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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 2,028 1,763 2,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.13% 20.73% 19.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.80% 54.40% 52.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 1,083 1,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,968 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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
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 4,156 3,241 4,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.00% 38.10% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,318 2,069 3,049
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,025 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
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 6 June 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 6 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
West Midlands +1 1,198 £55,000 - 249
East Midlands +2 826 £48,500 -7.62% 160
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 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 132 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 75 (3.70%) IIS
4 30 (1.48%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.38%) ArcGIS
6 15 (0.74%) Apache
7 11 (0.54%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) CMS
9 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.099%) Liferay
11 2 (0.099%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.099%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.099%) CATIA
6 2 (0.099%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.099%) Trello
7 1 (0.049%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 36 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.099%) Shopify
5 2 (0.099%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.049%) Magento
6 1 (0.049%) Maximo
6 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.049%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.049%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 503 (24.80%) Microsoft 365
2 468 (23.08%) AWS
3 262 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (12.23%) Entra ID
5 232 (11.44%) Power Platform
6 126 (6.21%) GCP
7 117 (5.77%) SaaS
8 76 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 72 (3.55%) PaaS
10 71 (3.50%) IBM Cloud
11 66 (3.25%) IaaS
12 56 (2.76%) PowerApps
13 49 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 45 (2.22%) GitHub
15 40 (1.97%) Serverless
16 37 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
16 37 (1.82%) Snowflake
17 36 (1.78%) OneDrive
18 30 (1.48%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 284 (14.00%) Firewall
2 187 (9.22%) DNS
3 139 (6.85%) DHCP
4 121 (5.97%) WAN
5 96 (4.73%) TCP/IP
6 92 (4.54%) VPN
7 89 (4.39%) SAN
8 77 (3.80%) LAN
9 66 (3.25%) VLAN
9 66 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (2.47%) Wireless
11 48 (2.37%) SD-WAN
12 42 (2.07%) Network Security
13 31 (1.53%) Internet
14 22 (1.08%) MPLS
15 18 (0.89%) WLAN
16 17 (0.84%) PBX
17 15 (0.74%) Broadband
18 14 (0.69%) SSL
19 13 (0.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 185 (9.12%) Power BI
3 154 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
5 115 (5.67%) NoSQL
6 111 (5.47%) MongoDB
7 93 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 76 (3.75%) DB2
9 60 (2.96%) Data Lake
10 47 (2.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 46 (2.27%) Relational Database
12 45 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
13 44 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 39 (1.92%) Tableau
15 35 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.73%) Looker
16 32 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 30 (1.48%) GIS
17 30 (1.48%) MySQL
18 28 (1.38%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 119 (5.87%) Git
2 37 (1.82%) Visual Studio
3 31 (1.53%) JIRA
4 28 (1.38%) GitLab
5 25 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (0.84%) Postman
7 13 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.54%) Jasmine
8 11 (0.54%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
9 10 (0.49%) MSTest
10 9 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (0.44%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.35%) NUnit
13 6 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.30%) JMeter
13 6 (0.30%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 437 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 189 (9.32%) Finance
3 135 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.08%) Retail
6 102 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (3.80%) Law
8 73 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 50 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.38%) Marketing
13 25 (1.23%) Legal
14 20 (0.99%) Advertising
15 19 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (0.89%) Automotive
17 14 (0.69%) Local Government
18 13 (0.64%) Banking
19 10 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
19 10 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 471 (23.22%) Developer
2 311 (15.34%) Senior
3 211 (10.40%) .NET Developer
4 177 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 159 (7.84%) Architect
6 150 (7.40%) Azure Engineer
7 137 (6.76%) Support Engineer
8 134 (6.61%) IT Engineer
9 125 (6.16%) IT Support
10 116 (5.72%) Analyst
11 111 (5.47%) Software Engineer
12 103 (5.08%) Lead
13 89 (4.39%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
15 77 (3.80%) Data Engineer
16 74 (3.65%) C# Developer
16 74 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
17 71 (3.50%) Network Engineer
18 70 (3.45%) Administrator
19 64 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (27.42%) .NET
2 257 (12.67%) ASP.NET
3 256 (12.62%) AngularJS
4 249 (12.28%) React
5 224 (11.05%) .NET Core
6 220 (10.85%) HTML
7 197 (9.71%) CSS
8 156 (7.69%) REST
9 154 (7.59%) Vue
10 131 (6.46%) ASP.NET Web API
11 127 (6.26%) .NET Framework
12 120 (5.92%) RESTful
13 119 (5.87%) Web Services
14 109 (5.37%) ASP.NET MVC
15 108 (5.33%) Entity Framework
16 96 (4.73%) jQuery
17 91 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
18 86 (4.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 71 (3.50%) Backbone.js
19 71 (3.50%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.03%) Data Structures
2 94 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 77 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (3.50%) Blockchain
5 71 (3.50%) e-Learning
6 70 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 65 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 62 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 60 (2.96%) Cloud Native
10 53 (2.61%) Product Ownership
11 49 (2.42%) Clustering
12 45 (2.22%) Driving Licence
13 43 (2.12%) Replication
14 37 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (1.73%) Onboarding
16 28 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (1.28%) IoT
18 25 (1.23%) PKI
18 25 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 532 (26.23%) Windows
2 261 (12.87%) Windows Server
3 187 (9.22%) Linux
4 94 (4.64%) Android
5 89 (4.39%) Apple iOS
6 70 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 55 (2.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 53 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 22 (1.08%) VMS
11 20 (0.99%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.69%) Unix
13 12 (0.59%) Debian
13 12 (0.59%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.49%) CentOS
15 9 (0.44%) SUSE
16 8 (0.39%) Solaris
17 7 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.30%) Mac OS X
19 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (30.13%) Agile
2 503 (24.80%) DevOps
3 325 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 289 (14.25%) Full Stack Development
5 239 (11.79%) MVC
6 236 (11.64%) Mentoring
7 219 (10.80%) CI/CD
8 205 (10.11%) Software Engineering
9 203 (10.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 197 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
11 160 (7.89%) Scrum
12 159 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
13 158 (7.79%) Microservices
14 153 (7.54%) ETL
15 144 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence
16 134 (6.61%) ITIL
17 132 (6.51%) Web Development
18 131 (6.46%) Migration
19 129 (6.36%) Data Modelling
20 121 (5.97%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 574 (28.30%) C#
2 560 (27.61%) SQL
3 407 (20.07%) JavaScript
4 165 (8.14%) Python
5 157 (7.74%) PowerShell
6 135 (6.66%) TypeScript
7 108 (5.33%) T-SQL
8 55 (2.71%) Java
9 34 (1.68%) Bash
10 27 (1.33%) Bicep
11 24 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.13%) VB
13 19 (0.94%) C++
14 16 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.69%) C
16 13 (0.64%) XAML
17 11 (0.54%) VB6
18 10 (0.49%) Go
19 6 (0.30%) PHP
19 6 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 199 (9.81%) Degree
2 154 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 119 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 107 (5.28%) Azure Certification
5 91 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (2.66%) CCNA
8 50 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.58%) CCNP
11 27 (1.33%) MCSE
12 18 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.69%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 11 (0.54%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.62%) QA
2 56 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.32%) GDPR
4 31 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 29 (1.43%) SLA
7 28 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 12 (0.59%) NCSC
10 9 (0.44%) NIST
11 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.35%) PMO
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.049%) COBIT
15 1 (0.049%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.049%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.049%) Solvency II
System Software
1 395 (19.48%) Active Directory
2 203 (10.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 177 (8.73%) Hyper-V
4 119 (5.87%) Docker
5 38 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (1.04%) vSphere
7 20 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.74%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.39%) pfSense
10 8 (0.39%) XenApp
10 8 (0.39%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.20%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 177 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 130 (6.41%) Terraform
3 95 (4.68%) Kubernetes
4 54 (2.66%) SCCM
5 37 (1.82%) Ansible
6 17 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.44%) Grafana
10 8 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.39%) SCOM
10 8 (0.39%) WSUS
11 6 (0.30%) SmoothWall
12 5 (0.25%) Autotask
13 4 (0.20%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.20%) SCOrch
13 4 (0.20%) vMotion
Vendors
1 889 (43.84%) Microsoft
2 285 (14.05%) VMware
3 125 (6.16%) Cisco
4 107 (5.28%) Veeam
5 78 (3.85%) IBM
6 73 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 69 (3.40%) Databricks
8 66 (3.25%) Google
9 62 (3.06%) Citrix
10 44 (2.17%) Meraki
11 40 (1.97%) HP
12 32 (1.58%) Aruba
12 32 (1.58%) Sophos
13 31 (1.53%) Dell
14 28 (1.38%) ESRI
14 28 (1.38%) Oracle
15 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.04%) Acronis
16 21 (1.04%) CheckPoint
16 21 (1.04%) Facebook