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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure 108 73 108
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.04% 14.20% 14.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.76% 41.01% 52.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 68 81
10th Percentile £350 £299 £285
25th Percentile £413 £412 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% -18.60%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £624 £638 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.45%
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 286 178 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.88% 34.63% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 149 157
10th Percentile £313 £200 £250
25th Percentile £413 £388 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £440
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +10.23% -12.00%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £588
90th Percentile £639 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.39% +11.11% -10.89%
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 10 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 (18.52%) Confluence
2 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.93%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.89%) AWS
2 21 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (12.96%) GCP
3 14 (12.96%) GitHub
3 14 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (9.26%) Entra ID
7 9 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (6.48%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.48%) Azure API Management
9 7 (6.48%) Serverless
10 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.63%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) Firewall
1 11 (10.19%) VPN
2 5 (4.63%) Network Security
3 4 (3.70%) DHCP
3 4 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.33%) Power BI
3 6 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.78%) Power Query
6 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (28.70%) Git
2 23 (21.30%) JIRA
3 18 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.67%) JMeter
3 18 (16.67%) JUnit
4 15 (13.89%) Selenium
5 14 (12.96%) Cucumber
6 13 (12.04%) WebDriver
7 8 (7.41%) GitLab
8 4 (3.70%) DbUnit
8 4 (3.70%) jMock
8 4 (3.70%) Maven
8 4 (3.70%) Mockito
8 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.93%) Postman
10 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.93%) Serenity BDD
General
1 46 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Finance
6 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Senior
2 14 (12.96%) Developer
3 13 (12.04%) Analyst
4 12 (11.11%) Tester
5 11 (10.19%) Architect
6 9 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 7 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Lead
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Tester
8 6 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.56%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) IT Support
9 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.74%) Spring
2 13 (12.04%) WireMock
3 6 (5.56%) Node.js
3 6 (5.56%) REST
4 5 (4.63%) RESTful
4 5 (4.63%) Web Services
5 4 (3.70%) .NET
5 4 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.70%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.70%) JPA
5 4 (3.70%) PowerMock
5 4 (3.70%) SOAP
5 4 (3.70%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.70%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Spring Integration
6 3 (2.78%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.85%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.74%) Windows
2 8 (7.41%) Linux
3 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.63%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 40 (37.04%) DevOps
3 36 (33.33%) Agile
4 26 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (23.15%) Test Automation
6 21 (19.44%) Microservices
6 21 (19.44%) Test Strategy
7 19 (17.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.59%) TDD
8 17 (15.74%) BDD
8 17 (15.74%) Validation
9 16 (14.81%) Analytics
10 15 (13.89%) Load Testing
10 15 (13.89%) Observability
11 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
11 14 (12.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (12.04%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (11.11%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.19%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.67%) Python
2 16 (14.81%) SQL
3 9 (8.33%) Java
4 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.56%) C#
6 4 (3.70%) Bicep
6 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.78%) R
8 2 (1.85%) Bash
8 2 (1.85%) Go
8 2 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.85%) VB
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Degree
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) NIST
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.37%) Docker
2 13 (12.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.70%) Postfix
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.59%) Grafana
3 18 (16.67%) Terraform
4 14 (12.96%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (5.56%) Ansible
7 2 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.85%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.85%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 43 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle
4 3 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.85%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (1.85%) Databricks
5 2 (1.85%) Dell
5 2 (1.85%) HP
5 2 (1.85%) Isilon
5 2 (1.85%) Northgate
5 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) Veeam
6 1 (0.93%) VMware