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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 68 63 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 23.21% 15.95% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 62.39% 48.09% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 52 64
10th Percentile £190 £143 £201
25th Percentile £278 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £480 £563 £590
90th Percentile £588 £665 £649
UK median daily rate £522 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.98% -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 £42.50 £35.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -44.44% +17.76%

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 109 131 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 37.20% 33.16% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 106 130
10th Percentile £190 £143 £156
25th Percentile £285 £317 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £490 £456
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.40% -7.03%
75th Percentile £488 £536 £597
90th Percentile £588 £581 £663
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +5.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.67
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £19.87
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £21.50 £38.78
% change year-on-year +32.14% -44.55% +76.25%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +2 60 £409 -18.25% 169
West Wales - 2 £190 - 4
Dyfed -4 1 £675 -6.90%
North Wales - 1 £325 - 4
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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
1 4 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) SAS
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) JBoss
4 1 (1.47%) nginx
4 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.47%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) AWS
2 18 (26.47%) GCP
3 15 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (19.12%) Entra ID
5 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (5.88%) OCI
7 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.41%) SaaS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.94%) IaaS
9 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.47%) Asana
10 1 (1.47%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) IPsec
2 5 (7.35%) Network Security
2 5 (7.35%) Wireless
3 4 (5.88%) BGP
3 4 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (5.88%) DNS
3 4 (5.88%) LAN
3 4 (5.88%) OSPF
3 4 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.88%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) 802.11
4 2 (2.94%) DHCP
4 2 (2.94%) HSRP
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.94%) VPN
5 1 (1.47%) HTTP
5 1 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Metadata
2 2 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) Subversion
3 2 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.47%) Postman
4 1 (1.47%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.94%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.47%) Automotive
4 1 (1.47%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Architect
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Architect
2 7 (10.29%) Support Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Developer
3 6 (8.82%) Network Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 4 (5.88%) Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Data Centre Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Data Migration Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Migration Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Support Specialist
4 4 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 4 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) Technical Support
4 4 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Middleware
2 3 (4.41%) .NET
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.41%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.94%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.94%) Pandas
3 2 (2.94%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.94%) RESTful
3 2 (2.94%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.47%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.47%) FHIR
4 1 (1.47%) JWT
4 1 (1.47%) LangChain
4 1 (1.47%) NestJS
4 1 (1.47%) Playwright
4 1 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) NHS
3 5 (7.35%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.47%) Clustering
7 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.47%) IoT
7 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.47%) PKI
7 1 (1.47%) Replication
7 1 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.47%) Rocky
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
4 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 16 (23.53%) DevOps
3 14 (20.59%) Migration
3 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (17.65%) Agile
5 12 (17.65%) ITIL
6 11 (16.18%) TOGAF
7 10 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.76%) Cloud Security
9 8 (11.76%) Data Science
10 6 (8.82%) Analytics
10 6 (8.82%) Customer Service
10 6 (8.82%) DevSecOps
10 6 (8.82%) High Availability
11 5 (7.35%) Data Analytics
11 5 (7.35%) Data Privacy
11 5 (7.35%) Machine Learning
11 5 (7.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.88%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) C#
3 3 (4.41%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 1 (1.47%) Bash
4 1 (1.47%) C
4 1 (1.47%) Java
4 1 (1.47%) R
4 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Degree
2 19 (27.94%) Azure Certification
3 12 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (16.18%) AWS Certification
5 8 (11.76%) Master's Degree
6 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (8.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (7.35%) A+ Certification
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.88%) CCNP
9 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (5.88%) CITP
10 2 (2.94%) CREST Certified
10 2 (2.94%) OSCE
10 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
11 1 (1.47%) CSSLP
11 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.47%) HL7
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) PMO
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) LXC
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.35%) Ansible
2 5 (7.35%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.88%) Cacti
3 4 (5.88%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Autotask
5 1 (1.47%) Argo
5 1 (1.47%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.47%) Nagios
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.06%) Google
3 9 (13.24%) Cisco
3 9 (13.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.29%) Sophos
5 6 (8.82%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.88%) Databricks
6 4 (5.88%) Oracle
6 4 (5.88%) VMware
7 2 (2.94%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.94%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.47%) Citrix
8 1 (1.47%) Dell
8 1 (1.47%) Foundry
8 1 (1.47%) HP
8 1 (1.47%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.47%) RedGate
8 1 (1.47%) Sparx