Azure Key Vault Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Key Vault skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Key Vault over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 381 421
Rank change year-on-year +55 +40 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 10 18 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.087% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 28
10th Percentile £400 £500 £500
25th Percentile £500 £506 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £577
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +3.94% +4.95%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £702
90th Percentile £594 - £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +7.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Key Vault as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK excluding London

Azure Key Vault
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Key Vault in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK excluding London

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Key Vault in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in the UK excluding London

Azure Key Vault
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +36 6 £500 -16.67% 58
Midlands - 3 £588 - 42
North of England +20 2 £463 - 51
North West +18 2 £463 - 23
West Midlands - 2 £588 - 25
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 15
Azure Key Vault
UK

Azure Key Vault
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure API Management
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) PaaS
5 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (30.00%) IaaS
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (20.00%) SaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Parquet
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) OpenID
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) API Management
2 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) SAP