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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,161 1,440 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.04% 21.32% 20.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.90% 56.83% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 889 1,128
10th Percentile £32,350 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,490
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.27% +5.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,650 £80,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.42% +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 2,424 2,534 2,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.49% 37.51% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,086 1,586 2,091
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,143 £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 25 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 25 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 +2 526 £57,500 -4.17% 107
Staffordshire -4 138 £50,000 +5.26% 21
Warwickshire +16 118 £52,500 -4.55% 28
Worcestershire -5 63 £47,500 +3.26% 16
Shropshire 0 47 £42,500 -19.05% 8
Coventry -5 47 £58,500 +6.36% 27
Solihull -10 25 £62,500 +19.05% 8
Wolverhampton -7 20 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Herefordshire -2 14 £30,000 -40.00% 9
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 1
Wednesbury +3 9 £30,000 -33.33%
Walsall +3 8 £45,000 -20.22% 5
Stourbridge - 5 £55,000 - 1
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Brierley Hill -5 3 £32,500 -
Dudley -12 1 £55,000 - 3
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
1 125 (10.77%) SharePoint
2 92 (7.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (5.17%) IIS
4 12 (1.03%) Apache
5 10 (0.86%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.43%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) Confluence
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 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.086%) Magento
3 1 (0.086%) Maximo
3 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 294 (25.32%) Microsoft 365
2 247 (21.27%) AWS
3 182 (15.68%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (14.47%) Power Platform
5 147 (12.66%) Entra ID
6 86 (7.41%) GCP
7 78 (6.72%) SaaS
8 67 (5.77%) PaaS
9 65 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (4.74%) IaaS
11 48 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (3.53%) GitHub
13 37 (3.19%) Snowflake
14 32 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 32 (2.76%) PowerApps
15 29 (2.50%) Serverless
16 28 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
17 26 (2.24%) Azure Stack
18 25 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
19 21 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 173 (14.90%) Firewall
2 90 (7.75%) DNS
2 90 (7.75%) WAN
3 74 (6.37%) DHCP
4 56 (4.82%) SAN
5 43 (3.70%) LAN
5 43 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
6 41 (3.53%) VPN
7 36 (3.10%) TCP/IP
8 35 (3.01%) SD-WAN
9 31 (2.67%) Wireless
10 30 (2.58%) Network Security
11 25 (2.15%) VLAN
12 19 (1.64%) BIG-IP
13 16 (1.38%) MPLS
14 15 (1.29%) NGFW
14 15 (1.29%) PBX
15 14 (1.21%) Internet
15 14 (1.21%) iSCSI
16 13 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (22.74%) SQL Server
2 124 (10.68%) Power BI
3 99 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 36 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.10%) Tableau
7 34 (2.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 33 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 27 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 25 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (1.72%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.46%) Looker
18 14 (1.21%) DynamoDB
18 14 (1.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 75 (6.46%) Git
2 29 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 23 (1.98%) GitLab
4 16 (1.38%) JIRA
4 16 (1.38%) Postman
5 12 (1.03%) SoapUI
6 11 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.86%) MSTest
7 10 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.60%) Maven
9 7 (0.60%) NUnit
10 6 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.43%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.34%) ESLint
12 4 (0.34%) IntelliJ
General
1 255 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 134 (11.54%) Finance
3 76 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.03%) Retail
5 66 (5.68%) Law
6 43 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.98%) Legal
12 20 (1.72%) Marketing
13 15 (1.29%) Automotive
13 15 (1.29%) Local Government
14 13 (1.12%) Advertising
15 10 (0.86%) Banking
15 10 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
15 10 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Police
16 8 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 255 (21.96%) Developer
2 187 (16.11%) Senior
3 99 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 94 (8.10%) .NET Developer
5 90 (7.75%) Analyst
5 90 (7.75%) IT Engineer
6 88 (7.58%) Architect
7 81 (6.98%) Support Engineer
8 74 (6.37%) IT Support
9 58 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 54 (4.65%) Lead
11 53 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.39%) Network Engineer
13 47 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
15 42 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 39 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 38 (3.27%) Senior Developer
18 35 (3.01%) 3rd Line Support
19 34 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (21.19%) .NET
2 107 (9.22%) .NET Core
3 91 (7.84%) ASP.NET
4 90 (7.75%) AngularJS
5 87 (7.49%) .NET Framework
6 85 (7.32%) HTML
7 78 (6.72%) React
7 78 (6.72%) RESTful
8 76 (6.55%) Entity Framework
9 70 (6.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 60 (5.17%) ASP.NET MVC
10 60 (5.17%) CSS
11 55 (4.74%) REST
12 42 (3.62%) Blazor
13 41 (3.53%) Vue
14 39 (3.36%) JSON
15 31 (2.67%) XML
16 29 (2.50%) HTML5
16 29 (2.50%) Node.js
17 27 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.39%) Clustering
2 49 (4.22%) Data Centre
3 48 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 46 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 44 (3.79%) Public Cloud
5 44 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 31 (2.67%) Replication
8 25 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.07%) Driving Licence
9 24 (2.07%) Private Cloud
10 23 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.95%) IoT
15 11 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 253 (21.79%) Windows
2 149 (12.83%) Windows Server
3 53 (4.57%) Windows 10
4 51 (4.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 45 (3.88%) Linux
6 36 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.12%) Unix
9 12 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.03%) VMS
10 10 (0.86%) Android
10 10 (0.86%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.60%) 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 (0.086%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (28.25%) DevOps
2 299 (25.75%) Agile
3 177 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (14.64%) CI/CD
5 130 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (10.25%) Software Engineering
7 118 (10.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 111 (9.56%) Full Stack Development
9 108 (9.30%) ETL
10 99 (8.53%) Microservices
11 98 (8.44%) ITIL
11 98 (8.44%) Scrum
12 95 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
13 88 (7.58%) MVC
14 86 (7.41%) Mentoring
15 81 (6.98%) Data Modelling
16 78 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (6.55%) Analytics
18 71 (6.12%) TDD
19 67 (5.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 346 (29.80%) SQL
2 270 (23.26%) C#
3 163 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 108 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 107 (9.22%) Python
6 87 (7.49%) T-SQL
7 69 (5.94%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.70%) Java
9 18 (1.55%) Bicep
10 15 (1.29%) Bash
11 13 (1.12%) XAML
12 10 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.69%) C
14 7 (0.60%) VB
15 5 (0.43%) C++
15 5 (0.43%) Go
15 5 (0.43%) PHP
15 5 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.43%) VB6
16 3 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (10.42%) Degree
2 100 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 78 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (3.10%) CCNA
8 22 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.81%) CCNP
10 19 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.46%) MCSE
12 16 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 15 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.69%) CCSA
15 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.69%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.68%) QA
2 32 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.07%) GDPR
4 22 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.29%) SLA
7 13 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 10 (0.86%) NCSC
9 9 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.69%) PMO
10 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.52%) NIST
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
14 1 (0.086%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.086%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 220 (18.95%) Active Directory
2 141 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (10.25%) Hyper-V
4 60 (5.17%) Docker
5 37 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.64%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.12%) 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 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 95 (8.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 86 (7.41%) Terraform
3 62 (5.34%) Kubernetes
4 40 (3.45%) SCCM
5 20 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (1.64%) Ansible
7 13 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.34%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.34%) Autotask
10 4 (0.34%) SCOM
10 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.086%) Nessus
Vendors
1 569 (49.01%) Microsoft
2 198 (17.05%) VMware
3 83 (7.15%) Cisco
4 61 (5.25%) Databricks
5 57 (4.91%) Veeam
6 48 (4.13%) Citrix
7 27 (2.33%) Aruba
7 27 (2.33%) CheckPoint
8 26 (2.24%) HP
8 26 (2.24%) Sophos
9 24 (2.07%) Meraki
10 22 (1.89%) Google
11 21 (1.81%) Dell
12 19 (1.64%) F5
13 18 (1.55%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.38%) Juniper
15 15 (1.29%) Nimble Storage
16 14 (1.21%) Alteryx
16 14 (1.21%) Informatica
17 13 (1.12%) SolarWinds