Azure Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 75 41 54
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 27.68% 25.00% 24.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 73.53% 65.08% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 46
10th Percentile £300 £244 £143
25th Percentile £308 £400 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -10.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £563
90th Percentile £757 £588 £657
South Wales median daily rate £425 £405 £500
% change year-on-year +4.94% -19.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 -
% change year-on-year -48.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cardiff

Azure 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 102 63 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 37.64% 38.41% 46.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 52 85
10th Percentile £289 £230 £161
25th Percentile £311 £319 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £415 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £496 £550
90th Percentile £775 £587 £588
South Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £18.90 £19.06 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £19.88 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +80.00% -31.40%
75th Percentile £21.00 £23.75 £12.75
90th Percentile £21.21 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £20.73 £22.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year -7.87% +80.00% -18.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) Azure DevOps
2 20 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 15 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 13 (17.33%) GCP
5 8 (10.67%) GitHub
6 7 (9.33%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (4.00%) BrowserStack
8 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.00%) SonarCloud
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.67%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.67%) Miro
9 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
1 1 (1.33%) Firewall
1 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (2.67%) Power BI
5 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) JMeter
2 3 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Lead
2 13 (17.33%) Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Applications Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Power Apps Developer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
5 6 (8.00%) Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Performance Test Leader
5 6 (8.00%) Test Leader
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) IT Support
6 5 (6.67%) Test Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Lead DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Network Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Tester
8 3 (4.00%) Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Test Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) .NET
2 13 (17.33%) Playwright
3 8 (10.67%) ADO
4 5 (6.67%) RESTful
5 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.33%) PySpark
7 1 (1.33%) React
7 1 (1.33%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.33%) NHS
2 8 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.67%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.67%) DevOps
2 24 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 18 (24.00%) Agile
5 15 (20.00%) Migration
6 14 (18.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (14.67%) Scrum
8 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (9.33%) Analytics
10 7 (9.33%) Defect Management
10 7 (9.33%) Regression Testing
10 7 (9.33%) Test Scripting
10 7 (9.33%) Validation
11 6 (8.00%) Coaching
11 6 (8.00%) Performance Testing
11 6 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
12 5 (6.67%) Data Engineering
12 5 (6.67%) Microservices
12 5 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.33%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.33%) C#
5 6 (8.00%) Python
6 2 (2.67%) Java
7 1 (1.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.33%) C
7 1 (1.33%) R
7 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.33%) Google
3 8 (10.67%) Databricks
4 5 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.33%) Apple
6 1 (1.33%) Citrix
6 1 (1.33%) HP
6 1 (1.33%) McAfee
6 1 (1.33%) MobileIron