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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure 125 50 70
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.94% 8.65% 9.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.99% 32.47% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 33 52
10th Percentile £308 £106 £350
25th Percentile £405 £263 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £538 £577
90th Percentile £688 £610 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.29% +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 266 154 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.65% 26.64% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 102 180
10th Percentile £281 £227 £213
25th Percentile £388 £361 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £500 £625
90th Percentile £700 £613 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.05% +5.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £38.09 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.22 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.76% +110.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.47 £39.38
90th Percentile - £58.16 £48.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £30.88
% change year-on-year -1.28% +11.51% +66.89%

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 24 August 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 19 (15.20%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.80%) Confluence
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.40%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.60%) Apache
5 2 (1.60%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (31.20%) AWS
2 30 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.60%) Entra ID
4 20 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
6 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.80%) GCP
6 11 (8.80%) OneDrive
7 9 (7.20%) GitHub
7 9 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (4.80%) SaaS
9 5 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.20%) IaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.20%) Serverless
11 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) VPN
2 10 (8.00%) DHCP
2 10 (8.00%) DNS
3 9 (7.20%) Firewall
4 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.00%) WAN
5 4 (3.20%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.40%) BGP
6 3 (2.40%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.40%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (2.40%) OSPF
6 3 (2.40%) SAN
6 3 (2.40%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.40%) WLAN
7 2 (1.60%) LAN
7 2 (1.60%) NAS
7 2 (1.60%) Network Security
7 2 (1.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) Power BI
2 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.20%) DataStage
6 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.40%) GIS
6 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.60%) Looker
7 2 (1.60%) Metadata
7 2 (1.60%) Tableau
8 1 (0.80%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.80%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Git
2 14 (11.20%) JIRA
3 11 (8.80%) GitLab
4 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (8.00%) JMeter
5 8 (6.40%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.40%) JUnit
5 8 (6.40%) Selenium
5 8 (6.40%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.60%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.80%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.80%) Postman
7 1 (0.80%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Banking
5 7 (5.60%) Finance
6 4 (3.20%) Legal
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Military
8 2 (1.60%) Publishing
8 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (12.80%) Senior
2 15 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Analyst
3 13 (10.40%) Architect
4 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Security Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) SharePoint Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Tester
8 5 (4.00%) Automation Tester
8 5 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) IT Support
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Automation Tester
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Tester
8 5 (4.00%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.60%) Terraform
2 8 (6.40%) Spring
2 8 (6.40%) WireMock
3 7 (5.60%) REST
4 3 (2.40%) .NET
4 3 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.60%) ADO
5 2 (1.60%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.60%) Node.js
5 2 (1.60%) React
5 2 (1.60%) React Native
5 2 (1.60%) YAML
6 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.80%) CSS
6 1 (0.80%) Django
6 1 (0.80%) HTML
6 1 (0.80%) JSON
6 1 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.80%) RESTful
6 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.80%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Blog
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Windows 10
3 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) Linux
5 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.00%) DevOps
2 35 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (20.00%) Migration
4 22 (17.60%) Agile
5 21 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (13.60%) Observability
7 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (12.80%) Test Automation
9 14 (11.20%) Analytics
9 14 (11.20%) ITSM
10 13 (10.40%) Data Modelling
10 13 (10.40%) ETL
10 13 (10.40%) Test Strategy
10 13 (10.40%) Validation
11 12 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (9.60%) Data Engineering
11 12 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (8.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.80%) Python
2 23 (18.40%) SQL
3 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.60%) Bicep
5 6 (4.80%) Java
6 5 (4.00%) Bash
6 5 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) Go
8 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.20%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.40%) A+ Certification
4 3 (2.40%) CISSP
4 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.60%) CCNP
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.80%) CISM
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) NIST
2 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.00%) QA
4 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.20%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.80%) GRC
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.60%) Docker
3 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.40%) Grafana
3 13 (10.40%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.80%) Ansible
5 4 (3.20%) SCCM
6 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.60%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.80%) Argo
8 1 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (41.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.60%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco
4 4 (3.20%) Cognos
4 4 (3.20%) Databricks
4 4 (3.20%) IBM
4 4 (3.20%) Netezza
4 4 (3.20%) VMware
5 3 (2.40%) Arista
5 3 (2.40%) Aruba
5 3 (2.40%) F5
5 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.40%) Remedy
5 3 (2.40%) Splunk
5 3 (2.40%) Veeam
6 2 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.60%) Sparx