Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft Azure Certification
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.82% 2.44% 1.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.17% 8.57% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile £416 £440 £542
25th Percentile £422 £450 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £671
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -28.86% +37.69%
75th Percentile £475 £486 £700
90th Percentile - £581 -
Wales median daily rate £450 £480 £671
% change year-on-year -6.25% -28.49% +37.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in South Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 126 70 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 25.93% 28.46% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 48 56
10th Percentile £375 £188 £128
25th Percentile £425 £284 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £331 £400
Median % change year-on-year +66.08% -17.21% -27.27%
75th Percentile £769 £480 £556
90th Percentile £778 £615 £645
Wales median daily rate £540 £353 £400
% change year-on-year +52.94% -11.73% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 26
10th Percentile £12.21 - -
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £25.93
Median % change year-on-year +236.09% -49.56% -20.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £20.40 £50.00
90th Percentile - £32.20 £64.38
Wales median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £26.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -5.09% -3.64%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in South Wales

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Certification within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Cardiff -11 4 £450 -5.76% 7
Azure Certification
Wales

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Lakehouse
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft