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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 345 377
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 +110
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 14 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.62% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 35
10th Percentile £400 £454 £505
25th Percentile £475 £500 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -12.50% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £703
90th Percentile £595 £654 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

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 4,741 4,975 7,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.99% 27.09% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 3,426 5,255
10th Percentile £250 £242 £225
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £569 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 201 238
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.13 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £16.94
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -20.11% +37.21%
75th Percentile £34.98 £51.91 £60.41
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.13% -32.00% +59.09%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +13 5 £450 -18.18% 14
North of England -10 5 £525 -16.00% 6
North West 0 3 £525 -16.00% 4
East of England +7 2 £530 +11.58% 2
Midlands -11 2 £600 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire -8 1 £550 -15.38% 2
West Midlands -9 1 £600 +14.29% 5
Scotland -11 1 £625 +44.34% 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £500 -
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (28.57%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
4 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
5 2 (14.29%) Azure App Service
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) IaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) SMS
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Integration Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) React
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) Blazor
2 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) Express.js
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) OpenID
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) SAML
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) API Management
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) MLOps
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bicep
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (7.14%) HL7
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys