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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 123 50 93
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 13.14% 8.83% 12.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.14% 32.26% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 41 70
10th Percentile £309 £106 £312
25th Percentile £406 £280 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £538 £600
90th Percentile £683 £613 £657
West Midlands median daily rate £496 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.48% -4.55% +10.00%

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 299 155 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.94% 27.39% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 111 184
10th Percentile £312 £200 £237
25th Percentile £400 £340 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £617
90th Percentile £688 £625 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £57.00 - £14.03
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £15.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +161.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%

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 19 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
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
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 32 (26.02%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (13.82%) Entra ID
3 17 (13.82%) GCP
4 15 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (12.20%) Power Platform
5 13 (10.57%) GitHub
5 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.69%) OneDrive
8 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.07%) SaaS
10 4 (3.25%) AWS KMS
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 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%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.63%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.76%) Power BI
2 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.44%) Tableau
7 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.63%) Looker
7 2 (1.63%) Metadata
7 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (21.14%) Git
2 24 (19.51%) JIRA
3 19 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.45%) JMeter
3 19 (15.45%) JUnit
4 15 (12.20%) Cucumber
4 15 (12.20%) Selenium
5 14 (11.38%) WebDriver
6 13 (10.57%) GitLab
7 4 (3.25%) DbUnit
7 4 (3.25%) jMock
7 4 (3.25%) Maven
7 4 (3.25%) Mockito
7 4 (3.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.63%) Postman
8 2 (1.63%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Finance
7 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.63%) Law
7 2 (1.63%) Legal
7 2 (1.63%) Publishing
7 2 (1.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (16.26%) 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%) Automation Tester
5 9 (7.32%) Developer
6 8 (6.50%) Architect
6 8 (6.50%) Lead
6 8 (6.50%) Security Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) SharePoint Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (5.69%) Senior Tester
8 6 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) IT Support
9 5 (4.07%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.63%) Spring
2 14 (11.38%) WireMock
3 9 (7.32%) REST
4 6 (4.88%) Node.js
5 5 (4.07%) RESTful
6 4 (3.25%) .NET
6 4 (3.25%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (3.25%) ADO
6 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.25%) JPA
6 4 (3.25%) PowerMock
6 4 (3.25%) SOAP
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Batch
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (3.25%) Spring Integration
6 4 (3.25%) Web Services
7 3 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (6.50%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.44%) Blog
8 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.81%) CMDB
10 1 (0.81%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.81%) Replication
10 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 50 (40.65%) DevOps
2 46 (37.40%) CI/CD
3 33 (26.83%) Agile
4 28 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (20.33%) Test Automation
6 22 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (17.07%) Microservices
7 21 (17.07%) Migration
7 21 (17.07%) Observability
7 21 (17.07%) Test Strategy
8 20 (16.26%) TDD
9 19 (15.45%) Validation
10 18 (14.63%) BDD
11 15 (12.20%) Load Testing
12 14 (11.38%) Analytics
12 14 (11.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 14 (11.38%) Mentoring
12 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.70%) Python
2 22 (17.89%) SQL
3 13 (10.57%) Java
4 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.69%) Bicep
6 5 (4.07%) C#
7 4 (3.25%) Bash
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.63%) VB
9 1 (0.81%) Go
9 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.07%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.44%) CISSP
6 3 (2.44%) Degree
7 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.63%) CCNP
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.81%) CISM
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.88%) SLA
2 5 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 4 (3.25%) NIST
4 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.81%) NCSC
5 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 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
2 22 (17.89%) Terraform
3 21 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 19 (15.45%) Prometheus
5 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (4.88%) Ansible
7 3 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.63%) Check_MK
8 2 (1.63%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.81%) Argo
9 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.25%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.25%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle
3 4 (3.25%) Palo Alto
3 4 (3.25%) VMware
4 3 (2.44%) Arista
4 3 (2.44%) Aruba
4 3 (2.44%) Cisco
4 3 (2.44%) Databricks
4 3 (2.44%) F5
4 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.44%) Remedy
4 3 (2.44%) Splunk
4 3 (2.44%) Veeam
5 2 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.63%) Sparx