Azure Jobs in Staffordshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure 54 145 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.71% 13.21% 21.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.90% 52.54% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 35 108 90
10th Percentile - £35,000 £37,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £70,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +0.52%

All Cloud Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 123 276 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 19.84% 25.14% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 88 210 163
10th Percentile £28,000 £24,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £65,000 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year - -1.41% +1.43%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Stoke-on-Trent -4 18 £35,000 -33.33% 206
Stafford -2 6 £53,688 +53.39% 8
Leek -10 3 £51,887 +48.25%
Tamworth +10 2 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Burton-upon-Trent -11 2 £85,000 +47.83% 1
Lichfield -7 1 £55,000 +92.98% 1
Azure
West Midlands

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 7 (12.96%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) CMS
3 1 (1.85%) Sitefinity
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 12 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.96%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) IaaS
7 2 (3.70%) PaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.85%) Figma
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) WAN
2 9 (16.67%) LAN
3 3 (5.56%) Firewall
4 2 (3.70%) Internet
4 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (1.85%) SAN
5 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (46.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.81%) Power BI
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.56%) Big Data
4 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.56%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Power Query
6 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 16 (29.63%) Bitbucket
2 16 (29.63%) Cucumber
2 16 (29.63%) GitLab
2 16 (29.63%) Maven
2 16 (29.63%) Selenium
2 16 (29.63%) SonarQube
2 16 (29.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.85%) JUnit
5 1 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.85%) Mockito
5 1 (1.85%) Protractor
5 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 21 (38.89%) Finance
2 16 (29.63%) Banking
2 16 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (24.07%) Retail
4 9 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Police
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Architect
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Consultant
4 3 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Database Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Embedded Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) CSS
1 19 (35.19%) React
2 18 (33.33%) HTML
3 17 (31.48%) JPA
4 16 (29.63%) Kafka
4 16 (29.63%) Redux
4 16 (29.63%) Spring
4 16 (29.63%) Spring Boot
5 10 (18.52%) CSS3
5 10 (18.52%) HTML5
5 10 (18.52%) REST
5 10 (18.52%) RESTful
6 9 (16.67%) Jest
6 9 (16.67%) Sass
7 8 (14.81%) Hibernate
8 4 (7.41%) .NET
9 3 (5.56%) PySpark
10 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.85%) WebAssembly
11 1 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Product Ownership
2 16 (29.63%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Windows
1 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) DevOps
2 21 (38.89%) Agile
3 20 (37.04%) Microservices
4 19 (35.19%) CI/CD
5 18 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (31.48%) Containerisation
6 17 (31.48%) Front End Development
6 17 (31.48%) SDLC
6 17 (31.48%) Software Engineering
7 16 (29.63%) Performance Optimisation
7 16 (29.63%) Test Automation
8 12 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (20.37%) User Experience
10 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
10 10 (18.52%) Responsive Web Design
11 9 (16.67%) Analytics
11 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 39 (72.22%) SQL
2 19 (35.19%) JavaScript
3 18 (33.33%) Java
4 11 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.96%) C#
5 7 (12.96%) Python
6 4 (7.41%) C
6 4 (7.41%) X++
7 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.85%) C++
9 1 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 9 (16.67%) MCP
2 9 (16.67%) MCSA
2 9 (16.67%) MCSE
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (9.26%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.70%) APMG
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (3.70%) GIAC
5 2 (3.70%) ISACA
5 2 (3.70%) SANS
5 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.33%) QA
2 9 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.85%) COBIT
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Firmware
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (29.63%) Solace
3 3 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Avaya
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco
4 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.70%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.85%) Dell
5 1 (1.85%) EMC
5 1 (1.85%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.85%) Tagetik