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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 37 58 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 21.02% 24.68% 20.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 63.79% 52.73% 53.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 48 34
10th Percentile £238 £143 £201
25th Percentile £376 £332 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +9.59% -10.10%
75th Percentile £502 £563 £586
90th Percentile £588 £652 £621
South Wales median daily rate £419 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -16.15% +8.11% -15.91%
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 58 110 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 32.95% 46.81% 39.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 90 69
10th Percentile £230 £143 £190
25th Percentile £315 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £498 £548 £586
90th Percentile £588 £589 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -19.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £19.06 - £16.00
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -31.40% +13.89%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £23.31
90th Percentile - - £24.88
South Wales median hourly rate £17.26 £12.50 £16.22
% change year-on-year +38.04% -22.95% +31.84%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cardiff

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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 (10.81%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) SAS
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.70%) JBoss
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.70%) nginx
4 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.70%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) GCP
3 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (13.51%) GitHub
5 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.81%) OCI
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (8.11%) PowerApps
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.41%) IaaS
8 2 (5.41%) SaaS
9 1 (2.70%) Asana
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) IPsec
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Metadata
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.11%) Subversion
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Postman
3 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Digital Health
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Data Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Data Migration Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Migration Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Migration Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Principal Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
1 4 (10.81%) Middleware
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.70%) Anaconda
4 1 (2.70%) Express.js
4 1 (2.70%) JWT
4 1 (2.70%) NestJS
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) NumPy
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth
4 1 (2.70%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) NHS
3 3 (8.11%) Operational Technology
3 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.70%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) Migration
2 10 (27.03%) TOGAF
3 9 (24.32%) ITIL
4 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
6 6 (16.22%) Data Science
7 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.51%) Data Privacy
7 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
7 5 (13.51%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (10.81%) IT Strategy
8 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
8 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) R
4 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Azure Certification
2 8 (21.62%) Degree
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (13.51%) Master's Degree
4 5 (13.51%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (10.81%) CITP
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.41%) CISMP
7 2 (5.41%) CREST Certified
7 2 (5.41%) GSEC
7 2 (5.41%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) HL7
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) LXC
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.41%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) RedGate