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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,153 1,278 1,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.87% 19.99% 20.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.66% 54.92% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 843 1,128
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,850
25th Percentile £40,125 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,698 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +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 2,419 2,327 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.29% 36.39% 37.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,080 1,526 2,051
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 7 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 7 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 +2 516 £57,500 - 123
Staffordshire -4 142 £52,500 +10.53% 24
Warwickshire +12 117 £52,500 -4.55% 34
Worcestershire -7 60 £47,500 +3.26% 16
Shropshire +14 46 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Coventry -3 46 £58,500 +6.36% 32
Solihull -8 24 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Wolverhampton -7 19 £55,000 +0.92% 7
Herefordshire -3 15 £32,500 -35.00% 10
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 3
Walsall +5 9 £45,000 - 6
Wednesbury +2 8 £30,000 -33.33%
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Stourbridge - 4 £55,000 - 1
Brierley Hill -6 3 £32,500 -
Dudley -7 1 £55,000 - 5
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £27,000 - 1
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
West Bromwich - 1 £23,000 - 3
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
1 119 (10.32%) SharePoint
2 90 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (5.03%) IIS
4 12 (1.04%) Apache
5 9 (0.78%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.35%) CMS
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
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 6 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.087%) Magento
3 1 (0.087%) Maximo
3 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 297 (25.76%) Microsoft 365
2 235 (20.38%) AWS
3 181 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (15.18%) Power Platform
5 145 (12.58%) Entra ID
6 76 (6.59%) GCP
6 76 (6.59%) SaaS
7 62 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
7 62 (5.38%) PaaS
8 55 (4.77%) IaaS
9 53 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (3.38%) GitHub
11 36 (3.12%) PowerApps
11 36 (3.12%) Snowflake
12 35 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.52%) Serverless
14 26 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (2.17%) Azure Stack
16 23 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (1.91%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 172 (14.92%) Firewall
2 90 (7.81%) WAN
3 87 (7.55%) DNS
4 70 (6.07%) DHCP
5 50 (4.34%) SAN
6 46 (3.99%) LAN
7 42 (3.64%) VPN
7 42 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 37 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 35 (3.04%) SD-WAN
10 32 (2.78%) Wireless
11 29 (2.52%) Network Security
12 24 (2.08%) VLAN
13 18 (1.56%) PBX
14 17 (1.47%) BIG-IP
15 16 (1.39%) MPLS
16 15 (1.30%) NGFW
17 14 (1.21%) Internet
18 13 (1.13%) HTTP
18 13 (1.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (22.98%) SQL Server
2 131 (11.36%) Power BI
3 107 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 37 (3.21%) NoSQL
6 36 (3.12%) Data Lake
6 36 (3.12%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.12%) Tableau
7 32 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 31 (2.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 29 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (1.73%) BigQuery
13 18 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (1.56%) MySQL
13 18 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (1.47%) Looker
15 12 (1.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (6.24%) Git
2 33 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 22 (1.91%) GitLab
4 14 (1.21%) Postman
5 13 (1.13%) JIRA
6 10 (0.87%) MSTest
6 10 (0.87%) SoapUI
6 10 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (0.78%) 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
1 257 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 129 (11.19%) Finance
3 72 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.16%) Retail
5 60 (5.20%) Law
6 47 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.21%) Public Sector
9 28 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.91%) Legal
12 20 (1.73%) 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
1 258 (22.38%) Developer
2 182 (15.78%) Senior
3 92 (7.98%) Analyst
4 91 (7.89%) .NET Developer
4 91 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 87 (7.55%) Architect
6 84 (7.29%) IT Engineer
7 83 (7.20%) Support Engineer
8 73 (6.33%) IT Support
9 62 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 54 (4.68%) Lead
11 52 (4.51%) Network Engineer
12 51 (4.42%) Software Engineer
13 47 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (3.90%) IT Support Engineer
15 42 (3.64%) C# Developer
16 39 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support
19 32 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (21.42%) .NET
2 105 (9.11%) .NET Core
3 92 (7.98%) ASP.NET
4 91 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 88 (7.63%) .NET Framework
5 88 (7.63%) HTML
6 79 (6.85%) RESTful
7 78 (6.76%) React
8 77 (6.68%) Entity Framework
9 71 (6.16%) ASP.NET Web API
10 63 (5.46%) CSS
11 60 (5.20%) ASP.NET MVC
12 52 (4.51%) REST
13 43 (3.73%) Vue
14 41 (3.56%) Blazor
15 38 (3.30%) JSON
16 34 (2.95%) XML
17 29 (2.52%) HTML5
18 28 (2.43%) Web Services
19 26 (2.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.51%) Management Information System
2 48 (4.16%) Data Centre
3 45 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.90%) Clustering
4 43 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 35 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 33 (2.86%) Replication
8 26 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 23 (1.99%) Driving Licence
10 23 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.04%) IoT
14 12 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.95%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 250 (21.68%) Windows
2 146 (12.66%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.77%) Windows 10
4 51 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 43 (3.73%) Linux
6 34 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (2.52%) 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
1 321 (27.84%) DevOps
2 296 (25.67%) Agile
3 178 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (14.31%) CI/CD
5 139 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
6 117 (10.15%) Software Engineering
7 112 (9.71%) ETL
7 112 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
8 110 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 99 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
10 98 (8.50%) ITIL
11 96 (8.33%) Microservices
11 96 (8.33%) Scrum
12 88 (7.63%) Mentoring
13 85 (7.37%) MVC
14 83 (7.20%) Analytics
14 83 (7.20%) Data Modelling
15 82 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (5.98%) TDD
17 61 (5.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 334 (28.97%) SQL
2 272 (23.59%) C#
3 165 (14.31%) JavaScript
4 104 (9.02%) PowerShell
5 101 (8.76%) Python
6 90 (7.81%) T-SQL
7 68 (5.90%) 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 8 (0.69%) C
14 8 (0.69%) C++
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Go
16 5 (0.43%) PHP
16 5 (0.43%) VB6
17 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 129 (11.19%) Degree
2 101 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 77 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (3.12%) CCNA
8 23 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.82%) CCNP
10 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.47%) MCSE
12 15 (1.30%) A+ Certification
12 15 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.69%) CCSA
15 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.61%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.72%) QA
2 35 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.17%) GDPR
4 21 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.21%) SLA
6 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 10 (0.87%) NCSC
8 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.69%) NIST
8 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.61%) PMO
10 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.087%) IFRS
12 1 (0.087%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.087%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.087%) Solvency II
System Software
1 219 (18.99%) Active Directory
2 141 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (10.06%) Hyper-V
4 55 (4.77%) Docker
5 40 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.65%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.95%) 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
Systems Management
1 96 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (7.63%) 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
1 564 (48.92%) Microsoft
2 194 (16.83%) VMware
3 79 (6.85%) Cisco
4 64 (5.55%) Databricks
5 58 (5.03%) Veeam
6 47 (4.08%) Citrix
7 27 (2.34%) Aruba
8 26 (2.25%) Sophos
9 25 (2.17%) CheckPoint
9 25 (2.17%) HP
10 22 (1.91%) Meraki
11 21 (1.82%) Google
12 20 (1.73%) Dell
13 19 (1.65%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.47%) F5
14 17 (1.47%) Juniper
15 14 (1.21%) Alteryx
15 14 (1.21%) Nimble Storage
16 13 (1.13%) Facebook
17 12 (1.04%) DevExpress