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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,956 1,776 2,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.68% 19.78% 19.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.94% 53.80% 53.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 1,095 1,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,329 £41,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,950
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 3,997 3,301 4,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.03% 36.77% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,260 2,071 3,053
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
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 25 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 25 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 1,167 £55,000 - 263
East Midlands +3 784 £48,500 -7.62% 157
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
1 191 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 129 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 77 (3.94%) IIS
4 30 (1.53%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.43%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.77%) Apache
7 11 (0.56%) Confluence
8 10 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) Liferay
12 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) CATIA
6 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.10%) Trello
7 1 (0.051%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 33 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
5 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.051%) Magento
6 1 (0.051%) Maximo
6 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.051%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 481 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
2 466 (23.82%) AWS
3 253 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (12.32%) Entra ID
5 229 (11.71%) Power Platform
6 129 (6.60%) GCP
7 114 (5.83%) SaaS
8 73 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 71 (3.63%) IBM Cloud
11 70 (3.58%) PaaS
12 63 (3.22%) IaaS
13 52 (2.66%) PowerApps
14 50 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 47 (2.40%) GitHub
16 39 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (1.99%) Serverless
17 38 (1.94%) Snowflake
18 36 (1.84%) OneDrive
19 29 (1.48%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 273 (13.96%) Firewall
2 177 (9.05%) DNS
3 132 (6.75%) DHCP
4 117 (5.98%) WAN
5 91 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 88 (4.50%) SAN
7 85 (4.35%) VPN
8 70 (3.58%) LAN
9 63 (3.22%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (3.12%) VLAN
11 46 (2.35%) SD-WAN
12 44 (2.25%) Wireless
13 39 (1.99%) Network Security
14 31 (1.58%) Internet
15 20 (1.02%) MPLS
16 18 (0.92%) PBX
16 18 (0.92%) WLAN
17 15 (0.77%) Broadband
17 15 (0.77%) SSL
18 14 (0.72%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (21.11%) SQL Server
2 183 (9.36%) Power BI
3 157 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
5 119 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 111 (5.67%) MongoDB
7 94 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.89%) DB2
9 63 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 46 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 45 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 45 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (1.99%) Tableau
13 36 (1.84%) BigQuery
14 35 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (1.69%) Looker
16 30 (1.53%) GIS
17 29 (1.48%) MySQL
18 28 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 112 (5.73%) Git
2 37 (1.89%) Visual Studio
3 30 (1.53%) GitLab
3 30 (1.53%) JIRA
4 24 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (0.87%) Postman
6 12 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.56%) Jasmine
7 11 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
8 10 (0.51%) MSTest
9 9 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.46%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.41%) Bitbucket
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
1 424 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 184 (9.41%) Finance
3 135 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.21%) Retail
6 97 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (4.14%) Law
8 72 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (1.43%) Marketing
12 27 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.23%) Legal
14 20 (1.02%) Advertising
15 19 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.87%) Automotive
17 14 (0.72%) Local Government
18 12 (0.61%) Banking
19 10 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
19 10 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 445 (22.75%) Developer
2 300 (15.34%) Senior
3 195 (9.97%) .NET Developer
4 162 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 152 (7.77%) Architect
6 142 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
7 137 (7.00%) Support Engineer
8 133 (6.80%) IT Engineer
9 122 (6.24%) IT Support
10 112 (5.73%) Analyst
11 110 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 97 (4.96%) Lead
13 79 (4.04%) Data Engineer
13 79 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.99%) Full Stack Engineer
15 71 (3.63%) C# Developer
16 70 (3.58%) Administrator
17 67 (3.43%) Network Engineer
18 65 (3.32%) IT Support Engineer
19 63 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (27.04%) .NET
2 249 (12.73%) AngularJS
3 248 (12.68%) ASP.NET
4 245 (12.53%) React
5 216 (11.04%) .NET Core
5 216 (11.04%) HTML
6 193 (9.87%) CSS
7 157 (8.03%) REST
8 151 (7.72%) Vue
9 126 (6.44%) ASP.NET Web API
10 123 (6.29%) .NET Framework
11 118 (6.03%) Web Services
12 117 (5.98%) RESTful
13 108 (5.52%) ASP.NET MVC
14 105 (5.37%) Entity Framework
15 95 (4.86%) jQuery
16 87 (4.45%) ASP.NET Core
17 85 (4.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 71 (3.63%) Backbone.js
18 71 (3.63%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.21%) Data Structures
2 92 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.45%) Algorithms
4 75 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.63%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.63%) e-Learning
6 68 (3.48%) Data Centre
7 66 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 65 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 59 (3.02%) Cloud Native
10 55 (2.81%) Clustering
10 55 (2.81%) Product Ownership
11 44 (2.25%) Driving Licence
12 43 (2.20%) Replication
13 34 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.64%) Onboarding
15 31 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (1.43%) Private Cloud
17 26 (1.33%) IoT
18 25 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 509 (26.02%) Windows
2 251 (12.83%) Windows Server
3 185 (9.46%) Linux
4 93 (4.75%) Android
5 89 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 67 (3.43%) Windows 10
7 56 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 50 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 43 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (1.07%) VMS
11 18 (0.92%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.77%) Unix
13 12 (0.61%) Debian
13 12 (0.61%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.51%) CentOS
15 9 (0.46%) SUSE
16 8 (0.41%) Solaris
17 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
19 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (30.88%) Agile
2 496 (25.36%) DevOps
3 315 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 278 (14.21%) Full Stack Development
5 235 (12.01%) MVC
6 227 (11.61%) Mentoring
7 218 (11.15%) CI/CD
8 198 (10.12%) Software Engineering
9 195 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
10 187 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 160 (8.18%) ETL
12 158 (8.08%) Microservices
12 158 (8.08%) Scrum
13 155 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
14 149 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 130 (6.65%) Data Modelling
15 130 (6.65%) Web Development
16 127 (6.49%) Migration
17 124 (6.34%) ITIL
18 120 (6.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 555 (28.37%) SQL
2 549 (28.07%) C#
3 396 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 167 (8.54%) Python
5 150 (7.67%) PowerShell
6 134 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 111 (5.67%) T-SQL
8 54 (2.76%) Java
9 34 (1.74%) Bash
10 25 (1.28%) Bicep
11 24 (1.23%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.18%) VB
13 17 (0.87%) C++
14 15 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.66%) XAML
16 12 (0.61%) C
17 11 (0.56%) VB6
18 10 (0.51%) Go
19 6 (0.31%) Ruby
20 4 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 193 (9.87%) Degree
2 151 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 117 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 101 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 87 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (2.71%) CCNA
8 47 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.58%) CCNP
11 25 (1.28%) MCSE
12 18 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (0.87%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.72%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.61%) ISTQB
18 10 (0.51%) DV Cleared
18 10 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (5.73%) QA
2 55 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.40%) GDPR
4 30 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.23%) SLA
8 13 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (0.56%) NCSC
10 9 (0.46%) NIST
11 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.36%) PMO
13 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.051%) COBIT
15 1 (0.051%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.051%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.051%) Solvency II
System Software
1 372 (19.02%) Active Directory
2 192 (9.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 174 (8.90%) Hyper-V
4 111 (5.67%) Docker
5 39 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.87%) vSphere
9 16 (0.82%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.41%) pfSense
12 5 (0.26%) Firmware
12 5 (0.26%) NFS
13 4 (0.20%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.20%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.20%) XenApp
13 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 169 (8.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 119 (6.08%) Terraform
3 89 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 52 (2.66%) SCCM
5 35 (1.79%) Ansible
6 17 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.46%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.41%) WSUS
12 7 (0.36%) SCOM
12 7 (0.36%) SmoothWall
13 5 (0.26%) Autotask
13 5 (0.26%) Grafana
14 4 (0.20%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.20%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.20%) SCOrch
14 4 (0.20%) vMotion
Vendors
1 866 (44.27%) Microsoft
2 270 (13.80%) VMware
3 120 (6.13%) Cisco
4 105 (5.37%) Veeam
5 76 (3.89%) IBM
6 74 (3.78%) Databricks
7 73 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 66 (3.37%) Google
9 57 (2.91%) Citrix
10 42 (2.15%) Meraki
11 38 (1.94%) HP
12 32 (1.64%) Sophos
13 31 (1.58%) Aruba
14 30 (1.53%) Dell
15 28 (1.43%) ESRI
15 28 (1.43%) Oracle
16 24 (1.23%) Fortinet
17 23 (1.18%) CheckPoint
18 21 (1.07%) Facebook
19 20 (1.02%) Acronis