Azure Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,941 2,046 2,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.00% 20.82% 20.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.74% 55.12% 52.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,164 1,751
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,902 3,712 4,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.18% 37.78% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 2,229 3,253
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £78,750 £82,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
West Midlands +2 1,163 £53,000 -3.64% 232
East Midlands +2 775 £50,000 -4.76% 159
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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
1 205 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 138 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 78 (4.02%) IIS
4 30 (1.55%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.44%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.77%) Apache
7 13 (0.67%) Confluence
8 10 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) CMS
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.15%) SAS
12 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.10%) Liferay
13 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
Applications
1 96 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.10%) Trello
7 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 29 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.15%) Shopify
4 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.052%) Magento
5 1 (0.052%) Maximo
5 1 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 486 (25.04%) Microsoft 365
2 474 (24.42%) AWS
3 280 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 251 (12.93%) Entra ID
5 217 (11.18%) Power Platform
6 154 (7.93%) GCP
7 118 (6.08%) SaaS
8 82 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (4.02%) PaaS
10 64 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 64 (3.30%) IaaS
11 53 (2.73%) GitHub
12 49 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (2.42%) PowerApps
14 46 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 44 (2.27%) Snowflake
16 43 (2.22%) IBM Cloud
17 42 (2.16%) Serverless
18 34 (1.75%) OneDrive
19 27 (1.39%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 273 (14.06%) Firewall
2 183 (9.43%) DNS
3 141 (7.26%) DHCP
4 125 (6.44%) WAN
5 91 (4.69%) SAN
5 91 (4.69%) TCP/IP
6 81 (4.17%) VPN
7 67 (3.45%) LAN
8 66 (3.40%) VLAN
9 63 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (2.37%) Network Security
11 45 (2.32%) SD-WAN
12 43 (2.22%) Wireless
13 31 (1.60%) Internet
14 20 (1.03%) MPLS
14 20 (1.03%) WLAN
15 19 (0.98%) BIG-IP
16 18 (0.93%) HTTP
16 18 (0.93%) VoIP
17 16 (0.82%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (21.33%) SQL Server
2 166 (8.55%) Power BI
3 137 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
5 105 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 96 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (4.43%) MongoDB
8 57 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 49 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 48 (2.47%) DB2
11 47 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (2.32%) Relational Database
13 43 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 41 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 38 (1.96%) Tableau
16 37 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
17 36 (1.85%) BigQuery
18 33 (1.70%) Looker
19 30 (1.55%) GIS
20 28 (1.44%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.23%) Git
2 35 (1.80%) Visual Studio
3 33 (1.70%) GitLab
4 32 (1.65%) JIRA
5 26 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 21 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 21 (1.08%) Postman
7 12 (0.62%) SoapUI
8 11 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.57%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
8 11 (0.57%) MSTest
9 10 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.41%) NUnit
12 7 (0.36%) Maven
13 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.31%) JMeter
13 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 416 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 179 (9.22%) Finance
3 132 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (5.62%) Retail
5 95 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 94 (4.84%) Law
7 66 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 65 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 38 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.49%) Marketing
12 28 (1.44%) Legal
13 21 (1.08%) Advertising
13 21 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (0.77%) Automotive
15 15 (0.77%) Banking
15 15 (0.77%) Local Government
16 12 (0.62%) Games
17 11 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 441 (22.72%) Developer
2 300 (15.46%) Senior
3 189 (9.74%) .NET Developer
4 169 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 138 (7.11%) IT Engineer
6 129 (6.65%) Architect
7 127 (6.54%) Support Engineer
8 124 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
9 120 (6.18%) IT Support
10 118 (6.08%) Analyst
11 116 (5.98%) Software Engineer
12 104 (5.36%) Lead
13 81 (4.17%) C# Developer
14 80 (4.12%) Data Engineer
15 77 (3.97%) Administrator
16 72 (3.71%) Senior Developer
17 69 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
18 64 (3.30%) Network Engineer
19 63 (3.25%) IT Support Engineer
20 60 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (25.50%) .NET
2 223 (11.49%) ASP.NET
3 218 (11.23%) .NET Core
4 216 (11.13%) React
5 210 (10.82%) AngularJS
6 191 (9.84%) HTML
7 169 (8.71%) CSS
8 142 (7.32%) REST
9 125 (6.44%) .NET Framework
10 117 (6.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 117 (6.03%) RESTful
11 113 (5.82%) ASP.NET MVC
12 110 (5.67%) Vue
13 104 (5.36%) Entity Framework
14 90 (4.64%) Web Services
15 72 (3.71%) jQuery
16 66 (3.40%) HTML5
17 63 (3.25%) Blazor
18 62 (3.19%) Node.js
19 61 (3.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
2 76 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 71 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 69 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 63 (3.25%) Clustering
6 63 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 60 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 55 (2.83%) Cloud Native
9 53 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 51 (2.63%) Driving Licence
11 43 (2.22%) Blockchain
11 43 (2.22%) e-Learning
12 40 (2.06%) Replication
13 37 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 28 (1.44%) IoT
17 24 (1.24%) Mobile App
18 23 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 482 (24.83%) Windows
2 255 (13.14%) Windows Server
3 158 (8.14%) Linux
4 68 (3.50%) Android
5 66 (3.40%) Apple iOS
6 64 (3.30%) Windows 10
7 62 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 52 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.98%) VMS
11 17 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 16 (0.82%) Unix
13 15 (0.77%) Mac OS
14 12 (0.62%) Debian
15 10 (0.52%) CentOS
15 10 (0.52%) SUSE
15 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.31%) Solaris
17 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (29.68%) Agile
2 526 (27.10%) DevOps
3 306 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
4 240 (12.36%) Full Stack Development
5 238 (12.26%) CI/CD
6 216 (11.13%) MVC
7 206 (10.61%) Software Engineering
8 193 (9.94%) Mentoring
9 192 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 175 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
11 164 (8.45%) ETL
12 162 (8.35%) Microservices
13 161 (8.29%) Scrum
14 146 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
15 127 (6.54%) ITIL
16 125 (6.44%) Project Management
17 124 (6.39%) Migration
18 123 (6.34%) Data Modelling
19 121 (6.23%) Artificial Intelligence
20 108 (5.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 559 (28.80%) SQL
2 523 (26.94%) C#
3 375 (19.32%) JavaScript
4 187 (9.63%) Python
5 181 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 140 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 120 (6.18%) T-SQL
8 63 (3.25%) Java
9 39 (2.01%) Bash
10 30 (1.55%) Bicep
11 24 (1.24%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.03%) VB
13 14 (0.72%) C++
14 13 (0.67%) Go
14 13 (0.67%) XAML
15 12 (0.62%) C
15 12 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (0.57%) VB6
17 9 (0.46%) PHP
17 9 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (9.22%) Degree
2 157 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 125 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 87 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 83 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (2.58%) CCNA
8 39 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.49%) CCNP
10 25 (1.29%) MCSE
11 21 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
13 16 (0.82%) A+ Certification
14 15 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.77%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.57%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (5.82%) QA
2 43 (2.22%) GDPR
3 42 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (1.34%) SLA
6 25 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 12 (0.62%) NCSC
10 9 (0.46%) PMO
11 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.36%) NIST
13 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 3 (0.15%) IFRS
14 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
System Software
1 380 (19.58%) Active Directory
2 202 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 177 (9.12%) Hyper-V
4 127 (6.54%) Docker
5 38 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (1.03%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.72%) vSphere
10 8 (0.41%) pfSense
11 6 (0.31%) NFS
12 4 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.10%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 176 (9.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 125 (6.44%) Terraform
3 104 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 52 (2.68%) SCCM
5 34 (1.75%) Ansible
6 22 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.82%) WSUS
8 13 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
9 11 (0.57%) SmoothWall
10 10 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.36%) SCOM
13 6 (0.31%) Grafana
14 5 (0.26%) Autotask
14 5 (0.26%) PaperCut
14 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
15 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.21%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 874 (45.03%) Microsoft
2 288 (14.84%) VMware
3 125 (6.44%) Cisco
4 105 (5.41%) Veeam
5 78 (4.02%) Google
6 67 (3.45%) Databricks
7 59 (3.04%) Citrix
8 50 (2.58%) Meraki
9 49 (2.52%) IBM
10 45 (2.32%) Red Hat
11 38 (1.96%) HP
12 31 (1.60%) Sophos
13 29 (1.49%) Aruba
13 29 (1.49%) Dell
14 28 (1.44%) CheckPoint
14 28 (1.44%) ESRI
15 23 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.08%) F5
17 20 (1.03%) Acronis
17 20 (1.03%) Oracle