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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,184 1,222 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.74% 20.96% 19.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.12% 54.50% 54.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 813 1,114
10th Percentile £32,300 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,357
Median % change year-on-year - +1.18% +3.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
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 2,513 2,242 2,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.29% 38.46% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,518 2,003
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £83,594
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +1 530 £57,500 +0.88% 114
Staffordshire -3 148 £52,500 +10.53% 23
Warwickshire 0 128 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Worcestershire -9 61 £45,000 -2.17% 13
Shropshire +16 46 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Coventry -4 41 £65,000 +22.07% 26
Solihull -8 24 £62,500 +16.28% 7
Wolverhampton -11 17 £47,500 -12.84% 11
Halesowen - 14 £56,250 - 3
Herefordshire -5 13 £32,500 -35.00% 7
Walsall -4 8 £45,000 - 2
Wednesbury 0 7 £30,000 -20.00%
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Brierley Hill -6 3 £32,500 - 1
Stourbridge - 3 £55,000 -
West Bromwich - 2 £28,500 - 1
Sutton Coldfield -12 1 £27,000 - 2
Dudley -12 1 £55,000 - 2
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
1 109 (9.21%) SharePoint
2 84 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (4.22%) IIS
4 12 (1.01%) Apache
5 10 (0.84%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
7 3 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
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 (0.084%) Confluence
9 1 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 58 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.084%) Magento
3 1 (0.084%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 297 (25.08%) Microsoft 365
2 237 (20.02%) AWS
3 186 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 183 (15.46%) Power Platform
5 145 (12.25%) Entra ID
6 78 (6.59%) SaaS
7 74 (6.25%) GCP
8 64 (5.41%) PaaS
9 61 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 60 (5.07%) IaaS
11 57 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 38 (3.21%) GitHub
13 38 (3.21%) PowerApps
14 32 (2.70%) Snowflake
15 29 (2.45%) Serverless
16 28 (2.36%) Azure Stack
17 25 (2.11%) Power Automate
18 23 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
19 22 (1.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 178 (15.03%) Firewall
2 88 (7.43%) DNS
3 86 (7.26%) WAN
4 69 (5.83%) DHCP
5 49 (4.14%) LAN
5 49 (4.14%) SAN
6 46 (3.89%) VPN
7 45 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
8 38 (3.21%) TCP/IP
9 35 (2.96%) SD-WAN
10 34 (2.87%) Wireless
11 31 (2.62%) Network Security
12 27 (2.28%) VLAN
13 18 (1.52%) PBX
14 17 (1.44%) MPLS
15 14 (1.18%) Internet
16 13 (1.10%) BIG-IP
16 13 (1.10%) NGFW
17 12 (1.01%) WLAN
18 11 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (22.30%) SQL Server
2 145 (12.25%) Power BI
3 117 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 36 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 35 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 35 (2.96%) Tableau
8 29 (2.45%) NoSQL
9 28 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (1.60%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.60%) Looker
12 19 (1.60%) MySQL
13 17 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.44%) Metadata
13 17 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 75 (6.33%) Git
2 33 (2.79%) Visual Studio
3 19 (1.60%) GitLab
4 14 (1.18%) JIRA
5 13 (1.10%) Postman
6 12 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.84%) MSTest
9 9 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.76%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.59%) Jenkins
11 7 (0.59%) NUnit
12 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.42%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
13 5 (0.42%) Maven
14 4 (0.34%) ESLint
14 4 (0.34%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 265 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 139 (11.74%) Finance
3 77 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.00%) Retail
5 53 (4.48%) Law
6 49 (4.14%) Manufacturing
7 42 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.69%) Legal
12 18 (1.52%) Marketing
13 15 (1.27%) Automotive
14 14 (1.18%) Local Government
15 12 (1.01%) Advertising
16 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
18 8 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.68%) Social Housing
19 7 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 274 (23.14%) Developer
2 190 (16.05%) Senior
3 102 (8.61%) .NET Developer
4 101 (8.53%) Architect
5 95 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 93 (7.85%) Analyst
7 87 (7.35%) Support Engineer
8 85 (7.18%) IT Engineer
9 74 (6.25%) IT Support
10 63 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 55 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (4.65%) Network Engineer
12 53 (4.48%) Lead
13 47 (3.97%) IT Support Engineer
14 46 (3.89%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.80%) Software Engineer
16 40 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
17 37 (3.13%) C# Developer
18 31 (2.62%) 3rd Line Support
19 30 (2.53%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (21.54%) .NET
2 104 (8.78%) .NET Core
3 96 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 91 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 91 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 88 (7.43%) HTML
6 80 (6.76%) Entity Framework
6 80 (6.76%) RESTful
7 76 (6.42%) ASP.NET Web API
7 76 (6.42%) React
8 63 (5.32%) CSS
9 59 (4.98%) ASP.NET MVC
10 48 (4.05%) REST
10 48 (4.05%) Vue
11 38 (3.21%) JSON
12 37 (3.13%) Blazor
12 37 (3.13%) XML
13 29 (2.45%) HTML5
13 29 (2.45%) Web Services
14 25 (2.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.39%) Management Information System
2 48 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 43 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 36 (3.04%) Clustering
6 36 (3.04%) Replication
7 34 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 26 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 24 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.94%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.01%) IoT
16 12 (1.01%) NHS
17 11 (0.93%) Low-Code
17 11 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 262 (22.13%) Windows
2 150 (12.67%) Windows Server
3 57 (4.81%) Windows 10
4 50 (4.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 43 (3.63%) Linux
6 34 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.10%) VMS
9 12 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.01%) Unix
10 10 (0.84%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.76%) Android
12 8 (0.68%) Solaris
13 6 (0.51%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.17%) SUSE
15 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.084%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (27.03%) DevOps
2 298 (25.17%) Agile
3 183 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (13.09%) CI/CD
5 153 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
6 118 (9.97%) ETL
7 115 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 114 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
9 109 (9.21%) Software Engineering
10 106 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
11 102 (8.61%) ITIL
12 97 (8.19%) Scrum
13 96 (8.11%) Microservices
14 92 (7.77%) Data Modelling
15 90 (7.60%) Mentoring
16 87 (7.35%) Analytics
17 84 (7.09%) MVC
18 83 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (5.83%) Data Engineering
20 67 (5.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 334 (28.21%) SQL
2 271 (22.89%) C#
3 159 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 101 (8.53%) PowerShell
5 94 (7.94%) Python
6 89 (7.52%) T-SQL
7 65 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 36 (3.04%) Java
9 19 (1.60%) Bicep
10 14 (1.18%) Bash
11 13 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.10%) XAML
12 10 (0.84%) VB
13 9 (0.76%) C++
14 8 (0.68%) C
15 6 (0.51%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.42%) Go
16 5 (0.42%) VB6
17 3 (0.25%) Dart
17 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (11.49%) Degree
2 100 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 75 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 58 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 50 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (3.29%) CCNA
8 30 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.94%) CCNP
10 22 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.44%) MCSE
12 15 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 14 (1.18%) A+ Certification
14 13 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.68%) CCSA
15 8 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.59%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.66%) QA
2 43 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.28%) GDPR
4 24 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.27%) SLA
7 13 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 12 (1.01%) NCSC
9 9 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.68%) NIST
10 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.59%) PMO
12 6 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
14 1 (0.084%) IFRS
14 1 (0.084%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.084%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.084%) Solvency II
System Software
1 226 (19.09%) Active Directory
2 142 (11.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (10.22%) Hyper-V
4 55 (4.65%) Docker
5 40 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 14 (1.18%) vSphere
9 11 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.51%) pfSense
11 6 (0.51%) XenApp
11 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.42%) NFS
13 3 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.084%) Firmware
14 1 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 100 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 98 (8.28%) Terraform
3 52 (4.39%) Kubernetes
4 41 (3.46%) SCCM
5 21 (1.77%) Ansible
6 16 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.34%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.34%) Autotask
9 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.17%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.17%) Kibana
10 2 (0.17%) MIIS
10 2 (0.17%) SCOM
10 2 (0.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.084%) Nessus
11 1 (0.084%) WSUS
Vendors
1 572 (48.31%) Microsoft
2 196 (16.55%) VMware
3 81 (6.84%) Cisco
4 65 (5.49%) Databricks
5 59 (4.98%) Veeam
6 50 (4.22%) Citrix
7 27 (2.28%) Aruba
8 26 (2.20%) HP
8 26 (2.20%) Sophos
9 23 (1.94%) Meraki
10 21 (1.77%) CheckPoint
10 21 (1.77%) Google
11 20 (1.69%) Dell
11 20 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.52%) Juniper
13 17 (1.44%) Oracle
14 15 (1.27%) Informatica
15 14 (1.18%) F5
15 14 (1.18%) Facebook
16 13 (1.10%) SolarWinds