Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Cardiff is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cardiff. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cardiff with a recognized job title 216 163 209
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 93.68% 97.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 126 169
10th Percentile £208 £168 £184
25th Percentile £290 £213 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £536
90th Percentile £642 £650 £613
South Wales median daily rate £413 £415 £420
% change year-on-year -0.60% -1.19% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £12.21 £21.35 £21.90
25th Percentile £13.18 £21.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate £14.83 £24.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.21% -40.00% +158.11%
75th Percentile £18.10 £27.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £20.58 £43.25 £51.50
South Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £25.36 £35.50
% change year-on-year -24.72% -28.56% +105.77%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 28 January 2026, Azure Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cardiff region featuring Azure Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
Azure Platform Engineer jobs