Azure Jobs in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 265 805 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.80% 16.57% 19.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.84% 51.97% 52.91%
Number of salaries quoted 206 578 274
10th Percentile £27,406 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -8.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,375 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 591 1,549 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.86% 31.89% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 464 1,144 557
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,563 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,625 £71,250 £75,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East Midlands

Azure
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -10 71 £51,250 +2.50% 20
Derbyshire -12 63 £41,250 -8.33% 26
Nottinghamshire -15 60 £53,444 -2.83% 52
Leicestershire -20 55 £48,500 +7.78% 38
Lincolnshire -28 11 £45,000 - 26
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 34 (12.83%) Confluence
2 24 (9.06%) SharePoint
3 22 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (35.09%) AWS
2 78 (29.43%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (15.85%) GCP
4 37 (13.96%) Power Platform
5 36 (13.58%) Entra ID
6 28 (10.57%) SaaS
7 18 (6.79%) IaaS
8 16 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (6.04%) PaaS
9 15 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.77%) Serverless
11 9 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (3.02%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.02%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 6 (2.26%) Google Workspace
14 6 (2.26%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.96%) Firewall
2 27 (10.19%) DNS
3 23 (8.68%) DHCP
4 19 (7.17%) WAN
5 16 (6.04%) SD-WAN
5 16 (6.04%) VoIP
6 14 (5.28%) LAN
7 13 (4.91%) VPN
8 12 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (3.40%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (3.40%) Network Security
9 9 (3.40%) TCP/IP
10 8 (3.02%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (2.64%) Ethernet
11 7 (2.64%) VLAN
12 4 (1.51%) SAN
13 3 (1.13%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.13%) Wireless
14 2 (0.75%) Broadband
15 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (36.23%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.57%) Power BI
3 21 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (7.55%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (6.04%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.51%) MySQL
8 4 (1.51%) Power Query
8 4 (1.51%) PowerPivot
9 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.38%) Big Data
11 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (16.98%) JIRA
2 42 (15.85%) Selenium
3 40 (15.09%) Cucumber
3 40 (15.09%) Maven
4 39 (14.72%) Bitbucket
4 39 (14.72%) GitLab
4 39 (14.72%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (5.28%) Visual Studio
6 10 (3.77%) Git
7 8 (3.02%) JUnit
8 7 (2.64%) Eclipse
8 7 (2.64%) IntelliJ
8 7 (2.64%) Jasmine
8 7 (2.64%) Karma Test Runner
8 7 (2.64%) Mockito
8 7 (2.64%) Protractor
9 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.75%) Postman
10 2 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 67 (25.28%) Finance
2 65 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 45 (16.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (14.72%) Banking
5 27 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.06%) Law
7 12 (4.53%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Games
8 5 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.51%) Legal
9 4 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Billing
10 3 (1.13%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (17.36%) Developer
1 46 (17.36%) Software Engineer
2 32 (12.08%) Senior
3 31 (11.70%) IT Support
4 30 (11.32%) Analyst
5 22 (8.30%) Lead
6 18 (6.79%) IT Engineer
7 17 (6.42%) Project Engineer
8 16 (6.04%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.28%) 1st Line Support
10 13 (4.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (4.91%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.91%) Team Leader
11 12 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.15%) C# Developer
12 11 (4.15%) Support Specialist
12 11 (4.15%) Support Team Leader
13 10 (3.77%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (3.77%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (21.51%) React
2 46 (17.36%) CSS
2 46 (17.36%) JPA
3 44 (16.60%) HTML
4 41 (15.47%) Hibernate
5 40 (15.09%) Kafka
5 40 (15.09%) Redux
5 40 (15.09%) Spring
5 40 (15.09%) Spring Boot
6 34 (12.83%) .NET
7 16 (6.04%) REST
8 14 (5.28%) ASP.NET
9 12 (4.53%) .NET Core
9 12 (4.53%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.02%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (2.64%) HTML5
11 7 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.64%) RESTful
11 7 (2.64%) Sass
11 7 (2.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.98%) Product Ownership
2 39 (14.72%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.04%) Driving Licence
4 10 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.40%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.89%) Replication
8 4 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.75%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 79 (29.81%) Windows
2 57 (21.51%) Windows Server
3 27 (10.19%) Linux
4 16 (6.04%) Android
5 9 (3.40%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.40%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.64%) CentOS
6 7 (2.64%) Rocky
6 7 (2.64%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.26%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.92%) DevOps
2 73 (27.55%) Agile
3 65 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (22.64%) Software Engineering
5 56 (21.13%) Microservices
6 53 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 51 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (18.49%) Containerisation
9 48 (18.11%) SDLC
10 45 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (16.23%) Test Automation
12 41 (15.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 40 (15.09%) Front End Development
14 37 (13.96%) Clean Code
15 35 (13.21%) TDD
16 33 (12.45%) ITIL
17 31 (11.70%) Mentoring
18 25 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
19 24 (9.06%) Customer Service
20 23 (8.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (43.77%) SQL
2 66 (24.91%) JavaScript
3 52 (19.62%) Java
4 35 (13.21%) C#
5 23 (8.68%) PowerShell
6 20 (7.55%) T-SQL
7 19 (7.17%) Python
7 19 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.13%) C++
10 3 (1.13%) PHP
11 2 (0.75%) Bicep
12 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) R
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (9.06%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.79%) CCNP
3 17 (6.42%) Degree
4 14 (5.28%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.28%) CCNA
5 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.53%) MCSA
7 9 (3.40%) CCIE
7 9 (3.40%) DBS Check
7 9 (3.40%) MCSE
8 8 (3.02%) MCP
9 6 (2.26%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.26%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.51%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.75%) PhD
13 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.98%) QA
2 14 (5.28%) SLA
3 13 (4.91%) GDPR
4 11 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (24.15%) Active Directory
2 63 (23.77%) Docker
3 20 (7.55%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (17.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.40%) SCCM
4 8 (3.02%) Ansible
5 7 (2.64%) Terraform
6 5 (1.89%) Autotask
7 2 (0.75%) SCOM
7 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.38%) Marathon
8 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 120 (45.28%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.72%) Solace
3 27 (10.19%) Meraki
4 19 (7.17%) Cisco
4 19 (7.17%) Databricks
4 19 (7.17%) VMware
5 15 (5.66%) HP
6 12 (4.53%) Aruba
7 9 (3.40%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.40%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.02%) IBM
9 7 (2.64%) Zoho
10 6 (2.26%) Google
11 5 (1.89%) Apple
11 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.51%) Datto
12 4 (1.51%) Veeam
13 3 (1.13%) Nasuni
13 3 (1.13%) Rapid7
13 3 (1.13%) Sophos