Azure Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 78 342 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.98% 16.47% 21.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 67.24% 55.88% 62.77%
Number of salaries quoted 71 264 194
10th Percentile £37,733 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £46,355
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +7.86% -2.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £64,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,739 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.85% +2.45%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 612 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.38% 29.48% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 100 470 334
10th Percentile £33,950 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,899 £37,101 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,313 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Wales

Azure
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 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
South Wales -20 45 £60,000 +18.38% 491
West Wales -12 5 £50,124 +0.25% 5
Mid Wales +12 1 £32,500 - 1
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) CMS
2 3 (3.85%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.56%) ColdFusion
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) IIS
4 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) AWS
2 14 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.82%) Serverless
5 9 (11.54%) PaaS
5 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.54%) SaaS
6 8 (10.26%) IaaS
7 5 (6.41%) GCP
7 5 (6.41%) GitHub
7 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.13%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.85%) Contentful
10 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.56%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (30.77%) Network Security
2 12 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 10 (12.82%) Modbus
3 10 (12.82%) MQTT
4 9 (11.54%) DNS
5 3 (3.85%) Firewall
6 2 (2.56%) NAS
6 2 (2.56%) SAN
7 1 (1.28%) DHCP
7 1 (1.28%) DMARC
7 1 (1.28%) Extranet
7 1 (1.28%) Internet
7 1 (1.28%) LAN
7 1 (1.28%) VLAN
7 1 (1.28%) VoIP
7 1 (1.28%) VPN
7 1 (1.28%) WAN
7 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (20.51%) RDBMS
2 16 (20.51%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.13%) Big Data
3 4 (5.13%) Power BI
3 4 (5.13%) Redis
4 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) JMeter
4 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.85%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.85%) Selenium
4 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.56%) Appium
5 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.56%) JUnit
5 2 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (2.56%) Maven
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.56%) TestNG
6 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.28%) NUnit
6 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.10%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Retail
4 8 (10.26%) Welsh Language
5 7 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (38.46%) Developer
2 21 (26.92%) Lead
3 14 (17.95%) Senior
4 12 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Lead Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Server Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Software Team Leader
6 8 (10.26%) Team Leader
7 6 (7.69%) Firmware Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.85%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Architect
9 3 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Performance Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (35.90%) .NET
2 6 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 5 (6.41%) Node.js
3 5 (6.41%) REST
4 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.13%) Django
4 4 (5.13%) RESTful
4 4 (5.13%) Symfony
5 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.85%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.85%) CSS
5 3 (3.85%) Express.js
5 3 (3.85%) Flask
5 3 (3.85%) OAuth
5 3 (3.85%) OpenLayers
5 3 (3.85%) pytest
5 3 (3.85%) React
5 3 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.33%) IoT
2 10 (12.82%) Device Driver
3 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Clustering
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (41.03%) Windows
2 26 (33.33%) Linux
2 26 (33.33%) Unix
3 10 (12.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) Agile
2 33 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 24 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 23 (29.49%) DevOps
6 22 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (23.08%) Product Strategy
8 18 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 18 (23.08%) Technical Debt
9 17 (21.79%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (20.51%) Web Development
11 13 (16.67%) API Development
12 11 (14.10%) Microservices
13 10 (12.82%) Computer Architecture
14 9 (11.54%) Performance Monitoring
14 9 (11.54%) Scrum
15 8 (10.26%) Incident Management
15 8 (10.26%) ITIL
15 8 (10.26%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.31%) SQL
2 24 (30.77%) C#
3 16 (20.51%) Python
4 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.82%) C
5 10 (12.82%) C++
6 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.41%) Groovy
8 4 (5.13%) Java
8 4 (5.13%) PHP
9 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.56%) R
10 2 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.26%) DBS Check
2 8 (10.26%) MCSA
2 8 (10.26%) MCSE
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
3 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) SLA
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.82%) Docker
2 10 (12.82%) Firmware
3 8 (10.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.69%) Grafana
2 6 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Ansible
4 2 (2.56%) Argo
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Google
3 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.56%) Facebook
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.56%) Pega
4 2 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) Databricks
5 1 (1.28%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.28%) Okta
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce