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 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 258 321 444
Rank change year-on-year +63 +123 -102
Permanent jobs citing Azure Certification 422 362 543
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 0.94% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.35% 3.60% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 262 302 387
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £87,419 £86,875
90th Percentile £102,375 £101,250 £101,250
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
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 9,709 10,051 17,198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.95% 26.13% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,901 6,071 8,883
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,725 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

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 1 June 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 (10.90%) WebLogic
2 15 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.42%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Confluence
5 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 49 (11.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 422 (100.00%) Azure
2 183 (43.36%) AWS
3 93 (22.04%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (13.03%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (12.56%) PaaS
6 52 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (11.61%) IaaS
8 46 (10.90%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (8.29%) Cloud Computing
10 25 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (5.69%) Entra ID
11 24 (5.69%) Power Platform
12 22 (5.21%) SaaS
12 22 (5.21%) Serverless
13 18 (4.27%) GCP
14 16 (3.79%) Azure AKS
14 16 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.55%) Azure Storage
16 14 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 81 (19.19%) DNS
2 59 (13.98%) TCP/IP
3 50 (11.85%) WAN
4 47 (11.14%) BGP
4 47 (11.14%) Firewall
4 47 (11.14%) SSL
5 34 (8.06%) SD-WAN
6 21 (4.98%) SAN
6 21 (4.98%) VPN
7 13 (3.08%) VLAN
8 12 (2.84%) Network Security
9 11 (2.61%) DHCP
10 9 (2.13%) Wireless
11 8 (1.90%) LAN
12 7 (1.66%) MPLS
13 5 (1.18%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.95%) Internet
14 4 (0.95%) WLAN
15 3 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.45%) Data Lake
2 60 (14.22%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (12.80%) Relational Database
5 50 (11.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 48 (11.37%) Oracle Database
7 46 (10.90%) RDBMS
7 46 (10.90%) SQL Server
8 20 (4.74%) Power BI
9 19 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (4.50%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.55%) MySQL
11 12 (2.84%) Redis
12 10 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.66%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.95%) Big Data
16 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.61%) Git
3 7 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.71%) JIRA
5 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.47%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) Moq
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
6 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 136 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.75%) Finance
3 57 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
4 30 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.74%) Law
9 16 (3.79%) Retail
10 5 (1.18%) Marketing
11 4 (0.95%) Banking
11 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.71%) Police
12 3 (0.71%) Social Housing
12 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.47%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 162 (38.39%) Architect
2 105 (24.88%) Lead
3 96 (22.75%) Senior
4 77 (18.25%) Lead Architect
5 75 (17.77%) Solutions Architect
6 66 (15.64%) Consultant
7 57 (13.51%) Senior Consultant
8 48 (11.37%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 47 (11.14%) Data Consultant
9 47 (11.14%) Senior Technology Consultant
9 47 (11.14%) Technology Consultant
10 43 (10.19%) Azure Architect
11 38 (9.00%) Security Architect
12 37 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
13 33 (7.82%) Cloud Architect
14 31 (7.35%) Developer
14 31 (7.35%) Support Engineer
15 27 (6.40%) Infrastructure Architect
15 27 (6.40%) Lead Security Architect
16 25 (5.92%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.61%) Spring Boot
2 46 (10.90%) RabbitMQ
3 28 (6.64%) .NET
4 23 (5.45%) ARM Templates
5 16 (3.79%) REST
6 14 (3.32%) .NET Framework
6 14 (3.32%) OAuth
7 13 (3.08%) OpenID
7 13 (3.08%) SAML
8 9 (2.13%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.13%) React
8 9 (2.13%) RESTful
8 9 (2.13%) Web Services
9 8 (1.90%) CSS
9 8 (1.90%) HTML
10 7 (1.66%) Entity Framework
11 6 (1.42%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (1.18%) Middleware
13 4 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.38%) Public Cloud
2 47 (11.14%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (10.19%) Management Information System
4 36 (8.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 20 (4.74%) Driving Licence
6 19 (4.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 19 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (4.03%) Cloud Native
8 16 (3.79%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.18%) iPhone
12 5 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.95%) Kindle
13 4 (0.95%) NHS
13 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 82 (19.43%) Linux
2 62 (14.69%) Windows
3 48 (11.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.42%) VMS
7 5 (1.18%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.95%) Unix
9 2 (0.47%) CentOS
9 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (27.49%) Agile
2 89 (21.09%) DevOps
3 84 (19.91%) Scrum
4 77 (18.25%) CI/CD
5 72 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (16.82%) Actionable Insight
7 69 (16.35%) Roadmaps
8 68 (16.11%) Migration
9 64 (15.17%) Open Source
10 62 (14.69%) Kanban
10 62 (14.69%) Presales
11 61 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (13.98%) SDLC
13 58 (13.74%) Artificial Intelligence
14 56 (13.27%) Project Management
15 55 (13.03%) TOGAF
16 52 (12.32%) Data Architecture
16 52 (12.32%) ITIL
17 51 (12.09%) Cloud Operations
17 51 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.74%) SQL
2 39 (9.24%) PowerShell
3 35 (8.29%) C#
4 26 (6.16%) Java
5 24 (5.69%) Bicep
6 23 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.98%) Bash
8 20 (4.74%) JavaScript
9 19 (4.50%) Python
10 9 (2.13%) Go
11 8 (1.90%) PHP
12 7 (1.66%) Groovy
12 7 (1.66%) Ruby
13 6 (1.42%) R
13 6 (1.42%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.47%) X++
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 159 (37.68%) AWS Certification
2 97 (22.99%) Security Cleared
3 88 (20.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (20.38%) SC Cleared
5 69 (16.35%) Degree
6 67 (15.88%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (12.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (10.66%) CISSP
9 39 (9.24%) CISM
10 38 (9.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (8.77%) CCSP
11 37 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 33 (7.82%) CCSK
13 27 (6.40%) CCNA
14 21 (4.98%) CCNP
15 7 (1.66%) MCITP
15 7 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (1.42%) MCSE
16 6 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.95%) NIST
2 31 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (4.27%) SLA
4 14 (3.32%) GDPR
5 13 (3.08%) QA
6 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.71%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.47%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (16.11%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.51%) Docker
3 27 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (3.55%) Virtual Servers
6 12 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.42%) vSphere
8 6 (1.42%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.95%) XenApp
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 74 (17.54%) Terraform
2 61 (14.45%) Kubernetes
3 37 (8.77%) Single Sign-On
4 34 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.32%) Ansible
6 12 (2.84%) Grafana
6 12 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.66%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.66%) Puppet
7 7 (1.66%) SCOM
8 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.47%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.24%) CASB
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.24%) SCCM
11 1 (0.24%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 190 (45.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.56%) Oracle
3 49 (11.61%) Sparx
4 35 (8.29%) Cisco
5 29 (6.87%) Citrix
6 24 (5.69%) VMware
7 20 (4.74%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.37%) Google
9 9 (2.13%) BMC
9 9 (2.13%) Juniper
9 9 (2.13%) Remedy
9 9 (2.13%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.66%) Apple
10 7 (1.66%) Databricks
10 7 (1.66%) New Relic
10 7 (1.66%) SaltStack
11 6 (1.42%) Adobe
12 4 (0.95%) Meraki
12 4 (0.95%) SAP
12 4 (0.95%) Sophos