Azure Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Azure
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 1,403 1,424 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.39% 20.08% 19.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.15% 52.62% 45.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 816 1,018
10th Percentile £34,004 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,238 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.46% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,743 2,706 3,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.10% 38.17% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,708 2,449
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,875 £38,750 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +9.93%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -1 514 £60,000 +0.80% 119
Gloucestershire +4 373 £55,000 -8.33% 60
Wiltshire -3 179 £60,000 +29.73% 29
Somerset +3 105 £50,000 - 30
Devon +12 96 £47,500 +11.76% 36
Dorset -16 94 £50,000 +17.65% 18
Cornwall -6 17 £30,000 -20.00% 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
1 126 (8.98%) SharePoint
2 113 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.21%) ArcGIS
4 29 (2.07%) Umbraco
5 27 (1.92%) CMS
5 27 (1.92%) GeoServer
6 22 (1.57%) Apache Spark
7 19 (1.35%) Apache
7 19 (1.35%) IIS
8 16 (1.14%) Headless CMS
8 16 (1.14%) Kentico
8 16 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.50%) Confluence
10 6 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
11 5 (0.36%) JBoss
12 4 (0.29%) nginx
12 4 (0.29%) NServiceBus
12 4 (0.29%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 56 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.43%) Trello
4 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.071%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 38 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.86%) Maximo
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.29%) SAP PLM
4 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 544 (38.77%) AWS
2 390 (27.80%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (17.89%) Azure DevOps
4 180 (12.83%) GCP
5 138 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 130 (9.27%) Entra ID
7 107 (7.63%) SaaS
8 65 (4.63%) PaaS
9 63 (4.49%) OpenShift
10 60 (4.28%) OneDrive
11 58 (4.13%) IaaS
12 50 (3.56%) Serverless
13 29 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (1.92%) GitHub
15 25 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
17 22 (1.57%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.57%) PowerApps
18 19 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 130 (9.27%) Firewall
2 107 (7.63%) DNS
3 79 (5.63%) DHCP
4 77 (5.49%) WAN
5 74 (5.27%) LAN
6 69 (4.92%) TCP/IP
7 56 (3.99%) VPN
8 40 (2.85%) HTTP
9 39 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (2.35%) SAN
11 31 (2.21%) Wireless
12 30 (2.14%) VLAN
13 26 (1.85%) Internet
14 22 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
15 19 (1.35%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.00%) IPsec
17 13 (0.93%) AMQP
17 13 (0.93%) VoIP
18 12 (0.86%) Network Security
18 12 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 102 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (6.27%) Power BI
4 57 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 54 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (3.14%) BigQuery
7 43 (3.06%) GIS
8 40 (2.85%) Big Data
8 40 (2.85%) Looker
9 35 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (2.35%) MySQL
10 33 (2.35%) Relational Database
11 31 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 31 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (2.14%) Data Lake
13 29 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (1.92%) QGIS
15 25 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
16 23 (1.64%) Hadoop
17 21 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 95 (6.77%) Git
2 56 (3.99%) JIRA
3 39 (2.78%) GitLab
4 31 (2.21%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 19 (1.35%) Selenium
8 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.64%) Maven
11 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.50%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.50%) Vagrant
13 6 (0.43%) RStudio
13 6 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.36%) Subversion
15 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
15 4 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 298 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 132 (9.41%) Finance
3 93 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (5.35%) Aerospace
5 56 (3.99%) Retail
6 47 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 41 (2.92%) Legal
8 36 (2.57%) Banking
9 35 (2.49%) Law
10 33 (2.35%) Billing
11 32 (2.28%) Marketing
12 24 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.93%) Advertising
16 12 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.78%) Games
17 11 (0.78%) Tech for Good
18 10 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 325 (23.16%) Developer
2 260 (18.53%) Senior
3 170 (12.12%) .NET Developer
4 142 (10.12%) Architect
5 139 (9.91%) Software Engineer
6 118 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 116 (8.27%) Lead
8 97 (6.91%) Analyst
9 93 (6.63%) Senior Developer
10 87 (6.20%) Support Engineer
11 82 (5.84%) C# Developer
12 79 (5.63%) C# .NET Developer
13 78 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
14 72 (5.13%) IT Engineer
15 65 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
16 63 (4.49%) IT Support
17 62 (4.42%) Software Developer
18 61 (4.35%) Consultant
19 52 (3.71%) Senior .NET Developer
20 46 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (25.73%) .NET
2 203 (14.47%) React
3 168 (11.97%) CSS
4 166 (11.83%) AngularJS
5 158 (11.26%) .NET Core
6 151 (10.76%) ASP.NET
7 145 (10.33%) HTML
8 130 (9.27%) .NET Framework
9 103 (7.34%) Entity Framework
10 78 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 63 (4.49%) Vue
12 56 (3.99%) Node.js
13 52 (3.71%) Blazor
13 52 (3.71%) Spring
14 51 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
15 40 (2.85%) REST
16 37 (2.64%) HTML5
17 36 (2.57%) RESTful
18 33 (2.35%) CSS3
19 30 (2.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (4.78%) Product Ownership
2 59 (4.21%) Public Cloud
3 55 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 37 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 29 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 29 (2.07%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.93%) iPhone
13 10 (0.71%) Replication
14 9 (0.64%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.64%) Taxonomies
15 8 (0.57%) Blockchain
16 7 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 315 (22.45%) Windows
2 183 (13.04%) Linux
3 133 (9.48%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.70%) Windows 10
5 68 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.00%) Unix
8 25 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (1.57%) Ubuntu
10 18 (1.28%) Android
11 17 (1.21%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.21%) Debian
12 15 (1.07%) VMS
13 14 (1.00%) CentOS
13 14 (1.00%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.78%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.57%) AIX
17 7 (0.50%) Solaris
18 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (37.99%) Agile
2 490 (34.93%) DevOps
3 230 (16.39%) CI/CD
4 228 (16.25%) Full Stack Development
5 217 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (13.68%) Software Engineering
7 190 (13.54%) Scrum
8 172 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
9 159 (11.33%) Microservices
10 140 (9.98%) MVC
11 137 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 129 (9.19%) Continuous Integration
13 125 (8.91%) Mentoring
14 123 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
14 123 (8.77%) ITIL
15 107 (7.63%) Roadmaps
16 104 (7.41%) Project Management
17 103 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
18 97 (6.91%) Customer Service
19 96 (6.84%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 371 (26.44%) JavaScript
2 318 (22.67%) C#
3 234 (16.68%) SQL
4 207 (14.75%) Python
5 206 (14.68%) Java
6 153 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 123 (8.77%) TypeScript
8 62 (4.42%) Bash
9 52 (3.71%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.28%) Go
11 17 (1.21%) Bicep
12 15 (1.07%) C++
13 14 (1.00%) PHP
13 14 (1.00%) R
14 13 (0.93%) Scala
15 9 (0.64%) Ruby
16 8 (0.57%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.50%) Rust
18 6 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 326 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 179 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 153 (10.91%) Degree
4 125 (8.91%) DV Cleared
5 62 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (1.78%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.64%) CISSP
10 22 (1.57%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.43%) A+ Certification
13 18 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (1.21%) MCSE
15 15 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (1.00%) MCP
16 14 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
17 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.86%) CEH
18 10 (0.71%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.99%) QA
2 42 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (2.14%) SLA
4 25 (1.78%) GDPR
5 18 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.28%) NIST
6 16 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.36%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.21%) WCAG
12 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.14%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.071%) GRC
13 1 (0.071%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.071%) NCSC
System Software
1 249 (17.75%) Active Directory
2 146 (10.41%) Docker
3 145 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (7.70%) Hyper-V
5 22 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.50%) vSphere
7 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (1.14%) XenApp
8 14 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.64%) XenDesktop
10 7 (0.50%) Firmware
11 6 (0.43%) KVM
12 4 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.21%) Ceph
13 3 (0.21%) Gluster
13 3 (0.21%) oVirt
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
14 2 (0.14%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 179 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 120 (8.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 107 (7.63%) Ansible
4 99 (7.06%) Terraform
5 62 (4.42%) Puppet
6 51 (3.64%) SCCM
7 19 (1.35%) Nagios
8 14 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.57%) Packer
10 8 (0.57%) WSUS
11 7 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
11 7 (0.50%) SCVMM
11 7 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) Argo
13 5 (0.36%) OfficeScan
13 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 604 (43.05%) Microsoft
2 191 (13.61%) VMware
3 137 (9.76%) Google
4 67 (4.78%) Oracle
5 66 (4.70%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.92%) Cisco
7 43 (3.06%) Citrix
8 38 (2.71%) Sparx
9 31 (2.21%) ESRI
10 29 (2.07%) Veeam
11 27 (1.92%) HP
12 25 (1.78%) Databricks
13 19 (1.35%) SolarWinds
14 17 (1.21%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.21%) Xamarin
15 16 (1.14%) Optimizely
15 16 (1.14%) Sitecore
16 15 (1.07%) IBM
16 15 (1.07%) Meraki
17 14 (1.00%) Dell