Azure Key Vault Contracts

Microsoft Azure Key Vault
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 482 488 536
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 +120
Contract jobs citing Azure Key Vault 38 94 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.67% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 119
10th Percentile £464 £470 £512
25th Percentile £500 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £738
90th Percentile £650 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £577
% change year-on-year -14.58% +3.94% +4.95%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Key Vault
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Key Vault as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Key Vault.

Daily rate trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Key Vault.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Key Vault in the UK

Azure Key Vault
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +10 34 £575 -4.17% 47
London -3 16 £625 -5.66% 8
Work from Home +20 14 £525 -2.33% 41
UK excluding London +55 10 £513 -14.58% 41
South East +36 6 £500 -16.67% 14
Midlands - 3 £588 - 8
North of England +20 2 £463 - 11
North West +18 2 £463 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £588 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 2

Azure Key Vault
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (31.58%) Azure API Management
4 10 (26.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (26.32%) Serverless
5 9 (23.68%) Azure App Service
5 9 (23.68%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (23.68%) Entra ID
6 8 (21.05%) Azure Functions
7 7 (18.42%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
8 6 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
9 5 (13.16%) Azure AKS
9 5 (13.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (13.16%) Azure Storage
9 5 (13.16%) GitHub
9 5 (13.16%) IaaS
9 5 (13.16%) PaaS
10 4 (10.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
1 4 (10.53%) Network Security
2 3 (7.89%) DNS
3 2 (5.26%) SSL
4 1 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.26%) Power BI
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.63%) Parquet
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Moq
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Snyk
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 11 (28.95%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Architect
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.16%) .NET Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Angular Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Integration Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) React Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) .NET
2 6 (15.79%) OAuth
3 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.53%) JSON
4 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 3 (7.89%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (7.89%) OpenID
5 3 (7.89%) SAML
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.26%) React
7 1 (2.63%) CSS
7 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.63%) HTML
7 1 (2.63%) Node.js
7 1 (2.63%) REST
7 1 (2.63%) SOAP
7 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) VMS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) DevOps
2 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) API Management
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (18.42%) RBAC
6 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 5 (13.16%) Analytics
7 5 (13.16%) API Integration
7 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.16%) Migration
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) ETL
8 4 (10.53%) High Availability
8 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.89%) Data Engineering
9 3 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) C#
2 12 (31.58%) Python
3 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 9 (23.68%) SQL
5 5 (13.16%) Bash
6 4 (10.53%) Bicep
6 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.26%) Java
7 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.63%) C
8 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.53%) CISSP
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CISM
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CISA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) GIAC
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) HIPAA
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
4 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.63%) Argo
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Istio
4 1 (2.63%) Nessus
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Gemalto
4 1 (2.63%) Thales
4 1 (2.63%) VMware