Azure AI Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Azure AI Platform
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.44% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £750 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cardiff

Azure AI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 66 68 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 28.82% 36.36% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 66
10th Percentile £290 £168 £183
25th Percentile £304 £227 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £444 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +14.52% -22.50%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £569
90th Percentile £725 £594 £641
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £388
% change year-on-year - +9.68% -29.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.02 - -
25th Percentile £15.05 £20.30 -
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.59 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% - -
75th Percentile £17.49 £22.89 -
90th Percentile £17.59 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £37.50 £13.33
% change year-on-year -39.09% +181.32% -33.26%

Azure AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Azure AI job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft