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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 346 356 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 16.35% 21.19% 20.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.99% 62.68% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 266 196 294
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,188 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,355 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -2.41% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,599 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £64,195 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +2.71% +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 618 568 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 29.21% 33.81% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 474 337 574
10th Percentile £28,290 £26,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £37,101 £36,052 £37,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £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 May 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 May 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 +1 264 £50,685 -7.85% 52
West Wales +4 53 £50,000 +33.33% 22
North Wales -6 23 £40,000 -11.11% 13
Mid Wales -12 1 - - 5
Dyfed - 1 £38,000 - 4
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 (7.80%) ArcGIS
1 27 (7.80%) GeoServer
2 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (1.16%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.58%) Apache
7 2 (0.58%) IIS
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 120 (34.68%) AWS
2 55 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (15.61%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 31 (8.96%) GCP
6 29 (8.38%) SaaS
7 28 (8.09%) Entra ID
8 15 (4.34%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.73%) OCI
12 5 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.45%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.16%) Azure API Management
13 4 (1.16%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.16%) PaaS
14 3 (0.87%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.65%) Firewall
2 21 (6.07%) DNS
3 13 (3.76%) Remote Desktop
4 11 (3.18%) Internet
5 9 (2.60%) DHCP
5 9 (2.60%) SAN
5 9 (2.60%) WAN
6 8 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.02%) LAN
7 7 (2.02%) Network Security
8 6 (1.73%) BGP
8 6 (1.73%) MPLS
8 6 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.45%) Extranet
9 5 (1.45%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.45%) VPN
9 5 (1.45%) Wireless
10 4 (1.16%) SSL
11 2 (0.58%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.16%) SQL Server
2 41 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.38%) GIS
4 28 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (7.80%) QGIS
6 14 (4.05%) Power BI
7 9 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.73%) Big Data
10 6 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.45%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.65%) Git
2 19 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.20%) JIRA
4 17 (4.91%) Selenium
5 12 (3.47%) GitLab
6 11 (3.18%) Postman
7 10 (2.89%) Visual Studio
8 9 (2.60%) JMeter
9 8 (2.31%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.58%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.58%) NUnit
12 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.58%) TestNG
12 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 75 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.34%) Finance
3 23 (6.65%) Games
4 18 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (3.76%) Retail
6 12 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.18%) Marketing
8 10 (2.89%) Banking
8 10 (2.89%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.02%) Law
9 7 (2.02%) Welsh Language
10 6 (1.73%) Local Government
10 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.45%) Legal
11 5 (1.45%) Police
12 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Advertising
14 2 (0.58%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (27.75%) Developer
2 68 (19.65%) Senior
3 50 (14.45%) Lead
4 41 (11.85%) Architect
5 36 (10.40%) .NET Developer
6 33 (9.54%) Software Engineer
7 25 (7.23%) Support Engineer
8 21 (6.07%) C# Developer
9 19 (5.49%) C# .NET Developer
9 19 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.76%) DBA
11 13 (3.76%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) Desktop Support
11 13 (3.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) IT Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) IT Support
12 12 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.47%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (30.92%) .NET
2 64 (18.50%) .NET Core
3 63 (18.21%) React
4 49 (14.16%) CSS
5 38 (10.98%) AngularJS
6 31 (8.96%) HTML
7 27 (7.80%) Leaflet
7 27 (7.80%) OpenLayers
7 27 (7.80%) PostGIS
8 24 (6.94%) ASP.NET
9 20 (5.78%) HTML5
10 19 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
10 19 (5.49%) RESTful
11 16 (4.62%) ASP.NET MVC
11 16 (4.62%) Spring Boot
12 14 (4.05%) REST
13 13 (3.76%) CSS3
13 13 (3.76%) Node.js
13 13 (3.76%) Spring
13 13 (3.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.02%) PKI
5 7 (2.02%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.73%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.45%) Tandem
8 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.16%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.16%) FMCG
8 4 (1.16%) iPad
8 4 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.16%) Replication
9 3 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 64 (18.50%) Windows
2 31 (8.96%) Linux
3 27 (7.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.18%) Android
5 7 (2.02%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.16%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.87%) VMS
9 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.29%) Unix
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (38.15%) Agile
2 114 (32.95%) DevOps
3 55 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
5 47 (13.58%) Software Engineering
6 43 (12.43%) Actionable Insight
6 43 (12.43%) Migration
7 42 (12.14%) CI/CD
8 39 (11.27%) Test Automation
9 38 (10.98%) Scrum
10 30 (8.67%) Roadmaps
11 28 (8.09%) Software Testing
11 28 (8.09%) Web Development
12 25 (7.23%) Mentoring
13 23 (6.65%) Microservices
14 22 (6.36%) Fintech
14 22 (6.36%) TDD
15 20 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (5.78%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (5.78%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 98 (28.32%) C#
2 93 (26.88%) JavaScript
3 88 (25.43%) SQL
4 37 (10.69%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.40%) Python
6 25 (7.23%) Java
7 8 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.73%) C++
8 6 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.16%) C
9 4 (1.16%) Groovy
9 4 (1.16%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 45 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.49%) Degree
4 11 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.60%) CCNA
5 9 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.87%) CCNP
8 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CISSP
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISMP
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.05%) QA
2 8 (2.31%) SLA
3 7 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) PMO
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 26 (7.51%) Docker
3 12 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (7.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.49%) Terraform
3 11 (3.18%) Ansible
4 6 (1.73%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.73%) Puppet
5 5 (1.45%) SCCM
5 5 (1.45%) SCOM
6 3 (0.87%) Perfmon
6 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 117 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.80%) ESRI
3 20 (5.78%) Oracle
4 16 (4.62%) Google
5 13 (3.76%) VMware
6 12 (3.47%) Cisco
7 9 (2.60%) Veeam
8 7 (2.02%) Citrix
8 7 (2.02%) Meraki
9 6 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.73%) OutSystems
9 6 (1.73%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.45%) HP
10 5 (1.45%) NetApp
11 4 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.16%) Sparx
12 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.87%) IBM
12 3 (0.87%) Okta