Azure Key Vault Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Key Vault skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 13 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 0.23% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile - £501 -
25th Percentile - £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% - -
75th Percentile £750 £564 -
90th Percentile - £597 -
England median daily rate £525 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -16.33% +4.58% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,015 785 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.47% 29.49% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 502 759
10th Percentile £300 £215 £213
25th Percentile £401 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £493 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +6.59% -7.50%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 30
10th Percentile £20.25 £17.58 £12.68
25th Percentile £21.39 £21.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £33.74 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% +84.85% +14.56%
75th Percentile £35.49 £35.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.30 £47.34 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure Key Vault job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Azure Key Vault
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
West Midlands -21 12 £650 +20.93% 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Azure Key Vault
England

Azure Key Vault
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (84.62%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (76.92%) GitHub
3 10 (76.92%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (76.92%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Azure API Management
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
6 2 (15.38%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (61.54%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Backend Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) FastAPI
1 8 (61.54%) Flask
1 8 (61.54%) GraphQL
1 8 (61.54%) WebSockets
2 7 (53.85%) gRPC
2 7 (53.85%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Django
3 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (7.69%) Prophet
3 1 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) pytest
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (7.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Containerisation
3 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) API Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Log Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) RBAC
6 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Runbook
6 2 (15.38%) Secrets Management
7 1 (7.69%) ARIMA
7 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.69%) Data Science
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Grafana
2 8 (61.54%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks