Azure Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,662 831 1,983
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 13.49% 16.70% 14.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.94% 51.20% 48.15%
Number of salaries quoted 818 668 1,638
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,175 £30,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing 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 3,025 1,623 4,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.55% 32.61% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 1,282 3,329
10th Percentile £29,900 £27,106 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Azure job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 2026. 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 0 905 £60,000 +9.09% 172
East Midlands +10 751 £55,000 +22.22% 95
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 85 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.02%) IIS
4 9 (0.54%) Confluence
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.36%) WordPress
6 2 (0.12%) Apache
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.060%) Mendix
7 1 (0.060%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 186 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Cloudability
1 12 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.24%) Primavera
4 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.060%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.060%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 297 (17.87%) Power Platform
2 251 (15.10%) Azure AI
3 238 (14.32%) AWS
4 190 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (8.24%) Entra ID
6 121 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (4.21%) GCP
8 43 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (2.59%) PaaS
9 38 (2.29%) IaaS
10 35 (2.11%) GitHub
10 35 (2.11%) SaaS
10 35 (2.11%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (1.26%) Azure AKS
17 16 (0.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.63%) Firewall
2 69 (4.15%) DNS
3 56 (3.37%) VPN
4 50 (3.01%) WAN
5 49 (2.95%) DHCP
6 38 (2.29%) VLAN
7 27 (1.62%) LAN
8 26 (1.56%) Internet
8 26 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 25 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 22 (1.32%) Network Security
11 20 (1.20%) VoIP
12 19 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.90%) Wireless
14 8 (0.48%) MQTT
15 6 (0.36%) SAN
16 5 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
17 4 (0.24%) Bluetooth
17 4 (0.24%) SSL
17 4 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (15.82%) Power BI
2 178 (10.71%) Tableau
3 94 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 71 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 32 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.48%) GIS
12 7 (0.42%) MySQL
12 7 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.42%) Power Query
12 7 (0.42%) Redis
13 5 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.30%) Metadata
13 5 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 56 (3.37%) Git
2 27 (1.62%) JIRA
3 15 (0.90%) JUnit
4 14 (0.84%) GitLab
5 13 (0.78%) Maven
5 13 (0.78%) Mockito
6 12 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.66%) Burp Suite
7 11 (0.66%) Selenium
8 8 (0.48%) Postman
9 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.36%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.30%) XCUITest
12 4 (0.24%) GDB
12 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 852 (51.26%) Social Skills
2 140 (8.42%) Finance
3 83 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 66 (3.97%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.95%) Retail
6 35 (2.11%) Law
7 34 (2.05%) Legal
8 21 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 17 (1.02%) Multimedia
10 16 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.66%) Advertising
13 10 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.54%) Marketing
15 8 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Back Office
16 7 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.24%) Automotive
17 4 (0.24%) Billing
Job Titles
1 436 (26.23%) Analyst
2 358 (21.54%) Junior
3 352 (21.18%) Junior Analyst
4 187 (11.25%) Data Analyst
5 178 (10.71%) Developer
5 178 (10.71%) Security Analyst
6 176 (10.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 176 (10.59%) Junior Data Analyst
6 176 (10.59%) Junior Security Analyst
7 165 (9.93%) Ethical Hacker
8 162 (9.75%) Senior
9 150 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
10 88 (5.29%) Network Engineer
11 85 (5.11%) Lead
12 84 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
13 79 (4.75%) IT Support
14 67 (4.03%) Architect
14 67 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 60 (3.61%) Software Developer
16 57 (3.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (8.72%) .NET
2 57 (3.43%) ASP.NET
3 55 (3.31%) React
4 54 (3.25%) .NET Core
5 52 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 44 (2.65%) CSS
7 41 (2.47%) HTML
8 33 (1.99%) Node.js
9 30 (1.81%) AngularJS
9 30 (1.81%) RESTful
10 27 (1.62%) REST
11 26 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
12 25 (1.50%) Entity Framework
13 22 (1.32%) .NET Framework
14 21 (1.26%) Blazor
15 14 (0.84%) LINQ
16 11 (0.66%) Playwright
17 10 (0.60%) YAML
18 9 (0.54%) Kafka
18 9 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 167 (10.05%) Cyberattack
2 46 (2.77%) Onboarding
3 45 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
4 38 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 33 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 30 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 25 (1.50%) Driving Licence
8 23 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 16 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 15 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (0.78%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.66%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.60%) IoT
15 10 (0.60%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.54%) Operational Technology
17 8 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 138 (8.30%) Windows
2 64 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 51 (3.07%) Linux
4 31 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.42%) Android
8 6 (0.36%) VMS
9 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Debian
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.060%) Unix
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (27.86%) Cybersecurity
2 344 (20.70%) AI
3 284 (17.09%) Mentoring
4 267 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
5 220 (13.24%) DevOps
6 200 (12.03%) Agile
7 170 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
8 169 (10.17%) Ethical Hacking
9 149 (8.97%) CI/CD
10 115 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (6.08%) Analytics
12 87 (5.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 87 (5.23%) ITIL
13 84 (5.05%) Roadmaps
14 74 (4.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 69 (4.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (4.15%) Technical Leadership
16 66 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 63 (3.79%) Microservices
18 61 (3.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 424 (25.51%) SQL
2 364 (21.90%) Python
3 158 (9.51%) C#
4 85 (5.11%) PowerShell
5 78 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 41 (2.47%) Bash
7 34 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.93%) Java
9 19 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (1.14%) R
10 16 (0.96%) Bicep
11 14 (0.84%) PHP
12 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.66%) C++
14 8 (0.48%) C
15 5 (0.30%) Swift
16 2 (0.12%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.060%) JCL
17 1 (0.060%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 708 (42.60%) Azure Certification
2 185 (11.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 178 (10.71%) CompTIA CySA+
4 169 (10.17%) CEH
5 105 (6.32%) Security Cleared
6 95 (5.72%) SC Cleared
7 88 (5.29%) Degree
8 77 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 73 (4.39%) CCNA
9 73 (4.39%) Network+ Certification
10 40 (2.41%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.08%) DV Cleared
13 17 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 15 (0.90%) A+ Certification
15 13 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.60%) CISSP
16 10 (0.60%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.01%) QA
2 37 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 34 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.68%) GDPR
6 20 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (0.90%) SLA
9 14 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 12 (0.72%) NIST
11 7 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.24%) JTAG
14 3 (0.18%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) WCAG
15 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.060%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.060%) PMO
System Software
1 159 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.25%) Docker
3 41 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.54%) vSphere
6 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.12%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.060%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (4.57%) Terraform
3 70 (4.21%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.66%) Grafana
7 8 (0.48%) Ansible
8 7 (0.42%) Nmap
9 4 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.18%) Argo
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) SCCM
11 2 (0.12%) Autotask
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.12%) Puppet
12 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.060%) CASB
12 1 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,002 (60.29%) Microsoft
2 407 (24.49%) ForeScout
3 122 (7.34%) Cisco
4 63 (3.79%) Databricks
5 59 (3.55%) VMware
6 37 (2.23%) Apple
7 24 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.38%) Google
9 22 (1.32%) Meraki
10 21 (1.26%) Oracle
11 19 (1.14%) HP
12 17 (1.02%) Adobe
12 17 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 15 (0.90%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.84%) SAP
15 13 (0.78%) Avaya
16 12 (0.72%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.66%) Sage
17 11 (0.66%) Veeam
18 10 (0.60%) Fortinet