Azure Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,557 1,442 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.40% 18.99% 20.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.07% 52.04% 55.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 1,034 1,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,532 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £54,255
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +1.37% +3.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £76,250 £81,025
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,150 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% +1.04% +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,308 2,771 4,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.47% 36.49% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 1,997 3,130
10th Percentile £27,225 £29,750 £29,675
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £52,500 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.04% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -3 892 £56,988 +3.61% 144
East Midlands +1 662 £47,500 -9.52% 68
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
1 137 (8.80%) SharePoint
2 115 (7.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (3.21%) IIS
4 18 (1.16%) ArcGIS
4 18 (1.16%) GeoServer
5 12 (0.77%) Confluence
6 11 (0.71%) Apache
6 11 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.19%) CMS
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.064%) nginx
12 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 65 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.39%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Trello
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.064%) CATIA
6 1 (0.064%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.064%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 34 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.064%) Maximo
6 1 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.064%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 378 (24.28%) Microsoft 365
2 362 (23.25%) AWS
3 225 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
4 203 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 175 (11.24%) Power Platform
6 103 (6.62%) SaaS
7 86 (5.52%) GCP
8 71 (4.56%) IBM Cloud
9 65 (4.17%) IaaS
10 64 (4.11%) PaaS
11 58 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 56 (3.60%) PowerApps
13 41 (2.63%) GitHub
14 36 (2.31%) Serverless
15 34 (2.18%) Power Automate
16 32 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 32 (2.06%) OneDrive
17 30 (1.93%) Azure Stack
18 29 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 222 (14.26%) Firewall
2 164 (10.53%) DNS
3 118 (7.58%) DHCP
4 91 (5.84%) WAN
5 79 (5.07%) TCP/IP
6 75 (4.82%) VPN
7 66 (4.24%) SAN
8 60 (3.85%) LAN
9 59 (3.79%) VLAN
10 55 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.44%) SD-WAN
11 38 (2.44%) Wireless
12 26 (1.67%) Network Security
13 21 (1.35%) Internet
14 14 (0.90%) 5G
14 14 (0.90%) SSL
15 13 (0.83%) PBX
16 12 (0.77%) NAS
16 12 (0.77%) VoIP
17 10 (0.64%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 134 (8.61%) Power BI
3 108 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 102 (6.55%) NoSQL
5 101 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
6 88 (5.65%) MongoDB
7 73 (4.69%) DB2
8 71 (4.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 41 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 38 (2.44%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.18%) MySQL
12 33 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 24 (1.54%) Looker
14 22 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (1.35%) Big Data
16 20 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (1.28%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.22%) Tableau
18 18 (1.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (6.04%) Git
2 27 (1.73%) JIRA
2 27 (1.73%) Visual Studio
3 18 (1.16%) SonarQube
4 14 (0.90%) GitLab
5 13 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (0.77%) Postman
7 11 (0.71%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
8 10 (0.64%) MSTest
9 9 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.45%) Jenkins
11 6 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.26%) NUnit
14 3 (0.19%) Axure RP
General
1 345 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 123 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (7.71%) Finance
4 110 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (4.17%) Retail
7 53 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 49 (3.15%) Law
9 45 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 30 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.67%) Automotive
12 25 (1.61%) Legal
12 25 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.28%) Marketing
14 17 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.64%) Billing
15 10 (0.64%) Games
16 9 (0.58%) Banking
17 8 (0.51%) Local Government
17 8 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 364 (23.38%) Developer
2 234 (15.03%) Senior
3 157 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
4 148 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 141 (9.06%) .NET Developer
6 135 (8.67%) Architect
7 98 (6.29%) IT Engineer
8 89 (5.72%) Software Engineer
9 87 (5.59%) Senior Developer
10 80 (5.14%) Support Engineer
11 78 (5.01%) Analyst
12 77 (4.95%) Lead
13 74 (4.75%) Full Stack Engineer
14 72 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (4.62%) IT Support
15 71 (4.56%) Network Engineer
16 60 (3.85%) C# Developer
17 52 (3.34%) Data Engineer
18 50 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
19 49 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (27.62%) .NET
2 203 (13.04%) React
3 190 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 174 (11.18%) HTML
5 173 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 168 (10.79%) CSS
7 141 (9.06%) .NET Core
8 127 (8.16%) Vue
9 118 (7.58%) REST
10 111 (7.13%) Web Services
11 99 (6.36%) .NET Framework
12 92 (5.91%) jQuery
13 87 (5.59%) ASP.NET Core
13 87 (5.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 71 (4.56%) Backbone.js
14 71 (4.56%) Ember.js
15 67 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
16 62 (3.98%) Entity Framework
17 58 (3.73%) RESTful
18 42 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 86 (5.52%) Algorithms
3 77 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 71 (4.56%) Blockchain
4 71 (4.56%) e-Learning
5 59 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 59 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 49 (3.15%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 41 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.57%) Product Ownership
10 37 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 35 (2.25%) Replication
12 31 (1.99%) Driving Licence
13 29 (1.86%) Clustering
14 24 (1.54%) IoT
15 23 (1.48%) PKI
16 17 (1.09%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 430 (27.62%) Windows
2 229 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 149 (9.57%) Linux
4 96 (6.17%) Android
5 86 (5.52%) Apple iOS
6 65 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 47 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 41 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 38 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 29 (1.86%) VMS
11 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
11 13 (0.83%) Unix
12 8 (0.51%) Solaris
13 7 (0.45%) Debian
14 6 (0.39%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 3 (0.19%) CentOS
17 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (27.75%) Agile
2 390 (25.05%) DevOps
3 251 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 225 (14.45%) Full Stack Development
5 222 (14.26%) Mentoring
6 182 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 170 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 170 (10.92%) Software Engineering
8 154 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
9 151 (9.70%) MVC
10 144 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
11 125 (8.03%) ITIL
12 118 (7.58%) Web Development
13 116 (7.45%) Coaching
14 113 (7.26%) Scrum
15 102 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence
15 102 (6.55%) User Experience
16 100 (6.42%) SOLID
17 99 (6.36%) Code Quality
18 98 (6.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 452 (29.03%) C#
2 420 (26.97%) SQL
3 307 (19.72%) JavaScript
4 124 (7.96%) PowerShell
5 93 (5.97%) TypeScript
6 88 (5.65%) Python
7 76 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 26 (1.67%) Bicep
8 26 (1.67%) Java
9 23 (1.48%) Bash
10 18 (1.16%) C++
10 18 (1.16%) VB.NET
11 16 (1.03%) VB
12 12 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.71%) VB6
14 10 (0.64%) C
15 9 (0.58%) PHP
16 6 (0.39%) Go
16 6 (0.39%) XAML
17 4 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 159 (10.21%) Degree
2 127 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 105 (6.74%) Azure Certification
4 94 (6.04%) SC Cleared
5 85 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.57%) CCNA
9 31 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.99%) MCSE
10 20 (1.28%) CCNP
11 18 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 12 (0.77%) MCITP
14 12 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (0.64%) MCSA
15 10 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.04%) QA
2 44 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 43 (2.76%) GDPR
4 39 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.86%) NCSC
6 23 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.41%) SLA
8 20 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 9 (0.58%) NIST
10 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
12 2 (0.13%) PMO
13 1 (0.064%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.064%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.064%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.064%) SOC 2
System Software
1 323 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 150 (9.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (8.99%) Hyper-V
4 113 (7.26%) Docker
5 26 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.96%) XenApp
8 15 (0.96%) XenDesktop
9 14 (0.90%) vSphere
10 13 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.39%) Firmware
11 6 (0.39%) pfSense
12 4 (0.26%) NFS
12 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 137 (8.80%) Terraform
2 129 (8.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 97 (6.23%) Kubernetes
4 51 (3.28%) SCCM
5 40 (2.57%) Ansible
6 17 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.71%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.64%) Grafana
10 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
10 10 (0.64%) SCOM
11 8 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.39%) SmoothWall
13 6 (0.39%) WSUS
14 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.26%) SCOrch
14 4 (0.26%) vMotion
Vendors
1 653 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 218 (14.00%) VMware
3 95 (6.10%) Cisco
4 82 (5.27%) IBM
5 81 (5.20%) Veeam
6 72 (4.62%) Red Hat
7 56 (3.60%) Google
8 47 (3.02%) Databricks
9 45 (2.89%) Citrix
10 39 (2.50%) Meraki
11 29 (1.86%) Dell
12 25 (1.61%) HP
13 24 (1.54%) Aruba
14 22 (1.41%) Oracle
15 21 (1.35%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.22%) Acronis
17 18 (1.16%) ESRI
17 18 (1.16%) ServiceNow
18 17 (1.09%) SAP
18 17 (1.09%) Splunk