Azure Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Azure
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 174 48 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 7.49% 8.76% 17.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.79% 35.29% 58.75%
Number of salaries quoted 92 37 107
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £67,125
90th Percentile £88,000 - £77,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +2.68%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 473 136 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.37% 24.82% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 272 108 183
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £82,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Azure
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in Gloucestershire

Azure
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
Cheltenham +5 81 £60,000 +11.63% 32
Gloucester -9 65 £85,000 +6.25% 38
Tewkesbury -15 2 - - 1
Cirencester -2 1 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Stroud -7 1 £33,500 - 1
Azure
South West

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.47%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.32%) Apache
4 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.30%) JBoss
4 4 (2.30%) WordPress
5 3 (1.72%) nginx
6 2 (1.15%) Confluence
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 75 (43.10%) AWS
2 38 (21.84%) GCP
3 32 (18.39%) Entra ID
4 29 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.62%) Azure AI
6 13 (7.47%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.32%) Azure AKS
8 10 (5.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (5.75%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (5.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.02%) GitHub
11 7 (4.02%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.07%) VPN
2 14 (8.05%) Network Security
3 13 (7.47%) DNS
4 11 (6.32%) LAN
4 11 (6.32%) WAN
5 10 (5.75%) Firewall
6 7 (4.02%) DHCP
7 6 (3.45%) Wireless
8 5 (2.87%) BGP
8 5 (2.87%) OSPF
8 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.30%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (2.30%) WLAN
10 3 (1.72%) AMQP
10 3 (1.72%) SSL
10 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.72%) VXLAN
11 2 (1.15%) NGN
11 2 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.07%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.47%) Power BI
3 11 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.17%) Tableau
5 7 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.87%) Big Data
7 3 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.72%) MySQL
7 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.57%) Flink
9 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) GitLab
2 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.72%) JIRA
4 3 (1.72%) MLflow
5 2 (1.15%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.15%) Metasploit
5 2 (1.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
6 1 (0.57%) Mocha
6 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.57%) Selenium
6 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (45.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.05%) Finance
2 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.02%) Games
5 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.57%) Local Government
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (14.37%) Analyst
2 24 (13.79%) Senior
3 19 (10.92%) Developer
4 18 (10.34%) Junior
4 18 (10.34%) Junior Analyst
5 17 (9.77%) Data Engineer
5 17 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (9.20%) IT Support
7 15 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Network Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Support Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) IT Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) IT Support Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Architect
11 10 (5.75%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.44%) Terraform
2 13 (7.47%) Keycloak
3 12 (6.90%) .NET
4 10 (5.75%) AngularJS
4 10 (5.75%) Kafka
4 10 (5.75%) Node.js
5 8 (4.60%) .NET Core
5 8 (4.60%) React
6 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET
6 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (4.02%) Vue
7 6 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.87%) REST
9 4 (2.30%) CSS
9 4 (2.30%) HTML
9 4 (2.30%) OpenAPI
9 4 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.30%) RESTful
9 4 (2.30%) Swagger
10 3 (1.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.17%) Cyberattack
4 8 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.87%) Blog
6 5 (2.87%) Social Media
7 4 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.30%) CMDB
7 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.72%) PKI
9 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.69%) Linux
2 30 (17.24%) Windows
3 13 (7.47%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.45%) CentOS
6 5 (2.87%) Unix
7 3 (1.72%) Debian
7 3 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.15%) Android
8 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.15%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.44%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (21.26%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.11%) Agile
4 34 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (18.97%) AI
6 29 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 28 (16.09%) DevOps
8 26 (14.94%) Containerisation
8 26 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 23 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.34%) Analytics
12 18 (10.34%) Software Engineering
13 16 (9.20%) Microservices
13 16 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (7.47%) ETL
15 13 (7.47%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) Python
2 27 (15.52%) SQL
3 14 (8.05%) C#
4 13 (7.47%) Java
5 12 (6.90%) Go
6 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.17%) Bicep
7 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.60%) Bash
9 7 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.45%) C++
11 4 (2.30%) PHP
12 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.15%) C
13 2 (1.15%) Rust
14 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (45.98%) Security Cleared
2 53 (30.46%) Azure Certification
3 52 (29.89%) SC Cleared
4 51 (29.31%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.47%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (5.17%) CEH
7 9 (5.17%) CompTIA CySA+
7 9 (5.17%) Degree
8 8 (4.60%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (4.02%) CCNP
9 7 (4.02%) CREST Certified
10 6 (3.45%) CCNA
11 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.72%) CCIE
13 3 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.15%) OSCP
15 1 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.60%) GDPR
3 6 (3.45%) QA
4 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 30 (17.24%) Docker
2 30 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.62%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.87%) Firmware
5 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (27.01%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.94%) Ansible
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.75%) Puppet
5 9 (5.17%) Grafana
5 9 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.72%) Argo
6 3 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.72%) Istio
6 3 (1.72%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.72%) linkerd
6 3 (1.72%) Mesos
6 3 (1.72%) Nagios
6 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.15%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (1.15%) Nessus
7 2 (1.15%) Nmap
7 2 (1.15%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 84 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.82%) VMware
3 24 (13.79%) ForeScout
4 17 (9.77%) Cisco
5 12 (6.90%) Google
6 9 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.02%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.45%) Veeam
9 5 (2.87%) Databricks
9 5 (2.87%) Meraki
9 5 (2.87%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.30%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.30%) Avaya
10 4 (2.30%) F5
10 4 (2.30%) Infoblox
10 4 (2.30%) Netskope
10 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.72%) New Relic
11 3 (1.72%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.72%) Splunk