Azure Certification Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Certification
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 62 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 4 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.65% 1.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 2.24% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £377 -
25th Percentile £413 £380 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -16.67% +3.23%
75th Percentile £565 £600 -
90th Percentile £609 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £615 £425
% change year-on-year -21.45% +44.71% -24.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Certification in Birmingham

Azure Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Certification in Birmingham

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Certification in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Certification in Birmingham

Azure Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) SABSA
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) GIAC
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft