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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 40 33 66
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 18.96% 14.10% 27.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.50% 48.53% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 47
10th Percentile £290 £167 £180
25th Percentile £302 £400 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £502 £592 £544
90th Percentile £690 £624 £654
South Wales median daily rate £450 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -16.28% +19.44% -18.18%
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 64 68 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 30.33% 29.06% 47.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 45 80
10th Percentile £290 £161 £178
25th Percentile £304 £375 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £431
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +21.74% -13.75%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £541
90th Percentile £675 £606 £638
South Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -19.05%
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 23 October 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 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (25.00%) GCP
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (2.50%) OCI
8 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.00%) Metadata
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (7.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) JMeter
2 3 (7.50%) Zephyr
3 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.00%) Postman
3 2 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) MSTest
4 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.50%) Subversion
4 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Support Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) PySpark
2 4 (10.00%) Spring
2 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.50%) React
3 3 (7.50%) RESTful
3 3 (7.50%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.00%) ADO
4 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.00%) CSS
4 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.00%) Flutter
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) Jest
4 2 (5.00%) Next.js
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) NHS
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) DevOps
2 16 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (17.50%) ETL
6 6 (15.00%) Microservices
6 6 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.00%) Scrum
7 5 (12.50%) API Design
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.00%) Kanban
8 4 (10.00%) Migration
8 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 3 (7.50%) Integration Testing
9 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.50%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) C#
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.50%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) CISMP
2 2 (5.00%) GSEC
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) PMO
2 2 (5.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.50%) HL7
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (5.00%) BitLocker
3 2 (5.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Apple
2 6 (15.00%) Google
2 6 (15.00%) HP
2 6 (15.00%) MobileIron
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) McAfee
6 1 (2.50%) RedGate
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow