Azure Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,193 1,217 1,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.13% 21.04% 19.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.82% 54.43% 53.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 809 1,116
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,548 2,236 2,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.17% 38.65% 35.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,131 1,515 2,020
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £53,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +1 531 £57,500 +0.88% 111
Staffordshire -4 150 £52,500 +10.53% 23
Warwickshire -1 131 £54,500 -0.91% 41
Worcestershire -12 61 £45,000 -3.74% 12
Shropshire +17 47 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Coventry -4 42 £65,000 +22.07% 17
Solihull -7 24 £62,500 +16.28% 7
Wolverhampton -14 18 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 2
Herefordshire -5 13 £33,750 -32.50% 7
Walsall -1 9 £45,000 - 1
Wednesbury -4 7 £30,000 -14.29% 2
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Brierley Hill -6 3 £32,500 - 1
Stourbridge - 3 £55,000 -
West Bromwich - 2 £28,500 - 1
Sutton Coldfield -12 1 £27,000 -
Dudley -13 1 £55,000 - 1
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Azure
England

Azure
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
1 107 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 84 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (4.11%) IIS
4 12 (1.01%) Apache
5 11 (0.92%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.17%) Liferay
8 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.17%) WordPress
9 1 (0.084%) Confluence
9 1 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 58 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.084%) Magento
3 1 (0.084%) Maximo
3 1 (0.084%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.084%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 297 (24.90%) Microsoft 365
2 238 (19.95%) AWS
3 190 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
4 179 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 142 (11.90%) Entra ID
6 77 (6.45%) SaaS
7 72 (6.04%) GCP
8 66 (5.53%) PaaS
9 62 (5.20%) IaaS
10 59 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
11 58 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (3.19%) PowerApps
14 37 (3.10%) GitHub
15 31 (2.60%) Snowflake
16 28 (2.35%) Azure Stack
16 28 (2.35%) Serverless
17 25 (2.10%) Power Automate
18 24 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
19 22 (1.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 173 (14.50%) Firewall
2 91 (7.63%) DNS
3 85 (7.12%) WAN
4 72 (6.04%) DHCP
5 50 (4.19%) LAN
6 48 (4.02%) SAN
6 48 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (3.94%) VPN
8 40 (3.35%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.85%) SD-WAN
9 34 (2.85%) Wireless
10 31 (2.60%) Network Security
11 29 (2.43%) VLAN
12 18 (1.51%) MPLS
13 15 (1.26%) PBX
14 14 (1.17%) Internet
15 12 (1.01%) NGFW
15 12 (1.01%) WLAN
16 11 (0.92%) BIG-IP
16 11 (0.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (22.21%) SQL Server
2 142 (11.90%) Power BI
3 114 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (3.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 37 (3.10%) Data Lake
7 36 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 36 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (2.85%) Tableau
9 28 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.35%) NoSQL
10 24 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.76%) MySQL
12 20 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (1.68%) Looker
13 19 (1.59%) BigQuery
14 18 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.42%) Metadata
15 17 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (6.45%) Git
2 33 (2.77%) Visual Studio
3 19 (1.59%) GitLab
4 14 (1.17%) JIRA
5 13 (1.09%) Postman
6 12 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.84%) MSTest
8 9 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (0.75%) SoapUI
9 7 (0.59%) NUnit
9 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.50%) Jenkins
10 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.42%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.34%) ESLint
12 4 (0.34%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 262 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 140 (11.74%) Finance
3 75 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (5.95%) Retail
5 51 (4.27%) Law
6 49 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 41 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.85%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.68%) Legal
12 18 (1.51%) Marketing
13 15 (1.26%) Automotive
14 14 (1.17%) Local Government
15 12 (1.01%) Advertising
16 11 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
18 8 (0.67%) Banking
18 8 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 280 (23.47%) Developer
2 191 (16.01%) Senior
3 111 (9.30%) .NET Developer
4 107 (8.97%) Architect
5 99 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 91 (7.63%) Analyst
7 85 (7.12%) IT Engineer
7 85 (7.12%) Support Engineer
8 76 (6.37%) IT Support
9 64 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 57 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (4.61%) Lead
12 54 (4.53%) Network Engineer
13 49 (4.11%) Senior Developer
14 47 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
15 42 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 42 (3.52%) Software Engineer
16 38 (3.19%) C# Developer
17 31 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (2.51%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (22.05%) .NET
2 108 (9.05%) .NET Core
3 99 (8.30%) AngularJS
4 95 (7.96%) ASP.NET
5 94 (7.88%) .NET Framework
6 92 (7.71%) HTML
7 82 (6.87%) Entity Framework
8 79 (6.62%) ASP.NET Web API
8 79 (6.62%) RESTful
9 78 (6.54%) React
10 67 (5.62%) CSS
11 60 (5.03%) ASP.NET MVC
12 51 (4.27%) Vue
13 48 (4.02%) REST
14 40 (3.35%) JSON
15 38 (3.19%) XML
16 34 (2.85%) Blazor
17 30 (2.51%) HTML5
18 29 (2.43%) Web Services
19 25 (2.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 48 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 43 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 33 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.77%) Replication
7 32 (2.68%) Clustering
8 28 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 27 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.10%) Driving Licence
10 25 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.59%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.01%) IoT
15 12 (1.01%) NHS
16 10 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 266 (22.30%) Windows
2 154 (12.91%) Windows Server
3 54 (4.53%) Windows 10
4 48 (4.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 45 (3.77%) Linux
6 36 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.17%) VMS
9 13 (1.09%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.92%) Unix
11 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.75%) Android
13 8 (0.67%) Solaris
14 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.17%) SUSE
16 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.084%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (26.99%) DevOps
2 303 (25.40%) Agile
3 186 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (13.24%) CI/CD
5 152 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 116 (9.72%) ETL
8 115 (9.64%) Full Stack Development
9 106 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
10 105 (8.80%) ITIL
10 105 (8.80%) Software Engineering
11 98 (8.21%) Scrum
12 96 (8.05%) Microservices
13 91 (7.63%) Data Modelling
14 89 (7.46%) Mentoring
15 87 (7.29%) Analytics
15 87 (7.29%) MVC
16 80 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (5.95%) Data Engineering
18 70 (5.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 331 (27.75%) SQL
2 279 (23.39%) C#
3 163 (13.66%) JavaScript
4 103 (8.63%) PowerShell
5 91 (7.63%) Python
6 88 (7.38%) T-SQL
7 69 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.77%) Java
9 20 (1.68%) Bicep
10 15 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (1.17%) Bash
12 13 (1.09%) XAML
13 10 (0.84%) VB
14 9 (0.75%) C++
15 8 (0.67%) C
16 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.42%) Go
17 5 (0.42%) PHP
17 5 (0.42%) VB6
18 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (11.32%) Degree
2 101 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 76 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 57 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 49 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (3.19%) CCNA
8 31 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.93%) CCNP
10 17 (1.42%) MCSE
11 15 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.17%) A+ Certification
13 13 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.67%) CCSA
14 8 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.62%) QA
2 43 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.35%) GDPR
4 25 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (1.34%) SLA
7 13 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 12 (1.01%) NCSC
9 11 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.67%) NIST
10 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.59%) PMO
12 6 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
14 1 (0.084%) IFRS
14 1 (0.084%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.084%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 225 (18.86%) Active Directory
2 139 (11.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (9.97%) Hyper-V
4 54 (4.53%) Docker
5 37 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.26%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.26%) vSphere
8 10 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.59%) XenApp
9 7 (0.59%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.50%) pfSense
11 5 (0.42%) NFS
12 3 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.084%) Firmware
13 1 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 98 (8.21%) Microsoft Intune
1 98 (8.21%) Terraform
2 51 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.19%) SCCM
4 21 (1.76%) Ansible
5 15 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.01%) vCenter Server
7 9 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.34%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.34%) Autotask
8 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.25%) SCOM
10 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.17%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.17%) Kibana
10 2 (0.17%) MIIS
10 2 (0.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.084%) CASB
11 1 (0.084%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 577 (48.37%) Microsoft
2 194 (16.26%) VMware
3 80 (6.71%) Cisco
4 63 (5.28%) Databricks
5 56 (4.69%) Veeam
6 51 (4.27%) Citrix
7 26 (2.18%) Aruba
7 26 (2.18%) HP
7 26 (2.18%) Sophos
8 24 (2.01%) Meraki
9 22 (1.84%) Google
10 21 (1.76%) CheckPoint
10 21 (1.76%) Dell
10 21 (1.76%) Fortinet
11 18 (1.51%) Juniper
12 17 (1.42%) Oracle
13 15 (1.26%) Informatica
14 14 (1.17%) Facebook
15 13 (1.09%) SolarWinds
16 12 (1.01%) DevExpress