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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 83 352 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.91% 16.09% 21.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 67.48% 55.52% 62.52%
Number of salaries quoted 76 268 198
10th Percentile £37,733 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,606 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £46,355
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +7.86% -2.41%
75th Percentile £75,787 £65,000 £64,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,459 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.09% +1.60%

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 123 634 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.24% 28.98% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 108 486 343
10th Percentile £37,170 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £37,200 £36,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,250 £64,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,099 £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 30 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 30 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 50 £60,000 +18.38% 526
West Wales -11 5 £50,124 -0.74% 3
Mid Wales +10 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 (7.23%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) CMS
2 3 (3.61%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.41%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.41%) ColdFusion
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) AWS
2 13 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (14.46%) Serverless
4 11 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.25%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.84%) PaaS
5 9 (10.84%) SaaS
6 8 (9.64%) IaaS
7 7 (8.43%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (6.02%) GCP
9 5 (6.02%) GitHub
9 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.82%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.61%) Contentful
11 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (28.92%) Network Security
2 12 (14.46%) TCP/IP
3 10 (12.05%) Modbus
3 10 (12.05%) MQTT
4 9 (10.84%) DNS
5 3 (3.61%) Firewall
6 2 (2.41%) NAS
6 2 (2.41%) SAN
7 1 (1.20%) DHCP
7 1 (1.20%) DMARC
7 1 (1.20%) Extranet
7 1 (1.20%) Internet
7 1 (1.20%) LAN
7 1 (1.20%) VLAN
7 1 (1.20%) VoIP
7 1 (1.20%) VPN
7 1 (1.20%) WAN
7 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.10%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (19.28%) RDBMS
2 16 (19.28%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.82%) Big Data
3 4 (4.82%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Git
2 6 (7.23%) JIRA
3 5 (6.02%) JMeter
4 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.61%) Katalon Studio
4 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.41%) Appium
5 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.41%) Maven
5 2 (2.41%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.41%) Selenium
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.41%) TestNG
6 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (54.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.46%) Finance
4 9 (10.84%) Retail
5 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Welsh Language
6 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Developer
2 22 (26.51%) Lead
3 17 (20.48%) Senior
4 14 (16.87%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.46%) Software Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Lead Developer
7 8 (9.64%) Server Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Software Team Leader
7 8 (9.64%) Team Leader
8 6 (7.23%) Firmware Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Architect
11 3 (3.61%) IT Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Performance Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Performance Test Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) .NET
2 6 (7.23%) GraphQL
2 6 (7.23%) REST
3 5 (6.02%) Django
3 5 (6.02%) Node.js
3 5 (6.02%) RESTful
4 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.82%) CSS
4 4 (4.82%) HTML
4 4 (4.82%) React
4 4 (4.82%) Symfony
5 3 (3.61%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.61%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.61%) Express.js
5 3 (3.61%) hapi
5 3 (3.61%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (3.61%) OpenLayers
5 3 (3.61%) React Native
5 3 (3.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (31.33%) IoT
2 10 (12.05%) Device Driver
3 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 32 (38.55%) Windows
2 26 (31.33%) Linux
2 26 (31.33%) Unix
3 10 (12.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) Agile
2 35 (42.17%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (36.14%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.12%) Mentoring
5 24 (28.92%) DevOps
6 22 (26.51%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (24.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (21.69%) Collaborative Working
8 18 (21.69%) Product Strategy
8 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
8 18 (21.69%) Technical Debt
9 16 (19.28%) Web Development
10 13 (15.66%) API Development
10 13 (15.66%) Microservices
11 11 (13.25%) Scrum
12 10 (12.05%) Computer Architecture
13 9 (10.84%) Performance Monitoring
14 8 (9.64%) Incident Management
14 8 (9.64%) Proactive Monitoring
14 8 (9.64%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) SQL
2 26 (31.33%) C#
3 19 (22.89%) Python
4 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.25%) C
5 11 (13.25%) C++
6 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.02%) Groovy
8 4 (4.82%) Java
8 4 (4.82%) PHP
9 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.41%) R
10 2 (2.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) DBS Check
2 9 (10.84%) Degree
3 8 (9.64%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.64%) MCSA
3 8 (9.64%) MCSE
3 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) SLA
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.05%) Docker
2 10 (12.05%) Firmware
3 8 (9.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Grafana
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.82%) Google
3 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.61%) Pega
4 2 (2.41%) Facebook
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.41%) VMware
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.20%) Okta
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce