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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 248 274
Rank change year-on-year +136 +26 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 1,218 667 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.06% 1.20% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.28% 3.40% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 543 325 464
10th Percentile - £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £62,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.80% -6.72% -7.59%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £89,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,500 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year -46.03% -5.82% -15.79%

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 19,404 19,646 15,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.80% 35.42% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,814 7,873 10,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +5.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 +130 1,072 £33,750 -46.00% 807
UK excluding London +127 963 £30,500 -46.03% 776
North of England +137 337 £30,500 -35.79% 173
London +103 225 £62,500 -10.71% 156
Yorkshire +81 177 £30,500 -35.79% 76
Work from Home +53 177 £75,000 +20.00% 378
Midlands +101 174 £32,500 -43.48% 149
South East +53 159 £42,500 -34.62% 198
North West +94 113 £30,500 -44.55% 79
South West -15 108 £31,000 -60.00% 70
West Midlands +75 106 £31,500 -45.22% 82
East of England +50 75 £34,000 +23.64% 107
Scotland +64 74 £30,500 -6.15% 51
East Midlands +40 67 £32,500 -23.53% 58
North East - 47 £30,500 - 21
Wales +37 39 £56,631 +8.91% 24
Northern Ireland +7 11 £62,500 +4.17% 13

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 (2.38%) WordPress
2 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.74%) Confluence
5 6 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.33%) IIS
6 4 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 277 (22.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.16%) Weka
6 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.082%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,218 (100.00%) Azure
2 454 (37.27%) AWS
3 318 (26.11%) Power Platform
4 294 (24.14%) GitHub
5 278 (22.82%) Azure AI
6 92 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (6.24%) GCP
9 61 (5.01%) Entra ID
10 52 (4.27%) Serverless
11 33 (2.71%) IaaS
12 32 (2.63%) PaaS
13 27 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
13 27 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.72%) Azure AKS
15 20 (1.64%) SaaS
16 18 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 266 (21.84%) Internet
2 68 (5.58%) Firewall
3 57 (4.68%) VPN
4 55 (4.52%) DNS
5 39 (3.20%) DHCP
6 31 (2.55%) WAN
7 30 (2.46%) TCP/IP
8 27 (2.22%) VLAN
9 24 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.64%) SD-WAN
11 19 (1.56%) LAN
11 19 (1.56%) VoIP
12 18 (1.48%) SAN
13 13 (1.07%) Network Security
14 8 (0.66%) HTTP
14 8 (0.66%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.57%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.49%) BGP
16 6 (0.49%) OSPF
17 5 (0.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (25.12%) Power BI
2 285 (23.40%) Tableau
3 40 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 32 (2.63%) Metadata
5 24 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.66%) MySQL
9 7 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.41%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.41%) QlikView
11 4 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.33%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.33%) DataStage
12 3 (0.25%) Big Data
12 3 (0.25%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.16%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 274 (22.50%) Git
2 19 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.07%) JIRA
4 6 (0.49%) Chocolatey
4 6 (0.49%) GitLab
5 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.41%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.33%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.33%) ERwin
6 4 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Moq
8 2 (0.16%) MSTest
8 2 (0.16%) NSubstitute
8 2 (0.16%) NUnit
8 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 709 (58.21%) Social Skills
2 262 (21.51%) Multimedia
3 110 (9.03%) Finance
4 64 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.78%) Banking
6 45 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (3.20%) Financial Institution
7 39 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 30 (2.46%) Retail
8 30 (2.46%) Retail Banking
9 15 (1.23%) Law
9 15 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 12 (0.99%) Back Office
12 8 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.66%) Legal
12 8 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.25%) Marketing
14 3 (0.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 557 (45.73%) Analyst
2 551 (45.24%) Junior
3 550 (45.16%) Junior Analyst
4 277 (22.74%) Data Analyst
5 275 (22.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 275 (22.58%) Junior Data Analyst
5 275 (22.58%) Junior Security Analyst
5 275 (22.58%) Security Analyst
6 262 (21.51%) Trainee
7 137 (11.25%) Developer
8 125 (10.26%) Trainee Developer
9 118 (9.69%) Architect
10 117 (9.61%) Software Developer
11 116 (9.52%) Trainee Software Developer
12 68 (5.58%) Senior
13 54 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
14 41 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (2.87%) Data Architect
16 33 (2.71%) Administrator
17 31 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (21.59%) CSS
1 263 (21.59%) HTML
2 14 (1.15%) .NET
3 10 (0.82%) React
4 9 (0.74%) Tailwind CSS
5 8 (0.66%) ARM Templates
6 6 (0.49%) Kafka
6 6 (0.49%) PySpark
6 6 (0.49%) REST
7 5 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (0.33%) LDAP
8 4 (0.33%) Node.js
8 4 (0.33%) OAuth
8 4 (0.33%) RESTful
8 4 (0.33%) YAML
9 3 (0.25%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.25%) FreeSWITCH
9 3 (0.25%) OpenID
9 3 (0.25%) SAML
9 3 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.20%) Cloud Native
2 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.64%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.57%) Operational Technology
8 7 (0.57%) PKI
8 7 (0.57%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.41%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.41%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.41%) Replication
9 5 (0.41%) Social Media
10 4 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.33%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 121 (9.93%) Windows
2 52 (4.27%) Linux
2 52 (4.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.07%) Mac OS
3 13 (1.07%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.57%) VMS
6 6 (0.49%) Android
7 5 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.33%) Rocky
9 3 (0.25%) Unix
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (47.95%) Mentoring
2 548 (44.99%) Cybersecurity
3 316 (25.94%) AI
4 305 (25.04%) Business Intelligence
5 133 (10.92%) DevOps
6 101 (8.29%) ITIL
7 100 (8.21%) Migration
8 96 (7.88%) CI/CD
9 88 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 79 (6.49%) Agile
11 74 (6.08%) TOGAF
12 72 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (5.75%) Computer Science
14 69 (5.67%) Data Modelling
15 63 (5.17%) Problem-Solving
16 59 (4.84%) Disaster Recovery
17 56 (4.60%) Roadmaps
18 55 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 52 (4.27%) Cloud Security
20 51 (4.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 621 (50.99%) Python
2 328 (26.93%) SQL
3 294 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 138 (11.33%) R
5 91 (7.47%) PowerShell
6 53 (4.35%) C#
7 43 (3.53%) Java
8 36 (2.96%) Bicep
9 27 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.48%) Bash
11 8 (0.66%) Scala
12 7 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.41%) Groovy
14 3 (0.25%) C++
14 3 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.082%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.082%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 421 (34.56%) AWS Certification
2 368 (30.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 277 (22.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 276 (22.66%) CompTIA CySA+
5 266 (21.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 114 (9.36%) Degree
7 63 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 58 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 57 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 55 (4.52%) SC Cleared
12 38 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.97%) CISSP
13 24 (1.97%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.72%) CCNP
15 17 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.31%) DV Cleared
17 12 (0.99%) CISM
18 10 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (2.71%) NIST
2 32 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.46%) GDPR
4 12 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.66%) QA
5 8 (0.66%) SLA
6 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
8 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.082%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.45%) Docker
3 32 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) Firmware
7 5 (0.41%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.33%) KVM
8 4 (0.33%) Postfix
8 4 (0.33%) Squid
8 4 (0.33%) vSphere
9 3 (0.25%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.082%) HDFS
11 1 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (6.57%) Terraform
2 67 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.97%) Ansible
5 18 (1.48%) Grafana
6 11 (0.90%) SCCM
7 7 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.49%) Nessus
8 6 (0.49%) SCOM
9 5 (0.41%) Autotask
10 4 (0.33%) logstash
10 4 (0.33%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.16%) WSUS
13 1 (0.082%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.082%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.082%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1,074 (88.18%) Microsoft
2 275 (22.58%) ForeScout
3 52 (4.27%) VMware
4 29 (2.38%) Cisco
5 21 (1.72%) Databricks
5 21 (1.72%) Google
6 14 (1.15%) SolarWinds
7 13 (1.07%) Palo Alto
8 11 (0.90%) SAP
9 9 (0.74%) Fortinet
10 8 (0.66%) Ariba
10 8 (0.66%) Dell
10 8 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.57%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.49%) Informatica
12 6 (0.49%) Meraki
12 6 (0.49%) Tenable
12 6 (0.49%) Veeam
12 6 (0.49%) Zscaler