Azure Key Vault Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Key Vault skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 119 140
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.17% 0.050% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £488 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.69% - -
75th Percentile £650 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £604 £625
% change year-on-year -13.04% -3.40% +6.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.34 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 950 693 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.72% 34.39% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 511 692
10th Percentile £200 £230 £270
25th Percentile £363 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.05% -4.95%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £550
90th Percentile £630 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 14 77
10th Percentile £17.81 £21.99 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £24.85 £16.06
Median hourly rate £59.75 £28.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.83% +64.29% -66.97%
75th Percentile £76.38 £40.20 £26.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £67.27 £71.87
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure Key Vault job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Key Vault in the North West over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in the North West

Azure Key Vault
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester -11 4 £571 +75.69%
Lancashire - 1 - -
Azure Key Vault
England

Azure Key Vault
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 Monitor
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) 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
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Semantic Search
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
5 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
1 3 (60.00%) Foundry
1 3 (60.00%) OpenAI