Azure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 57 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 1 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.15% 1.70% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 1.79% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 8
10th Percentile - £375 £398
25th Percentile £413 £466 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £438
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +16.94% -7.74%
75th Percentile £438 £569 £528
90th Percentile - £614 £549
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £593 £563
% change year-on-year -15.61% +5.33% +11.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 587 671 735
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 95.18% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 434 500
10th Percentile £243 £200 £260
25th Percentile £363 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £555 £605 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 21
10th Percentile - £15.38 £14.54
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £24.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £26.51 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.12 £56.85 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £22.20
% change year-on-year +11.78% +1.37% +25.25%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
1 1 (100.00%) Zapier

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint