Azure Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 3 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 736 1,686 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.60% 20.75% 21.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.14% 58.20% 49.94%
Number of salaries quoted 653 1,049 1,307
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +7.83%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,266 2,897 3,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.87% 35.65% 43.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,852 2,509
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 0 307 £55,000 -8.33% 138
Warwickshire +46 101 £52,500 -14.56% 33
Staffordshire +2 77 £47,500 -9.52% 40
Coventry -7 43 £50,000 -4.76% 27
Worcestershire 0 35 £48,837 +14.91% 18
Solihull +1 34 £55,500 -0.89% 13
Shropshire +2 30 £46,500 -13.49% 5
Wolverhampton +6 15 £70,000 +33.33% 7
Herefordshire -3 12 £50,000 +25.00% 10
Wednesbury - 12 £35,000 - 3
Walsall +11 9 £42,500 +17.23% 2
Bilston +1 2 £45,000 -5.26%
Stourbridge 0 2 £50,000 +17.65% 1
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 58 (7.88%) SharePoint
2 37 (5.03%) MS Exchange
3 32 (4.35%) IIS
4 8 (1.09%) Confluence
5 7 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) Mendix
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.14%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.95%) Shopify
3 5 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.14%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 227 (30.84%) Microsoft 365
2 178 (24.18%) AWS
3 128 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 119 (16.17%) Power Platform
5 90 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (9.65%) GCP
7 65 (8.83%) SaaS
8 43 (5.84%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (5.16%) Power Automate
10 36 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (4.89%) PaaS
11 34 (4.62%) PowerApps
12 31 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
14 26 (3.53%) Serverless
15 25 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (2.99%) Azure Functions
17 20 (2.72%) ChatGPT
18 17 (2.31%) IaaS
19 15 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 123 (16.71%) Firewall
2 98 (13.32%) DNS
3 91 (12.36%) DHCP
4 78 (10.60%) WAN
5 54 (7.34%) SAN
6 51 (6.93%) LAN
7 47 (6.39%) TCP/IP
7 47 (6.39%) VPN
8 37 (5.03%) Wireless
9 30 (4.08%) HTTP
10 28 (3.80%) SSL
11 26 (3.53%) FTP
11 26 (3.53%) VLAN
12 25 (3.40%) SMTP
12 25 (3.40%) SNMP
12 25 (3.40%) SSH
12 25 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (3.26%) Telnet
14 23 (3.13%) Network Security
15 16 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 86 (11.68%) Power BI
3 41 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 34 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.58%) Tableau
9 18 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (2.17%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.49%) Big Data
14 9 (1.22%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.22%) Neo4j
14 9 (1.22%) Parquet
15 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (7.20%) Git
2 20 (2.72%) JIRA
3 19 (2.58%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.22%) GitLab
6 8 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.95%) Maven
8 6 (0.82%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.54%) Postman
10 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.27%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.27%) MSTest
11 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) Subversion
11 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 174 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 98 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (11.68%) Finance
4 41 (5.57%) Law
5 38 (5.16%) Telecoms
6 27 (3.67%) Retail
7 26 (3.53%) Legal
8 23 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.17%) Marketing
12 15 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.49%) Banking
15 10 (1.36%) Automotive
16 7 (0.95%) Back Office
17 6 (0.82%) Local Government
18 4 (0.54%) Front Office
19 3 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (18.89%) Developer
2 126 (17.12%) Senior
3 88 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (8.70%) IT Engineer
5 61 (8.29%) Analyst
6 51 (6.93%) Lead
6 51 (6.93%) Support Engineer
7 46 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 40 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.76%) Architect
10 33 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 29 (3.94%) Consultant
12 28 (3.80%) Senior Developer
13 26 (3.53%) C# Developer
14 25 (3.40%) IT Support
14 25 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (3.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 24 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (3.13%) Administrator
16 23 (3.13%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (17.80%) .NET
2 48 (6.52%) HTML
3 47 (6.39%) CSS
4 43 (5.84%) React
5 42 (5.71%) .NET Framework
6 38 (5.16%) .NET Core
6 38 (5.16%) AngularJS
7 34 (4.62%) ASP.NET
8 33 (4.48%) Entity Framework
9 31 (4.21%) REST
10 29 (3.94%) Node.js
11 25 (3.40%) jQuery
12 24 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (2.72%) Blazor
14 19 (2.58%) RESTful
14 19 (2.58%) Web Services
15 16 (2.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 15 (2.04%) HTML5
17 14 (1.90%) ASP.NET MVC
17 14 (1.90%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.24%) Data Centre
2 41 (5.57%) Clustering
3 37 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 27 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.26%) EFT
5 24 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 24 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (2.99%) Replication
8 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.63%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.63%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.36%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (26.90%) Windows
2 129 (17.53%) Windows Server
3 46 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 34 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
4 34 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.13%) Linux
7 22 (2.99%) Android
8 19 (2.58%) Apple iOS
9 15 (2.04%) Mac OS
10 10 (1.36%) Unix
11 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.14%) SUSE
14 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.14%) VMS
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (25.41%) DevOps
2 155 (21.06%) Agile
3 150 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (14.27%) ITIL
5 101 (13.72%) CI/CD
6 97 (13.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 87 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
8 60 (8.15%) Analytics
8 60 (8.15%) ETL
9 51 (6.93%) Customer Service
9 51 (6.93%) High Availability
9 51 (6.93%) Roadmaps
10 50 (6.79%) Continuous Integration
11 48 (6.52%) Software Engineering
12 47 (6.39%) Data Modelling
12 47 (6.39%) Scrum
13 45 (6.11%) Data Engineering
13 45 (6.11%) Microservices
14 44 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (5.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 279 (37.91%) SQL
2 142 (19.29%) C#
3 130 (17.66%) PowerShell
4 90 (12.23%) Python
5 84 (11.41%) JavaScript
6 47 (6.39%) T-SQL
7 40 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 39 (5.30%) Java
9 11 (1.49%) Bash
10 8 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.09%) Go
10 8 (1.09%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.54%) C++
11 4 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.54%) R
11 4 (0.54%) XAML
12 3 (0.41%) Dart
12 3 (0.41%) PHP
13 2 (0.27%) Bicep
14 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (13.72%) Degree
2 54 (7.34%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (3.80%) CCNA
7 27 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.85%) MCSE
9 16 (2.17%) CCNP
10 12 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.22%) MCSA
12 8 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.68%) MCP
15 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.85%) SLA
2 17 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.09%) NIST
5 8 (1.09%) QA
6 7 (0.95%) GDPR
7 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) COBIT
8 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS
9 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.27%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 212 (28.80%) Active Directory
2 109 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 49 (6.66%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (4.21%) Docker
6 16 (2.17%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (1.49%) vSphere
8 7 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.82%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.82%) Firmware
9 6 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.68%) XenApp
10 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.54%) NFS
12 2 (0.27%) Ceph
12 2 (0.27%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 83 (11.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (8.56%) SCCM
3 50 (6.79%) Kubernetes
4 43 (5.84%) Terraform
5 28 (3.80%) vCenter Server
6 11 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.36%) Ansible
7 10 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.68%) EdgeSight
9 5 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.68%) WSUS
10 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.54%) SCOM
11 2 (0.27%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.27%) Mesos
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Puppet
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 427 (58.02%) Microsoft
2 175 (23.78%) VMware
3 76 (10.33%) Cisco
4 57 (7.74%) Citrix
5 44 (5.98%) Databricks
6 34 (4.62%) Veeam
7 29 (3.94%) Google
7 29 (3.94%) HP
8 25 (3.40%) CheckPoint
9 24 (3.26%) Globalscape
10 21 (2.85%) Meraki
11 16 (2.17%) Nimble Storage
12 13 (1.77%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.63%) Mitel
13 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.63%) Zerto
14 11 (1.49%) Oracle
14 11 (1.49%) Remedy
14 11 (1.49%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.36%) Aruba