Azure Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 577 1,160 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.92% 16.02% 21.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.24% 47.82% 56.24%
Number of salaries quoted 490 1,037 880
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,688 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,688 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,513 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.02% -8.44% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,126 2,426 2,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.22% 33.51% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 828 2,085 1,583
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £81,786 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Birmingham 0 304 £57,500 - 127
Warwickshire -29 74 £60,000 +14.29% 38
Staffordshire -11 48 £53,300 +6.60% 86
Solihull +17 44 £55,000 -12.00% 10
Worcestershire -1 20 £30,500 -35.79% 20
Shropshire -1 15 £60,000 +41.18% 8
Dudley +10 11 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Wolverhampton +6 10 £75,750 +37.73% 13
West Bromwich +3 9 £27,000 +17.39%
Herefordshire +2 7 £52,500 +75.00% 12
Coventry -28 7 £62,500 +5.49% 19
Brierley Hill +5 1 £82,500 +153.85%
Wednesbury +1 1 £45,000 +50.00% 2
Walsall -8 1 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 42 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 41 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.56%) Confluence
4 5 (0.87%) CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.35%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 144 (24.96%) Microsoft 365
2 140 (24.26%) AWS
3 116 (20.10%) Power Platform
4 72 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (7.97%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (7.97%) SaaS
6 44 (7.63%) Entra ID
7 43 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (7.11%) PowerApps
9 37 (6.41%) GCP
10 35 (6.07%) Power Automate
11 34 (5.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (5.72%) PaaS
13 32 (5.55%) IaaS
14 29 (5.03%) Serverless
15 26 (4.51%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (3.47%) GitHub
18 16 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
19 15 (2.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (16.81%) WAN
2 71 (12.31%) Firewall
3 68 (11.79%) LAN
4 40 (6.93%) VLAN
5 32 (5.55%) VoIP
6 31 (5.37%) SD-WAN
7 21 (3.64%) Network Security
8 17 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (2.43%) VPN
10 13 (2.25%) DNS
10 13 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (1.73%) DHCP
12 6 (1.04%) SAN
13 5 (0.87%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.69%) HTTP
14 4 (0.69%) Wireless
15 3 (0.52%) BGP
15 3 (0.52%) VRRP
16 2 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (14.73%) Power BI
2 70 (12.13%) SQL Server
3 43 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (4.33%) NoSQL
7 23 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.12%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (2.25%) Power Query
11 11 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (1.73%) Metadata
12 10 (1.73%) Star Schema
13 9 (1.56%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.56%) Tableau
14 8 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.21%) Big Data
15 7 (1.21%) Data Hub
15 7 (1.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (4.16%) Git
2 20 (3.47%) JIRA
2 20 (3.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 14 (2.43%) SonarQube
4 13 (2.25%) JUnit
4 13 (2.25%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.56%) Mockito
6 7 (1.21%) Eclipse
6 7 (1.21%) IntelliJ
6 7 (1.21%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (1.21%) Protractor
7 6 (1.04%) NUnit
7 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.87%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.69%) ERwin
10 3 (0.52%) Postman
10 3 (0.52%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.35%) Storybook
General
1 144 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.73%) Finance
3 61 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (7.97%) Retail
6 38 (6.59%) Manufacturing
7 32 (5.55%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.29%) Law
9 18 (3.12%) Legal
10 15 (2.60%) Marketing
11 10 (1.73%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.39%) Advertising
12 8 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.39%) Police
13 7 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.04%) Automotive
14 6 (1.04%) Banking
14 6 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.69%) Games
16 3 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 119 (20.62%) Developer
2 102 (17.68%) Senior
3 62 (10.75%) IT Support
4 56 (9.71%) Architect
5 54 (9.36%) Analyst
6 52 (9.01%) Lead
7 36 (6.24%) Senior Developer
8 31 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (5.20%) IT Support Specialist
9 30 (5.20%) Support Specialist
10 28 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
11 24 (4.16%) 2nd Line Support
11 24 (4.16%) Network Engineer
11 24 (4.16%) SQL Developer
12 23 (3.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 23 (3.99%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
14 19 (3.29%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.12%) .NET Developer
16 17 (2.95%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.52%) .NET
2 40 (6.93%) React
3 30 (5.20%) CSS
4 25 (4.33%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.12%) HTML
6 16 (2.77%) .NET Core
6 16 (2.77%) Node.js
6 16 (2.77%) RESTful
7 14 (2.43%) ASP.NET
7 14 (2.43%) REST
8 12 (2.08%) ARM Templates
8 12 (2.08%) Loki
9 10 (1.73%) .NET Framework
9 10 (1.73%) Web Services
10 9 (1.56%) GraphQL
10 9 (1.56%) jQuery
10 9 (1.56%) MvvmCross
10 9 (1.56%) Vue
11 8 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.20%) CCTV
3 29 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.47%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.77%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.43%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.21%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.87%) IoT
13 5 (0.87%) PKI
13 5 (0.87%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.53%) Windows
2 54 (9.36%) Windows Server
3 46 (7.97%) Windows 10
4 24 (4.16%) Linux
5 16 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.73%) Android
8 9 (1.56%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (25.48%) DevOps
2 140 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (17.85%) Business Intelligence
4 100 (17.33%) Agile
5 82 (14.21%) Analytics
6 81 (14.04%) CI/CD
7 73 (12.65%) Cybersecurity
8 68 (11.79%) Mentoring
9 60 (10.40%) Software Engineering
10 52 (9.01%) ITIL
11 47 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (7.80%) Data Modelling
13 44 (7.63%) Computer Science
14 42 (7.28%) ETL
15 41 (7.11%) Containerisation
16 40 (6.93%) Microservices
17 39 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
17 39 (6.76%) Decision-Making
17 39 (6.76%) Roadmaps
18 38 (6.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 152 (26.34%) SQL
2 105 (18.20%) C#
3 74 (12.82%) Python
4 59 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 51 (8.84%) Java
6 48 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 32 (5.55%) TypeScript
8 22 (3.81%) C++
9 15 (2.60%) Bash
9 15 (2.60%) R
10 14 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.91%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.21%) PHP
12 7 (1.21%) X++
13 3 (0.52%) C
13 3 (0.52%) Go
14 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.17%) Rust
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (16.64%) Degree
2 49 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.20%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.16%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.73%) CISSP
10 9 (1.56%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.39%) A+ Certification
11 8 (1.39%) CISM
11 8 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.04%) MCSA
13 5 (0.87%) MCP
13 5 (0.87%) MCSE
14 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.95%) QA
4 14 (2.43%) COBIT
5 11 (1.91%) SLA
6 10 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.73%) GDPR
7 9 (1.56%) NCSC
8 7 (1.21%) NIST
9 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.35%) GRC
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (23.40%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.80%) Docker
3 39 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.43%) XenApp
6 11 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.69%) vSphere
9 2 (0.35%) Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 53 (9.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (7.63%) Terraform
4 20 (3.47%) Grafana
4 20 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 258 (44.71%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.84%) VMware
3 46 (7.97%) Databricks
4 42 (7.28%) Cisco
5 25 (4.33%) Google
6 22 (3.81%) Citrix
6 22 (3.81%) Meraki
6 22 (3.81%) SolarWinds
7 20 (3.47%) Oracle
8 17 (2.95%) CheckPoint
8 17 (2.95%) IBM
9 15 (2.60%) SAP
10 14 (2.43%) SonicWALL
11 11 (1.91%) Apple
11 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.56%) Acronis
12 9 (1.56%) Xamarin
13 8 (1.39%) Adobe
13 8 (1.39%) Veeam
13 8 (1.39%) WatchGuard