Azure Certification Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 125 414
Rank change year-on-year -202 +289 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 559 1,590 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 2.81% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.81% 7.46% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 349 333 289
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,680 £41,134
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,351 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +18.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £84,056 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +10.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Certification in the UK excluding London

Azure Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
North of England -148 190 £55,000 -21.12% 36
South East +7 156 £65,000 +13.04% 22
Midlands -143 105 £67,500 +35.00% 21
North West -164 86 £61,206 -24.50% 21
Yorkshire -73 66 £55,000 -20.80% 7
West Midlands -141 58 £70,000 +33.33% 9
East Midlands -50 47 £61,000 +62.67% 12
North East +22 38 £32,500 -48.00% 8
Scotland -125 35 £69,000 -0.64% 6
South West -63 27 £57,500 -12.01% 13
East of England -79 25 £41,500 +6.10% 13
Northern Ireland +27 12 - - 2
Wales +1 9 - - 1
Azure Certification
UK

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (7.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (7.16%) WebLogic
3 32 (5.72%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.97%) Confluence
5 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.89%) IIS
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (7.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 559 (100.00%) Azure
2 211 (37.75%) AWS
3 137 (24.51%) Microsoft 365
4 95 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (9.84%) Entra ID
6 50 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (8.94%) Power Platform
7 47 (8.41%) Cloud Computing
8 40 (7.16%) Amazon SQS
8 40 (7.16%) IBM Cloud
9 37 (6.62%) PaaS
10 36 (6.44%) GCP
10 36 (6.44%) IaaS
11 23 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (3.58%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (3.40%) SaaS
14 16 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (2.50%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 90 (16.10%) DNS
1 90 (16.10%) Firewall
2 57 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 54 (9.66%) WAN
4 46 (8.23%) SSL
5 41 (7.33%) VPN
6 40 (7.16%) BGP
7 37 (6.62%) SD-WAN
8 30 (5.37%) Network Security
9 28 (5.01%) SAN
10 25 (4.47%) DHCP
11 17 (3.04%) VLAN
12 14 (2.50%) LAN
13 12 (2.15%) NetScaler
13 12 (2.15%) Wireless
14 10 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (1.25%) Internet
15 7 (1.25%) Intranet
15 7 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (1.07%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.45%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (10.91%) Data Lake
3 56 (10.02%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (9.66%) Relational Database
5 46 (8.23%) Oracle Database
6 44 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 43 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 41 (7.33%) RDBMS
9 33 (5.90%) Power BI
10 27 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.94%) NoSQL
12 14 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (2.33%) MySQL
14 11 (1.97%) Redis
14 11 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (1.43%) Big Data
17 6 (1.07%) MariaDB
17 6 (1.07%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (4.47%) Jenkins
1 25 (4.47%) JIRA
2 22 (3.94%) Git
3 10 (1.79%) SonarQube
3 10 (1.79%) Terragrunt
4 6 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.10%) Finance
3 62 (11.09%) Presentation Skills
4 57 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.86%) Legal
8 14 (2.50%) Retail
9 9 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.61%) Marketing
10 8 (1.43%) Law
11 7 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.89%) Local Government
12 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.72%) Aviation
13 4 (0.72%) Avionics
13 4 (0.72%) Banking
13 4 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 151 (27.01%) Architect
2 102 (18.25%) Senior
3 97 (17.35%) Lead
4 67 (11.99%) Solutions Architect
5 64 (11.45%) Lead Architect
6 58 (10.38%) Consultant
7 49 (8.77%) Senior Consultant
8 41 (7.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 40 (7.16%) Data Consultant
9 40 (7.16%) Senior Technology Consultant
9 40 (7.16%) Technology Consultant
10 38 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (6.80%) Security Architect
11 37 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (6.44%) Developer
12 36 (6.44%) Support Engineer
13 35 (6.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (5.37%) IT Engineer
14 30 (5.37%) IT Support
15 26 (4.65%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (8.59%) Spring Boot
2 40 (7.16%) RabbitMQ
3 33 (5.90%) .NET
4 22 (3.94%) ARM Templates
5 20 (3.58%) Node.js
5 20 (3.58%) REST
6 18 (3.22%) Web Services
7 13 (2.33%) Middleware
7 13 (2.33%) OAuth
7 13 (2.33%) OpenID
7 13 (2.33%) SAML
8 12 (2.15%) .NET Core
8 12 (2.15%) .NET Framework
8 12 (2.15%) React
9 11 (1.97%) XML
10 10 (1.79%) AngularJS
10 10 (1.79%) JSON
11 9 (1.61%) CSS
11 9 (1.61%) HTML
12 8 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.52%) Public Cloud
2 58 (10.38%) Management Information System
3 53 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (7.51%) Cloud Native
7 40 (7.16%) Blockchain
8 32 (5.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 29 (5.19%) Data Centre
10 28 (5.01%) Driving Licence
11 21 (3.76%) Product Ownership
12 19 (3.40%) Enterprise Storage
13 17 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.61%) Low-Code
15 8 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 7 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
16 7 (1.25%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
17 6 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 128 (22.90%) Linux
2 95 (16.99%) Windows
3 42 (7.51%) CentOS
4 40 (7.16%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (7.16%) Debian
4 40 (7.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (6.98%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.22%) VMS
7 17 (3.04%) Windows 10
8 15 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.50%) Unix
10 10 (1.79%) Ubuntu
11 8 (1.43%) Solaris
12 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.89%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.72%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.54%) Android
16 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (28.62%) DevOps
2 149 (26.65%) Agile
3 125 (22.36%) CI/CD
4 101 (18.07%) Scrum
5 97 (17.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 94 (16.82%) ITIL
7 93 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (14.49%) Roadmaps
9 77 (13.77%) Cybersecurity
10 72 (12.88%) Information Security
10 72 (12.88%) Project Management
11 71 (12.70%) Migration
12 69 (12.34%) Kanban
13 62 (11.09%) Actionable Insight
14 60 (10.73%) Mentoring
15 58 (10.38%) Collaborative Working
15 58 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 58 (10.38%) Presales
16 57 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (10.02%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 81 (14.49%) SQL
2 55 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 52 (9.30%) C#
4 49 (8.77%) Python
5 42 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.37%) Java
7 26 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.68%) PHP
9 12 (2.15%) Bicep
10 9 (1.61%) Bash
11 7 (1.25%) Go
12 6 (1.07%) Groovy
12 6 (1.07%) Ruby
12 6 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.72%) R
13 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.54%) Dart
15 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (31.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 172 (30.77%) AWS Certification
3 105 (18.78%) Degree
4 90 (16.10%) Security Cleared
5 88 (15.74%) SC Cleared
6 81 (14.49%) Cisco Certification
7 56 (10.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 53 (9.48%) CISSP
9 52 (9.30%) MCSE
10 45 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 42 (7.51%) MCSA
12 39 (6.98%) CCNA
13 38 (6.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 38 (6.80%) CCSP
14 34 (6.08%) CISM
15 29 (5.19%) CCSK
16 23 (4.11%) CCNP
17 11 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 11 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 9 (1.61%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (6.80%) NIST
3 24 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (4.29%) SLA
4 15 (2.68%) GDPR
5 13 (2.33%) QA
6 10 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 9 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.89%) NCSC
9 4 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.72%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.72%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 118 (21.11%) Active Directory
2 111 (19.86%) Docker
3 52 (9.30%) Hyper-V
4 38 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
7 14 (2.50%) XenDesktop
8 13 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (1.43%) XenApp
10 7 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.72%) pfSense
11 4 (0.72%) vSphere
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 135 (24.15%) Kubernetes
2 115 (20.57%) Terraform
3 50 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (4.83%) Ansible
6 11 (1.97%) Grafana
6 11 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.61%) SCCM
8 7 (1.25%) SCOM
9 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.07%) Puppet
9 6 (1.07%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.89%) Suricata
11 4 (0.72%) SmoothWall
12 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.36%) SCVMM
13 2 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 279 (49.91%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.34%) Cisco
3 55 (9.84%) VMware
4 52 (9.30%) Oracle
5 40 (7.16%) IBM
5 40 (7.16%) Red Hat
5 40 (7.16%) Sparx
6 29 (5.19%) Fortinet
7 25 (4.47%) Citrix
8 22 (3.94%) Veeam
9 14 (2.50%) Databricks
10 13 (2.33%) Juniper
11 12 (2.15%) Apple
12 10 (1.79%) Black Duck
12 10 (1.79%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.61%) Dell
14 7 (1.25%) Google
14 7 (1.25%) SolarWinds
15 6 (1.07%) New Relic
15 6 (1.07%) SaltStack