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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 36 34 57
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 15.32% 17.71% 26.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.94% 49.28% 64.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 47
10th Percentile £290 £165 £180
25th Percentile £293 £213 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £502 £578 £588
90th Percentile £718 £596 £647
South Wales median daily rate £450 £431 £425
% change year-on-year +4.35% +1.47% -26.72%

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 68 69 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 28.94% 35.94% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 67
10th Percentile £290 £168 £183
25th Percentile £304 £227 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £444 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% +14.52% -22.50%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £563
90th Percentile £656 £594 £641
South Wales median daily rate £433 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +1.76% +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
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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 7 January 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 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) GCP
4 7 (19.44%) GitHub
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) AWS
6 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (5.56%) BrowserStack
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) Postman
3 4 (11.11%) Zephyr
4 3 (8.33%) Git
4 3 (8.33%) JMeter
4 3 (8.33%) Selenium
5 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.78%) MSTest
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Support Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Tester
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (2.78%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (2.78%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) Playwright
2 4 (11.11%) PySpark
3 3 (8.33%) React
3 3 (8.33%) RESTful
3 3 (8.33%) Spring
3 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.56%) ADO
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.56%) Flutter
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) Jest
4 2 (5.56%) Next.js
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) NHS
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Mobile Device Management
4 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 7 (19.44%) ETL
6 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.89%) Microservices
6 5 (13.89%) Migration
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 4 (11.11%) API Design
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.33%) BDD
8 3 (8.33%) Code Quality
8 3 (8.33%) Kanban
8 3 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (8.33%) SDLC
9 2 (5.56%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.11%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) WCAG
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (5.56%) BitLocker
3 2 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Apple
2 10 (27.78%) HP
2 10 (27.78%) MobileIron
3 5 (13.89%) Google
4 4 (11.11%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) McAfee
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Foundry
38 Azure jobs in Cardiff