Azure Key Vault Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.32% 0.10% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £476 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% - -
75th Percentile £650 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £510 £325 -
% change year-on-year +56.92% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 596 401 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.73% 41.95% 37.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 317 475
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £552
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 2 15
10th Percentile £21.46 £32.85 £18.33
25th Percentile £47.19 £38.63 £21.13
Median hourly rate £71.25 £49.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.94% +90.38% -60.00%
75th Percentile £84.00 £61.63 £72.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.15 £76.25
North West median hourly rate £62.25 £28.75 £17.11
% change year-on-year +116.52% +68.03% -51.11%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Azure Key Vault job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in Manchester

Azure Key Vault
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
Bolton - 2 £650 -
Azure Key Vault
North West

Azure Key Vault
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Azure AI
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) Semantic Search
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
1 3 (60.00%) Foundry
1 3 (60.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft