Azure Job Trends in Wiltshire

Microsoft Azure
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure 87 138 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 15.70% 14.87% 26.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.41% 51.30% 54.36%
Number of salaries quoted 40 91 137
10th Percentile £31,925 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £50,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68,125 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
South West median annual salary £51,058 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.90% +9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 157 269 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 28.34% 28.99% 48.48%
Number of salaries quoted 89 170 227
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +12.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £81,250 £71,450
South West median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +7.75%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Azure
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in Wiltshire

Azure
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Swindon +1 29 £34,000 -49.63% 46
Trowbridge - 16 £55,000 - 1
Chippenham -14 14 £80,000 +28.00% 3
Corsham -4 10 £85,000 +6.25% 10
Devizes - 7 - -
Salisbury +2 5 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Azure
South West

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (49.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 58 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (20.69%) Entra ID
3 11 (12.64%) AWS
4 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.45%) Serverless
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.30%) OCI
7 1 (1.15%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.15%) GCP
7 1 (1.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (58.62%) DNS
2 47 (54.02%) DHCP
3 15 (17.24%) TCP/IP
4 13 (14.94%) Firewall
4 13 (14.94%) VoIP
5 5 (5.75%) LAN
5 5 (5.75%) Network Security
5 5 (5.75%) WAN
6 4 (4.60%) Intranet
6 4 (4.60%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (4.60%) VLAN
7 3 (3.45%) HTTP
7 3 (3.45%) VPN
8 2 (2.30%) BGP
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.30%) MPLS
8 2 (2.30%) NGFW
8 2 (2.30%) OSPF
8 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.30%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.93%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.60%) MySQL
3 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.60%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.15%) OLAP
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
1 1 (1.15%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 33 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.05%) Advertising
5 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Law
7 3 (3.45%) Finance
8 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (37.93%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (18.39%) IT Support
3 9 (10.34%) Architect
3 9 (10.34%) Lead
3 9 (10.34%) Support Team Leader
3 9 (10.34%) Team Leader
4 8 (9.20%) Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Azure Architect
5 7 (8.05%) IT Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) IT Support Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Support Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Help Desk Technician
8 4 (4.60%) IT Technician
8 4 (4.60%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.45%) .NET
2 3 (3.45%) CSS
2 3 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.15%) Flutter
3 1 (1.15%) React
3 1 (1.15%) RESTful
3 1 (1.15%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.38%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.34%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.05%) Smartphone
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.75%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 61 (70.11%) Windows
2 55 (63.22%) Windows Server
3 36 (41.38%) Linux
4 34 (39.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.45%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.87%) Customer Service
2 39 (44.83%) Migration
3 38 (43.68%) Kalman Filter
4 36 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (41.38%) Web Filtering
5 33 (37.93%) Customer Experience
5 33 (37.93%) Email Filtering
5 33 (37.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 33 (37.93%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 15 (17.24%) ITIL
7 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.49%) Service Management
9 9 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (10.34%) Logistics
10 7 (8.05%) Case Management
10 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.05%) Cloud Security
11 6 (6.90%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.60%) Bash
2 4 (4.60%) C#
2 4 (4.60%) SQL
3 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.45%) Python
3 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.30%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.09%) Degree
4 13 (14.94%) MCP
5 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (4.60%) CISM
7 4 (4.60%) CISSP
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.30%) CCNP
9 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (39.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 34 (39.08%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.75%) SLA
3 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) NCSC
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 53 (60.92%) Active Directory
2 44 (50.57%) Hyper-V
3 33 (37.93%) Terminal Server
4 10 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (5.75%) Docker
6 4 (4.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Grafana
4 1 (1.15%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (77.01%) Microsoft
2 43 (49.43%) VMware
3 34 (39.08%) SolarWinds
3 34 (39.08%) Splunk
4 33 (37.93%) Brocade
4 33 (37.93%) Nimble Storage
4 33 (37.93%) Tanium
4 33 (37.93%) Veeam
5 4 (4.60%) Google
6 3 (3.45%) Apple
6 3 (3.45%) LexisNexis
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco
7 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.30%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.30%) Thales
8 1 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.15%) SAP