Azure Storage Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft Azure Storage
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Azure Storage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Storage 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.29% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £425 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

Azure Storage 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 90 105 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 26.09% 34.31% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 85 103
10th Percentile £290 £185 £183
25th Percentile £304 £244 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% -20.19%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £563
90th Percentile £725 £668 £635
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £406
% change year-on-year -5.88% +4.62% -15.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £18.17 £23.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.25 £12.96
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +181.32% -33.26%
75th Percentile £31.88 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £33.00 - £127.47
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £33.64 £13.33
% change year-on-year -37.57% +152.36% -15.22%

Azure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Azure Storage job vacancy trend in South Wales

Azure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Azure Storage
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 Storage within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 January 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 - 1 £425 - 1
Azure Storage
Wales

Azure Storage
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft