Microsoft Azure Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 166 468
Rank change year-on-year -172 +302 -47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 838 2,301 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 2.22% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 6.81% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 607 642 658
10th Percentile £31,550 £32,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £48,840 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,724 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +1.31% +14.71%
75th Percentile £84,919 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Certification.

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the UK

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 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
England -157 744 £65,000 -7.14% 299
UK excluding London -208 521 £57,500 -11.54% 194
Work from Home +89 385 £67,500 -2.80% 82
London -45 271 £77,500 +6.90% 121
North of England -142 186 £55,000 -21.43% 52
South East +15 150 £65,000 +14.04% 45
Midlands -142 86 £63,750 +41.67% 40
North West -163 80 £61,206 -25.81% 30
Yorkshire -67 68 £52,500 -25.00% 17
West Midlands -135 51 £67,500 +35.00% 22
North East +27 38 £32,500 -48.00% 6
Scotland -126 36 £65,000 -6.40% 9
East Midlands -55 35 £50,000 +56.25% 18
East of England -62 28 £40,750 +4.19% 19
South West -57 19 £57,500 +15.00% 24
Northern Ireland +35 10 - - 3
Wales -3 6 - - 8

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 63 (7.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 46 (5.49%) WebLogic
4 12 (1.43%) Confluence
5 10 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.72%) IIS
7 5 (0.60%) Apache
8 3 (0.36%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 49 (5.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 838 (100.00%) Azure
2 272 (32.46%) AWS
3 202 (24.11%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (12.53%) PaaS
6 103 (12.29%) IaaS
7 89 (10.62%) Entra ID
8 77 (9.19%) Power Platform
9 62 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (6.44%) GCP
11 51 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (5.85%) Serverless
13 46 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
13 46 (5.49%) SaaS
14 40 (4.77%) IBM Cloud
15 38 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (4.18%) Azure AKS
17 34 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
18 25 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 22 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 116 (13.84%) Firewall
2 111 (13.25%) DNS
3 66 (7.88%) TCP/IP
4 62 (7.40%) WAN
5 53 (6.32%) VPN
6 51 (6.09%) SSL
7 47 (5.61%) BGP
7 47 (5.61%) Network Security
8 42 (5.01%) SD-WAN
9 37 (4.42%) DHCP
10 35 (4.18%) LAN
11 33 (3.94%) SAN
12 24 (2.86%) VLAN
13 21 (2.51%) Wireless
14 14 (1.67%) NetScaler
15 13 (1.55%) Internet
16 10 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
18 8 (0.95%) Intranet
18 8 (0.95%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 68 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 65 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (7.16%) Data Lake
5 54 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (6.32%) Oracle Database
7 49 (5.85%) Power BI
8 47 (5.61%) RDBMS
9 41 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (3.70%) NoSQL
11 23 (2.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (1.91%) MySQL
13 16 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.79%) Metadata
15 14 (1.67%) Big Data
15 14 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (1.43%) Redis
17 11 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 7 (0.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (4.89%) Git
2 31 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.91%) JIRA
4 7 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (0.60%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Moq
7 2 (0.24%) Postman
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 2 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.12%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.12%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
General
1 325 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 169 (20.17%) Finance
3 103 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 102 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.83%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.34%) Law
7 28 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.86%) Banking
9 19 (2.27%) Retail
10 18 (2.15%) Legal
11 17 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.03%) Marketing
12 14 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.55%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.07%) Police
14 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 277 (33.05%) Architect
2 136 (16.23%) Lead
3 129 (15.39%) Senior
4 103 (12.29%) Solutions Architect
5 83 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (9.19%) Lead Architect
7 71 (8.47%) Security Architect
8 70 (8.35%) Azure Architect
9 66 (7.88%) Cloud Architect
10 60 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (6.68%) Consultant
12 55 (6.56%) Developer
13 53 (6.32%) Support Engineer
14 52 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 48 (5.73%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 45 (5.37%) Infrastructure Architect
17 43 (5.13%) IT Support
18 37 (4.42%) Senior Consultant
19 36 (4.30%) IT Engineer
20 33 (3.94%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.16%) Spring Boot
2 46 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
3 42 (5.01%) .NET
4 34 (4.06%) ARM Templates
5 26 (3.10%) REST
6 21 (2.51%) Web Services
7 20 (2.39%) JSON
8 18 (2.15%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.15%) XML
9 16 (1.91%) .NET Framework
9 16 (1.91%) Node.js
10 14 (1.67%) Spring
11 13 (1.55%) .NET Core
11 13 (1.55%) OAuth
12 12 (1.43%) Middleware
12 12 (1.43%) OpenID
12 12 (1.43%) React
12 12 (1.43%) RESTful
12 12 (1.43%) SAML
13 11 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 113 (13.48%) Public Cloud
2 92 (10.98%) Management Information System
3 59 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (6.09%) Cloud Native
6 50 (5.97%) Data Centre
6 50 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (4.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 40 (4.77%) Blockchain
9 30 (3.58%) Driving Licence
10 23 (2.74%) Onboarding
11 21 (2.51%) Enterprise Storage
12 19 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (2.15%) Cyberattack
14 14 (1.67%) iPhone
14 14 (1.67%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.55%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
17 11 (1.31%) IoT
18 9 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 144 (17.18%) Linux
2 140 (16.71%) Windows
3 60 (7.16%) Windows Server
4 46 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (4.77%) Alpine Linux
5 40 (4.77%) CentOS
5 40 (4.77%) Debian
6 24 (2.86%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (2.27%) VMS
9 14 (1.67%) Unix
9 14 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.95%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.84%) Solaris
13 5 (0.60%) Android
14 4 (0.48%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.48%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (28.52%) DevOps
2 201 (23.99%) Agile
3 170 (20.29%) CI/CD
4 165 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (13.96%) Migration
7 115 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
8 114 (13.60%) Information Security
8 114 (13.60%) Scrum
9 113 (13.48%) ITIL
10 93 (11.10%) Project Management
10 93 (11.10%) Roadmaps
11 92 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 81 (9.67%) Kanban
13 79 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 77 (9.19%) Mentoring
14 77 (9.19%) TOGAF
15 75 (8.95%) Cloud Security
15 75 (8.95%) Collaborative Working
15 75 (8.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 114 (13.60%) SQL
2 111 (13.25%) PowerShell
3 67 (8.00%) Python
4 63 (7.52%) C#
5 48 (5.73%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.65%) Java
7 28 (3.34%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.98%) Bicep
9 21 (2.51%) Bash
10 17 (2.03%) PHP
11 9 (1.07%) Go
12 8 (0.95%) Groovy
12 8 (0.95%) Scala
12 8 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.84%) Ruby
14 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.72%) R
14 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) Dart
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (28.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 226 (26.97%) AWS Certification
3 170 (20.29%) Degree
4 142 (16.95%) Security Cleared
5 127 (15.16%) SC Cleared
6 108 (12.89%) Cisco Certification
7 95 (11.34%) CISSP
8 68 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (7.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 61 (7.28%) CISM
11 57 (6.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 56 (6.68%) MCSE
13 51 (6.09%) CCSP
14 45 (5.37%) MCSA
15 41 (4.89%) CCNA
16 34 (4.06%) CCSK
17 29 (3.46%) CCNP
18 16 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (1.79%) PMI Certification
20 14 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.16%) NIST
2 54 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.82%) SLA
4 29 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (3.10%) QA
6 21 (2.51%) GDPR
6 21 (2.51%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.60%) IASME
11 4 (0.48%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.48%) PMO
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
13 2 (0.24%) WCAG
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 175 (20.88%) Active Directory
2 127 (15.16%) Docker
3 54 (6.44%) Hyper-V
4 52 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (1.43%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.72%) XenApp
10 4 (0.48%) Firmware
10 4 (0.48%) pfSense
10 4 (0.48%) vSphere
11 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.12%) LXC
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 184 (21.96%) Terraform
2 163 (19.45%) Kubernetes
3 70 (8.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (3.94%) Ansible
6 19 (2.27%) SCCM
7 13 (1.55%) Grafana
7 13 (1.55%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.31%) SCOM
9 8 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.95%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.84%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.84%) Puppet
11 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 4 (0.48%) SmoothWall
11 4 (0.48%) Suricata
12 2 (0.24%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 457 (54.53%) Microsoft
2 84 (10.02%) Cisco
3 81 (9.67%) VMware
4 63 (7.52%) Oracle
5 55 (6.56%) Citrix
6 49 (5.85%) Sparx
7 43 (5.13%) IBM
8 41 (4.89%) Red Hat
9 32 (3.82%) Fortinet
10 25 (2.98%) Veeam
11 22 (2.63%) Databricks
12 15 (1.79%) Google
13 13 (1.55%) Apple
14 10 (1.19%) Commvault
14 10 (1.19%) WSO2
15 9 (1.07%) Dell
15 9 (1.07%) Juniper
15 9 (1.07%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.95%) Meraki
16 8 (0.95%) SAP