Azure Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Microsoft Azure
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City 13.79% 16.13% 21.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.44% 55.56% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £545 - -
25th Percentile £584 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - -
75th Percentile £669 £788 -
90th Percentile £680 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £650 £650 £451
% change year-on-year - +44.04% -24.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Welwyn Garden City

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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 31.03% 29.03% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £303 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £775 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.29% +29.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £627 £788 -
90th Percentile £669 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.74 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £21.72 £24.66 £20.25
% change year-on-year -11.94% +21.78% -69.08%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City.

Azure job vacancy trend in Welwyn Garden City

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Welwyn Garden City

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Welwyn Garden City over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Welwyn Garden City

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Snyk
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) New Relic
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk