Azure Certification Jobs

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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 336 140
Rank change year-on-year +10 -196 +312
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 434 835 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.86% 2.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.76% 3.09% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 301 601 678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +1.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,919 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +18.18%

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 24,664 27,041 34,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.29% 27.85% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,996 17,182 15,447
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.59% +5.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,125 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Top 16 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 21 April 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
England -6 403 £62,205 -4.30% 372
UK excluding London +6 219 £57,500 - 268
London +37 199 £65,000 -17.72% 156
Work from Home -16 143 £66,763 -1.09% 252
South East +38 70 £70,000 +7.69% 75
North of England -37 51 £62,353 +13.37% 50
Midlands +18 36 £57,500 -9.80% 45
North West -22 35 £71,991 +17.62% 30
South West +127 26 £55,000 -4.35% 33
West Midlands +13 24 £60,000 -7.69% 27
East of England +52 17 £28,125 -29.69% 31
Yorkshire +29 16 £49,000 -6.67% 16
East Midlands +38 12 £31,500 -49.60% 16
Wales +55 9 £38,094 - 7
Scotland +104 8 £43,500 -33.08% 13
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 45 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 38 (8.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.92%) Apache
5 3 (0.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 434 (100.00%) Azure
2 136 (31.34%) AWS
3 117 (26.96%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (16.82%) GCP
5 65 (14.98%) Entra ID
6 63 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (13.82%) Power Platform
8 52 (11.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 45 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (9.68%) PaaS
11 41 (9.45%) SaaS
12 35 (8.06%) IaaS
13 23 (5.30%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (4.61%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 18 (4.15%) OneDrive
17 17 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
17 17 (3.92%) GitHub
18 15 (3.46%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.52%) DNS
2 47 (10.83%) Firewall
3 37 (8.53%) DHCP
4 36 (8.29%) VPN
5 32 (7.37%) WAN
6 27 (6.22%) LAN
7 23 (5.30%) TCP/IP
8 22 (5.07%) Network Security
9 12 (2.76%) VLAN
10 10 (2.30%) SD-WAN
11 9 (2.07%) NAS
11 9 (2.07%) SAN
12 8 (1.84%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.15%) VSAN
13 5 (1.15%) Wireless
13 5 (1.15%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.69%) DMZ
14 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.46%) Internet
15 2 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.44%) Data Lake
2 40 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (8.99%) Power BI
3 39 (8.99%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.22%) Metadata
5 25 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.53%) Big Data
8 10 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.84%) Power Query
10 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.61%) Tableau
11 6 (1.38%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.92%) JIRA
2 16 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.76%) Git
4 6 (1.38%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.92%) JMeter
6 4 (0.92%) WiX
7 3 (0.69%) JUnit
7 3 (0.69%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.69%) Selenium
7 3 (0.69%) TestRail
8 2 (0.46%) GitLab
8 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.23%) ESLint
9 1 (0.23%) Gatling
9 1 (0.23%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 219 (50.46%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.19%) Finance
3 68 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.29%) Banking
5 33 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (7.37%) Law
7 26 (5.99%) Financial Institution
8 23 (5.30%) Retail Banking
9 20 (4.61%) Retail
10 19 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.84%) Welsh Language
13 7 (1.61%) Humanities
13 7 (1.61%) Legal
14 6 (1.38%) Automotive
15 4 (0.92%) Advertising
15 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.92%) Marketing
16 3 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (18.20%) Senior
2 78 (17.97%) Architect
3 63 (14.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (11.75%) Azure Engineer
6 38 (8.76%) Data Engineer
7 37 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (7.83%) Data Architect
9 26 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
10 24 (5.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (5.07%) Analyst
12 20 (4.61%) Lead
13 19 (4.38%) Developer
14 16 (3.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 14 (3.23%) Support Engineer
16 13 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
17 11 (2.53%) Consultant
17 11 (2.53%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.91%) .NET
2 23 (5.30%) ARM Templates
3 9 (2.07%) Middleware
3 9 (2.07%) PySpark
4 8 (1.84%) Kafka
4 8 (1.84%) REST
5 7 (1.61%) JSON
6 6 (1.38%) .NET Framework
6 6 (1.38%) HTML
6 6 (1.38%) Node.js
7 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.15%) Blazor
7 5 (1.15%) CSS
8 4 (0.92%) COM
8 4 (0.92%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.92%) LDAP
8 4 (0.92%) RESTful
8 4 (0.92%) SOAP
8 4 (0.92%) YAML
9 3 (0.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.07%) IoT
10 8 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.15%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.92%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 112 (25.81%) Windows
2 77 (17.74%) Windows Server
3 25 (5.76%) Linux
4 15 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (2.30%) Mac OS
6 10 (2.30%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.15%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.92%) VMS
11 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.69%) CentOS
12 3 (0.69%) Unix
13 2 (0.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (33.18%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (29.95%) Agile
3 129 (29.72%) DevOps
4 116 (26.73%) CI/CD
5 95 (21.89%) ITIL
6 79 (18.20%) Migration
7 72 (16.59%) Computer Science
8 71 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (15.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 65 (14.98%) Analytics
11 60 (13.82%) Mentoring
12 57 (13.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 55 (12.67%) Data Modelling
14 54 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (11.75%) Containerisation
16 50 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
17 48 (11.06%) Roadmaps
18 45 (10.37%) Data Management
19 44 (10.14%) Cost Management
20 43 (9.91%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 118 (27.19%) PowerShell
2 98 (22.58%) SQL
3 88 (20.28%) Python
4 44 (10.14%) C#
5 15 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (3.00%) Bash
7 12 (2.76%) Bicep
8 10 (2.30%) Java
8 10 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.30%) Scala
9 4 (0.92%) C++
10 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.69%) R
10 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.23%) Delphi
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (36.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 102 (23.50%) Degree
3 98 (22.58%) AWS Certification
4 62 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (6.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.30%) Security Cleared
8 22 (5.07%) CCNA
9 19 (4.38%) MCSE
9 19 (4.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (3.92%) MCSA
11 15 (3.46%) SC Cleared
12 14 (3.23%) CISSP
12 14 (3.23%) Master's Degree
13 12 (2.76%) A+ Certification
13 12 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (2.53%) DBS Check
15 9 (2.07%) CCNP
15 9 (2.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.29%) GDPR
2 27 (6.22%) SLA
3 26 (5.99%) Data Quality
4 25 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (5.30%) HIPAA
6 19 (4.38%) NIST
7 15 (3.46%) SOC 2
8 13 (3.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 12 (2.76%) QA
10 6 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.46%) NCSC
13 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.23%) COBIT
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 101 (23.27%) Active Directory
2 49 (11.29%) Docker
3 36 (8.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (7.60%) Hyper-V
4 33 (7.60%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (4.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.61%) vSphere
7 5 (1.15%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.69%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.69%) Postfix
9 1 (0.23%) KVM
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
9 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 73 (16.82%) Terraform
2 55 (12.67%) Kubernetes
3 43 (9.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (6.22%) Ansible
5 13 (3.00%) SCCM
6 9 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.84%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.84%) SCOM
8 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.69%) Grafana
9 3 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.69%) Iperf
9 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.46%) Autotask
10 2 (0.46%) Nagios
11 1 (0.23%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 299 (68.89%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.90%) VMware
3 51 (11.75%) Databricks
3 51 (11.75%) Google
4 26 (5.99%) Cisco
5 21 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.92%) SAP
7 14 (3.23%) Citrix
8 12 (2.76%) Oracle
8 12 (2.76%) Veeam
9 11 (2.53%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.53%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.53%) Workday
10 9 (2.07%) Apple
10 9 (2.07%) Meraki
11 8 (1.84%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.15%) SonicWALL
13 4 (0.92%) Acronis
13 4 (0.92%) Splunk