Azure Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Azure
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 57 68 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 18.39% 13.63% 13.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.57% 53.13% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 84
10th Percentile £143 £194 £363
25th Percentile £322 £406 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £603
90th Percentile £652 £649 £647
Wales median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +22.22%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 115 128 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 37.10% 25.65% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 104 163
10th Percentile £143 £169 £276
25th Percentile £313 £273 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £549 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +12.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £531 £616 £575
90th Percentile £569 £663 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £12.53 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.56 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £14.25 £12.31
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +15.81% -43.71%
75th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 £16.78
90th Percentile - £16.51 £20.48
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.00
% change year-on-year +8.27% +4.46% -35.72%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in South Wales

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cardiff +1 54 £500 -9.09% 37
Newport +3 3 £425 -32.00% 6
Azure
Wales

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) GitHub
3 6 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (10.53%) Azure AKS
3 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.51%) GCP
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.75%) IaaS
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
2 5 (8.77%) VPN
3 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.51%) LAN
4 2 (3.51%) WLAN
5 1 (1.75%) DHCP
5 1 (1.75%) DNS
5 1 (1.75%) Network Security
5 1 (1.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) MySQL
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.02%) Power Query
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.26%) PowerCenter
4 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.26%) GitLab
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) Postman
2 3 (5.26%) Selenium
3 2 (3.51%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.51%) JMeter
3 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.75%) AppScan
4 1 (1.75%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) Subversion
4 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Digital Economy
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) IT Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Developer
3 9 (15.79%) IT Support
3 9 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) DBA
5 6 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Administrator
6 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Migration Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Migration Project Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (7.02%) WSO2 Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (5.26%) MySQL DBA
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (5.26%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) .NET
2 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.26%) Laravel
3 3 (5.26%) Middleware
3 3 (5.26%) React
3 3 (5.26%) Vue
4 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.75%) ADO
5 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.75%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.28%) NHS
3 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Windows
2 12 (21.05%) Linux
3 8 (14.04%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.02%) AIX
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.75%) Android
7 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (29.82%) DevOps
3 13 (22.81%) Agile
4 8 (14.04%) Migration
5 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.28%) Containerisation
5 7 (12.28%) Project Management
5 7 (12.28%) Scrum
6 6 (10.53%) API Management
6 6 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (10.53%) SDLC
6 6 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (8.77%) Change Control
8 4 (7.02%) Analytics
8 4 (7.02%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.02%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (5.26%) Data Analytics
9 3 (5.26%) E-business
9 3 (5.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) SQL
2 9 (15.79%) PHP
3 6 (10.53%) C#
4 5 (8.77%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) Java
7 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.51%) SANS
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Terraform
3 6 (10.53%) Ansible
3 6 (10.53%) Grafana
3 6 (10.53%) Nagios
4 5 (8.77%) Argo
4 5 (8.77%) Graylog
4 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) Data Guard
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.51%) SCCM
7 1 (1.75%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.75%) Nessus
7 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
7 1 (1.75%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) WSO2
3 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 5 (8.77%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) Databricks
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) Cisco
5 3 (5.26%) Informatica
6 2 (3.51%) Checkmarx
6 2 (3.51%) Dell
6 2 (3.51%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.51%) WatchGuard
6 2 (3.51%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) Planview
7 1 (1.75%) Veracode