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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,154 1,278 1,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.64% 20.03% 20.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.53% 54.90% 53.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 843 1,125
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £40,798 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +8.70%

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 2,428 2,328 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.91% 36.49% 37.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 1,529 2,041
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,970
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 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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
Birmingham +1 512 £57,500 - 122
Staffordshire -4 142 £52,500 +10.53% 28
Warwickshire +13 118 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Worcestershire -5 61 £47,500 +3.26% 15
Shropshire +14 46 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Coventry -3 46 £58,500 +6.36% 31
Solihull -9 24 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Wolverhampton -8 19 £55,000 - 7
Herefordshire -3 15 £32,500 -35.00% 11
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 5
Walsall +2 9 £45,000 - 6
Wednesbury +2 7 £30,000 -33.33%
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Stourbridge - 4 £55,000 -
Brierley Hill -6 3 £32,500 -
West Bromwich - 2 £28,500 - 3
Dudley -7 1 £55,000 - 5
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £27,000 - 1
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
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
1 117 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 89 (7.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (4.94%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Apache
5 9 (0.78%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.35%) CMS
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.26%) nginx
7 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.17%) Liferay
8 2 (0.17%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.17%) WordPress
9 1 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.087%) Confluence
9 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 57 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.087%) Magento
3 1 (0.087%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 297 (25.74%) Microsoft 365
2 234 (20.28%) AWS
3 182 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (15.16%) Power Platform
5 146 (12.65%) Entra ID
6 76 (6.59%) GCP
7 75 (6.50%) SaaS
8 61 (5.29%) PaaS
9 60 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (4.77%) IaaS
11 54 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (3.38%) GitHub
13 37 (3.21%) PowerApps
14 36 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 33 (2.86%) Snowflake
16 29 (2.51%) Serverless
17 27 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
18 25 (2.17%) Azure Stack
19 23 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
20 22 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 173 (14.99%) Firewall
2 89 (7.71%) WAN
3 85 (7.37%) DNS
4 68 (5.89%) DHCP
5 49 (4.25%) SAN
6 45 (3.90%) LAN
7 42 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (3.55%) VPN
9 37 (3.21%) TCP/IP
10 35 (3.03%) SD-WAN
11 31 (2.69%) Wireless
12 29 (2.51%) Network Security
13 24 (2.08%) VLAN
14 18 (1.56%) PBX
15 16 (1.39%) BIG-IP
15 16 (1.39%) MPLS
16 15 (1.30%) NGFW
17 13 (1.13%) Internet
17 13 (1.13%) SMTP
18 12 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (23.14%) SQL Server
2 133 (11.53%) Power BI
3 111 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (5.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 37 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 37 (3.21%) NoSQL
6 36 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 35 (3.03%) Tableau
8 33 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 32 (2.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 29 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.17%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (1.73%) BigQuery
13 19 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.56%) MySQL
14 18 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (1.47%) Looker
16 16 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 72 (6.24%) Git
2 32 (2.77%) Visual Studio
3 22 (1.91%) GitLab
4 13 (1.13%) JIRA
4 13 (1.13%) Postman
5 10 (0.87%) MSTest
5 10 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (0.78%) SoapUI
7 8 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.61%) NUnit
9 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.43%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (0.43%) Maven
11 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.35%) ESLint
11 4 (0.35%) IntelliJ
General
1 260 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 132 (11.44%) Finance
3 73 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.15%) Retail
5 58 (5.03%) Law
6 50 (4.33%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.29%) Public Sector
9 27 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.82%) Legal
12 19 (1.65%) Marketing
13 16 (1.39%) Automotive
14 14 (1.21%) Local Government
15 12 (1.04%) Advertising
16 10 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
16 10 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.78%) Banking
18 8 (0.69%) Police
18 8 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 257 (22.27%) Developer
2 185 (16.03%) Senior
3 92 (7.97%) Analyst
4 91 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 90 (7.80%) .NET Developer
6 88 (7.63%) Architect
7 84 (7.28%) IT Engineer
7 84 (7.28%) Support Engineer
8 72 (6.24%) IT Support
9 62 (5.37%) Data Engineer
10 54 (4.68%) Lead
11 52 (4.51%) Network Engineer
12 50 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
15 41 (3.55%) C# Developer
16 39 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support
19 32 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (21.06%) .NET
2 103 (8.93%) .NET Core
3 91 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 89 (7.71%) ASP.NET
5 87 (7.54%) .NET Framework
5 87 (7.54%) HTML
6 77 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 77 (6.67%) React
6 77 (6.67%) RESTful
7 70 (6.07%) ASP.NET Web API
8 62 (5.37%) CSS
9 59 (5.11%) ASP.NET MVC
10 51 (4.42%) REST
11 43 (3.73%) Vue
12 41 (3.55%) Blazor
13 37 (3.21%) JSON
14 34 (2.95%) XML
15 28 (2.43%) HTML5
16 27 (2.34%) Web Services
17 25 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.25%) Data Centre
3 45 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.90%) Clustering
4 42 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 42 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 34 (2.95%) Replication
6 26 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 23 (1.99%) Driving Licence
8 23 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.04%) IoT
13 12 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 250 (21.66%) Windows
2 145 (12.56%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.77%) Windows 10
4 51 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 42 (3.64%) Linux
6 34 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.04%) Unix
8 12 (1.04%) VMS
9 10 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.78%) Android
10 9 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.52%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.52%) Solaris
12 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.17%) SUSE
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.087%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (27.99%) DevOps
2 296 (25.65%) Agile
3 183 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (14.47%) CI/CD
5 144 (12.48%) Business Intelligence
6 116 (10.05%) Software Engineering
7 113 (9.79%) ETL
8 111 (9.62%) Full Stack Development
9 110 (9.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 100 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
11 98 (8.49%) ITIL
12 96 (8.32%) Microservices
13 94 (8.15%) Scrum
14 88 (7.63%) Mentoring
15 86 (7.45%) Data Modelling
16 83 (7.19%) MVC
17 82 (7.11%) Analytics
17 82 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (5.98%) TDD
19 64 (5.55%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 337 (29.20%) SQL
2 268 (23.22%) C#
3 161 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 102 (8.84%) PowerShell
5 98 (8.49%) Python
6 90 (7.80%) T-SQL
7 67 (5.81%) TypeScript
8 40 (3.47%) Java
9 18 (1.56%) Bicep
10 14 (1.21%) Bash
11 13 (1.13%) XAML
12 11 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.87%) VB
14 9 (0.78%) C++
15 8 (0.69%) C
16 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.43%) Go
17 5 (0.43%) VB6
18 4 (0.35%) PHP
19 3 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (11.35%) Degree
2 101 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 77 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.59%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (3.12%) CCNA
8 24 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.82%) CCNP
10 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.39%) MCSE
12 15 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
13 14 (1.21%) A+ Certification
14 11 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.69%) CCSA
16 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.61%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.63%) QA
2 39 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.25%) GDPR
4 23 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.30%) SLA
7 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 10 (0.87%) NCSC
9 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.69%) NIST
9 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.61%) PMO
11 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.087%) IFRS
13 1 (0.087%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.087%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.087%) Solvency II
System Software
1 220 (19.06%) Active Directory
2 141 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (10.14%) Hyper-V
4 55 (4.77%) Docker
5 40 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.65%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (1.04%) vSphere
10 8 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.52%) pfSense
12 5 (0.43%) NFS
13 3 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.087%) XenApp
14 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 96 (8.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (7.71%) Terraform
3 54 (4.68%) Kubernetes
4 43 (3.73%) SCCM
5 19 (1.65%) Ansible
6 15 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.35%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.35%) Autotask
9 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.35%) SCOM
10 3 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.17%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.17%) Kibana
11 2 (0.17%) MIIS
11 2 (0.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 2 (0.17%) WSUS
12 1 (0.087%) Grafana
12 1 (0.087%) Nessus
Vendors
1 569 (49.31%) Microsoft
2 194 (16.81%) VMware
3 78 (6.76%) Cisco
4 66 (5.72%) Databricks
5 57 (4.94%) Veeam
6 48 (4.16%) Citrix
7 27 (2.34%) Aruba
8 26 (2.25%) Sophos
9 25 (2.17%) CheckPoint
10 24 (2.08%) HP
11 22 (1.91%) Google
11 22 (1.91%) Meraki
12 20 (1.73%) Dell
13 19 (1.65%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.47%) Juniper
15 16 (1.39%) F5
15 16 (1.39%) Oracle
16 15 (1.30%) Informatica
17 14 (1.21%) Alteryx
18 13 (1.13%) Facebook