Azure Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Wales

Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The median Platform Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Wales is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £576
% change year-on-year +12.82% -15.36% -7.84%

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 415 337 394
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 91.33% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 222 297
10th Percentile £183 £160 £170
25th Percentile £283 £213 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £630
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 33 25
10th Percentile £13.33 £17.03 £13.33
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.18 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.54% -24.84% +114.67%
75th Percentile £22.00 £37.28 £55.25
90th Percentile £30.75 £45.00 £87.08
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -13.33% +7.14%

Azure Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Azure Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the 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
South Wales - 1 £425 - 3
Azure Platform Engineer
UK

Azure Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 29 January 2026, Azure Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Azure Platform 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
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