Azure Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 100 177 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.05% 19.71% 17.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.62% 50.00% 51.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 134 182
10th Percentile £251 £341 £376
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +2.19% +14.17%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £625
90th Percentile £649 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +7.84% -1.54% +15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.71 - -
Median hourly rate £37.48 - -
75th Percentile £46.24 - -
90th Percentile £51.50 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.48 - -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 210 354 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.42% 39.42% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 255 349
10th Percentile £250 £313 £291
25th Percentile £350 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £456 £505 £493
% change year-on-year -9.65% +2.43% +15.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.54 £11.14
25th Percentile £18.49 £15.98 £11.78
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £12.86
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +57.45% -24.38%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.47 £13.93
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £14.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
% change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 17 (17.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
3 2 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Magento
2 1 (1.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (21.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.00%) Serverless
5 11 (11.00%) Azure Functions
5 11 (11.00%) Entra ID
5 11 (11.00%) Power Automate
6 10 (10.00%) AWS
7 9 (9.00%) PowerApps
8 8 (8.00%) GCP
8 8 (8.00%) OneDrive
8 8 (8.00%) PaaS
9 7 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.00%) Apigee
13 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.00%) GitHub
13 3 (3.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Firewall
1 8 (8.00%) LAN
1 8 (8.00%) WAN
2 7 (7.00%) VPN
3 6 (6.00%) Unified Communications
4 4 (4.00%) DNS
5 3 (3.00%) SAN
5 3 (3.00%) VLAN
5 3 (3.00%) VoIP
5 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.00%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.00%) NAS
6 2 (2.00%) Network Security
6 2 (2.00%) Wireless
7 1 (1.00%) DHCP
7 1 (1.00%) FTP
7 1 (1.00%) IPsec
7 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.00%) Power BI
2 17 (17.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.00%) Flink
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) Hudson
2 2 (2.00%) Selenium
3 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.00%) Finance
2 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.00%) German Language
4 3 (3.00%) Retail
5 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Electronics
6 1 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (13.00%) Architect
1 13 (13.00%) Developer
2 12 (12.00%) Analyst
3 10 (10.00%) Administrator
3 10 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 10 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) SharePoint Administrator
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Administrator
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 6 (6.00%) Senior
6 6 (6.00%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Lead
8 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) .NET
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.00%) JSON
3 2 (2.00%) Kafka
3 2 (2.00%) LAMP
3 2 (2.00%) Middleware
3 2 (2.00%) OAuth
3 2 (2.00%) React Native
3 2 (2.00%) SOAP
3 2 (2.00%) Vue
3 2 (2.00%) XML
4 1 (1.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.00%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.00%) Spring
4 1 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Digital Signage
1 6 (6.00%) PKI
2 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.00%) Clustering
3 4 (4.00%) Replication
4 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.00%) Windows
2 15 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (7.00%) Linux
6 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.00%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.00%) VMS
9 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.00%) DevOps
2 20 (20.00%) Agile
3 17 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (17.00%) ITIL
4 10 (10.00%) CRM
4 10 (10.00%) Migration
5 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (9.00%) Runbook
5 9 (9.00%) Scrum
5 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.00%) Analytics
6 8 (8.00%) Data Science
6 8 (8.00%) Proactive Management
6 8 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (8.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (8.00%) Waterfall
6 8 (8.00%) Web SSO
7 7 (7.00%) Customer Service
7 7 (7.00%) ETL
8 6 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (17.00%) SQL
3 6 (6.00%) C#
4 4 (4.00%) Python
5 2 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
6 1 (1.00%) PHP
6 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.00%) PMP
6 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.00%) ISEB
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) vSphere
6 1 (1.00%) Docker
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (12.00%) SCCM
4 5 (5.00%) SysTrack
5 3 (3.00%) Autotask
5 3 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.00%) HP ALM
5 3 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.00%) Terraform
6 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.00%) Ansible
7 1 (1.00%) Packer
7 1 (1.00%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.00%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) VMware
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle
4 6 (6.00%) Citrix
5 5 (5.00%) New Relic
5 5 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.00%) Apple
6 3 (3.00%) Databricks
6 3 (3.00%) Datto
6 3 (3.00%) HP
6 3 (3.00%) SAP
6 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.00%) Aruba
7 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.00%) ProCurve
7 2 (2.00%) Synology
7 2 (2.00%) Veeam
7 2 (2.00%) Zerto
8 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.00%) SnapLogic