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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure 111 71 98
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.94% 13.60% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.22% 41.28% 46.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 65 72
10th Percentile £281 £239 £251
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £476 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +12.00% -19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £606
90th Percentile £633 £620 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £19.95
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.50 - £19.95

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 283 172 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.43% 32.95% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 136 162
10th Percentile £284 £190 £250
25th Percentile £402 £364 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.05% -10.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £33.00 - £14.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.88 £15.53
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +155.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £76.13 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile £76.80 - £35.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.38 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +90.29% -19.71% +11.17%

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 3 May 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 (18.02%) Confluence
2 9 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.90%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) AWS
2 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (12.61%) GCP
3 14 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.71%) GitHub
4 13 (11.71%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 12 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.31%) Azure API Management
7 7 (6.31%) Serverless
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.50%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) VPN
2 11 (9.91%) Firewall
3 6 (5.41%) DHCP
3 6 (5.41%) DNS
4 4 (3.60%) Network Security
5 2 (1.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.90%) BGP
6 1 (0.90%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.90%) LAN
6 1 (0.90%) OSPF
6 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.90%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.21%) Power BI
3 6 (5.41%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.70%) Power Query
6 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (26.13%) Git
2 23 (20.72%) JIRA
3 18 (16.22%) JMeter
3 18 (16.22%) JUnit
4 17 (15.32%) Jenkins
5 15 (13.51%) Selenium
6 14 (12.61%) Cucumber
7 13 (11.71%) WebDriver
8 9 (8.11%) GitLab
9 4 (3.60%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.60%) jMock
9 4 (3.60%) Maven
9 4 (3.60%) Mockito
9 4 (3.60%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.90%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.90%) Postman
11 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.90%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.90%) sqlmap
General
1 46 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Finance
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Publishing
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Senior
2 15 (13.51%) Analyst
3 14 (12.61%) Developer
4 12 (10.81%) Tester
5 10 (9.01%) Architect
6 9 (8.11%) Automation Tester
6 9 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Tester
9 6 (5.41%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) IT Support
9 6 (5.41%) Lead
9 6 (5.41%) Test Leader
10 5 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) Spring
2 13 (11.71%) WireMock
3 6 (5.41%) Node.js
3 6 (5.41%) REST
4 5 (4.50%) RESTful
5 4 (3.60%) .NET
5 4 (3.60%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.60%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.60%) JPA
5 4 (3.60%) PowerMock
5 4 (3.60%) SOAP
5 4 (3.60%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.60%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Spring Integration
5 4 (3.60%) Web Services
6 3 (2.70%) ADO
6 3 (2.70%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.80%) Replication
8 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Windows
2 8 (7.21%) Linux
3 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.44%) CI/CD
2 40 (36.04%) DevOps
3 35 (31.53%) Agile
4 26 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (22.52%) Test Automation
6 21 (18.92%) Microservices
6 21 (18.92%) Test Strategy
7 19 (17.12%) TDD
8 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (15.32%) BDD
9 17 (15.32%) Validation
10 16 (14.41%) Observability
11 15 (13.51%) Load Testing
12 14 (12.61%) Containerisation
12 14 (12.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (11.71%) Analytics
13 13 (11.71%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (10.81%) Data Modelling
15 11 (9.91%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.32%) Python
1 17 (15.32%) SQL
2 9 (8.11%) Java
3 6 (5.41%) C#
3 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.50%) Bicep
5 3 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.70%) R
6 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.80%) VB
7 1 (0.90%) Bash
7 1 (0.90%) Go
7 1 (0.90%) Groovy
7 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.70%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.60%) SLA
3 3 (2.70%) NIST
4 2 (1.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) QA
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (19.82%) Docker
2 15 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.60%) Postfix
4 2 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) Kubernetes
1 21 (18.92%) Terraform
2 20 (18.02%) Grafana
3 15 (13.51%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (6.31%) Ansible
6 2 (1.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.80%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.80%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.60%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.60%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle
4 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.80%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.80%) Databricks
5 2 (1.80%) Dell
5 2 (1.80%) HP
5 2 (1.80%) Isilon
5 2 (1.80%) Northgate
5 2 (1.80%) SAP
5 2 (1.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Aruba
6 1 (0.90%) F5
6 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.90%) Veeam
6 1 (0.90%) VMware