Azure Certification Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 351 429
Rank change year-on-year +94 +78 -112
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 413 363 502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 0.88% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.33% 3.45% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 266 301 371
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,919 £87,419 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,724 £68,823
% change year-on-year -6.77% +1.31% +14.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Azure Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,531 10,516 15,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.19% 25.41% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,914 6,452 8,607
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

Azure Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Certification.

Azure Certification salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Azure Certification salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (11.14%) WebLogic
2 10 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.21%) IIS
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 49 (11.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 413 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (43.58%) AWS
3 83 (20.10%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (15.01%) PaaS
5 58 (14.04%) IaaS
6 53 (12.83%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (11.14%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (8.23%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (5.81%) SaaS
12 22 (5.33%) Entra ID
12 22 (5.33%) Serverless
13 19 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (4.12%) GCP
14 17 (4.12%) Power Platform
15 15 (3.63%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 11 (2.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 77 (18.64%) DNS
2 59 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 49 (11.86%) WAN
4 47 (11.38%) BGP
5 46 (11.14%) SSL
6 42 (10.17%) Firewall
7 34 (8.23%) SD-WAN
8 22 (5.33%) SAN
9 19 (4.60%) VPN
10 12 (2.91%) Network Security
10 12 (2.91%) VLAN
11 10 (2.42%) DHCP
12 9 (2.18%) Wireless
13 7 (1.69%) LAN
14 6 (1.45%) MPLS
15 5 (1.21%) Remote Desktop
16 4 (0.97%) Internet
16 4 (0.97%) NetScaler
16 4 (0.97%) WLAN
17 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 55 (13.32%) Relational Database
4 54 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (12.35%) SQL Server
6 48 (11.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 48 (11.62%) Oracle Database
7 46 (11.14%) RDBMS
8 20 (4.84%) NoSQL
9 17 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (3.63%) MySQL
11 14 (3.39%) Power BI
12 12 (2.91%) Redis
13 11 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.69%) MariaDB
14 7 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.97%) Big Data
16 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.66%) Git
3 7 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.97%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.48%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) Moq
5 2 (0.48%) Postman
5 2 (0.48%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) JIRA
General
1 128 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.73%) Finance
3 54 (13.08%) Presentation Skills
4 29 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.12%) Law
9 14 (3.39%) Retail
10 5 (1.21%) Marketing
11 4 (0.97%) Banking
11 4 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.73%) Police
12 3 (0.73%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.48%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (40.19%) Architect
2 104 (25.18%) Lead
3 91 (22.03%) Senior
4 77 (18.64%) Lead Architect
5 76 (18.40%) Solutions Architect
6 63 (15.25%) Consultant
7 57 (13.80%) Senior Consultant
8 49 (11.86%) Azure Architect
9 48 (11.62%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 47 (11.38%) Data Consultant
10 47 (11.38%) Senior Technology Consultant
10 47 (11.38%) Technology Consultant
11 39 (9.44%) Security Architect
12 36 (8.72%) Cloud Architect
13 35 (8.47%) Infrastructure Architect
14 33 (7.99%) Support Engineer
15 30 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
15 30 (7.26%) Developer
16 29 (7.02%) 3rd Line Support
17 27 (6.54%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.11%) Spring Boot
2 46 (11.14%) RabbitMQ
3 28 (6.78%) .NET
4 21 (5.08%) ARM Templates
5 15 (3.63%) REST
6 14 (3.39%) .NET Framework
7 12 (2.91%) OAuth
8 11 (2.66%) OpenID
8 11 (2.66%) SAML
9 9 (2.18%) .NET Core
9 9 (2.18%) Web Services
10 8 (1.94%) React
10 8 (1.94%) RESTful
11 7 (1.69%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.69%) Entity Framework
12 6 (1.45%) CSS
12 6 (1.45%) HTML
13 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.21%) JSON
13 5 (1.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 90 (21.79%) Public Cloud
2 47 (11.38%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (10.41%) Management Information System
4 36 (8.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 22 (5.33%) Driving Licence
6 21 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
7 17 (4.12%) Cloud Native
8 15 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (3.15%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.97%) Kindle
12 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.73%) IoT
13 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 75 (18.16%) Linux
2 57 (13.80%) Windows
3 46 (11.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.45%) VMS
7 5 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.97%) Unix
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (26.88%) Agile
2 84 (20.34%) DevOps
3 82 (19.85%) Scrum
4 76 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (17.68%) CI/CD
6 71 (17.19%) Actionable Insight
7 65 (15.74%) Migration
8 62 (15.01%) Roadmaps
9 61 (14.77%) Kanban
10 60 (14.53%) Open Source
11 59 (14.29%) Presales
12 58 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence
12 58 (14.04%) SDLC
13 55 (13.32%) TOGAF
14 52 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (12.35%) Cloud Operations
15 51 (12.35%) Project Management
16 50 (12.11%) Data Architecture
16 50 (12.11%) Data Migration
16 50 (12.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.86%) SQL
2 35 (8.47%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.75%) C#
4 25 (6.05%) Java
5 23 (5.57%) Bicep
5 23 (5.57%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.60%) Bash
6 19 (4.60%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.36%) Python
8 9 (2.18%) Go
9 8 (1.94%) PHP
10 7 (1.69%) Groovy
10 7 (1.69%) Ruby
11 6 (1.45%) R
12 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 160 (38.74%) AWS Certification
2 92 (22.28%) Security Cleared
3 82 (19.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 82 (19.85%) SC Cleared
4 65 (15.74%) Cisco Certification
5 63 (15.25%) Degree
6 52 (12.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 48 (11.62%) CISSP
8 42 (10.17%) CISM
9 38 (9.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 37 (8.96%) CCSP
11 33 (7.99%) CCSK
12 29 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (6.05%) CCNA
14 21 (5.08%) CCNP
15 6 (1.45%) MCSE
15 6 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (1.21%) MCITP
16 5 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 4 (0.97%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.14%) NIST
2 34 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (4.36%) SLA
4 14 (3.39%) GDPR
5 13 (3.15%) QA
6 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.48%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (15.01%) Active Directory
2 55 (13.32%) Docker
3 25 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.91%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.97%) vSphere
7 4 (0.97%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.48%) XenApp
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 80 (19.37%) Terraform
2 59 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 37 (8.96%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.63%) Ansible
6 12 (2.91%) Grafana
6 12 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.69%) Puppet
8 6 (1.45%) SCOM
9 4 (0.97%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.24%) CASB
11 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.24%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 183 (44.31%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.83%) Oracle
3 49 (11.86%) Sparx
4 33 (7.99%) Citrix
5 32 (7.75%) Cisco
6 18 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 17 (4.12%) VMware
8 9 (2.18%) Google
9 8 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.69%) Apple
10 7 (1.69%) BMC
10 7 (1.69%) New Relic
10 7 (1.69%) Remedy
10 7 (1.69%) SaltStack
11 6 (1.45%) Adobe
11 6 (1.45%) Databricks
11 6 (1.45%) Juniper
12 4 (0.97%) Meraki
12 4 (0.97%) SAP
13 3 (0.73%) Palo Alto