Azure Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure 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 2 4 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 72 75 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 24.57% 18.99% 12.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.07% 52.82% 49.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 64 69
10th Percentile £213 £143 £202
25th Percentile £285 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +0.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £27.45 - -
25th Percentile £29.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £41.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £33.25 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% -36.36% +2.33%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

Azure 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Wales

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Wales

Azure
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 within the Wales 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 Wales 0 62 £425 -16.26% 208
West Wales - 6 £503 - 3
Dyfed -2 1 £675 +50.00% 1
Azure
UK

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (4.17%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.78%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) nginx
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.39%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 27 (37.50%) AWS
2 19 (26.39%) GCP
3 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (18.06%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.56%) GitHub
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.17%) OCI
8 3 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.78%) IaaS
9 2 (2.78%) PaaS
9 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.78%) SaaS
10 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) Firewall
2 7 (9.72%) IPsec
3 5 (6.94%) Network Security
3 5 (6.94%) Wireless
4 4 (5.56%) BGP
4 4 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (5.56%) DNS
4 4 (5.56%) OSPF
4 4 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (2.78%) 802.11
5 2 (2.78%) DHCP
5 2 (2.78%) HSRP
5 2 (2.78%) SAN
5 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.39%) HTTP
6 1 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Metadata
2 4 (5.56%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (4.17%) Power BI
4 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.39%) Adabas
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.78%) Subversion
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.39%) tSQLt
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Digital Health
4 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.39%) Automotive
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
2 7 (9.72%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (9.72%) Data Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) Developer
3 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) IT Support
3 6 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) Senior
4 5 (6.94%) Consultant
4 5 (6.94%) Migration Consultant
5 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Data Centre Consultant
5 4 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 4 (5.56%) Data Migration Consultant
5 4 (5.56%) Support Specialist
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (4.17%) Middleware
2 3 (4.17%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.78%) Pandas
3 2 (2.78%) PySpark
3 2 (2.78%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.78%) REST
3 2 (2.78%) RESTful
3 2 (2.78%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.39%) Handlebars
4 1 (1.39%) JWT
4 1 (1.39%) Playwright
4 1 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.33%) NHS
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.94%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.39%) Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) PKI
7 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Windows
2 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
2 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (5.56%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.39%) Rocky
4 1 (1.39%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Computer Science
2 15 (20.83%) Migration
2 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.44%) DevOps
4 13 (18.06%) ITIL
5 12 (16.67%) Agile
6 11 (15.28%) TOGAF
7 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
8 9 (12.50%) Analytics
8 9 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (12.50%) Data Science
9 8 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 7 (9.72%) Data Analytics
10 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (8.33%) Data Engineering
11 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
11 6 (8.33%) High Availability
11 6 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (6.94%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (2.78%) Java
5 2 (2.78%) Ruby
5 2 (2.78%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 1 (1.39%) C
6 1 (1.39%) Natural
6 1 (1.39%) R
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (30.56%) Degree
2 21 (29.17%) Azure Certification
3 14 (19.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (18.06%) AWS Certification
5 10 (13.89%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (6.94%) A+ Certification
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
9 4 (5.56%) CCNP
9 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (5.56%) CITP
9 4 (5.56%) CREST Certified
9 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.78%) Cyber Scheme
10 2 (2.78%) OSCE
11 1 (1.39%) CSSLP
11 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) HL7
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.39%) LXC
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.94%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (5.56%) Cacti
3 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.17%) Ansible
5 2 (2.78%) Autotask
5 2 (2.78%) Terraform
6 1 (1.39%) Argo
6 1 (1.39%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Nagios
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.22%) Google
3 10 (13.89%) Databricks
4 7 (9.72%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 6 (8.33%) VMware
6 5 (6.94%) Cisco
7 4 (5.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (4.17%) Oracle
8 3 (4.17%) Sophos
9 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.78%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.39%) Citrix
10 1 (1.39%) Dell
10 1 (1.39%) Foundry
10 1 (1.39%) IBM
10 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.39%) RedGate
10 1 (1.39%) Remedy