Azure Certification Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 157 158
Rank change year-on-year +70 +1 -92
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 103 42 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.95% 1.01% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.97% 2.64% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 45 25 16
10th Percentile - - £29,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% +11.63% -23.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £64,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £31,500 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -50.59% -1.92% -10.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,073 1,590 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 39.22% 38.39% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 513 504 874
10th Percentile £27,694 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £33,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,050 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +56 51 £30,500 -32.22% 11
Staffordshire +1 12 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Herefordshire 0 11 £95,000 -
Coventry +8 10 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 10 - -
Solihull -2 4 - -
Worcestershire - 3 £80,000 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £31,500 - 1
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (3.88%) Confluence
1 4 (3.88%) nginx
Applications
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (32.04%) AWS
3 32 (31.07%) GitHub
4 31 (30.10%) Power Platform
5 25 (24.27%) Azure AI
6 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.88%) AWS KMS
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.88%) Route 53
8 4 (3.88%) Serverless
8 4 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (27.18%) Internet
2 9 (8.74%) Firewall
3 7 (6.80%) DNS
4 5 (4.85%) VPN
5 4 (3.88%) FTP
5 4 (3.88%) HTTP
5 4 (3.88%) IMAP
5 4 (3.88%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (3.88%) SMTP
5 4 (3.88%) SSH
5 4 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.91%) BGP
6 3 (2.91%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) IPsec
6 3 (2.91%) Network Security
6 3 (2.91%) OSPF
6 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.91%) VLAN
6 3 (2.91%) WAN
6 3 (2.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.13%) Power BI
2 25 (24.27%) Tableau
3 4 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (31.07%) Git
2 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.88%) JIRA
2 4 (3.88%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.97%) Moq
3 1 (0.97%) MSTest
3 1 (0.97%) NSubstitute
3 1 (0.97%) NUnit
General
1 62 (60.19%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.18%) Multimedia
3 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Finance
5 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Analyst
1 50 (48.54%) Junior
1 50 (48.54%) Junior Analyst
2 28 (27.18%) Trainee
3 25 (24.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 25 (24.27%) Data Analyst
3 25 (24.27%) Junior Data Analyst
3 25 (24.27%) Junior Security Analyst
3 25 (24.27%) Security Analyst
4 16 (15.53%) Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Software Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Trainee Software Developer
6 5 (4.85%) Senior
7 4 (3.88%) Architect
7 4 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (28.16%) CSS
1 29 (28.16%) HTML
2 4 (3.88%) LDAP
3 2 (1.94%) .NET
3 2 (1.94%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.94%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.94%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.97%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.97%) Ajax
4 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.97%) jQuery
4 1 (0.97%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (0.97%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (0.97%) REST
4 1 (0.97%) WCF
4 1 (0.97%) Web Services
4 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (3.88%) Replication
3 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
1 7 (6.80%) Windows
2 4 (3.88%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Ubuntu
2 4 (3.88%) VMS
3 3 (2.91%) Rocky
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (53.40%) Mentoring
3 28 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (24.27%) AI
5 15 (14.56%) DevOps
6 9 (8.74%) CI/CD
7 6 (5.83%) Cloud Security
7 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (5.83%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (4.85%) Configuration Management
9 4 (3.88%) Change Management
9 4 (3.88%) Patch Management
10 3 (2.91%) Agile
10 3 (2.91%) Change Control
10 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (2.91%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (2.91%) Project Delivery
10 3 (2.91%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (2.91%) SIEM
10 3 (2.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (56.31%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 30 (29.13%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.59%) R
5 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.88%) Groovy
7 3 (2.91%) C#
8 1 (0.97%) Bicep
8 1 (0.97%) Go
8 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) AWS Certification
2 32 (31.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (27.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 25 (24.27%) CompTIA CySA+
4 25 (24.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.88%) CCNP
8 4 (3.88%) Degree
8 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.94%) CISSP
11 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.94%) NIST
1 2 (1.94%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) DFS Replication
2 4 (3.88%) Dovecot
2 4 (3.88%) Postfix
2 4 (3.88%) Squid
3 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) Firmware
3 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Terraform
2 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.88%) Grafana
3 4 (3.88%) Nessus
3 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.88%) Proxmox
4 3 (2.91%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 85 (82.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.27%) ForeScout
3 6 (5.83%) Dell
4 4 (3.88%) Cisco
4 4 (3.88%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.88%) Meraki
4 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.88%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.91%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.91%) VMware
6 1 (0.97%) OpenAI