Azure Job Trends in Cheltenham

Microsoft Azure
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 23 2
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 +10
Permanent jobs citing Azure 100 6 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 14.93% 4.65% 28.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.82% 13.95% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 38 4 83
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £46,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,188 £72,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 - £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -10.90%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 176 43 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 26.27% 33.33% 44.04%
Number of salaries quoted 85 30 130
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £31,950
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.54% -5.42%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £100,750 £95,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Azure
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Cheltenham

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (1.00%) Apache
1 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) AWS
2 22 (22.00%) Azure AI
3 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 14 (14.00%) GCP
5 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.00%) Serverless
10 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) DHCP
1 2 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) LAN
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
2 1 (1.00%) VSAN
2 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) Power BI
1 16 (16.00%) Tableau
2 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) Flink
3 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) MLflow
3 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 63 (63.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Junior
2 32 (32.00%) Analyst
2 32 (32.00%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Data Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Junior Security Analyst
3 16 (16.00%) Security Analyst
4 15 (15.00%) Ethical Hacker
5 10 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Architect
7 6 (6.00%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Data Scientist
8 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.00%) React
1 3 (3.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.00%) PKI
3 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) CentOS
3 1 (1.00%) CoreOS
3 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.00%) VMS
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (29.00%) AI
3 19 (19.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (15.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 12 (12.00%) Cloud Security
7 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.00%) Agile
9 8 (8.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.00%) DevOps
10 7 (7.00%) Machine Learning
11 6 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 6 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.00%) Runbook
11 6 (6.00%) Zero Trust
12 5 (5.00%) Computer Vision
12 5 (5.00%) Containerisation
12 5 (5.00%) Data Science
12 5 (5.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.00%) Python
2 18 (18.00%) SQL
3 5 (5.00%) Java
4 4 (4.00%) C
4 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.00%) C++
6 2 (2.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.00%) Rust
6 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.00%) Elixir
7 1 (1.00%) Erlang
7 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (59.00%) Azure Certification
2 34 (34.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (16.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 16 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 16 (16.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (15.00%) CEH
6 6 (6.00%) CCNA
6 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.00%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.00%) Degree
9 1 (1.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.00%) Terraform
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.00%) Kubeflow
5 2 (2.00%) Ansible
5 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (1.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 63 (63.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (37.00%) ForeScout
3 6 (6.00%) Cisco
4 2 (2.00%) Databricks
4 2 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (1.00%) Apple
5 1 (1.00%) McAfee
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.00%) VMware