Azure Jobs in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,929 1,786 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.95% 19.70% 19.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.95% 53.68% 52.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,092 1,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,913 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,300
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,941 3,327 4,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.59% 36.69% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,215 2,087 3,066
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £28,410
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure in the Midlands

Azure
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +1 1,152 £55,000 - 322
East Midlands +3 772 £47,500 -9.52% 193
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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
1 194 (10.06%) SharePoint
2 131 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 73 (3.78%) IIS
4 30 (1.56%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.45%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.78%) Apache
7 12 (0.62%) Confluence
8 9 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.10%) Liferay
12 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.10%) Trello
7 1 (0.052%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 33 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.052%) Magento
6 1 (0.052%) Maximo
6 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.052%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 481 (24.94%) Microsoft 365
2 453 (23.48%) AWS
3 249 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
4 243 (12.60%) Entra ID
5 226 (11.72%) Power Platform
6 128 (6.64%) GCP
7 114 (5.91%) SaaS
8 73 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (3.68%) IBM Cloud
10 69 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 69 (3.58%) PaaS
11 62 (3.21%) IaaS
12 51 (2.64%) PowerApps
13 49 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 47 (2.44%) GitHub
15 39 (2.02%) Serverless
16 38 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
16 38 (1.97%) Snowflake
17 36 (1.87%) OneDrive
18 29 (1.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 270 (14.00%) Firewall
2 174 (9.02%) DNS
3 131 (6.79%) DHCP
4 116 (6.01%) WAN
5 91 (4.72%) TCP/IP
6 87 (4.51%) SAN
7 84 (4.35%) VPN
8 70 (3.63%) LAN
9 62 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
10 60 (3.11%) VLAN
11 45 (2.33%) SD-WAN
12 44 (2.28%) Wireless
13 40 (2.07%) Network Security
14 30 (1.56%) Internet
15 20 (1.04%) MPLS
16 18 (0.93%) PBX
16 18 (0.93%) WLAN
17 15 (0.78%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.78%) Broadband
17 15 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 179 (9.28%) Power BI
3 156 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
4 132 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
5 118 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 111 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 93 (4.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.94%) DB2
9 62 (3.21%) Data Lake
10 46 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 45 (2.33%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 44 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (2.02%) Tableau
14 36 (1.87%) BigQuery
15 34 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 33 (1.71%) Looker
17 30 (1.56%) GIS
18 28 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
18 28 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 111 (5.75%) Git
2 36 (1.87%) Visual Studio
3 31 (1.61%) GitLab
4 30 (1.56%) JIRA
5 24 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.88%) Postman
7 11 (0.57%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
7 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.52%) MSTest
9 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.47%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.36%) NUnit
12 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.31%) JMeter
12 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 422 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 178 (9.23%) Finance
3 132 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 105 (5.44%) Retail
6 96 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (4.30%) Law
8 72 (3.73%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.64%) Telecoms
10 33 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (1.45%) Marketing
12 25 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.24%) Legal
14 20 (1.04%) Advertising
15 19 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.83%) Automotive
17 14 (0.73%) Banking
17 14 (0.73%) Local Government
18 10 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
18 10 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 431 (22.34%) Developer
2 291 (15.09%) Senior
3 186 (9.64%) .NET Developer
4 160 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 143 (7.41%) Architect
6 138 (7.15%) Azure Engineer
7 136 (7.05%) Support Engineer
8 130 (6.74%) IT Engineer
9 121 (6.27%) IT Support
10 112 (5.81%) Analyst
11 110 (5.70%) Software Engineer
12 100 (5.18%) Lead
13 78 (4.04%) Data Engineer
13 78 (4.04%) Full Stack Engineer
14 73 (3.78%) C# Developer
15 71 (3.68%) Senior Developer
16 70 (3.63%) Administrator
17 67 (3.47%) Network Engineer
18 64 (3.32%) IT Support Engineer
19 60 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (26.65%) .NET
2 244 (12.65%) ASP.NET
3 243 (12.60%) AngularJS
4 240 (12.44%) React
5 214 (11.09%) HTML
6 210 (10.89%) .NET Core
7 191 (9.90%) CSS
8 158 (8.19%) REST
9 146 (7.57%) Vue
10 123 (6.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 118 (6.12%) .NET Framework
12 117 (6.07%) Web Services
13 116 (6.01%) RESTful
14 106 (5.50%) ASP.NET MVC
15 102 (5.29%) Entity Framework
16 94 (4.87%) jQuery
17 87 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
18 84 (4.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 71 (3.68%) Backbone.js
19 71 (3.68%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.24%) Data Structures
2 92 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 74 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.68%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.68%) e-Learning
6 69 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 65 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 64 (3.32%) Public Cloud
9 56 (2.90%) Cloud Native
9 56 (2.90%) Product Ownership
10 54 (2.80%) Clustering
11 44 (2.28%) Driving Licence
12 43 (2.23%) Replication
13 35 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 32 (1.66%) Onboarding
15 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 26 (1.35%) IoT
17 24 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 506 (26.23%) Windows
2 247 (12.80%) Windows Server
3 184 (9.54%) Linux
4 93 (4.82%) Android
5 89 (4.61%) Apple iOS
6 67 (3.47%) Windows 10
7 57 (2.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.04%) VMS
11 17 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.78%) Unix
13 12 (0.62%) Debian
13 12 (0.62%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.52%) CentOS
15 9 (0.47%) SUSE
16 7 (0.36%) Solaris
16 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (31.00%) Agile
2 490 (25.40%) DevOps
3 310 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
4 274 (14.20%) Full Stack Development
5 231 (11.98%) MVC
6 226 (11.72%) Mentoring
7 219 (11.35%) CI/CD
8 199 (10.32%) Software Engineering
9 191 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
10 185 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 160 (8.29%) ETL
12 159 (8.24%) Scrum
13 158 (8.19%) Microservices
14 154 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
15 150 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
16 130 (6.74%) Web Development
17 129 (6.69%) Data Modelling
18 127 (6.58%) Migration
19 125 (6.48%) ITIL
20 122 (6.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 551 (28.56%) SQL
2 536 (27.79%) C#
3 392 (20.32%) JavaScript
4 169 (8.76%) Python
5 151 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 133 (6.89%) TypeScript
7 112 (5.81%) T-SQL
8 56 (2.90%) Java
9 34 (1.76%) Bash
10 25 (1.30%) Bicep
11 24 (1.24%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.19%) VB
13 17 (0.88%) C++
14 15 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.67%) XAML
16 12 (0.62%) C
17 11 (0.57%) VB6
18 10 (0.52%) Go
19 6 (0.31%) Ruby
20 4 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 191 (9.90%) Degree
2 149 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 116 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 96 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 86 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (2.70%) CCNA
8 43 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.61%) CCNP
11 25 (1.30%) MCSE
12 18 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 16 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.73%) A+ Certification
17 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.62%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.57%) PMI Certification
19 10 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.75%) QA
2 53 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.38%) GDPR
4 29 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 25 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.14%) SLA
7 13 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 11 (0.57%) NCSC
9 9 (0.47%) NIST
10 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.36%) PMO
12 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.16%) GRC
13 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.052%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.052%) ITGC
14 1 (0.052%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
System Software
1 370 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 191 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (8.97%) Hyper-V
4 110 (5.70%) Docker
5 38 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.78%) vSphere
9 14 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.41%) pfSense
11 5 (0.26%) Firmware
11 5 (0.26%) NFS
12 3 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.10%) XenApp
13 2 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 115 (5.96%) Terraform
3 90 (4.67%) Kubernetes
4 53 (2.75%) SCCM
5 35 (1.81%) Ansible
6 16 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.41%) WSUS
11 7 (0.36%) SCOM
11 7 (0.36%) SmoothWall
12 5 (0.26%) Autotask
12 5 (0.26%) Grafana
13 4 (0.21%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.16%) SCOrch
14 3 (0.16%) vMotion
Vendors
1 859 (44.53%) Microsoft
2 267 (13.84%) VMware
3 119 (6.17%) Cisco
4 105 (5.44%) Veeam
5 76 (3.94%) Databricks
5 76 (3.94%) IBM
6 73 (3.78%) Red Hat
7 68 (3.53%) Google
8 55 (2.85%) Citrix
9 41 (2.13%) Meraki
10 38 (1.97%) HP
11 32 (1.66%) Sophos
12 31 (1.61%) Aruba
13 30 (1.56%) Dell
14 28 (1.45%) ESRI
14 28 (1.45%) Oracle
15 24 (1.24%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.19%) CheckPoint
17 21 (1.09%) Facebook
18 20 (1.04%) Acronis