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

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 43 60 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 22.63% 23.62% 23.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 67.19% 53.57% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 43
10th Percentile £251 £143 £204
25th Percentile £400 £257 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £501 £563 £581
90th Percentile £588 £648 £635
South Wales median daily rate £446 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -10.80% -1.23% -7.95%
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 64 112 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 33.68% 44.09% 41.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 93 82
10th Percentile £231 £143 £190
25th Percentile £325 £369 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £586
90th Percentile £585 £598 £650
South Wales median daily rate £434 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -13.30% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £19.06 - -
25th Percentile £19.88 £12.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -37.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.10
South Wales median hourly rate £17.26 £12.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +38.04% -21.88% +30.03%

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
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

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 9 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 (9.30%) WebLogic
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) SAS
4 1 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.33%) nginx
4 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.33%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) GCP
3 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub
5 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.30%) OCI
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.65%) IaaS
8 2 (4.65%) SaaS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) DNS
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) IPsec
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.30%) MySQL
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Metadata
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.98%) Subversion
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Postman
3 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Data Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Data Migration Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Migration Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Migration Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Principal Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) .NET
2 4 (9.30%) Middleware
2 4 (9.30%) RESTful
2 4 (9.30%) Spring
2 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.65%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.33%) Anaconda
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) Express.js
5 1 (2.33%) FHIR
5 1 (2.33%) Flutter
5 1 (2.33%) JWT
5 1 (2.33%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) NHS
3 3 (6.98%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.33%) IoT
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.26%) Migration
4 10 (23.26%) TOGAF
5 9 (20.93%) ITIL
6 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
7 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
7 7 (16.28%) Microservices
7 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.28%) Scrum
8 6 (13.95%) Data Science
9 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (11.63%) Data Privacy
9 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
9 5 (11.63%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (9.30%) Kanban
10 4 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Java
2 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Azure Certification
2 8 (18.60%) Degree
3 7 (16.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (11.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.63%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (9.30%) CITP
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.65%) CISMP
7 2 (4.65%) CREST Certified
7 2 (4.65%) GSEC
7 2 (4.65%) OSCE
7 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) GDPR
1 2 (4.65%) PMO
2 1 (2.33%) HL7
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) LXC
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Ansible
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (32.56%) Google
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) Databricks
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) RedGate