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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,919 1,821 2,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.17% 19.62% 20.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.22% 53.53% 52.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,588 1,124 1,689
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £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 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +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 3,899 3,402 4,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.85% 36.65% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,194 2,142 3,095
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £28,321
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £37,500
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 13 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 13 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 1,149 £55,000 - 272
East Midlands +3 766 £47,500 -9.52% 182
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
1 195 (10.16%) SharePoint
2 134 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 75 (3.91%) IIS
4 30 (1.56%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.46%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.78%) Apache
7 12 (0.63%) Confluence
8 10 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.10%) Liferay
13 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 95 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.25%) 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 (1.72%) 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
1 483 (25.17%) Microsoft 365
2 450 (23.45%) AWS
3 252 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (12.71%) Entra ID
5 222 (11.57%) Power Platform
6 133 (6.93%) GCP
7 112 (5.84%) SaaS
8 75 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (3.70%) IBM Cloud
10 69 (3.60%) PaaS
11 68 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 61 (3.18%) IaaS
13 51 (2.66%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 46 (2.40%) GitHub
16 40 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
17 39 (2.03%) Serverless
18 38 (1.98%) Snowflake
19 37 (1.93%) OneDrive
20 28 (1.46%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 270 (14.07%) Firewall
2 177 (9.22%) DNS
3 133 (6.93%) DHCP
4 116 (6.04%) WAN
5 92 (4.79%) TCP/IP
6 86 (4.48%) SAN
7 82 (4.27%) VPN
8 68 (3.54%) LAN
9 62 (3.23%) VLAN
10 61 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (2.29%) SD-WAN
12 41 (2.14%) Network Security
12 41 (2.14%) Wireless
13 29 (1.51%) Internet
14 20 (1.04%) MPLS
15 18 (0.94%) PBX
15 18 (0.94%) WLAN
16 16 (0.83%) HTTP
16 16 (0.83%) SSL
17 15 (0.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 173 (9.02%) Power BI
3 151 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
4 133 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
5 119 (6.20%) NoSQL
6 112 (5.84%) MongoDB
7 93 (4.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.96%) DB2
9 61 (3.18%) Data Lake
10 45 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 45 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 44 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 38 (1.98%) Tableau
13 36 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 33 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (1.72%) Looker
15 30 (1.56%) GIS
16 29 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
17 28 (1.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 111 (5.78%) Git
2 35 (1.82%) Visual Studio
3 31 (1.62%) GitLab
4 29 (1.51%) JIRA
5 23 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.89%) Postman
7 12 (0.63%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.57%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
9 10 (0.52%) MSTest
9 10 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (0.47%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.36%) NUnit
13 6 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.31%) JMeter
13 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 419 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 178 (9.28%) Finance
3 130 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 105 (5.47%) Retail
6 95 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 82 (4.27%) Law
8 73 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (1.46%) Marketing
12 25 (1.30%) Legal
13 23 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.04%) Advertising
15 18 (0.94%) 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
1 424 (22.09%) Developer
2 295 (15.37%) Senior
3 182 (9.48%) .NET Developer
4 158 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 139 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (7.03%) Architect
6 135 (7.03%) Support Engineer
7 128 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 120 (6.25%) IT Support
9 115 (5.99%) Analyst
10 111 (5.78%) Software Engineer
11 100 (5.21%) Lead
12 78 (4.06%) Full Stack Engineer
13 77 (4.01%) Data Engineer
14 74 (3.86%) C# Developer
15 72 (3.75%) Administrator
16 71 (3.70%) Senior Developer
17 66 (3.44%) Network Engineer
18 63 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
19 60 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (26.52%) .NET
2 243 (12.66%) ASP.NET
3 240 (12.51%) React
4 239 (12.45%) AngularJS
5 215 (11.20%) HTML
6 210 (10.94%) .NET Core
7 192 (10.01%) CSS
8 159 (8.29%) REST
9 144 (7.50%) Vue
10 119 (6.20%) ASP.NET Web API
11 117 (6.10%) .NET Framework
12 116 (6.04%) Web Services
13 114 (5.94%) RESTful
14 106 (5.52%) ASP.NET MVC
15 100 (5.21%) Entity Framework
16 94 (4.90%) jQuery
17 86 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
18 84 (4.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 71 (3.70%) Backbone.js
19 71 (3.70%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.21%) Data Structures
2 92 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 74 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.70%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.70%) e-Learning
6 70 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 66 (3.44%) Management Information System
8 65 (3.39%) Public Cloud
9 56 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 55 (2.87%) Clustering
11 54 (2.81%) Cloud Native
12 45 (2.34%) Driving Licence
13 42 (2.19%) Replication
14 35 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
15 32 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
16 30 (1.56%) Onboarding
16 30 (1.56%) Private Cloud
17 26 (1.35%) IoT
18 24 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 506 (26.37%) Windows
2 248 (12.92%) Windows Server
3 184 (9.59%) Linux
4 94 (4.90%) Android
5 89 (4.64%) Apple iOS
6 67 (3.49%) Windows 10
7 58 (3.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 51 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 20 (1.04%) VMS
11 16 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.73%) Unix
13 12 (0.63%) Debian
13 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.52%) CentOS
15 9 (0.47%) SUSE
16 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
17 6 (0.31%) Solaris
18 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (30.80%) Agile
2 492 (25.64%) DevOps
3 308 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (13.91%) Full Stack Development
5 232 (12.09%) MVC
6 224 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 223 (11.62%) Mentoring
8 198 (10.32%) Software Engineering
9 187 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
10 181 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 157 (8.18%) ETL
12 156 (8.13%) Microservices
13 154 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
13 154 (8.03%) Scrum
14 150 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 132 (6.88%) Web Development
16 125 (6.51%) Data Modelling
16 125 (6.51%) ITIL
17 124 (6.46%) Migration
18 121 (6.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 549 (28.61%) SQL
2 534 (27.83%) C#
3 391 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 172 (8.96%) Python
5 156 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 132 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 111 (5.78%) T-SQL
8 57 (2.97%) Java
9 34 (1.77%) Bash
10 25 (1.30%) Bicep
11 24 (1.25%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.20%) VB
13 17 (0.89%) C++
14 13 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.68%) XAML
15 12 (0.63%) C
16 11 (0.57%) VB6
17 10 (0.52%) Go
18 7 (0.36%) Ruby
19 5 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 187 (9.74%) Degree
2 151 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 118 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 93 (4.85%) Azure Certification
5 84 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (2.71%) CCNA
8 40 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.56%) CCNP
11 25 (1.30%) MCSE
12 18 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.73%) A+ Certification
14 14 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.63%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.68%) QA
2 52 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.40%) GDPR
4 29 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 25 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.15%) SLA
7 13 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 11 (0.57%) NCSC
9 9 (0.47%) NIST
10 8 (0.42%) 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%) COBIT
14 1 (0.052%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.052%) Solvency II
System Software
1 373 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 193 (10.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 173 (9.02%) Hyper-V
4 110 (5.73%) Docker
5 40 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.83%) vSphere
9 14 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) pfSense
11 5 (0.26%) NFS
12 4 (0.21%) Firmware
13 3 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.10%) XenApp
14 2 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 169 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 116 (6.04%) Terraform
3 89 (4.64%) Kubernetes
4 53 (2.76%) SCCM
5 34 (1.77%) Ansible
6 16 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (0.52%) WSUS
9 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.42%) SmoothWall
11 7 (0.36%) SCOM
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
1 855 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 271 (14.12%) VMware
3 119 (6.20%) Cisco
4 104 (5.42%) Veeam
5 76 (3.96%) IBM
6 75 (3.91%) Databricks
7 73 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 70 (3.65%) Google
9 59 (3.07%) Citrix
10 42 (2.19%) Meraki
11 37 (1.93%) HP
12 32 (1.67%) Sophos
13 31 (1.62%) Aruba
14 30 (1.56%) Dell
15 28 (1.46%) ESRI
16 27 (1.41%) Oracle
17 24 (1.25%) CheckPoint
17 24 (1.25%) Fortinet
18 20 (1.04%) Acronis
18 20 (1.04%) Facebook