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 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 243 283
Rank change year-on-year +136 +40 -120
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 1,223 661 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.03% 1.23% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.36% 3.37% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 545 319 461
10th Percentile - £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,625 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -46.96% -4.17% -14.29%

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 19,231 19,593 16,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.90% 36.56% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,799 7,678 10,906
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,908 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.19% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.57% +2.26%

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 January 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 January 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
England +122 1,075 £31,500 -51.54% 377
UK excluding London +117 969 £30,500 -46.96% 358
North of England +141 344 £30,500 -37.44% 86
London +107 224 £60,000 -14.29% 96
Yorkshire +73 179 £30,500 -35.79% 30
Work from Home +43 174 £75,000 +15.38% 84
Midlands +104 173 £30,500 -46.96% 51
South East +47 157 £45,000 -30.77% 93
North West +95 116 £30,500 -44.55% 40
South West -21 106 £30,500 -60.65% 39
West Midlands +68 103 £30,500 -49.17% 22
Scotland +63 76 £30,500 -6.15% 22
East of England +56 75 £34,000 +23.64% 48
East Midlands +39 69 £38,945 -13.46% 29
North East - 49 £30,500 - 17
Wales +35 37 £30,500 -41.35% 19
Northern Ireland -1 11 £62,500 +4.17% 6

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 29 (2.37%) WordPress
2 22 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.65%) Confluence
5 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.33%) IIS
6 4 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 277 (22.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.082%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (100.00%) Azure
2 456 (37.29%) AWS
3 318 (26.00%) Power Platform
4 312 (25.51%) GitHub
5 282 (23.06%) Azure AI
6 96 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (6.13%) GCP
9 60 (4.91%) Entra ID
10 48 (3.92%) Serverless
11 33 (2.70%) IaaS
12 32 (2.62%) PaaS
13 27 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.72%) Azure AKS
15 16 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (1.31%) SaaS
16 15 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 279 (22.81%) Internet
2 62 (5.07%) Firewall
3 55 (4.50%) VPN
4 50 (4.09%) DNS
5 35 (2.86%) DHCP
6 28 (2.29%) WAN
7 26 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.96%) VLAN
8 24 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.64%) SAN
10 19 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.31%) LAN
12 13 (1.06%) Network Security
12 13 (1.06%) VoIP
13 7 (0.57%) HTTP
14 6 (0.49%) BGP
14 6 (0.49%) OSPF
14 6 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.41%) IPsec
15 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (25.10%) Power BI
2 285 (23.30%) Tableau
3 41 (3.35%) Data Lake
4 33 (2.70%) Metadata
5 24 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.49%) MySQL
8 6 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.41%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.41%) QlikView
10 4 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.33%) DataStage
11 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.16%) Big Data
12 2 (0.16%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 290 (23.71%) Git
2 18 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.98%) JIRA
4 7 (0.57%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.49%) GitLab
5 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.41%) MLflow
6 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.33%) ERwin
7 4 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.33%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.33%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.082%) Gatling
10 1 (0.082%) git-flow
10 1 (0.082%) Moq
10 1 (0.082%) MSTest
General
1 707 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 278 (22.73%) Multimedia
3 110 (8.99%) Finance
4 64 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.84%) Banking
6 46 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.27%) Financial Institution
8 34 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.45%) Retail Banking
10 27 (2.21%) Retail
11 14 (1.14%) Law
11 14 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.98%) Back Office
13 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.74%) Legal
13 9 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.25%) Marketing
16 3 (0.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 555 (45.38%) Analyst
2 551 (45.05%) Junior
3 550 (44.97%) Junior Analyst
4 278 (22.73%) Trainee
5 275 (22.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 275 (22.49%) Data Analyst
5 275 (22.49%) Junior Data Analyst
5 275 (22.49%) Junior Security Analyst
5 275 (22.49%) Security Analyst
6 147 (12.02%) Developer
7 134 (10.96%) Trainee Developer
8 126 (10.30%) Software Developer
9 125 (10.22%) Trainee Software Developer
10 112 (9.16%) Architect
11 61 (4.99%) Senior
12 56 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
13 43 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (2.78%) Data Architect
15 33 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (2.62%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (22.81%) CSS
1 279 (22.81%) HTML
2 17 (1.39%) .NET
3 10 (0.82%) React
4 9 (0.74%) Tailwind CSS
5 8 (0.65%) ARM Templates
6 7 (0.57%) PySpark
7 6 (0.49%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.49%) REST
8 5 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (0.41%) Kafka
8 5 (0.41%) LangChain
8 5 (0.41%) RESTful
9 4 (0.33%) LDAP
9 4 (0.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.25%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.25%) OpenID
10 3 (0.25%) SAML
10 3 (0.25%) XML
10 3 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 29 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 9 (0.74%) PKI
9 8 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.49%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.49%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.41%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.41%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.41%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.33%) Cyberattack
13 4 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.33%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 113 (9.24%) Windows
2 47 (3.84%) Linux
2 47 (3.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.06%) Windows 10
4 11 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.57%) VMS
6 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Android
8 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.25%) Unix
10 2 (0.16%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (49.22%) Mentoring
2 563 (46.03%) Cybersecurity
3 319 (26.08%) AI
4 307 (25.10%) Business Intelligence
5 131 (10.71%) DevOps
6 103 (8.42%) Migration
7 102 (8.34%) CI/CD
8 94 (7.69%) ITIL
9 89 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (6.13%) Agile
12 71 (5.81%) Computer Science
12 71 (5.81%) TOGAF
13 68 (5.56%) Data Modelling
14 60 (4.91%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (4.42%) Roadmaps
16 52 (4.25%) Disaster Recovery
17 51 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 50 (4.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 636 (52.00%) Python
2 324 (26.49%) SQL
3 310 (25.35%) JavaScript
4 145 (11.86%) R
5 91 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 55 (4.50%) C#
7 41 (3.35%) Java
8 39 (3.19%) Bicep
9 26 (2.13%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.39%) Bash
11 8 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.65%) Scala
12 4 (0.33%) C++
12 4 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (0.33%) Groovy
13 3 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.082%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.082%) Go
14 1 (0.082%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 429 (35.08%) AWS Certification
2 383 (31.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 283 (23.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 278 (22.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 276 (22.57%) CompTIA CySA+
6 108 (8.83%) Degree
7 61 (4.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 57 (4.66%) Security Cleared
9 56 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 50 (4.09%) SC Cleared
11 32 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.88%) CISSP
12 23 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.31%) CCNP
14 15 (1.23%) DV Cleared
15 13 (1.06%) CISM
16 12 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 8 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (2.29%) NIST
3 25 (2.04%) GDPR
4 12 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.74%) SLA
6 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.65%) QA
7 7 (0.57%) NCSC
8 6 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) GxP
10 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.082%) DICOM
11 1 (0.082%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.082%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
System Software
1 74 (6.05%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.60%) Docker
3 32 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.41%) KVM
6 5 (0.41%) vSphere
7 4 (0.33%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.33%) Firmware
7 4 (0.33%) Postfix
7 4 (0.33%) Squid
8 3 (0.25%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.082%) HDFS
10 1 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 79 (6.46%) Terraform
2 66 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 48 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.88%) Ansible
5 18 (1.47%) Grafana
6 10 (0.82%) SCCM
7 6 (0.49%) Nessus
7 6 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.49%) SCOM
8 4 (0.33%) logstash
8 4 (0.33%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.25%) Autotask
9 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.16%) WSUS
11 1 (0.082%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.082%) Argo
11 1 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,089 (89.04%) Microsoft
2 275 (22.49%) ForeScout
3 56 (4.58%) VMware
4 28 (2.29%) Cisco
5 24 (1.96%) Databricks
6 20 (1.64%) Google
7 16 (1.31%) SolarWinds
8 12 (0.98%) Palo Alto
9 8 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 8 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.65%) Fortinet
10 7 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.57%) Tenable
10 7 (0.57%) Veeam
11 6 (0.49%) Informatica
11 6 (0.49%) Meraki
11 6 (0.49%) SAP
11 6 (0.49%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.41%) Dell
12 5 (0.41%) Juniper