Azure Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 819 1,040 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.10% 22.27% 18.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.01% 51.21% 52.07%
Number of salaries quoted 442 757 1,062
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,433 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £84,056 £83,625
England median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% +4.84%

All Cloud 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 1,671 2,031 2,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 28.77% 43.50% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1,509 1,989
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.80% +5.10%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,573 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Azure in the South West

Azure
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the South West over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -4 263 £63,500 +1.60% 75
Gloucestershire +3 236 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Wiltshire -4 136 £62,500 +25.00% 36
Devon -7 62 £60,000 +57.20% 21
Somerset -7 59 £51,250 +3.02% 26
Dorset -15 43 £52,000 +4.00% 18
Cornwall -4 13 £40,250 +3.87% 6
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 57 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 44 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.83%) Confluence
4 12 (1.47%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.98%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.85%) Apache
7 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.49%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.12%) CloudStack
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
1 6 (0.73%) Maximo
2 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 221 (26.98%) AWS
2 189 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 188 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
4 182 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 151 (18.44%) IaaS
6 143 (17.46%) Serverless
7 139 (16.97%) PaaS
8 137 (16.73%) PowerApps
9 134 (16.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 132 (16.12%) Power Automate
11 129 (15.75%) Azure Functions
12 93 (11.36%) Entra ID
13 82 (10.01%) GCP
14 46 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
15 39 (4.76%) SaaS
16 28 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (3.42%) GitHub
17 18 (2.20%) Snowflake
18 16 (1.95%) OneDrive
18 16 (1.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 106 (12.94%) Firewall
2 57 (6.96%) DNS
3 47 (5.74%) Network Security
4 45 (5.49%) VLAN
5 37 (4.52%) VPN
6 35 (4.27%) TCP/IP
7 34 (4.15%) LAN
8 33 (4.03%) WAN
9 26 (3.17%) DHCP
10 24 (2.93%) Broadband
11 13 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (1.47%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (1.22%) Wireless
15 9 (1.10%) BGP
16 8 (0.98%) MPLS
16 8 (0.98%) SAN
17 6 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
17 6 (0.73%) EIGRP
17 6 (0.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 43 (5.25%) Power BI
3 33 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 14 (1.71%) Big Data
9 12 (1.47%) Redis
9 12 (1.47%) Tableau
10 10 (1.22%) GIS
10 10 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
10 10 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.10%) DB2
11 9 (1.10%) MySQL
12 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 61 (7.45%) Git
2 29 (3.54%) GitLab
3 26 (3.17%) JIRA
4 20 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.85%) Subversion
8 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.37%) Maven
10 3 (0.37%) Selenium
11 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.24%) webpack
12 1 (0.12%) Babel
12 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.12%) RStudio
12 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 185 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 129 (15.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.06%) Finance
5 62 (7.57%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.69%) Tech for Good
7 21 (2.56%) Retail
8 18 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.20%) Marketing
9 14 (1.71%) Automotive
10 12 (1.47%) Advertising
11 8 (0.98%) Legal
11 8 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.85%) Banking
12 7 (0.85%) Law
12 7 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.73%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Aviation
15 4 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 162 (19.78%) Senior
2 140 (17.09%) Lead
3 135 (16.48%) Analyst
4 121 (14.77%) Developer
5 75 (9.16%) Architect
6 60 (7.33%) Senior Analyst
7 55 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 54 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (6.23%) Senior Developer
10 47 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 41 (5.01%) .NET Developer
11 41 (5.01%) Applications Support
12 37 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.40%) Consultant
14 35 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.66%) IT Engineer
17 28 (3.42%) Senior .NET Developer
18 27 (3.30%) Technical Consultant
19 23 (2.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (11.60%) .NET
2 72 (8.79%) React
3 58 (7.08%) HTML
4 57 (6.96%) CSS
5 47 (5.74%) ASP.NET
6 36 (4.40%) AngularJS
7 33 (4.03%) REST
8 32 (3.91%) .NET Framework
8 32 (3.91%) OAuth
9 25 (3.05%) Entity Framework
10 23 (2.81%) RESTful
11 20 (2.44%) LESS
11 20 (2.44%) Vue
11 20 (2.44%) Web Services
12 19 (2.32%) jQuery
13 18 (2.20%) OpenID
13 18 (2.20%) SAML
14 16 (1.95%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.71%) FastAPI
15 14 (1.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 146 (17.83%) Data Structures
2 56 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (6.35%) Cloud Native
4 37 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
5 35 (4.27%) Data Centre
6 25 (3.05%) Social Media
7 21 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (2.44%) Cyberattack
8 20 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.71%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.10%) Blockchain
13 9 (1.10%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (15.26%) Windows
2 88 (10.74%) Linux
3 68 (8.30%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.91%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.95%) Android
7 15 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (1.22%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.10%) Unix
10 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.61%) VMS
12 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.37%) CentOS
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.12%) SUSE
14 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (33.94%) DevOps
2 275 (33.58%) Agile
3 184 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 105 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (11.97%) Software Engineering
7 77 (9.40%) Mentoring
8 73 (8.91%) ITIL
9 71 (8.67%) Roadmaps
10 70 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
11 66 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (7.57%) Migration
13 61 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 60 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
15 59 (7.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 59 (7.20%) Microservices
16 53 (6.47%) Containerisation
17 51 (6.23%) MVC
18 50 (6.11%) Scrum
19 46 (5.62%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 248 (30.28%) SQL
2 145 (17.70%) Python
3 114 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 110 (13.43%) C#
5 85 (10.38%) Java
6 57 (6.96%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.91%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.54%) Bash
9 19 (2.32%) T-SQL
10 18 (2.20%) Bicep
11 16 (1.95%) Perl
12 13 (1.59%) R
13 11 (1.34%) Go
14 10 (1.22%) Julia
15 9 (1.10%) PHP
16 7 (0.85%) C++
17 6 (0.73%) VB
17 6 (0.73%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.49%) Rust
18 4 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (18.44%) Azure Certification
2 144 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 97 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 71 (8.67%) Degree
5 46 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.20%) DBS Check
9 17 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (1.83%) CEH
10 15 (1.83%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.59%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.59%) PMP
12 8 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.61%) CISSP
15 5 (0.61%) MCSA
15 5 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.49%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (4.76%) GDPR
3 28 (3.42%) NIST
4 26 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (2.81%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.44%) HIPAA
7 19 (2.32%) QA
8 18 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 18 (2.20%) PCI DSS
8 18 (2.20%) SLA
9 10 (1.22%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.37%) PMO
11 2 (0.24%) COBIT
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 133 (16.24%) Active Directory
2 96 (11.72%) Docker
3 74 (9.04%) Hyper-V
4 49 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
6 14 (1.71%) vSphere
7 9 (1.10%) NDS
7 9 (1.10%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 9 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.73%) XenApp
9 4 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.37%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.24%) Firmware
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.12%) Gluster
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) oVirt
12 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 98 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 74 (9.04%) Terraform
3 48 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (5.13%) Ansible
5 19 (2.32%) Puppet
6 15 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 15 (1.83%) Salt
7 13 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.47%) Grafana
9 11 (1.34%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 11 (1.34%) SCCM
10 9 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.49%) SCOM
12 3 (0.37%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.24%) CASB
13 2 (0.24%) MIIS
14 1 (0.12%) McAfee ePO
14 1 (0.12%) Norton AntiVirus
14 1 (0.12%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 387 (47.25%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.11%) VMware
3 34 (4.15%) Google
4 33 (4.03%) Cisco
5 31 (3.79%) Databricks
6 18 (2.20%) Fortinet
7 16 (1.95%) Zscaler
8 15 (1.83%) IBM
8 15 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 13 (1.59%) Citrix
9 13 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.59%) Veeam
10 11 (1.34%) ForgeRock
10 11 (1.34%) NetIQ
11 10 (1.22%) Oracle
11 10 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.22%) Splunk
12 9 (1.10%) Novell
12 9 (1.10%) ServiceNow