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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 45 37 56
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 18.91% 20.67% 25.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.69% 56.92% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 50
10th Percentile £289 £176 £174
25th Percentile £290 £250 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £484 £586 £581
90th Percentile £725 £594 £650
South Wales median daily rate £410 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -3.53% -10.53% -18.94%

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 78 65 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 32.77% 36.31% 41.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 54 78
10th Percentile £290 £171 £190
25th Percentile £304 £234 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £551
90th Percentile £725 £594 £647
South Wales median daily rate £411 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -0.30% -8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.44 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% - -
75th Percentile £17.65 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £13.33
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 4 February 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 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (28.89%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.78%) GCP
3 8 (17.78%) Power Platform
4 7 (15.56%) GitHub
4 7 (15.56%) Power Automate
5 5 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (6.67%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.44%) BrowserStack
8 2 (4.44%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.44%) Metadata
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) JMeter
3 4 (8.89%) GitLab
3 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.89%) Postman
3 4 (8.89%) Zephyr
4 3 (6.67%) Selenium
5 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) Git
5 2 (4.44%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.22%) MSTest
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Applications Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Power Apps Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Performance Test Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) Playwright
2 4 (8.89%) PySpark
3 3 (6.67%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.44%) ADO
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) Flutter
5 1 (2.22%) HTML
5 1 (2.22%) React
5 1 (2.22%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) SPFx
5 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) NHS
2 4 (8.89%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) Agile
3 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
4 10 (22.22%) Migration
5 9 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 6 (13.33%) ETL
9 5 (11.11%) Analytics
9 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.89%) AI
10 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
10 4 (8.89%) Data Governance
10 4 (8.89%) Regression Testing
11 3 (6.67%) BDD
11 3 (6.67%) Machine Learning
11 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) C#
4 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) Java
7 2 (4.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) SCCM
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Apple
2 9 (20.00%) HP
2 9 (20.00%) MobileIron
3 6 (13.33%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Databricks
5 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) Foundry
6 1 (2.22%) McAfee