Azure Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 65 54 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 29.95% 15.84% 15.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.19% 52.43% 48.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 58
10th Percentile £143 £206 £394
25th Percentile £356 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £575
90th Percentile £650 £619 £647
South Wales median daily rate £504 £460 £545
% change year-on-year +9.51% -15.60% +28.24%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 108 103 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 49.77% 30.21% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 88 124
10th Percentile £188 £202 £329
25th Percentile £367 £344 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £643 £663 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.54
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £12.50 £16.45 £17.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% -3.97% +2.16%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.67 £18.47
90th Percentile - - £19.01
South Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £13.90
% change year-on-year -12.28% +2.50% -36.29%

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 23 April 2024.

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 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Mendix
2 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (23.08%) GitHub
3 14 (21.54%) AWS
4 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (12.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
8 6 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (9.23%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
10 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (3.08%) GCP
12 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.38%) Firewall
2 6 (9.23%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.23%) VPN
3 2 (3.08%) LAN
3 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 2 (3.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) MySQL
2 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.23%) Power BI
3 6 (9.23%) RDBMS
3 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.15%) Power Query
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.62%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Postman
2 3 (4.62%) Selenium
3 2 (3.08%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.08%) JMeter
3 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) AppScan
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Digital Economy
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (16.92%) IT Engineer
1 11 (16.92%) Project Manager
2 10 (15.38%) DBA
2 10 (15.38%) Developer
3 9 (13.85%) IT Support
3 9 (13.85%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Migration Manager
3 9 (13.85%) Migration Project Manager
3 9 (13.85%) Support Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Administrator
5 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) MySQL DBA
6 4 (6.15%) WSO2 Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.62%) PHP Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 3 (4.62%) Laravel
3 3 (4.62%) Middleware
3 3 (4.62%) React
3 3 (4.62%) Vue
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.54%) ADO
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.54%) Kafka
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (10.77%) NHS
3 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) Windows
2 14 (21.54%) Linux
3 8 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) AIX
5 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Agile
2 22 (33.85%) DevOps
3 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (21.54%) Migration
4 14 (21.54%) Scrum
5 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
5 11 (16.92%) Project Management
6 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.38%) SDLC
7 7 (10.77%) Analytics
7 7 (10.77%) Change Control
8 6 (9.23%) API Management
8 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
8 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 4 (6.15%) Mobile Device Management
10 4 (6.15%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) PHP
3 5 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (6.15%) C#
4 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.08%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.54%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.08%) SANS
3 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Terraform
2 9 (13.85%) Argo
2 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.31%) Ansible
3 8 (12.31%) Grafana
3 8 (12.31%) Nagios
4 6 (9.23%) Graylog
4 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.62%) Data Guard
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.08%) SCCM
7 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.54%) Nessus
7 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.54%) Puppet
7 1 (1.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 24 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Atlassian
3 7 (10.77%) Oracle
4 6 (9.23%) Splunk
4 6 (9.23%) WSO2
5 5 (7.69%) Cisco
6 4 (6.15%) Databricks
7 3 (4.62%) Informatica
8 2 (3.08%) Checkmarx
8 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL
8 2 (3.08%) VMware
8 2 (3.08%) WatchGuard
9 1 (1.54%) Citrix
9 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.54%) EMC
9 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.54%) Planview
9 1 (1.54%) Veracode
9 1 (1.54%) Zscaler