Azure Key Vault Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure Key Vault skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.67% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
North West median daily rate £543 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +3.51% -16.00% +6.66%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

Azure Key Vault 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 219 159 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.48% 30.17% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 133 128
10th Percentile £350 £311 £310
25th Percentile £400 £358 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £413 £453
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% -8.84% -10.75%
75th Percentile £613 £492 £550
90th Percentile £653 £579 £638
North West median daily rate £490 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +5.95% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £16.20 - £17.53
25th Percentile £16.59 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% -27.65% -21.14%
75th Percentile £17.77 - £43.75
90th Percentile £17.79 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.25 £34.67 £16.06
% change year-on-year +79.55% +115.88% -28.34%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Key Vault relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Azure Key Vault job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure Key Vault.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Key Vault in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in Cheshire

Azure Key Vault
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Key Vault within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 4 £547 - 1
Azure Key Vault
North West

Azure Key Vault
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) SABSA
3 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft