Azure Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 576 654 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 11.13% 15.83% 19.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.08% 49.21% 51.08%
Number of salaries quoted 353 330 821
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £46,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £82,674
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,198 1,329 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.16% 32.17% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 794 714 1,581
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Azure job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South West over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the South West

Azure
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Bristol -3 172 £55,000 -12.00% 83
Somerset +8 102 £45,000 -19.82% 42
Devon +22 85 £42,750 -28.75% 40
Wiltshire -2 78 £56,250 -10.00% 44
Gloucestershire -11 62 £57,500 -11.54% 74
Dorset +10 50 £35,000 -26.89% 44
Cornwall -4 20 £55,000 +36.65% 10
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 42
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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
1 114 (19.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.69%) Apache
3 4 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.69%) IIS
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.52%) CMS
4 3 (0.52%) Confluence
4 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.35%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.17%) Primavera
3 1 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 188 (32.64%) Microsoft 365
2 140 (24.31%) AWS
3 86 (14.93%) Entra ID
4 84 (14.58%) Power Platform
5 68 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (9.55%) GitHub
7 42 (7.29%) Azure AI
8 30 (5.21%) GCP
9 27 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.34%) SaaS
11 23 (3.99%) OneDrive
12 22 (3.82%) Serverless
13 13 (2.26%) IaaS
14 12 (2.08%) Azure Stack
15 11 (1.91%) PaaS
16 10 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.74%) OpenShift
17 8 (1.39%) Azure AKS
17 8 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
18 7 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 140 (24.31%) DNS
2 127 (22.05%) DHCP
3 44 (7.64%) Firewall
4 30 (5.21%) Internet
4 30 (5.21%) VPN
5 23 (3.99%) VLAN
5 23 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (3.47%) TCP/IP
7 16 (2.78%) LAN
7 16 (2.78%) Network Security
8 15 (2.60%) WAN
9 14 (2.43%) VoIP
10 10 (1.74%) IPsec
11 9 (1.56%) DKIM
11 9 (1.56%) DMARC
12 5 (0.87%) NAS
12 5 (0.87%) VSAN
12 5 (0.87%) Wireless
13 4 (0.69%) BGP
13 4 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.15%) Amazon RDS
2 73 (12.67%) Power BI
3 43 (7.47%) Tableau
4 27 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.04%) Neo4j
7 6 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.87%) MySQL
9 4 (0.69%) Big Data
9 4 (0.69%) Metadata
9 4 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.52%) GIS
11 2 (0.35%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 34 (5.90%) Git
2 21 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.95%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.56%) Selenium
5 8 (1.39%) GitLab
5 8 (1.39%) JIRA
6 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.87%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.52%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.52%) Postman
9 2 (0.35%) Gatling
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.35%) Locust
9 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.35%) TestRail
9 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.17%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 272 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.12%) Finance
4 22 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.65%) Multimedia
6 20 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.26%) Law
10 11 (1.91%) Marketing
10 11 (1.91%) Retail
11 10 (1.74%) Billing
12 9 (1.56%) Advertising
13 8 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.39%) Legal
14 7 (1.22%) Electronics
15 4 (0.69%) Military
15 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 104 (18.06%) Analyst
2 85 (14.76%) Systems Engineer
3 84 (14.58%) Junior
4 80 (13.89%) Junior Analyst
5 59 (10.24%) Developer
6 43 (7.47%) Data Analyst
7 42 (7.29%) Junior Data Analyst
8 38 (6.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 38 (6.60%) IT Support
8 38 (6.60%) Junior Security Analyst
8 38 (6.60%) Security Analyst
9 36 (6.25%) Architect
10 32 (5.56%) Senior
11 30 (5.21%) Lead
11 30 (5.21%) Software Developer
12 22 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.65%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.65%) Trainee
14 19 (3.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 19 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.12%) .NET
2 29 (5.03%) CSS
3 28 (4.86%) HTML
4 26 (4.51%) React
5 21 (3.65%) .NET Core
6 17 (2.95%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.43%) Playwright
8 13 (2.26%) RESTful
9 12 (2.08%) .NET Framework
10 11 (1.91%) YAML
11 9 (1.56%) Blazor
11 9 (1.56%) REST
12 7 (1.22%) PySpark
12 7 (1.22%) WPF
13 6 (1.04%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.04%) MERN Stack
13 6 (1.04%) Spring
14 5 (0.87%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.87%) Universal Windows Platform
14 5 (0.87%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 90 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 34 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.86%) Driving Licence
4 17 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.04%) Digital Signage
8 6 (1.04%) IoT
8 6 (1.04%) iPad
8 6 (1.04%) iPhone
8 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.87%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.87%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 191 (33.16%) Windows
2 165 (28.65%) Windows Server
3 109 (18.92%) Linux
4 90 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.04%) Android
8 6 (1.04%) Debian
9 5 (0.87%) CentOS
9 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.35%) Rocky
11 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.17%) Unix
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (22.57%) Customer Service
3 129 (22.40%) DevOps
4 107 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
4 107 (18.58%) Migration
5 100 (17.36%) CI/CD
6 92 (15.97%) Mentoring
7 89 (15.45%) Agile
8 88 (15.28%) Kalman Filter
9 87 (15.10%) Customer Experience
10 86 (14.93%) Email Filtering
10 86 (14.93%) Web Filtering
11 85 (14.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 85 (14.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 82 (14.24%) Business Intelligence
13 73 (12.67%) AI
14 66 (11.46%) ITIL
15 56 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (9.20%) Containerisation
17 50 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 153 (26.56%) Python
2 105 (18.23%) SQL
3 72 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 60 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 51 (8.85%) C#
6 33 (5.73%) Java
7 30 (5.21%) Bash
8 25 (4.34%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.65%) Bicep
9 21 (3.65%) R
10 7 (1.22%) C
11 5 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.87%) Go
11 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.52%) C++
12 3 (0.52%) Elixir
12 3 (0.52%) Erlang
12 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.52%) VBScript
13 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 164 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 130 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 120 (20.83%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.99%) Degree
5 42 (7.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 40 (6.94%) CompTIA CySA+
7 33 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 30 (5.21%) AWS Certification
10 21 (3.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (2.78%) ISTQB
13 14 (2.43%) MCP
14 11 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.87%) CISSP
16 5 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (16.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 93 (16.15%) PCI DSS
3 23 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.99%) QA
4 15 (2.60%) GDPR
5 13 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.26%) NIST
6 10 (1.74%) SLA
7 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.17%) P3O
9 1 (0.17%) PMO
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (30.73%) Active Directory
2 120 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 84 (14.58%) Terminal Server
4 60 (10.42%) Docker
5 34 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.56%) vSphere
7 8 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.52%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 74 (12.85%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (8.68%) Terraform
4 23 (3.99%) Ansible
5 13 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.74%) Grafana
6 10 (1.74%) SCCM
7 9 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.87%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (0.69%) Puppet
10 4 (0.69%) WSUS
11 3 (0.52%) Autotask
12 2 (0.35%) Nessus
12 2 (0.35%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.17%) Kibana
13 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 334 (57.99%) Microsoft
2 123 (21.35%) VMware
3 99 (17.19%) Veeam
4 93 (16.15%) SolarWinds
5 87 (15.10%) Splunk
6 84 (14.58%) Brocade
6 84 (14.58%) Nimble Storage
6 84 (14.58%) Tanium
7 38 (6.60%) ForeScout
8 26 (4.51%) Cisco
9 14 (2.43%) Fortinet
10 12 (2.08%) Apple
10 12 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.74%) Datto
11 10 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.56%) Databricks
13 8 (1.39%) Oracle
13 8 (1.39%) SAP
14 7 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.04%) Okta