Azure Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure 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 6 7 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 71 100 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.60% 12.94% 19.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.28% 47.17% 50.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 72 134
10th Percentile £239 £251 £341
25th Percentile £400 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -19.05% +1.20%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £650
90th Percentile £620 £649 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.48 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £37.48 -

All Cloud 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 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (19.72%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.49%) Power Platform
4 10 (14.08%) AWS
5 9 (12.68%) GCP
6 7 (9.86%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (7.04%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.04%) SaaS
8 4 (5.63%) IaaS
8 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
8 4 (5.63%) PaaS
8 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) DSL
3 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.04%) Power BI
3 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.82%) Metadata
4 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.41%) Big Data
5 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.41%) GIS
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.41%) Power Query
5 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) ERwin
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.41%) Pa11y
2 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Retail
5 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
6 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Architect
2 10 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Consultant
4 6 (8.45%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.63%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) IT Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Junior
6 4 (5.63%) Junior Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Support Officer
7 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) .NET
1 4 (5.63%) Middleware
2 1 (1.41%) ADO
2 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.41%) FHIR
2 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (1.41%) LDAP
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.41%) NumPy
2 1 (1.41%) OAuth
2 1 (1.41%) Pandas
2 1 (1.41%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) RESTful
2 1 (1.41%) SAML
2 1 (1.41%) SOAP
2 1 (1.41%) Spring
2 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.82%) PMI
1 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
1 2 (2.82%) Replication
1 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.41%) NHS
2 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.41%) PKI
2 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.41%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) Windows
2 7 (9.86%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.63%) Android
4 2 (2.82%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) DevOps
2 20 (28.17%) Migration
2 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 15 (21.13%) Agile
5 10 (14.08%) Data Integration
5 10 (14.08%) ITIL
6 9 (12.68%) Customer Service
7 8 (11.27%) ERP
8 7 (9.86%) Cloud Security
8 7 (9.86%) ETL
9 6 (8.45%) Analytics
9 6 (8.45%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.45%) Business Continuity
9 6 (8.45%) Data Governance
9 6 (8.45%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.45%) Project Management
9 6 (8.45%) TOGAF
10 5 (7.04%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) Python
2 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.04%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) C#
4 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.41%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.41%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.41%) R
5 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.63%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.82%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.82%) CISSP
5 2 (2.82%) MCP
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CEH
6 1 (1.41%) CISA
6 1 (1.41%) CISM
6 1 (1.41%) CITP
6 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) GIAC
6 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) PMO
3 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.41%) QA
4 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.04%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.82%) SCCM
5 1 (1.41%) Ansible
5 1 (1.41%) Kibana
5 1 (1.41%) logstash
5 1 (1.41%) QRadar
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (57.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) Databricks
3 3 (4.23%) Google
3 3 (4.23%) Informatica
4 2 (2.82%) Apple
4 2 (2.82%) Fujitsu
4 2 (2.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.41%) Alibaba
5 1 (1.41%) IBM
5 1 (1.41%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.41%) Snow
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.41%) VMware