Azure Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 76 83 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 19.44% 13.11% 12.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.52% 50.30% 45.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 69 90
10th Percentile £143 £202 £363
25th Percentile £373 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £662 £655 £665
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -39.13% +5.50% +9.00%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 165 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 36.32% 26.07% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 137 190
10th Percentile £157 £161 £200
25th Percentile £356 £253 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £575
90th Percentile £623 £675 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +2.63% -16.18%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £19.72
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +6 69 £504 -4.05% 67
Dyfed +3 2 £725 +7.41% 2
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 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (18.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (22.37%) GitHub
3 13 (17.11%) AWS
4 11 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.89%) Azure AKS
6 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.26%) Power Automate
8 4 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.63%) GCP
11 1 (1.32%) IaaS
11 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.16%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) VPN
3 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.63%) LAN
4 2 (2.63%) Network Security
4 2 (2.63%) WLAN
5 1 (1.32%) DHCP
5 1 (1.32%) DNS
5 1 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) MySQL
2 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.58%) Power BI
3 5 (6.58%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.26%) Power Query
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.95%) PowerCenter
6 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.95%) Postman
2 3 (3.95%) Selenium
3 2 (2.63%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.63%) JMeter
3 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.32%) AppScan
4 1 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) Subversion
4 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Finance
3 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Digital Economy
4 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.32%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Project Manager
2 12 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 11 (14.47%) Migration Manager
3 11 (14.47%) Migration Project Manager
4 10 (13.16%) Developer
5 9 (11.84%) DBA
5 9 (11.84%) IT Support
5 9 (11.84%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Administrator
7 5 (6.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) MySQL DBA
8 4 (5.26%) WSO2 Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Full Stack PHP Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) .NET
2 5 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.95%) Laravel
3 3 (3.95%) Middleware
3 3 (3.95%) React
3 3 (3.95%) Vue
4 2 (2.63%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.63%) Kafka
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.32%) ADO
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.32%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 7 (9.21%) NHS
3 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.32%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Windows
2 13 (17.11%) Linux
3 10 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.26%) AIX
4 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.95%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.89%) Agile
1 25 (32.89%) DevOps
2 23 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.00%) Migration
4 15 (19.74%) Scrum
5 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
6 12 (15.79%) Project Management
6 12 (15.79%) SDLC
7 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.89%) API Management
8 6 (7.89%) Change Control
8 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (7.89%) Test Automation
9 5 (6.58%) Analytics
9 5 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.58%) Decision-Making
9 5 (6.58%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (6.58%) Project Governance
10 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (5.26%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 15 (19.74%) PHP
3 5 (6.58%) C#
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.63%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) SANS
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMP
5 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Docker
2 7 (9.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) Terraform
2 11 (14.47%) Argo
3 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.21%) Ansible
4 7 (9.21%) Grafana
4 7 (9.21%) Nagios
5 5 (6.58%) Graylog
5 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.95%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.63%) SCCM
9 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.32%) Nessus
9 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.32%) Puppet
9 1 (1.32%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 29 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.47%) Atlassian
3 7 (9.21%) Oracle
4 6 (7.89%) WSO2
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
5 5 (6.58%) Splunk
6 4 (5.26%) Databricks
6 4 (5.26%) VMware
7 3 (3.95%) Informatica
8 2 (2.63%) Checkmarx
8 2 (2.63%) Dell
8 2 (2.63%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.63%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.32%) Citrix
9 1 (1.32%) EMC
9 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.32%) Planview
9 1 (1.32%) Qualys
9 1 (1.32%) Xamarin