Azure Jobs in Wales

Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 331 334 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.43% 20.07% 21.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 54.89% 61.62% 50.95%
Number of salaries quoted 262 188 297
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £37,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66,188 £64,313 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £74,125 £71,250
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 603 542 793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 29.93% 32.57% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 466 333 585
10th Percentile £28,290 £29,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,101 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 24 April 2024.

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 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
South Wales -2 246 £52,500 -4.55% 66
West Wales +5 57 £50,000 +33.33% 16
North Wales -5 22 £40,000 -11.11% 9
Mid Wales -7 1 - - 3
Dyfed - 1 £38,000 - 2
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 27 (8.16%) ArcGIS
1 27 (8.16%) GeoServer
2 15 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.11%) Confluence
5 4 (1.21%) IIS
5 4 (1.21%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.74%) AWS
2 63 (19.03%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (10.57%) SaaS
5 32 (9.67%) GCP
6 30 (9.06%) Power Platform
7 26 (7.85%) Entra ID
8 15 (4.53%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.21%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.21%) PaaS
11 4 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.91%) GitHub
12 3 (0.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.25%) DNS
1 24 (7.25%) Firewall
2 13 (3.93%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (3.32%) Internet
4 10 (3.02%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.72%) DHCP
5 9 (2.72%) SAN
5 9 (2.72%) WAN
6 7 (2.11%) LAN
6 7 (2.11%) Network Security
7 6 (1.81%) BGP
7 6 (1.81%) MPLS
7 6 (1.81%) SSL
7 6 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.51%) Extranet
8 5 (1.51%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.51%) VPN
8 5 (1.51%) Wireless
9 2 (0.60%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.43%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.46%) GIS
4 27 (8.16%) QGIS
5 23 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.53%) Power BI
7 10 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.72%) MySQL
9 8 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.11%) Big Data
10 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.51%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.21%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.21%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (8.16%) Git
2 20 (6.04%) Selenium
3 19 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.44%) JIRA
5 13 (3.93%) GitLab
6 11 (3.32%) Postman
7 10 (3.02%) Visual Studio
8 9 (2.72%) JMeter
9 8 (2.42%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio Team System
11 3 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.60%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.60%) NUnit
12 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.60%) TestNG
General
1 67 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.43%) Finance
3 20 (6.04%) Games
4 14 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (3.93%) Retail
6 11 (3.32%) Banking
6 11 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.02%) Marketing
7 10 (3.02%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.11%) Welsh Language
10 6 (1.81%) Law
10 6 (1.81%) Legal
10 6 (1.81%) Local Government
10 6 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.51%) Police
11 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Advertising
14 2 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (27.19%) Developer
2 60 (18.13%) Senior
3 52 (15.71%) Lead
4 37 (11.18%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.67%) Architect
6 31 (9.37%) .NET Developer
7 26 (7.85%) Support Engineer
8 20 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (5.14%) C# Developer
10 15 (4.53%) C# .NET Developer
11 13 (3.93%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (3.93%) Desktop Support
11 13 (3.93%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 13 (3.93%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.63%) IT Engineer
12 12 (3.63%) IT Support
12 12 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.32%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (30.82%) .NET
2 62 (18.73%) .NET Core
2 62 (18.73%) React
3 51 (15.41%) CSS
4 37 (11.18%) AngularJS
5 33 (9.97%) HTML
6 27 (8.16%) Leaflet
6 27 (8.16%) OpenLayers
6 27 (8.16%) PostGIS
7 26 (7.85%) ASP.NET
8 19 (5.74%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (5.74%) HTML5
9 17 (5.14%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.83%) RESTful
11 15 (4.53%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (4.53%) Blazor
12 14 (4.23%) REST
12 14 (4.23%) Spring
12 14 (4.23%) Vue
13 12 (3.63%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
1 20 (6.04%) Public Cloud
2 13 (3.93%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.11%) PKI
7 7 (2.11%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.81%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.51%) Tandem
10 4 (1.21%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.21%) FMCG
10 4 (1.21%) iPad
10 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.21%) Replication
11 3 (0.91%) Clustering
11 3 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.91%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.24%) Windows
2 36 (10.88%) Linux
3 30 (9.06%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.72%) Android
5 6 (1.81%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.51%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.91%) Unix
8 3 (0.91%) VMS
8 3 (0.91%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (39.27%) Agile
2 119 (35.95%) DevOps
3 52 (15.71%) Software Engineering
4 51 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (14.20%) Actionable Insight
6 45 (13.60%) CI/CD
7 43 (12.99%) Test Automation
8 42 (12.69%) Full Stack Development
9 40 (12.08%) Scrum
10 38 (11.48%) Migration
11 29 (8.76%) Mentoring
12 28 (8.46%) Web Development
13 27 (8.16%) Roadmaps
14 26 (7.85%) Microservices
15 23 (6.95%) Software Testing
16 22 (6.65%) MVC
16 22 (6.65%) TDD
17 20 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (6.04%) Containerisation
18 19 (5.74%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 99 (29.91%) C#
2 94 (28.40%) JavaScript
3 92 (27.79%) SQL
4 38 (11.48%) Python
5 37 (11.18%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.46%) Java
7 13 (3.93%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.81%) C++
8 6 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.21%) C
9 4 (1.21%) Groovy
9 4 (1.21%) PHP
10 3 (0.91%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 45 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.55%) Degree
4 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.72%) CCNA
6 9 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.91%) CCNP
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.30%) CISMP
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.14%) QA
2 8 (2.42%) SLA
3 7 (2.11%) GDPR
4 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.46%) Docker
3 15 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.04%) Terraform
3 19 (5.74%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.32%) Ansible
5 7 (2.11%) Puppet
6 6 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.51%) SCCM
7 5 (1.51%) SCOM
8 3 (0.91%) Perfmon
8 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
9 2 (0.60%) Kibana
9 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.16%) ESRI
3 17 (5.14%) VMware
4 15 (4.53%) Google
4 15 (4.53%) Oracle
5 12 (3.63%) Cisco
6 10 (3.02%) Veeam
7 7 (2.11%) Meraki
8 6 (1.81%) Citrix
8 6 (1.81%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.81%) OutSystems
9 5 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.51%) HP
9 5 (1.51%) NetApp
10 4 (1.21%) Databricks
10 4 (1.21%) Sparx
11 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.91%) IBM
11 3 (0.91%) Okta
11 3 (0.91%) Xamarin