Azure Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 77 76 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 19.20% 12.04% 12.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.47% 47.50% 45.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 66 92
10th Percentile £143 £201 £364
25th Percentile £370 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -10.96% +25.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £650 £663 £668
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -36.36% +2.80% +11.46%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 144 160 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.91% 25.36% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 136 193
10th Percentile £164 £159 £215
25th Percentile £345 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +2.63% -16.18%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £19.72
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Wales

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South Wales +8 70 £504 +0.75% 64
Dyfed +2 1 £450 -33.33%
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 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (22.08%) GitHub
3 13 (16.88%) AWS
4 12 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (7.79%) Azure AKS
7 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.19%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.60%) GCP
12 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.30%) IaaS
12 1 (1.30%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) VPN
3 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.60%) LAN
4 2 (2.60%) Network Security
4 2 (2.60%) WLAN
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
5 1 (1.30%) DNS
5 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.57%) MySQL
2 7 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.49%) Power BI
3 5 (6.49%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.19%) Power Query
4 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.90%) PowerCenter
6 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.90%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) Postman
2 3 (3.90%) Selenium
3 2 (2.60%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.60%) JMeter
3 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.30%) AppScan
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Subversion
4 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.79%) Finance
3 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Digital Economy
4 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.30%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 12 (15.58%) IT Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Migration Manager
3 11 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
4 9 (11.69%) DBA
4 9 (11.69%) Developer
4 9 (11.69%) IT Support
4 9 (11.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Support Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Administrator
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Consultant
7 4 (5.19%) MySQL DBA
7 4 (5.19%) WSO2 Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Full Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) .NET
1 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.90%) Laravel
2 3 (3.90%) Middleware
2 3 (3.90%) React
2 3 (3.90%) Vue
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.30%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.30%) ADO
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Public Cloud
2 7 (9.09%) NHS
3 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Windows
2 13 (16.88%) Linux
3 10 (12.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) AIX
4 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.90%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Agile
2 25 (32.47%) DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (24.68%) Migration
5 16 (20.78%) Scrum
6 13 (16.88%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.58%) Project Management
7 12 (15.58%) SDLC
8 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.79%) Analytics
10 6 (7.79%) API Management
10 6 (7.79%) Change Control
10 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (6.49%) Decision-Making
11 5 (6.49%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
11 5 (6.49%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.08%) SQL
2 15 (19.48%) PHP
3 5 (6.49%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) C#
4 4 (5.19%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.60%) Java
6 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) SANS
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 8 (10.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.30%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (16.88%) Terraform
2 11 (14.29%) Argo
3 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.09%) Ansible
4 7 (9.09%) Grafana
4 7 (9.09%) Nagios
5 5 (6.49%) Graylog
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.90%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.60%) SCCM
8 1 (1.30%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.30%) Nessus
8 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 29 (37.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 7 (9.09%) Oracle
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco
4 6 (7.79%) WSO2
5 5 (6.49%) Splunk
6 4 (5.19%) Databricks
6 4 (5.19%) VMware
7 3 (3.90%) Informatica
8 2 (2.60%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.60%) Dell
8 2 (2.60%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.60%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.60%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.30%) Citrix
9 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.30%) EMC
9 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.30%) Planview
9 1 (1.30%) Qualys