Azure Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 123 47 82
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.24% 8.51% 11.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.84% 31.76% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 38 65
10th Percentile £308 £106 £328
25th Percentile £401 £267 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £595 £519 £594
90th Percentile £684 £604 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 294 148 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.65% 26.81% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 106 183
10th Percentile £308 £200 £250
25th Percentile £397 £316 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £607
90th Percentile £688 £622 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £57.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £14.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +267.19% -17.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £42.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.98 £16.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% +118.63% -14.67%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

Azure
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure

Azure
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 20 (16.26%) Confluence
2 18 (14.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.63%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.40%) AWS
2 33 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (13.82%) Entra ID
3 17 (13.82%) GCP
4 16 (13.01%) Power Platform
5 14 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.57%) GitHub
6 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.69%) OneDrive
9 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.07%) SaaS
11 4 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.25%) IaaS
11 4 (3.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) Firewall
1 8 (6.50%) VPN
2 7 (5.69%) DHCP
2 7 (5.69%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) WAN
4 3 (2.44%) BGP
4 3 (2.44%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.44%) OSPF
4 3 (2.44%) SAN
4 3 (2.44%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.44%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.44%) WLAN
5 2 (1.63%) NAS
5 2 (1.63%) Network Security
5 2 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.63%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.57%) Power BI
3 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.88%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.44%) Tableau
8 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.63%) Looker
8 2 (1.63%) Metadata
9 1 (0.81%) DataStage
9 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (20.33%) Git
2 24 (19.51%) JIRA
3 19 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.45%) JUnit
4 18 (14.63%) JMeter
5 15 (12.20%) Cucumber
5 15 (12.20%) Selenium
6 14 (11.38%) WebDriver
7 13 (10.57%) GitLab
8 4 (3.25%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.25%) jMock
8 4 (3.25%) Maven
8 4 (3.25%) Mockito
8 4 (3.25%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.63%) Postman
9 2 (1.63%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Banking
4 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.25%) Finance
6 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Law
6 2 (1.63%) Legal
6 2 (1.63%) Publishing
6 2 (1.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (15.45%) Senior
2 14 (11.38%) Analyst
2 14 (11.38%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (10.57%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.76%) Tester
5 9 (7.32%) Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Automation Tester
6 8 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Security Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) SharePoint Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Developer
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Lead
7 7 (5.69%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (5.69%) Senior Tester
8 6 (4.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) IT Support
9 5 (4.07%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.63%) Spring
2 14 (11.38%) WireMock
3 10 (8.13%) REST
4 6 (4.88%) Node.js
5 4 (3.25%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.25%) JPA
5 4 (3.25%) PowerMock
5 4 (3.25%) SOAP
5 4 (3.25%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.25%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Spring Integration
5 4 (3.25%) Web Services
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
6 3 (2.44%) ADO
6 3 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.44%) RESTful
7 2 (1.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.44%) Blog
7 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.20%) Windows
2 7 (5.69%) Linux
3 5 (4.07%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.07%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.46%) DevOps
2 47 (38.21%) CI/CD
3 32 (26.02%) Agile
4 26 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (19.51%) Test Automation
6 22 (17.89%) Migration
6 22 (17.89%) Observability
6 22 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (16.26%) Microservices
8 20 (16.26%) Test Strategy
9 19 (15.45%) TDD
9 19 (15.45%) Validation
10 17 (13.82%) BDD
11 15 (12.20%) Load Testing
12 14 (11.38%) Analytics
12 14 (11.38%) Data Engineering
12 14 (11.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (10.57%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.51%) Python
2 20 (16.26%) SQL
3 12 (9.76%) Java
4 8 (6.50%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.69%) Bicep
6 5 (4.07%) C#
7 4 (3.25%) Bash
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.25%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.44%) CISSP
5 3 (2.44%) Degree
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.63%) CCNP
6 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.81%) CISM
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.07%) QA
2 5 (4.07%) SLA
3 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.44%) NIST
5 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (17.89%) Docker
2 15 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.25%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.25%) Postfix
3 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.63%) vSphere
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (18.70%) Grafana
1 23 (18.70%) Terraform
2 21 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.45%) Prometheus
4 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.88%) Ansible
6 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.63%) Check_MK
7 2 (1.63%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (37.40%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.25%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.25%) Cisco
4 4 (3.25%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.25%) VMware
5 3 (2.44%) Arista
5 3 (2.44%) Aruba
5 3 (2.44%) Databricks
5 3 (2.44%) F5
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Remedy
5 3 (2.44%) Splunk
5 3 (2.44%) Veeam
6 2 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.63%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.63%) Sparx