Azure Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Azure
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 65 67 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 20.57% 13.37% 12.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.28% 52.76% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 53 82
10th Percentile £143 £192 £364
25th Percentile £357 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.46% +25.14%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £597
90th Percentile £646 £643 £649
Wales median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +24.57%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 127 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.61% 25.35% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 102 169
10th Percentile £143 £165 £251
25th Percentile £317 £269 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +15.53% +9.83%
75th Percentile £531 £613 £575
90th Percentile £588 £663 £638
Wales median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.56 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £12.31
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +15.81% -43.71%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 £16.78
90th Percentile - £16.51 £20.48
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £13.00
% change year-on-year +8.27% +12.50% -32.96%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +2 61 £500 -4.76% 38
Newport +2 4 £419 -33.00% 4
Azure
Wales

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (21.54%) GitHub
3 13 (20.00%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) Azure AKS
6 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.08%) GCP
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.54%) IaaS
11 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Firewall
2 6 (9.23%) VPN
3 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.08%) LAN
4 2 (3.08%) Network Security
4 2 (3.08%) WLAN
5 1 (1.54%) DHCP
5 1 (1.54%) DNS
5 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.23%) MySQL
2 7 (10.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.69%) Power BI
3 5 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.15%) Power Query
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.62%) PowerCenter
6 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Postman
2 3 (4.62%) Selenium
3 2 (3.08%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.08%) JMeter
3 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) AppScan
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Finance
3 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Digital Economy
5 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) IT Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Project Manager
3 9 (13.85%) DBA
3 9 (13.85%) IT Support
3 9 (13.85%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Support Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Migration Manager
4 8 (12.31%) Migration Project Manager
5 6 (9.23%) Administrator
6 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (6.15%) MySQL DBA
7 4 (6.15%) WSO2 Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (4.62%) PHP Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 5 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.62%) Laravel
3 3 (4.62%) Middleware
3 3 (4.62%) React
3 3 (4.62%) Vue
4 2 (3.08%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.54%) ADO
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) Kafka
5 1 (1.54%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Public Cloud
2 7 (10.77%) NHS
3 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 13 (20.00%) Linux
3 10 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) AIX
4 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.54%) Android
7 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) DevOps
2 19 (29.23%) Agile
2 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.00%) Migration
4 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 10 (15.38%) Project Management
4 10 (15.38%) Scrum
5 9 (13.85%) SDLC
6 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 6 (9.23%) API Management
7 6 (9.23%) Change Control
7 6 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (6.15%) Analytics
9 4 (6.15%) Decision-Making
9 4 (6.15%) Mobile Device Management
10 3 (4.62%) Data Analytics
10 3 (4.62%) High Availability
10 3 (4.62%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) SQL
2 12 (18.46%) PHP
3 6 (9.23%) C#
4 5 (7.69%) Python
5 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.08%) Java
7 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Bash
8 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.08%) SANS
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.54%) PMP
3 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
2 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.54%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.31%) Argo
2 8 (12.31%) Terraform
3 7 (10.77%) Ansible
3 7 (10.77%) Grafana
3 7 (10.77%) Nagios
4 5 (7.69%) Graylog
4 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.62%) Data Guard
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.08%) SCCM
7 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.54%) Nessus
7 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.54%) Puppet
7 1 (1.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Atlassian
3 7 (10.77%) Oracle
4 6 (9.23%) WSO2
5 5 (7.69%) Cisco
5 5 (7.69%) Splunk
6 4 (6.15%) Databricks
6 4 (6.15%) VMware
7 3 (4.62%) Informatica
8 2 (3.08%) Checkmarx
8 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (3.08%) WatchGuard
8 2 (3.08%) Xamarin
9 1 (1.54%) Citrix
9 1 (1.54%) EMC
9 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.54%) Planview
9 1 (1.54%) Veracode
9 1 (1.54%) Zscaler