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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 168 21 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 16.70% 7.34% 16.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.92% 37.50% 42.60%
Number of salaries quoted 138 20 66
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,703 £40,039
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,289 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,703 £73,058
90th Percentile £81,975 £96,750 £88,750
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 267 56 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 26.54% 19.58% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 212 45 166
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,902 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £53,544
Median % change year-on-year - +12.06% -2.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,575 £86,146 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.76% +2.94%

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 16 October 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 6 (3.57%) CMS
1 6 (3.57%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.90%) AWS
2 55 (32.74%) GCP
3 33 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (13.69%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.74%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (5.36%) Azure Databricks
9 8 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (4.17%) dbt
10 7 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.17%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.38%) IaaS
12 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.38%) SaaS
13 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) Network Security
2 3 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.60%) Firewall
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) LAN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 7 (4.17%) Power BI
2 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.98%) Delta Lake
3 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.38%) Ataccama
4 4 (2.38%) IBM InfoSphere
4 4 (2.38%) MySQL
4 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.38%) TIBCO EBX
5 3 (1.79%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.19%) Looker
7 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.60%) SSDT
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.79%) Selenium
3 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.60%) Flyway
4 1 (0.60%) git-flow
4 1 (0.60%) JMeter
4 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.52%) Finance
4 12 (7.14%) Retail
5 6 (3.57%) Legal
6 5 (2.98%) Games
7 4 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 59 (35.12%) Senior
2 21 (12.50%) Lead
2 21 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (8.93%) Architect
5 15 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 14 (8.33%) Developer
7 13 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Technical Leader
9 11 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Analyst
11 8 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.76%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (38.10%) Terraform
2 28 (16.67%) React
3 22 (13.10%) NestJS
4 21 (12.50%) OAuth
4 21 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 21 (12.50%) OpenID
4 21 (12.50%) SAML
5 15 (8.93%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.74%) REST
7 12 (7.14%) Node.js
8 11 (6.55%) .NET
9 7 (4.17%) RESTful
10 5 (2.98%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (2.98%) Entity Framework
10 5 (2.98%) LINQ
10 5 (2.98%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.98%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.57%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.38%) NHS
5 4 (2.38%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
8 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.55%) Windows
2 4 (2.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.79%) Unix
4 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.60%) CI/CD
2 66 (39.29%) DevOps
3 34 (20.24%) Software Engineering
4 32 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 29 (17.26%) AI
7 25 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (14.88%) Technology Transformation
8 21 (12.50%) Agile
8 21 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (8.93%) Observability
9 15 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.33%) Analytics
10 14 (8.33%) Collaborative Engineering
10 14 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (7.74%) Code Quality
12 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.83%) SQL
2 20 (11.90%) Python
3 13 (7.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (7.14%) C#
5 10 (5.95%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.57%) Bicep
7 6 (3.57%) Java
8 2 (1.19%) Bash
8 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.17%) Degree
5 4 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.79%) CISMP
6 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) CCNA
8 1 (0.60%) CEH
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (22.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.38%) vSphere
4 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) MaaS360
5 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 68 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.93%) Okta
2 15 (8.93%) Ping Identity
3 12 (7.14%) Informatica
4 9 (5.36%) Databricks
5 8 (4.76%) Google
6 6 (3.57%) Sitecore
6 6 (3.57%) VMware
7 5 (2.98%) ForgeRock
8 4 (2.38%) IBM
8 4 (2.38%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.79%) ForeScout
9 3 (1.79%) Foundry
9 3 (1.79%) Veeam
10 2 (1.19%) Apple
10 2 (1.19%) Cisco
10 2 (1.19%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.60%) Adobe
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle
11 1 (0.60%) Unisys