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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,937 1,857 2,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.52% 19.60% 20.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.39% 53.58% 52.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,610 1,146 1,719
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 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +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 3,922 3,466 4,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.44% 36.58% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,225 2,180 3,153
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 £67,500
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 6 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 6 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 1,163 £54,000 -1.82% 282
East Midlands +4 771 £47,500 -9.52% 194
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
1 198 (10.22%) SharePoint
2 138 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (4.08%) IIS
4 30 (1.55%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.45%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.77%) 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%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) 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 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.10%) CATIA
5 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.15%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) Maximo
6 1 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 485 (25.04%) Microsoft 365
2 466 (24.06%) AWS
3 262 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 249 (12.85%) Entra ID
5 223 (11.51%) Power Platform
6 142 (7.33%) GCP
7 116 (5.99%) SaaS
8 78 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
9 74 (3.82%) PaaS
10 71 (3.67%) IBM Cloud
11 67 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 63 (3.25%) IaaS
13 49 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.43%) GitHub
15 46 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 42 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
17 41 (2.12%) Snowflake
18 39 (2.01%) Serverless
19 35 (1.81%) OneDrive
20 27 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 276 (14.25%) Firewall
2 181 (9.34%) DNS
3 139 (7.18%) DHCP
4 122 (6.30%) WAN
5 91 (4.70%) SAN
5 91 (4.70%) TCP/IP
6 83 (4.28%) VPN
7 70 (3.61%) LAN
8 64 (3.30%) VLAN
9 61 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
10 44 (2.27%) SD-WAN
11 43 (2.22%) Network Security
11 43 (2.22%) Wireless
12 29 (1.50%) Internet
13 20 (1.03%) MPLS
14 19 (0.98%) WLAN
15 18 (0.93%) PBX
16 17 (0.88%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.83%) HTTP
17 16 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (21.22%) SQL Server
2 172 (8.88%) Power BI
3 145 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 124 (6.40%) NoSQL
6 113 (5.83%) MongoDB
7 97 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.92%) DB2
9 57 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 48 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
11 46 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 43 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 39 (2.01%) Tableau
14 36 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.86%) BigQuery
15 33 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
15 33 (1.70%) Looker
16 30 (1.55%) GIS
17 28 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 116 (5.99%) Git
2 37 (1.91%) Visual Studio
3 33 (1.70%) GitLab
4 30 (1.55%) JIRA
5 22 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 21 (1.08%) Postman
7 18 (0.93%) Jenkins
8 12 (0.62%) SoapUI
9 11 (0.57%) Jasmine
9 11 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
9 11 (0.57%) MSTest
9 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.46%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.41%) NUnit
13 7 (0.36%) Maven
14 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.31%) JMeter
14 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 176 (9.09%) Finance
3 130 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 108 (5.58%) Retail
6 95 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 84 (4.34%) Law
8 69 (3.56%) Manufacturing
9 53 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (1.45%) Marketing
12 26 (1.34%) Legal
13 20 (1.03%) Advertising
13 20 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.83%) Automotive
16 15 (0.77%) Banking
17 14 (0.72%) Local Government
18 11 (0.57%) Games
19 10 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 428 (22.10%) Developer
2 298 (15.38%) Senior
3 183 (9.45%) .NET Developer
4 164 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 142 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (6.97%) Architect
7 130 (6.71%) IT Engineer
7 130 (6.71%) Support Engineer
8 121 (6.25%) IT Support
9 117 (6.04%) Analyst
10 113 (5.83%) Software Engineer
11 102 (5.27%) Lead
12 78 (4.03%) Data Engineer
12 78 (4.03%) Full Stack Engineer
13 76 (3.92%) C# Developer
14 75 (3.87%) Administrator
15 74 (3.82%) Senior Developer
16 68 (3.51%) Network Engineer
17 62 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
17 62 (3.20%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (26.54%) .NET
2 247 (12.75%) ASP.NET
3 238 (12.29%) React
4 234 (12.08%) AngularJS
5 216 (11.15%) HTML
6 214 (11.05%) .NET Core
7 194 (10.02%) CSS
8 164 (8.47%) REST
9 141 (7.28%) Vue
10 120 (6.20%) .NET Framework
11 117 (6.04%) Web Services
12 114 (5.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 113 (5.83%) RESTful
14 109 (5.63%) ASP.NET MVC
15 102 (5.27%) Entity Framework
16 96 (4.96%) jQuery
17 86 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
17 86 (4.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 71 (3.67%) Backbone.js
18 71 (3.67%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.27%) Data Structures
2 92 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (4.28%) Algorithms
4 76 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.67%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.67%) e-Learning
6 69 (3.56%) Data Centre
7 68 (3.51%) Public Cloud
8 66 (3.41%) Management Information System
9 60 (3.10%) Clustering
10 58 (2.99%) Product Ownership
11 54 (2.79%) Cloud Native
12 47 (2.43%) Driving Licence
13 41 (2.12%) Replication
14 35 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
15 33 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (1.55%) Onboarding
16 30 (1.55%) Private Cloud
17 27 (1.39%) IoT
18 24 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 513 (26.48%) Windows
2 255 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 187 (9.65%) Linux
4 94 (4.85%) Android
5 90 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 68 (3.51%) Windows 10
7 62 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 53 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.03%) VMS
11 16 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.77%) Unix
13 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
14 12 (0.62%) Debian
15 10 (0.52%) CentOS
15 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.46%) SUSE
17 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.31%) Solaris
18 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (30.67%) Agile
2 504 (26.02%) DevOps
3 304 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 263 (13.58%) Full Stack Development
5 238 (12.29%) MVC
6 229 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 222 (11.46%) Mentoring
8 202 (10.43%) Software Engineering
9 186 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 183 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
11 158 (8.16%) Scrum
12 157 (8.11%) ETL
13 154 (7.95%) Microservices
14 152 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
15 148 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence
16 136 (7.02%) Web Development
17 125 (6.45%) ITIL
18 124 (6.40%) Data Modelling
19 123 (6.35%) Migration
20 121 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 564 (29.12%) SQL
2 541 (27.93%) C#
3 391 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 179 (9.24%) Python
5 164 (8.47%) PowerShell
6 134 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 117 (6.04%) T-SQL
8 60 (3.10%) Java
9 35 (1.81%) Bash
10 25 (1.29%) Bicep
11 23 (1.19%) VB
11 23 (1.19%) VB.NET
12 16 (0.83%) C++
13 13 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (0.67%) XAML
14 12 (0.62%) C
15 11 (0.57%) VB6
16 10 (0.52%) Go
17 7 (0.36%) PHP
17 7 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (9.24%) Degree
2 156 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 121 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 87 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 85 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (2.68%) CCNA
8 35 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.50%) CCNP
10 27 (1.39%) MCSE
11 19 (0.98%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (0.77%) A+ Certification
13 15 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.62%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.52%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.73%) QA
2 47 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.32%) GDPR
4 31 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.14%) SLA
8 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 12 (0.62%) NCSC
10 9 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) GRC
14 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS
15 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.052%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 379 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 201 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 177 (9.14%) Hyper-V
4 115 (5.94%) Docker
5 40 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.98%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.72%) vSphere
11 8 (0.41%) pfSense
12 6 (0.31%) NFS
13 4 (0.21%) Firmware
14 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.15%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 170 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 119 (6.14%) Terraform
3 93 (4.80%) Kubernetes
4 54 (2.79%) SCCM
5 35 (1.81%) Ansible
6 18 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
8 12 (0.62%) WSUS
9 11 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (0.46%) SmoothWall
10 9 (0.46%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.41%) SCOM
12 6 (0.31%) Grafana
13 5 (0.26%) Autotask
13 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.26%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.21%) AirWatch
15 3 (0.15%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 859 (44.35%) Microsoft
2 282 (14.56%) VMware
3 121 (6.25%) Cisco
4 105 (5.42%) Veeam
5 76 (3.92%) IBM
6 73 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 72 (3.72%) Databricks
7 72 (3.72%) Google
8 57 (2.94%) Citrix
9 45 (2.32%) Meraki
10 38 (1.96%) HP
11 32 (1.65%) Sophos
12 30 (1.55%) Aruba
12 30 (1.55%) Dell
13 28 (1.45%) ESRI
14 26 (1.34%) CheckPoint
15 24 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.24%) Oracle
16 20 (1.03%) Acronis
17 19 (0.98%) F5