Azure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Azure Security Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 695 587 655
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.54% 94.22% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 403 425
10th Percentile £219 £190 £238
25th Percentile £400 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £660 £736 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 32
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.80 £13.34
25th Percentile £15.67 £25.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.52 £30.45 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -30.80% +131.58%
75th Percentile £27.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.00 £56.85 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% +3.57% +29.80%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Azure Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Azure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 January 2026, Azure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Azure Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft