Azure Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft Azure
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 59 256 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.70% 17.45% 19.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.20% 56.51% 57.44%
Number of salaries quoted 55 190 121
10th Percentile £37,170 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,504 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,685 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.85% +22.22%
75th Percentile £69,750 £67,500 £68,497
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,875 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 98 453 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 12.79% 30.88% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 88 348 224
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,787 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £37,101 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,796 £51,092 £50,119
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +1.94% +0.24%
75th Percentile £68,938 £66,250 £67,506
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £53,809 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% +11.11% -10.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure in South Wales.

Salary trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Wales over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
Cardiff -3 27 £55,000 - 46
Newport -21 12 £52,000 -13.33% 21
Gwent +5 10 £52,592 +85.90% 13
Monmouthshire - 5 £65,000 -
Bridgend +9 4 £37,500 +2.81% 6
Glamorgan -4 1 £52,000 +83.81% 42
Azure
Wales

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (13.56%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) CMS
2 3 (5.08%) Headless CMS
2 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.69%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (20.34%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (13.56%) Serverless
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) PaaS
7 5 (8.47%) SaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.78%) IaaS
9 3 (5.08%) Azure API Management
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.08%) Contentful
9 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) SAN
3 2 (3.39%) NAS
3 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.69%) DHCP
4 1 (1.69%) DMARC
4 1 (1.69%) Extranet
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) Redis
3 5 (8.47%) Power BI
4 4 (6.78%) Big Data
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Git
2 11 (18.64%) JIRA
3 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.08%) REST Assured
4 3 (5.08%) Selenium
5 2 (3.39%) Appium
5 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.39%) JMeter
5 2 (3.39%) JUnit
5 2 (3.39%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
5 2 (3.39%) TestNG
5 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.69%) NUnit
6 1 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Retail
5 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.78%) Welsh Language
7 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 13 (22.03%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.47%) Backend Developer
5 5 (8.47%) Security Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Backend Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.08%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Junior
7 3 (5.08%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.69%) Consultant
9 1 (1.69%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) GraphQL
2 7 (11.86%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) REST
2 7 (11.86%) RESTful
3 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
3 6 (10.17%) Django
4 5 (8.47%) CSS
4 5 (8.47%) FastAPI
4 5 (8.47%) Flask
4 5 (8.47%) HTML
4 5 (8.47%) Keycloak
4 5 (8.47%) OAuth
4 5 (8.47%) pytest
4 5 (8.47%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (8.47%) WebSockets
5 4 (6.78%) SOAP
6 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.08%) hapi
6 3 (5.08%) React
6 3 (5.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.78%) IoT
3 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Clustering
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
1 8 (13.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) DevOps
2 24 (40.68%) Agile
3 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.12%) Scrum
5 11 (18.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (18.64%) Machine Learning
6 10 (16.95%) Microservices
6 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.86%) CRM
9 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
9 6 (10.17%) Data Engineering
9 6 (10.17%) Front End Development
9 6 (10.17%) Kanban
9 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.47%) Customer Service
10 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) C#
4 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.78%) Java
5 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.39%) Groovy
6 2 (3.39%) R
6 2 (3.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
5 4 (6.78%) MCSA
5 4 (6.78%) MCSE
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.08%) CSPO
6 3 (5.08%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 8 (13.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Grafana
2 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.08%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.69%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Google
3 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) Facebook
4 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.69%) Okta
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Veeam