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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 95 331 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.88% 16.37% 20.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 68.35% 54.80% 61.09%
Number of salaries quoted 88 260 187
10th Percentile £37,170 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,927 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,375 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,433 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -9.23% +4.00%

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 139 604 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.45% 29.87% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 123 465 335
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,290 £29,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,101 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £71,936 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -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 1 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 1 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 -10 56 £54,500 +3.81% 71
West Wales -10 10 £49,614 -0.77% 2
Mid Wales +12 1 £32,500 - 2
Dyfed +2 1 £75,000 +97.37% 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 9 (9.47%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.16%) CMS
3 3 (3.16%) Headless CMS
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) AWS
2 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.58%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.53%) PaaS
6 9 (9.47%) IaaS
6 9 (9.47%) SaaS
6 9 (9.47%) Serverless
7 6 (6.32%) GCP
7 6 (6.32%) GitHub
7 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.16%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.16%) Contentful
9 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.26%) Network Security
2 13 (13.68%) TCP/IP
3 10 (10.53%) DNS
3 10 (10.53%) Modbus
3 10 (10.53%) MQTT
4 4 (4.21%) Firewall
5 3 (3.16%) SAN
6 2 (2.11%) DHCP
6 2 (2.11%) NAS
7 1 (1.05%) DMARC
7 1 (1.05%) Extranet
7 1 (1.05%) Internet
7 1 (1.05%) LAN
7 1 (1.05%) VLAN
7 1 (1.05%) VoIP
7 1 (1.05%) VPN
7 1 (1.05%) WAN
7 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.84%) RDBMS
2 16 (16.84%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.37%) Redis
4 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.21%) Big Data
6 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.16%) Power BI
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Git
2 12 (12.63%) JIRA
3 6 (6.32%) JMeter
3 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.16%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 2 (2.11%) Appium
6 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.11%) JUnit
6 2 (2.11%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.11%) Maven
6 2 (2.11%) Postman
6 2 (2.11%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.11%) TestNG
6 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.05%) NUnit
7 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 52 (54.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (9.47%) Finance
5 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.42%) Welsh Language
6 5 (5.26%) Retail
7 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Developer
2 20 (21.05%) Lead
2 20 (21.05%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Senior Developer
3 13 (13.68%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (8.42%) Lead Developer
5 8 (8.42%) Server Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Software Team Leader
5 8 (8.42%) Team Leader
6 6 (6.32%) Backend Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Firmware Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Backend Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Performance Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Performance Test Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.53%) .NET
2 9 (9.47%) GraphQL
2 9 (9.47%) RESTful
3 8 (8.42%) REST
4 7 (7.37%) Django
5 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.32%) CSS
5 6 (6.32%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.32%) Flask
5 6 (6.32%) HTML
5 6 (6.32%) Keycloak
5 6 (6.32%) OAuth
5 6 (6.32%) pytest
5 6 (6.32%) SQLAlchemy
5 6 (6.32%) WebSockets
6 5 (5.26%) Node.js
6 5 (5.26%) SOAP
7 4 (4.21%) Symfony
8 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) IoT
2 10 (10.53%) Device Driver
3 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Clustering
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (35.79%) Windows
2 27 (28.42%) Linux
2 27 (28.42%) Unix
3 12 (12.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) VMS
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.89%) Agile
2 41 (43.16%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (36.84%) DevOps
4 34 (35.79%) CI/CD
5 27 (28.42%) Mentoring
6 22 (23.16%) Technical Leadership
7 21 (22.11%) Software Engineering
8 19 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (20.00%) Scrum
9 18 (18.95%) Product Strategy
9 18 (18.95%) Technical Debt
10 16 (16.84%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (16.84%) Web Development
11 13 (13.68%) API Development
12 11 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (11.58%) Customer Service
12 11 (11.58%) Machine Learning
13 10 (10.53%) Computer Architecture
14 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (9.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.00%) SQL
2 28 (29.47%) C#
3 18 (18.95%) Python
4 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.53%) C
5 10 (10.53%) C++
6 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.32%) Groovy
8 5 (5.26%) Java
9 4 (4.21%) PHP
9 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.05%) R
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
3 8 (8.42%) DBS Check
3 8 (8.42%) MCSA
3 8 (8.42%) MCSE
3 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.32%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) CSPO
5 3 (3.16%) SAFe Agilist
6 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) SLA
2 7 (7.37%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.58%) Docker
3 10 (10.53%) Firmware
4 8 (8.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Grafana
2 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.21%) Terraform
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.05%) Argo
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.05%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) Google
3 3 (3.16%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.11%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.05%) Okta
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Veeam
5 1 (1.05%) VMware