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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 106 73 104
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.66% 13.96% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.59% 41.71% 50.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 69 78
10th Percentile £350 £263 £278
25th Percentile £413 £410 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +14.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £624 £638 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.46
25th Percentile £75.75 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £37.48
75th Percentile £77.25 - £46.24
90th Percentile - - £51.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.50 £32.50 £37.48
% change year-on-year +98.46% -13.28% +111.48%

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 282 175 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.02% 33.46% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 147 157
10th Percentile £313 £190 £233
25th Percentile £413 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +8.18% -16.19%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £588
90th Percentile £644 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £30.08 - £14.05
25th Percentile £37.69 £56.88 £18.49
Median hourly rate £50.75 £58.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +125.96% +28.46%
75th Percentile £64.19 £60.63 £33.63
90th Percentile £72.03 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year +37.89% -30.27% +46.73%

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 17 April 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 (18.87%) Confluence
2 6 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.94%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.94%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.89%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.94%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.68%) AWS
2 21 (19.81%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (13.21%) GCP
3 14 (13.21%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.26%) GitHub
5 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.49%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.60%) Azure API Management
9 7 (6.60%) Serverless
10 6 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.43%) Firewall
1 10 (9.43%) VPN
2 5 (4.72%) Network Security
3 4 (3.77%) DHCP
3 4 (3.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.49%) Power BI
3 6 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.83%) Power Query
6 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.94%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (27.36%) Git
2 23 (21.70%) JIRA
3 18 (16.98%) JMeter
3 18 (16.98%) JUnit
4 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
5 15 (14.15%) Selenium
6 14 (13.21%) Cucumber
7 13 (12.26%) WebDriver
8 8 (7.55%) GitLab
9 4 (3.77%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.77%) jMock
9 4 (3.77%) Maven
9 4 (3.77%) Mockito
9 4 (3.77%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.94%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.94%) Postman
11 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.94%) Serenity BDD
General
1 45 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Finance
6 5 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Law
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Publishing
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (15.09%) Senior
2 14 (13.21%) Developer
3 13 (12.26%) Analyst
4 12 (11.32%) Tester
5 10 (9.43%) Architect
6 9 (8.49%) Automation Tester
7 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Tester
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Lead
8 6 (5.66%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) IT Support
9 5 (4.72%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) Spring
2 13 (12.26%) WireMock
3 6 (5.66%) Node.js
3 6 (5.66%) REST
4 5 (4.72%) RESTful
5 4 (3.77%) .NET
5 4 (3.77%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.77%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.77%) JPA
5 4 (3.77%) PowerMock
5 4 (3.77%) SOAP
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) Spring Integration
5 4 (3.77%) Web Services
6 3 (2.83%) ADO
6 3 (2.83%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.43%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.83%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.89%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.04%) Windows
2 8 (7.55%) Linux
3 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.72%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.51%) CI/CD
2 39 (36.79%) DevOps
3 35 (33.02%) Agile
4 27 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (23.58%) Test Automation
6 21 (19.81%) Microservices
6 21 (19.81%) Test Strategy
7 19 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.92%) TDD
8 17 (16.04%) BDD
8 17 (16.04%) Validation
9 16 (15.09%) Observability
10 15 (14.15%) Load Testing
11 14 (13.21%) Analytics
11 14 (13.21%) Containerisation
11 14 (13.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (12.26%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (11.32%) Data Modelling
13 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (10.38%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.09%) Python
1 16 (15.09%) SQL
2 9 (8.49%) Java
3 6 (5.66%) C#
3 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.72%) Bicep
5 3 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.83%) R
6 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.89%) VB
7 1 (0.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.94%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) Groovy
7 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.83%) NIST
4 2 (1.89%) GDPR
4 2 (1.89%) QA
4 2 (1.89%) SLA
5 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.77%) Postfix
4 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (18.87%) Grafana
3 17 (16.04%) Terraform
4 15 (14.15%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (5.66%) Ansible
7 2 (1.89%) Argo
7 2 (1.89%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.89%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.77%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.77%) Oracle
4 3 (2.83%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.89%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) Dell
5 2 (1.89%) HP
5 2 (1.89%) Isilon
5 2 (1.89%) Northgate
5 2 (1.89%) SAP
5 2 (1.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe
6 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.94%) Google
6 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.94%) Veeam
6 1 (0.94%) VMware