Azure Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 55 60 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 25.82% 21.05% 15.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.40% 56.60% 47.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 47 57
10th Percentile £143 £207 £393
25th Percentile £254 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £588
90th Percentile £657 £642 £651
South Wales median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +29.41%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 106 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 48.36% 37.19% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 86 118
10th Percentile £161 £201 £279
25th Percentile £369 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +14.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £588 £663 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +16.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.40 £15.28
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.67 £15.31
Median hourly rate £12.50 £18.22 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% +15.70% -5.26%
75th Percentile £12.75 £20.67 £16.31
90th Percentile - £21.47 £16.43
South Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £15.35 £12.31
% change year-on-year -18.55% +24.73% -43.14%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Cardiff

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (20.00%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) GitHub
3 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (10.91%) Azure AKS
3 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.27%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 2 (3.64%) LAN
3 2 (3.64%) WLAN
4 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) MySQL
2 5 (9.09%) Power BI
2 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.27%) Power Query
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.45%) PowerCenter
4 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.45%) Postman
2 3 (5.45%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.64%) JMeter
3 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.82%) AppScan
4 1 (1.82%) Git
4 1 (1.82%) Subversion
4 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Digital Economy
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) IT Support
3 9 (16.36%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) DBA
5 6 (10.91%) Project Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Administrator
6 5 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Migration Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Migration Project Manager
6 5 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (7.27%) WSO2 Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Administrator
8 3 (5.45%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (5.45%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) .NET
2 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.45%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.45%) Laravel
3 3 (5.45%) Middleware
3 3 (5.45%) React
3 3 (5.45%) Vue
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.82%) ADO
5 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (1.82%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.73%) NHS
3 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Linux
1 12 (21.82%) Windows
2 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.27%) AIX
4 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.82%) Android
5 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (29.09%) DevOps
3 13 (23.64%) Agile
4 8 (14.55%) Migration
5 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
5 7 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (12.73%) Project Management
5 7 (12.73%) Scrum
6 6 (10.91%) API Management
6 6 (10.91%) SDLC
6 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (9.09%) Change Control
7 5 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.27%) Analytics
9 3 (5.45%) Data Analytics
9 3 (5.45%) High Availability
9 3 (5.45%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (5.45%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) PHP
3 7 (12.73%) C#
4 5 (9.09%) Python
5 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.64%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.64%) SANS
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) Ansible
3 6 (10.91%) Grafana
3 6 (10.91%) Nagios
4 5 (9.09%) Argo
4 5 (9.09%) Graylog
4 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.45%) Data Guard
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.64%) SCCM
7 1 (1.82%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.82%) Nessus
7 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.82%) Puppet
7 1 (1.82%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) WSO2
3 5 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Splunk
4 4 (7.27%) Databricks
5 3 (5.45%) Cisco
5 3 (5.45%) Informatica
5 3 (5.45%) Xamarin
6 2 (3.64%) Checkmarx
6 2 (3.64%) Dell
6 2 (3.64%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 2 (3.64%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.82%) Citrix
7 1 (1.82%) Planview
7 1 (1.82%) Veracode