Azure Certification Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 260 320
Rank change year-on-year -56 +60 +127
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 169 434 342
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.28% 4.43% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 114 262 291
10th Percentile £38,619 £31,625 £43,453
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,919 £87,460
90th Percentile £90,275 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +2.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,421 9,795 9,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.57% 27.36% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,990 5,907 5,887
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.21% -12.04% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Certification
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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 19 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.37%) IIS
4 3 (1.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) FastStats
2 1 (0.59%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (42.01%) AWS
3 45 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (26.04%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (24.85%) IaaS
5 42 (24.85%) PaaS
6 37 (21.89%) Entra ID
6 37 (21.89%) SaaS
7 35 (20.71%) Power Platform
8 29 (17.16%) GCP
9 22 (13.02%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (12.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (11.24%) Azure AI
11 19 (11.24%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (10.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 16 (9.47%) Power Automate
14 12 (7.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (5.33%) GitHub
17 8 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.30%) DNS
2 28 (16.57%) Firewall
2 28 (16.57%) VPN
3 24 (14.20%) WAN
4 20 (11.83%) SD-WAN
5 12 (7.10%) SAN
6 10 (5.92%) DHCP
7 8 (4.73%) HTTPS
8 6 (3.55%) NAS
9 5 (2.96%) VSAN
10 4 (2.37%) LAN
10 4 (2.37%) Network Security
10 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.37%) VLAN
10 4 (2.37%) Wireless
11 2 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.18%) Wireless Security
12 1 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.57%) Power BI
2 27 (15.98%) Data Lake
3 17 (10.06%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.47%) MySQL
5 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.96%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.37%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.59%) Metadata
12 1 (0.59%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (12.43%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (2.37%) WiX
5 3 (1.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.59%) ERwin
6 1 (0.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.59%) JMeter
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 59 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.75%) Finance
3 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.73%) Retail
4 8 (4.73%) Welsh Language
5 7 (4.14%) Banking
5 7 (4.14%) Law
6 6 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.37%) Automotive
7 4 (2.37%) Local Government
7 4 (2.37%) Marketing
8 3 (1.78%) Advertising
8 3 (1.78%) Humanities
9 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Electronics
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (27.22%) Architect
2 40 (23.67%) Senior
3 33 (19.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (15.98%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (14.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (12.43%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (10.06%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (8.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (8.28%) DevOps Architect
10 13 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.10%) Senior Architect
12 11 (6.51%) AWS Architect
12 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (6.51%) AWS Solution Architect
12 11 (6.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.51%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (6.51%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 11 (6.51%) TOGAF Architect
13 9 (5.33%) Analyst
14 8 (4.73%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.10%) ARM Templates
2 9 (5.33%) .NET
3 6 (3.55%) REST
4 5 (2.96%) Blazor
4 5 (2.96%) Middleware
4 5 (2.96%) SAML
5 4 (2.37%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.37%) COM
5 4 (2.37%) Entity Framework
5 4 (2.37%) LDAP
5 4 (2.37%) RESTful
5 4 (2.37%) SOAP
6 3 (1.78%) Kafka
7 2 (1.18%) HTML
7 2 (1.18%) JSON
7 2 (1.18%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.18%) YAML
8 1 (0.59%) ADO
8 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.59%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.47%) NHS
4 14 (8.28%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.73%) IoT
6 7 (4.14%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.96%) PKI
7 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.37%) Wiki
9 3 (1.78%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.04%) Windows
2 27 (15.98%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.47%) Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.37%) CentOS
5 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.78%) Rocky
6 3 (1.78%) Unix
7 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.59%) VMS
8 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (48.52%) DevOps
2 69 (40.83%) CI/CD
3 68 (40.24%) Agile
4 48 (28.40%) ITIL
5 46 (27.22%) Migration
6 44 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (23.08%) Roadmaps
9 37 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (20.12%) TOGAF
11 30 (17.75%) Service Management
12 29 (17.16%) Artificial Intelligence
12 29 (17.16%) Containerisation
13 28 (16.57%) Analytics
14 27 (15.98%) Disaster Recovery
15 25 (14.79%) Project Management
16 24 (14.20%) Computer Science
17 22 (13.02%) Mentoring
18 21 (12.43%) Data Integration
19 19 (11.24%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.54%) PowerShell
2 51 (30.18%) SQL
3 36 (21.30%) Python
4 25 (14.79%) Bicep
4 25 (14.79%) C#
5 15 (8.88%) Java
6 13 (7.69%) Bash
7 6 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.37%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) Go
9 2 (1.18%) Groovy
9 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) AWS Certification
2 44 (26.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 41 (24.26%) Degree
4 27 (15.98%) DBS Check
5 17 (10.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (6.51%) Security Cleared
7 11 (6.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared
9 9 (5.33%) CCNA
9 9 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (4.73%) MCSA
10 8 (4.73%) MCSE
11 7 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (3.55%) CCNP
12 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
13 4 (2.37%) Linux+ Certification
13 4 (2.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.43%) GDPR
2 16 (9.47%) SLA
3 15 (8.88%) HIPAA
4 14 (8.28%) NIST
5 9 (5.33%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.96%) QA
7 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (26.04%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.43%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (11.24%) Docker
4 15 (8.88%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.96%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.37%) Dovecot
9 4 (2.37%) Postfix
10 1 (0.59%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.59%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (21.89%) Terraform
2 30 (17.75%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.61%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (8.28%) Ansible
6 5 (2.96%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.78%) SCCM
8 1 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.59%) Grafana
8 1 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (57.99%) Microsoft
2 28 (16.57%) Databricks
3 22 (13.02%) Google
4 20 (11.83%) VMware
5 18 (10.65%) Meraki
6 9 (5.33%) SAP
7 6 (3.55%) Oracle
8 5 (2.96%) Cisco
8 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.96%) Veeam
9 4 (2.37%) Dell
9 4 (2.37%) Okta
9 4 (2.37%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.18%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.18%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.18%) Informatica
10 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.18%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.18%) Sage
10 2 (1.18%) Yardi