunk
13 10 (0.26%) Oracle
14 9 (0.24%) CheckPoint
14 9 (0.24%) ServiceNow