Yeah, it's a toss-up. Most large companies dabble in both as they have different strengths/weaknesses. I would suggest that the Calgary market is slightly skewed towards Azure because most IT departments here are heavy into the MS stack and Azure is a little more comfortable for them. As Hemi-Cuda correctly stated, most companies are extending their current on-prem environments into a hybrid model as opposed to an all-or-nothing approach. For a company deep into the MS world, this is easier in Azure.
I'm not sure if it's part of the certification or not, but many IT Departments are really getting into Docker/Kubernetes lately. Well, it's starting anyway. That may be an area of interest for you as there seems to be a lack of skills in town. I would also suggest that just about any IT professional can figure out how to migrate a workload to public cloud. Architecting a "born in the cloud" app from the ground up is a different story though.
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