Azure Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Azure
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 56 67 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 16.57% 14.02% 13.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.86% 49.63% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 51 84
10th Percentile £143 £200 £363
25th Percentile £288 £388 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £613
90th Percentile £654 £625 £663
Wales median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +29.41%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 117 135 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 34.62% 28.24% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 109 154
10th Percentile £143 £157 £277
25th Percentile £313 £250 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £580 £663 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £12.54 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £15.35 £13.90
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +10.39% -36.29%
75th Percentile £12.75 £18.00 £16.57
90th Percentile - £20.40 £16.78
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year +5.57% - -30.23%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 0 53 £500 -4.76% 38
Newport +10 3 £395 -35.51% 3
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 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 11 (19.64%) GitHub
4 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.71%) Azure AKS
4 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.57%) GCP
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (8.93%) VPN
3 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.57%) LAN
4 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 2 (3.57%) WLAN
5 1 (1.79%) 802.11
5 1 (1.79%) BGP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.79%) DHCP
5 1 (1.79%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) HSRP
5 1 (1.79%) IPsec
5 1 (1.79%) OSPF
5 1 (1.79%) SAN
5 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) MySQL
2 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.14%) Power Query
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.36%) PowerCenter
4 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.36%) GitLab
2 3 (5.36%) Postman
3 2 (3.57%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Selenium
3 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.79%) AppScan
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) JMeter
4 1 (1.79%) Subversion
4 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
1 12 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) IT Support
2 9 (16.07%) IT Support Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) DBA
4 6 (10.71%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Administrator
5 5 (8.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Migration Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Migration Project Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (7.14%) WSO2 Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (5.36%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 3 (5.36%) MySQL DBA
7 3 (5.36%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (5.36%) PHP Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.36%) Laravel
3 3 (5.36%) Middleware
3 3 (5.36%) React
3 3 (5.36%) Vue
4 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.79%) ADO
5 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.50%) NHS
3 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Windows
2 12 (21.43%) Linux
3 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.14%) AIX
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.79%) Android
7 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.79%) DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) Agile
4 8 (14.29%) Migration
5 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 7 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (12.50%) Project Management
5 7 (12.50%) Scrum
6 6 (10.71%) API Management
6 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.71%) SDLC
7 5 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (8.93%) Change Control
7 5 (8.93%) Decision-Making
7 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.14%) Analytics
8 4 (7.14%) High Availability
9 3 (5.36%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (5.36%) Data Analytics
9 3 (5.36%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (16.07%) PHP
3 7 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (8.93%) Python
5 4 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) Java
8 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.57%) SANS
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) CCNP
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.86%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.79%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Ansible
3 6 (10.71%) Grafana
3 6 (10.71%) Nagios
4 5 (8.93%) Argo
4 5 (8.93%) Graylog
4 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.36%) Data Guard
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.57%) SCCM
7 1 (1.79%) Cacti
7 1 (1.79%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.79%) Nessus
7 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) WSO2
3 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
3 5 (8.93%) Splunk
3 5 (8.93%) VMware
4 4 (7.14%) Cisco
4 4 (7.14%) Databricks
5 3 (5.36%) Informatica
5 3 (5.36%) Xamarin
6 2 (3.57%) Checkmarx
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.57%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.79%) Citrix
7 1 (1.79%) Planview
7 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.79%) Veracode