Azure Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 38 50 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 10.67% 14.25% 28.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 59.38% 32.89% 71.81%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 103
10th Percentile - £41,375 £39,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,308 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% +20.53% +6.48%
75th Percentile £78,551 £82,500 £71,649
90th Percentile £89,758 £95,000 £74,750
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +1.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cardiff

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 152 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.98% 43.30% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41 109 144
10th Percentile £32,500 £23,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £31,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,750 £71,845
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,920 £78,750
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +9.97%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Azure job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) GCP
4 5 (13.16%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.53%) SaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.89%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Pulumi
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.26%) Sentry
7 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) DHCP
1 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Internet
2 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) FTP
4 1 (2.63%) VoIP
4 1 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Power BI
2 5 (13.16%) Tableau
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Redis
4 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
1 2 (5.26%) Zephyr
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) JMeter
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
2 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Billing
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.63%) Police
4 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Analyst
2 10 (26.32%) Junior
2 10 (26.32%) Junior Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Security Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Data Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Desktop Support
4 5 (13.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Junior Security Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Django
2 2 (5.26%) Playwright
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) Jest
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) Vitest
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Mentoring
2 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (21.05%) AI
3 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.16%) Observability
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Clean Code
8 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Azure Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.16%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (13.16%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.63%) MCSE
5 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (5.26%) Grafana
4 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) ForeScout
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.63%) ESRI
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Veeam
5 1 (2.63%) VMware