Azure Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,928 1,802 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.44% 19.44% 20.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.35% 53.36% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 1,112 1,698
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,907 3,377 4,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.30% 36.43% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,213 2,123 3,122
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £28,321
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,254
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
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 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +2 1,153 £54,698 -0.55% 320
East Midlands +4 771 £47,500 -9.52% 220
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
1 199 (10.32%) SharePoint
2 138 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 78 (4.05%) IIS
4 30 (1.56%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.45%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.78%) Apache
7 12 (0.62%) Confluence
8 10 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.26%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Liferay
12 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 95 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.10%) Trello
7 1 (0.052%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 32 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.16%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) Maximo
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 484 (25.10%) Microsoft 365
2 456 (23.65%) AWS
3 259 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 246 (12.76%) Entra ID
5 221 (11.46%) Power Platform
6 135 (7.00%) GCP
7 113 (5.86%) SaaS
8 78 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (3.68%) IBM Cloud
9 71 (3.68%) PaaS
10 67 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 62 (3.22%) IaaS
12 50 (2.59%) PowerApps
13 46 (2.39%) GitHub
14 45 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (2.13%) Snowflake
16 39 (2.02%) Serverless
17 37 (1.92%) OneDrive
18 26 (1.35%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 271 (14.06%) Firewall
2 180 (9.34%) DNS
3 137 (7.11%) DHCP
4 121 (6.28%) WAN
5 93 (4.82%) TCP/IP
6 88 (4.56%) SAN
7 83 (4.30%) VPN
8 70 (3.63%) LAN
9 63 (3.27%) VLAN
10 61 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (2.28%) SD-WAN
12 42 (2.18%) Network Security
12 42 (2.18%) Wireless
13 30 (1.56%) Internet
14 20 (1.04%) MPLS
15 19 (0.99%) WLAN
16 18 (0.93%) PBX
17 17 (0.88%) BIG-IP
17 17 (0.88%) HTTP
18 16 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (21.32%) SQL Server
2 170 (8.82%) Power BI
3 145 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 121 (6.28%) NoSQL
6 113 (5.86%) MongoDB
7 94 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.94%) DB2
9 57 (2.96%) Data Lake
10 45 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 43 (2.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 43 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (2.02%) Tableau
13 36 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (1.87%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.71%) Looker
15 31 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
16 30 (1.56%) GIS
17 28 (1.45%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 112 (5.81%) Git
2 37 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 32 (1.66%) GitLab
4 29 (1.50%) JIRA
5 23 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.93%) Postman
7 15 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.57%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
8 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.52%) MSTest
9 10 (0.52%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.36%) NUnit
12 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.31%) JMeter
12 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 174 (9.02%) Finance
3 126 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 108 (5.60%) Retail
6 95 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (4.36%) Law
8 71 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 53 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 36 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.50%) Marketing
12 26 (1.35%) Legal
13 20 (1.04%) Advertising
13 20 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.83%) Automotive
16 14 (0.73%) Banking
16 14 (0.73%) Local Government
17 11 (0.57%) Games
18 10 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 431 (22.35%) Developer
2 293 (15.20%) Senior
3 186 (9.65%) .NET Developer
4 161 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 140 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
6 133 (6.90%) Architect
7 131 (6.79%) Support Engineer
8 129 (6.69%) IT Engineer
9 121 (6.28%) IT Support
10 116 (6.02%) Analyst
11 113 (5.86%) Software Engineer
12 101 (5.24%) Lead
13 78 (4.05%) Full Stack Engineer
14 77 (3.99%) C# Developer
14 77 (3.99%) Data Engineer
15 74 (3.84%) Administrator
16 71 (3.68%) Senior Developer
17 67 (3.48%) Network Engineer
18 63 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
19 61 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (26.87%) .NET
2 249 (12.91%) ASP.NET
3 243 (12.60%) React
4 240 (12.45%) AngularJS
5 218 (11.31%) HTML
6 215 (11.15%) .NET Core
7 195 (10.11%) CSS
8 162 (8.40%) REST
9 144 (7.47%) Vue
10 120 (6.22%) .NET Framework
10 120 (6.22%) ASP.NET Web API
11 116 (6.02%) RESTful
11 116 (6.02%) Web Services
12 109 (5.65%) ASP.NET MVC
13 101 (5.24%) Entity Framework
14 95 (4.93%) jQuery
15 86 (4.46%) ASP.NET Core
16 85 (4.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 71 (3.68%) Backbone.js
17 71 (3.68%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.29%) Data Structures
2 92 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 75 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.68%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.68%) e-Learning
6 69 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 67 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 67 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 58 (3.01%) Clustering
8 58 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 55 (2.85%) Cloud Native
10 46 (2.39%) Driving Licence
11 41 (2.13%) Replication
12 35 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.56%) Onboarding
14 30 (1.56%) Private Cloud
15 26 (1.35%) IoT
16 24 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 507 (26.30%) Windows
2 250 (12.97%) Windows Server
3 186 (9.65%) Linux
4 94 (4.88%) Android
5 89 (4.62%) Apple iOS
6 67 (3.48%) Windows 10
7 59 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.04%) VMS
11 16 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.78%) Unix
13 12 (0.62%) Debian
13 12 (0.62%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.52%) CentOS
15 9 (0.47%) SUSE
16 8 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.31%) Solaris
18 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (30.71%) Agile
2 496 (25.73%) DevOps
3 303 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (13.95%) Full Stack Development
5 236 (12.24%) MVC
6 226 (11.72%) CI/CD
7 223 (11.57%) Mentoring
8 202 (10.48%) Software Engineering
9 183 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 182 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
11 157 (8.14%) Microservices
11 157 (8.14%) Scrum
12 155 (8.04%) ETL
13 152 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
14 145 (7.52%) Artificial Intelligence
15 134 (6.95%) Web Development
16 125 (6.48%) ITIL
17 123 (6.38%) Migration
18 122 (6.33%) Data Modelling
19 121 (6.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 555 (28.79%) SQL
2 544 (28.22%) C#
3 398 (20.64%) JavaScript
4 174 (9.02%) Python
5 163 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 136 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 115 (5.96%) T-SQL
8 58 (3.01%) Java
9 35 (1.82%) Bash
10 25 (1.30%) Bicep
11 24 (1.24%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.19%) VB
13 16 (0.83%) C++
14 13 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.67%) XAML
15 12 (0.62%) C
16 11 (0.57%) VB6
17 10 (0.52%) Go
18 7 (0.36%) Ruby
19 6 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 181 (9.39%) Degree
2 154 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 119 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 87 (4.51%) Azure Certification
5 84 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (2.65%) CCNA
8 36 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.50%) CCNP
10 26 (1.35%) MCSE
11 18 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (0.78%) A+ Certification
12 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.52%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.76%) QA
2 47 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.33%) GDPR
4 31 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.14%) SLA
8 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 12 (0.62%) NCSC
10 9 (0.47%) NIST
11 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.36%) PMO
13 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.16%) GRC
14 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.052%) COBIT
15 1 (0.052%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.052%) Solvency II
System Software
1 375 (19.45%) Active Directory
2 197 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (8.97%) Hyper-V
4 111 (5.76%) Docker
5 40 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.99%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.73%) vSphere
10 8 (0.41%) pfSense
11 5 (0.26%) NFS
12 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 3 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 116 (6.02%) Terraform
3 89 (4.62%) Kubernetes
4 54 (2.80%) SCCM
5 34 (1.76%) Ansible
6 17 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
8 11 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (0.57%) WSUS
9 9 (0.47%) SmoothWall
9 9 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (0.41%) SCOM
11 6 (0.31%) Grafana
12 5 (0.26%) Autotask
12 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.21%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.16%) SCOrch
14 3 (0.16%) vMotion
Vendors
1 855 (44.35%) Microsoft
2 277 (14.37%) VMware
3 120 (6.22%) Cisco
4 105 (5.45%) Veeam
5 76 (3.94%) IBM
6 73 (3.79%) Red Hat
7 71 (3.68%) Databricks
8 70 (3.63%) Google
9 57 (2.96%) Citrix
10 44 (2.28%) Meraki
11 37 (1.92%) HP
12 32 (1.66%) Sophos
13 30 (1.56%) Aruba
14 29 (1.50%) Dell
15 28 (1.45%) ESRI
16 25 (1.30%) CheckPoint
17 24 (1.24%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.24%) Oracle
18 20 (1.04%) Acronis
18 20 (1.04%) Facebook