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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,153 1,425 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.95% 21.19% 20.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.74% 56.55% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 892 1,127
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,800
25th Percentile £40,798 £45,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £80,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +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 2,415 2,520 2,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.42% 37.47% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 1,599 2,083
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £81,786 £80,000 £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 27 April 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 27 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
Birmingham +2 522 £57,500 - 111
Staffordshire -3 139 £50,000 +5.26% 21
Warwickshire +14 117 £52,500 -4.55% 31
Worcestershire -6 62 £47,500 +3.26% 17
Shropshire 0 47 £42,500 -19.05% 8
Coventry -5 45 £59,250 +7.73% 19
Solihull -10 24 £62,500 +19.05% 8
Wolverhampton -7 20 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Herefordshire -1 14 £30,000 -40.00% 10
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 1
Wednesbury +3 9 £30,000 -33.33%
Walsall +3 8 £45,000 -20.22% 3
Stourbridge - 5 £55,000 - 1
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Brierley Hill -5 3 £32,500 -
Dudley -12 1 £55,000 - 2
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
West Bromwich - 1 £23,000 - 1
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
1 121 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 91 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (5.20%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Apache
5 10 (0.87%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.17%) Liferay
9 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.087%) Confluence
10 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.087%) Magento
3 1 (0.087%) Maximo
3 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 292 (25.33%) Microsoft 365
2 246 (21.34%) AWS
3 180 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (14.40%) Power Platform
5 145 (12.58%) Entra ID
6 84 (7.29%) GCP
7 78 (6.76%) SaaS
8 65 (5.64%) PaaS
9 64 (5.55%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (4.77%) IaaS
11 48 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (3.47%) GitHub
13 37 (3.21%) Snowflake
14 32 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 31 (2.69%) PowerApps
16 29 (2.52%) Serverless
17 28 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
18 26 (2.25%) Azure Stack
19 25 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
20 21 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 172 (14.92%) Firewall
2 91 (7.89%) WAN
3 89 (7.72%) DNS
4 73 (6.33%) DHCP
5 56 (4.86%) SAN
6 44 (3.82%) LAN
7 42 (3.64%) VPN
7 42 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 36 (3.12%) TCP/IP
9 35 (3.04%) SD-WAN
10 32 (2.78%) Wireless
11 30 (2.60%) Network Security
12 25 (2.17%) VLAN
13 18 (1.56%) BIG-IP
14 16 (1.39%) MPLS
15 15 (1.30%) NGFW
15 15 (1.30%) PBX
16 14 (1.21%) Internet
16 14 (1.21%) iSCSI
17 13 (1.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 122 (10.58%) Power BI
3 101 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (5.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 36 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.12%) Tableau
7 35 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 33 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 27 (2.34%) MongoDB
12 24 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 19 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.47%) Looker
18 14 (1.21%) MySQL
19 13 (1.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (6.33%) Git
2 29 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 23 (1.99%) GitLab
4 16 (1.39%) Postman
5 15 (1.30%) JIRA
6 12 (1.04%) SoapUI
7 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.87%) MSTest
8 10 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.61%) Maven
10 7 (0.61%) NUnit
11 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.43%) Jasmine
12 5 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (0.35%) ESLint
13 4 (0.35%) IntelliJ
General
1 254 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 131 (11.36%) Finance
3 75 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.07%) Retail
5 61 (5.29%) Law
6 44 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.91%) Legal
12 20 (1.73%) Marketing
13 15 (1.30%) Automotive
13 15 (1.30%) Local Government
14 13 (1.13%) Advertising
15 10 (0.87%) Banking
15 10 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
15 10 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Police
16 8 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 252 (21.86%) Developer
2 186 (16.13%) Senior
3 95 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 92 (7.98%) .NET Developer
5 90 (7.81%) Analyst
6 88 (7.63%) Architect
7 87 (7.55%) IT Engineer
8 80 (6.94%) Support Engineer
9 73 (6.33%) IT Support
10 57 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 54 (4.68%) Lead
12 53 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 52 (4.51%) Network Engineer
14 47 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
15 44 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (3.64%) C# Developer
17 38 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 38 (3.30%) Senior Developer
18 34 (2.95%) 3rd Line Support
18 34 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (21.08%) .NET
2 106 (9.19%) .NET Core
3 91 (7.89%) ASP.NET
4 89 (7.72%) AngularJS
5 85 (7.37%) .NET Framework
6 84 (7.29%) HTML
7 78 (6.76%) React
7 78 (6.76%) RESTful
8 75 (6.50%) Entity Framework
9 69 (5.98%) ASP.NET Web API
10 60 (5.20%) ASP.NET MVC
11 59 (5.12%) CSS
12 55 (4.77%) REST
13 42 (3.64%) Blazor
14 41 (3.56%) Vue
15 38 (3.30%) JSON
16 30 (2.60%) XML
17 29 (2.52%) HTML5
17 29 (2.52%) Node.js
18 27 (2.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.25%) Data Centre
2 48 (4.16%) Clustering
2 48 (4.16%) Management Information System
3 46 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 44 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 30 (2.60%) Replication
8 25 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.08%) Driving Licence
9 24 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 20 (1.73%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.04%) IoT
14 12 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 250 (21.68%) Windows
2 147 (12.75%) Windows Server
3 52 (4.51%) Windows 10
4 50 (4.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 45 (3.90%) Linux
6 34 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.13%) Unix
9 12 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.04%) VMS
10 10 (0.87%) Android
10 10 (0.87%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (0.52%) Solaris
14 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.087%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (27.93%) DevOps
2 294 (25.50%) Agile
3 177 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (14.57%) CI/CD
5 130 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (10.32%) Software Engineering
7 114 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 109 (9.45%) ETL
9 108 (9.37%) Full Stack Development
10 98 (8.50%) Scrum
11 97 (8.41%) ITIL
11 97 (8.41%) Microservices
12 94 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
13 87 (7.55%) MVC
14 86 (7.46%) Mentoring
15 82 (7.11%) Data Modelling
16 79 (6.85%) Analytics
17 77 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (6.16%) TDD
19 64 (5.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 340 (29.49%) SQL
2 268 (23.24%) C#
3 160 (13.88%) JavaScript
4 105 (9.11%) PowerShell
4 105 (9.11%) Python
5 87 (7.55%) T-SQL
6 69 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.73%) Java
8 18 (1.56%) Bicep
9 14 (1.21%) Bash
10 13 (1.13%) XAML
11 10 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.69%) C
13 7 (0.61%) VB
14 5 (0.43%) C++
14 5 (0.43%) Go
14 5 (0.43%) PHP
14 5 (0.43%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.43%) VB6
15 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (10.58%) Degree
2 100 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 78 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (3.21%) CCNA
8 22 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.82%) CCNP
10 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.56%) MCSE
12 16 (1.39%) A+ Certification
13 15 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.69%) CCSA
15 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.69%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.72%) QA
2 32 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.08%) GDPR
4 23 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.30%) SLA
7 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 10 (0.87%) NCSC
9 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.69%) PMO
9 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.52%) NIST
11 3 (0.26%) IFRS
11 3 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 218 (18.91%) Active Directory
2 142 (12.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (10.23%) Hyper-V
4 59 (5.12%) Docker
5 37 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.65%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.95%) vSphere
10 9 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.52%) NFS
11 6 (0.52%) pfSense
12 3 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 94 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 85 (7.37%) Terraform
3 59 (5.12%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.47%) SCCM
5 19 (1.65%) Ansible
6 17 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.35%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.35%) Autotask
10 4 (0.35%) SCOM
10 4 (0.35%) WSUS
11 3 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.17%) Backup Exec
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) MIIS
13 1 (0.087%) CASB
Vendors
1 564 (48.92%) Microsoft
2 197 (17.09%) VMware
3 81 (7.03%) Cisco
4 61 (5.29%) Databricks
5 57 (4.94%) Veeam
6 48 (4.16%) Citrix
7 27 (2.34%) Aruba
7 27 (2.34%) CheckPoint
7 27 (2.34%) HP
8 26 (2.25%) Sophos
9 24 (2.08%) Meraki
10 21 (1.82%) Dell
10 21 (1.82%) Google
11 18 (1.56%) F5
12 17 (1.47%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.39%) Juniper
14 15 (1.30%) Nimble Storage
15 14 (1.21%) Alteryx
15 14 (1.21%) Informatica
16 13 (1.13%) SolarWinds