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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 1
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 43 32 61
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 18.30% 12.85% 26.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 58.90% 45.07% 57.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 46
10th Percentile £290 £183 £179
25th Percentile £295 £403 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £501 £592 £538
90th Percentile £708 £624 £664
South Wales median daily rate £425 £545 £425
% change year-on-year -22.02% +28.24% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
South Wales median hourly rate - - £24.25
% change year-on-year - - +3.19%

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 73 71 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 31.06% 28.51% 45.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 78
10th Percentile £290 £161 £178
25th Percentile £304 £375 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £495 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £616 £641
South Wales median daily rate £410 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -21.90% +23.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £15.02 - -
25th Percentile £15.05 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +7.95% +1.27%
75th Percentile £17.49 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £17.59 - £25.10
South Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £21.59 £18.00
% change year-on-year +5.79% +19.94% -8.86%

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 6 November 2025.

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 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) AWS
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
7 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (4.65%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.65%) Metadata
5 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Zephyr
3 3 (6.98%) JMeter
3 3 (6.98%) Postman
3 3 (6.98%) Selenium
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.65%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) MSTest
5 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.33%) Subversion
5 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Analyst
2 8 (18.60%) Support Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.65%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 4 (9.30%) PySpark
2 4 (9.30%) Spring
2 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.98%) React
3 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 3 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.65%) ADO
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.65%) Flutter
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) Jest
4 2 (4.65%) Next.js
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) Playwright
4 2 (4.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) NHS
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
1 17 (39.53%) DevOps
2 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
4 7 (16.28%) ETL
4 7 (16.28%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (13.95%) Microservices
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Scrum
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) API Design
7 4 (9.30%) Code Quality
7 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.30%) Kanban
7 4 (9.30%) Migration
7 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (6.98%) AI
8 3 (6.98%) Integration Testing
8 3 (6.98%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.95%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) C#
5 5 (11.63%) T-SQL
5 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) CISMP
3 2 (4.65%) GSEC
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) PMO
2 2 (4.65%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) HL7
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Docker
3 2 (4.65%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.65%) Firmware
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) Apple
2 7 (16.28%) Google
2 7 (16.28%) HP
2 7 (16.28%) MobileIron
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) McAfee
6 1 (2.33%) Foundry
6 1 (2.33%) RedGate
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow