Azure Blueprints Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Blueprints
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure Blueprints skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Blueprints 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

Azure Blueprints falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 119 160 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.48% 22.35% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 94 116
10th Percentile £360 £363 £319
25th Percentile £468 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% -12.84%
75th Percentile £594 £672 £600
90th Percentile £688 £746 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £516 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.23% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%

Azure Blueprints
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Blueprints relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure Blueprints job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure Blueprints
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Blueprints.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Blueprints

Azure Blueprints
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft