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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure 63 84 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 17.21% 13.91% 12.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.46% 52.17% 47.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 91
10th Percentile £143 £202 £363
25th Percentile £356 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.67% +21.11%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £606
90th Percentile £667 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £15.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £53.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +15.61% +7.00%

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 130 161 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.52% 26.66% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 132 184
10th Percentile £143 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £273 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £575
90th Percentile £570 £674 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +12.50% -39.53%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £16.78
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £20.20
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 18 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 18 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 +3 57 £475 -14.80% 63
Dyfed +3 2 £725 +7.41% 4
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 (7.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (19.05%) GitHub
3 11 (17.46%) AWS
4 7 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (9.52%) Azure AKS
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.35%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.17%) GCP
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.59%) IaaS
10 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.29%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) VPN
3 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.17%) LAN
4 2 (3.17%) WLAN
5 1 (1.59%) DHCP
5 1 (1.59%) DNS
5 1 (1.59%) Network Security
5 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) MySQL
2 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.35%) Power Query
3 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.76%) PowerCenter
4 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 3 (4.76%) GitLab
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.76%) Postman
2 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (3.17%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.17%) JMeter
3 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.59%) AppScan
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) Subversion
4 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.35%) Finance
3 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Digital Economy
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) IT Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Developer
3 9 (14.29%) IT Support
3 9 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) DBA
4 7 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 6 (9.52%) Migration Manager
5 6 (9.52%) Migration Project Manager
6 5 (7.94%) Administrator
6 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (6.35%) WSO2 Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Administrator
8 3 (4.76%) Data Migration Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (4.76%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.76%) Laravel
3 3 (4.76%) Middleware
3 3 (4.76%) React
3 3 (4.76%) Vue
4 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.59%) ADO
5 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.59%) Xamarin.iOS
5 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Public Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) NHS
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.22%) Windows
2 12 (19.05%) Linux
3 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.35%) AIX
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.59%) Android
7 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (28.57%) DevOps
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 12 (19.05%) Migration
5 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
5 8 (12.70%) Project Management
5 8 (12.70%) Scrum
6 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.11%) SDLC
7 6 (9.52%) API Management
7 6 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.94%) Change Control
9 4 (6.35%) Analytics
9 4 (6.35%) Decision-Making
9 4 (6.35%) Mobile Device Management
10 3 (4.76%) CRM
10 3 (4.76%) Data Analytics
10 3 (4.76%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) PHP
3 6 (9.52%) C#
4 5 (7.94%) Python
5 4 (6.35%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.17%) Java
7 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.17%) SANS
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.59%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.11%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Ansible
3 6 (9.52%) Argo
3 6 (9.52%) Grafana
3 6 (9.52%) Nagios
4 5 (7.94%) Graylog
4 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.76%) Data Guard
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (3.17%) SCCM
7 1 (1.59%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.59%) Nessus
7 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 23 (36.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Atlassian
2 6 (9.52%) WSO2
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.35%) Databricks
4 4 (6.35%) VMware
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco
5 3 (4.76%) Informatica
6 2 (3.17%) Checkmarx
6 2 (3.17%) Dell
6 2 (3.17%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.17%) WatchGuard
6 2 (3.17%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix
7 1 (1.59%) Planview
7 1 (1.59%) Qualys
7 1 (1.59%) Veracode
7 1 (1.59%) Zscaler