Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Azure Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Wales is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 2 19 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.45% 5.11% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 5.60% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 4
10th Percentile £433 £405 £615
25th Percentile £481 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +0.78%
75th Percentile £681 £594 £659
90th Percentile £738 £700 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 399 339 375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 91.13% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 222 279
10th Percentile £180 £160 £171
25th Percentile £282 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £390
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +8.97% -15.22%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 36 22
10th Percentile £13.33 £17.45 £13.80
25th Percentile £14.63 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.27 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% -23.42% +116.96%
75th Percentile £22.00 £37.96 £54.88
90th Percentile £30.68 £45.00 £56.38
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +14.29%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Wales

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Wales

Azure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Wales -5 1 £400 -20.00%
South Wales -9 1 £750 +26.26% 5
Azure Engineer
UK

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 22 January 2026, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Foundry
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft