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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 1
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 42 30 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 20.79% 13.45% 26.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 66.67% 40.00% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 20 42
10th Percentile £291 £161 £217
25th Percentile £358 £220 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £456
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.74% -8.75%
75th Percentile £491 £591 £547
90th Percentile £603 £626 £638
South Wales median daily rate £448 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -10.40% +9.59% -17.05%
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

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 63 75 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 31.19% 33.63% 49.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 53 79
10th Percentile £242 £165 £193
25th Percentile £313 £288 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +13.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £567
90th Percentile £668 £598 £640
South Wales median daily rate £446 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.90% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% +7.95% +25.00%
75th Percentile £17.00 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.10
South Wales median hourly rate £19.42 £21.59 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.05% +7.95% +25.00%

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
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 17 September 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 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 4 (9.52%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.38%) JBoss
4 1 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.38%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (33.33%) GCP
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (9.52%) OCI
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.38%) Asana
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.38%) IPsec
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.76%) Metadata
3 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Subversion
3 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.76%) Postman
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Architect
1 8 (19.05%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Migration Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (9.52%) Middleware
2 4 (9.52%) Spring
2 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.14%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.76%) CSS
4 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.76%) Flutter
4 2 (4.76%) HTML
4 2 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (4.76%) Jest
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.76%) PySpark
4 2 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) NHS
3 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) DevOps
2 17 (40.48%) Agile
2 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) Microservices
4 7 (16.67%) Migration
4 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 7 (16.67%) Scrum
5 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 5 (11.90%) Data Privacy
6 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps
6 5 (11.90%) ETL
6 5 (11.90%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Code Quality
7 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) SQL
2 9 (21.43%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) C#
4 5 (11.90%) Java
5 4 (9.52%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
7 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
2 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.52%) CITP
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.76%) CISMP
4 2 (4.76%) GSEC
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) PMO
2 2 (4.76%) WCAG
3 1 (2.38%) HL7
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.76%) Firmware
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) LXC
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.19%) Google
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.76%) Apple
5 2 (4.76%) HP
5 2 (4.76%) McAfee
5 2 (4.76%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.38%) RedGate