Azure Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 43 63 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 26.88% 29.72% 17.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 67.19% 58.33% 55.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 47
10th Percentile £213 £143 £207
25th Percentile £255 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £532 £588 £586
90th Percentile £600 £650 £618
South Wales median daily rate £425 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -16.26% -3.33% -4.55%

All Cloud 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 64 108 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 40.00% 50.94% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 91 87
10th Percentile £200 £188 £202
25th Percentile £240 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £600
90th Percentile £596 £645 £663
South Wales median daily rate £409 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -18.25% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.06 - -
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -23.99% -3.97%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £16.67
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (6.98%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) GCP
3 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) OCI
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) IPsec
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 2 (4.65%) DHCP
3 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Metadata
2 3 (6.98%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.65%) Subversion
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.33%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Data Centre Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Data Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Data Migration Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Migration Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP Architect
6 3 (6.98%) IT Support
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Migration Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Senior IT Support
6 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) .NET
1 3 (6.98%) Middleware
2 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.65%) RESTful
2 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) Express.js
3 1 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) Node.js
3 1 (2.33%) NumPy
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) Pandas
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SciPy
3 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) NHS
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.65%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.33%) IoT
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) DevOps
1 12 (27.91%) Migration
2 11 (25.58%) TOGAF
3 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
4 9 (20.93%) Agile
4 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
5 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.28%) Analytics
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
6 7 (16.28%) Data Science
7 6 (13.95%) Data Analytics
7 6 (13.95%) ITIL
7 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (11.63%) Data Privacy
8 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
8 5 (11.63%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.30%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Python
2 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 2 (4.65%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 1 (2.33%) C
5 1 (2.33%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Azure Certification
2 13 (30.23%) Degree
3 12 (27.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (20.93%) Master's Degree
5 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (13.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (11.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (9.30%) CITP
8 4 (9.30%) CREST Certified
9 2 (4.65%) Cyber Scheme
9 2 (4.65%) OSCE
10 1 (2.33%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) HL7
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
1 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) LXC
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Ansible
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Argo
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Nagios
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (34.88%) Google
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Citrix
6 1 (2.33%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) RedGate
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy