Azure Job Trends in Shropshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 12 1
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 6 10 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 2.30% 7.63% 31.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.59% 37.04% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 30
10th Percentile £36,850 £37,500 £36,925
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £61,500 £83,750 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -7.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 27 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 30.27% 20.61% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 15 47
10th Percentile £27,050 £37,500 £34,300
25th Percentile £33,125 £43,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £53,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £80,000 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -7.41%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Azure
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Shropshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Shropshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Shropshire

Azure
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Telford -3 3 £45,750 -8.50% 18
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gatling
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Sales Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Trainee
2 1 (16.67%) Trainee Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) OWASP
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk