Azure Certification Jobs 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 204 62
Rank change year-on-year +63 -142 +178
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 45 56 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.64% 4.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.06% 2.45% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34 50 33
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,438 £53,438 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £80,938 £97,188 £61,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £107,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +1.71%

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 2,189 2,287 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.45% 26.12% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 581 1,283 976
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,850 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £66,055
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure Certification in the West Midlands

Azure Certification
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 2025. 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 +20 18 £77,500 -2.93% 22
Solihull +15 7 £57,500 -8.00% 3
Warwickshire +17 6 £70,000 +47.37% 4
Herefordshire - 4 £40,000 - 1
Coventry - 4 £65,000 - 8
Worcestershire - 3 £80,000 - 8
Wolverhampton +19 1 £95,000 +137.50% 8
Shropshire - 1 £72,500 - 14
Azure Certification
England

Azure Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (17.78%) Confluence
2 4 (8.89%) nginx
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (55.56%) AWS
3 14 (31.11%) IaaS
3 14 (31.11%) PaaS
4 12 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (17.78%) Amazon S3
6 8 (17.78%) AWS KMS
6 8 (17.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (17.78%) Route 53
6 8 (17.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (15.56%) Azure Functions
7 7 (15.56%) GitHub
7 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
7 7 (15.56%) Serverless
8 6 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) Firewall
2 10 (22.22%) DNS
3 8 (17.78%) FTP
3 8 (17.78%) HTTP
3 8 (17.78%) SMTP
3 8 (17.78%) SSH
4 6 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 6 (13.33%) VPN
4 6 (13.33%) WAN
5 4 (8.89%) HTTPS
5 4 (8.89%) IMAP
5 4 (8.89%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (8.89%) VLAN
6 1 (2.22%) Network Security
6 1 (2.22%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (15.56%) Power BI
2 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) MySQL
6 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.22%) Big Data
7 1 (2.22%) HBase
7 1 (2.22%) Impala
7 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.22%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.22%) Pentaho
7 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.78%) JIRA
3 8 (17.78%) Vagrant
4 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) ERwin
5 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.78%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Advertising
4 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Finance
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Azure Engineer
1 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.67%) ICT Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) ARM Templates
1 4 (8.89%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) Ajax
2 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) jQuery
2 1 (2.22%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (2.22%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) Plotly
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (2.22%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.22%) Shiny
2 1 (2.22%) WCF
2 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Replication
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Windows
2 12 (26.67%) Linux
3 9 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (17.78%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (17.78%) VMS
5 5 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.67%) Rocky
6 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) DevOps
2 17 (37.78%) Cloud Security
3 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (26.67%) Cost Management
6 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 11 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (22.22%) Patch Management
8 9 (20.00%) Change Management
8 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 9 (20.00%) Migration
9 8 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (13.33%) ITIL
11 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) PowerShell
2 18 (40.00%) Python
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 9 (20.00%) Groovy
5 6 (13.33%) Java
6 4 (8.89%) Perl
7 2 (4.44%) Bash
7 2 (4.44%) Bicep
7 2 (4.44%) R
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) PROC SQL
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) AWS Certification
2 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (24.44%) Degree
5 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (6.67%) DBS Check
8 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 3 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (2.22%) CISM
9 1 (2.22%) CISSP
9 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (24.44%) Docker
3 8 (17.78%) DFS Replication
4 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (8.89%) Dovecot
5 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.89%) Postfix
5 4 (8.89%) Squid
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Flume
6 1 (2.22%) HDFS
6 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (57.78%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Grafana
2 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
3 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.89%) Nessus
5 4 (8.89%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.44%) Ansible
6 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.22%) Kibana
7 1 (2.22%) logstash
7 1 (2.22%) Oozie
7 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) Databricks
4 4 (8.89%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (8.89%) VMware
5 3 (6.67%) Dell
6 2 (4.44%) Meraki
6 2 (4.44%) RedGate
6 2 (4.44%) SAP
6 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) Informatica
7 1 (2.22%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
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