Azure Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 232 446 563
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.05% 18.74% 15.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.11% 48.48% 45.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 309 445
10th Percentile £276 £350 £364
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -1.54% +15.11%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £49.14
% change year-on-year -36.36% +11.94% +2.90%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 920 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.05% 38.66% 34.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 649 901
10th Percentile £213 £300 £220
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £505 £493
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +2.43% +15.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £690 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham -5 100 £425 -19.05% 111
Warwickshire 0 48 £594 +13.05% 31
Coventry +1 44 £570 +18.75% 19
Staffordshire -3 4 £375 -25.00% 20
Dudley 0 3 £525 +5.00% 2
Worcestershire -10 3 £500 +5.26% 17
West Bromwich +1 2 £331 -11.67% 1
Shropshire +22 1 £523 +20.81% 8
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 29 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 20 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Drupal
5 2 (0.86%) IIS
5 2 (0.86%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (1.29%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 61 (26.29%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 35 (15.09%) AWS
5 22 (9.48%) Entra ID
6 18 (7.76%) Serverless
7 17 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (6.90%) GCP
9 15 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (6.47%) Azure Functions
10 14 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (6.03%) OneDrive
10 14 (6.03%) PaaS
10 14 (6.03%) PowerApps
11 13 (5.60%) Power Automate
12 10 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.45%) Azure App Service
13 8 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.21%) Firewall
2 24 (10.34%) DNS
3 20 (8.62%) Network Security
4 19 (8.19%) VPN
5 9 (3.88%) SAN
6 8 (3.45%) LAN
6 8 (3.45%) NetScaler
6 8 (3.45%) WAN
7 6 (2.59%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.16%) SSL
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.29%) VLAN
9 3 (1.29%) VoIP
9 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.86%) DMZ
10 2 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.86%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.86%) NAS
10 2 (0.86%) Wireless
11 1 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.36%) Power BI
2 25 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.02%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.72%) Big Data
6 4 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.86%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.86%) Metadata
8 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.86%) OLAP
8 2 (0.86%) OLTP
9 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.43%) Flink
9 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.33%) Git
2 11 (4.74%) JIRA
3 6 (2.59%) Selenium
4 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.72%) NUnit
5 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.29%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.29%) Hudson
6 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.29%) Subversion
7 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.86%) kappa
7 2 (0.86%) Moq
8 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 56 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.50%) Finance
3 22 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.31%) Retail
6 7 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) German Language
10 2 (0.86%) Legal
10 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (17.24%) Architect
2 36 (15.52%) Developer
3 26 (11.21%) Analyst
4 19 (8.19%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (7.33%) Senior
6 15 (6.47%) Azure Architect
7 14 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.74%) Administrator
10 10 (4.31%) Lead
10 10 (4.31%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Azure Developer
11 9 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.45%) Consultant
12 8 (3.45%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.45%) SharePoint Administrator
13 7 (3.02%) Azure Administrator
13 7 (3.02%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.05%) .NET
2 7 (3.02%) AngularJS
2 7 (3.02%) OAuth
3 6 (2.59%) ADO
3 6 (2.59%) SAML
4 5 (2.16%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.16%) RESTful
5 4 (1.72%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.72%) JSON
5 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.29%) Flask
6 3 (1.29%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.29%) Pandas
6 3 (1.29%) PySpark
6 3 (1.29%) React Native
6 3 (1.29%) YAML
7 2 (0.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.86%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.86%) Kafka
7 2 (0.86%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.31%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.31%) Product Ownership
1 10 (4.31%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.45%) PKI
3 7 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.59%) Digital Signage
4 6 (2.59%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (2.59%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.72%) Clustering
6 4 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.72%) Replication
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.28%) Windows
2 26 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 17 (7.33%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (4.31%) Linux
6 9 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.72%) Android
9 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.86%) VMS
11 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.43%) Unix
11 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.31%) DevOps
2 51 (21.98%) Agile
3 34 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (11.64%) CI/CD
6 26 (11.21%) ITIL
7 24 (10.34%) Analytics
8 21 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (9.05%) Migration
9 18 (7.76%) ETL
10 17 (7.33%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.90%) Cloud Security
11 16 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (6.90%) Machine Learning
12 15 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (6.03%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.03%) Scrum
14 13 (5.60%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.55%) SQL
2 39 (16.81%) PowerShell
3 18 (7.76%) Python
4 17 (7.33%) C#
5 8 (3.45%) Bicep
6 7 (3.02%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.59%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.72%) Java
8 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.86%) Bash
9 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.43%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (11.21%) Degree
2 20 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.47%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.88%) CISSP
7 8 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.59%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.72%) ISEB
12 3 (1.29%) CCNA
12 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.29%) PMP
13 2 (0.86%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.76%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (18.97%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.74%) Docker
5 10 (4.31%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (3.45%) XenApp
7 8 (3.45%) XenDesktop
8 4 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.72%) vSphere
9 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (7.33%) Terraform
3 16 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (6.47%) SCCM
5 12 (5.17%) Ansible
6 10 (4.31%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.16%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.29%) Autotask
8 3 (1.29%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.86%) Kibana
9 2 (0.86%) logstash
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
10 1 (0.43%) linkerd
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
10 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) SCOM
10 1 (0.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 85 (36.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.76%) VMware
3 15 (6.47%) Citrix
4 11 (4.74%) Databricks
4 11 (4.74%) Oracle
5 10 (4.31%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.88%) NetApp
7 6 (2.59%) F5
8 5 (2.16%) Cisco
8 5 (2.16%) Informatica
8 5 (2.16%) New Relic
8 5 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.72%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.72%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.29%) Apple
10 3 (1.29%) HP
10 3 (1.29%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.29%) SAP