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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 5 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure 76 90 151
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 11.05% 12.59% 18.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 34.88% 52.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 68 115
10th Percentile £391 £363 £350
25th Percentile £475 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £660 £650 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.83
25th Percentile £75.75 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £76.50 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £77.25 - £46.19
90th Percentile - - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £76.50 £46.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +65.41% +150.00% +4.40%

All Cloud 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 228 258 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.14% 36.08% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 193 211
10th Percentile £301 £192 £285
25th Percentile £413 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £581
90th Percentile £665 £713 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £464
% change year-on-year +1.20% +7.82% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £23.40 £25.13 £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 £30.94 £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £41.25 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.74% +29.21%
75th Percentile £56.63 £50.94 £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 £56.38 £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.94 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year -5.32% +82.35% +8.12%

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 16 November 2025.

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 11 (14.47%) Confluence
2 9 (11.84%) nginx
3 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.32%) IIS
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.32%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
2 15 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (18.42%) Power Platform
4 13 (17.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (17.11%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.84%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (11.84%) AWS KMS
7 9 (11.84%) Route 53
7 9 (11.84%) SaaS
7 9 (11.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (7.89%) GCP
8 6 (7.89%) GitHub
9 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (27.63%) Firewall
2 10 (13.16%) DNS
3 9 (11.84%) FTP
3 9 (11.84%) HTTP
3 9 (11.84%) IMAP
3 9 (11.84%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (11.84%) SMTP
3 9 (11.84%) SSH
4 4 (5.26%) Network Security
4 4 (5.26%) VPN
5 3 (3.95%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.95%) WAN
6 2 (2.63%) LAN
6 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.32%) MPLS
7 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Power BI
2 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.58%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.63%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.32%) Big Data
8 1 (1.32%) MySQL
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) JIRA
2 12 (15.79%) Git
2 12 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.84%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.63%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.84%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Finance
5 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.63%) Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.63%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Back Office
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Architect
2 15 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Enterprise Architect
4 9 (11.84%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (11.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Business Architect
6 7 (9.21%) Senior
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Lead
8 5 (6.58%) TOGAF Architect
8 5 (6.58%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) LDAP
2 6 (7.89%) .NET
3 4 (5.26%) REST
4 3 (3.95%) Middleware
5 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.63%) JSON
5 2 (2.63%) React
5 2 (2.63%) RESTful
5 2 (2.63%) XML
5 2 (2.63%) YAML
6 1 (1.32%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.32%) OAuth
6 1 (1.32%) Playwright
6 1 (1.32%) PySpark
6 1 (1.32%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Replication
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Windows
2 13 (17.11%) Linux
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (11.84%) Ubuntu
3 9 (11.84%) VMS
4 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) DevOps
2 24 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.37%) Analytics
3 17 (22.37%) Cloud Security
4 15 (19.74%) Agile
5 14 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (14.47%) Change Management
6 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
7 10 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (11.84%) AI
8 9 (11.84%) Configuration Management
8 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.84%) Patch Management
8 9 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (9.21%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.21%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.89%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) SQL
2 18 (23.68%) Python
3 15 (19.74%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.84%) Groovy
5 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.89%) C#
7 3 (3.95%) Bash
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) Java
8 2 (2.63%) Scala
8 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.32%) Go
9 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) AWS Certification
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Certification
4 13 (17.11%) Degree
5 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) NCSC
3 2 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.32%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (19.74%) Docker
2 9 (11.84%) DFS Replication
2 9 (11.84%) Dovecot
2 9 (11.84%) Postfix
2 9 (11.84%) Squid
3 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.32%) Snort
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Terraform
2 10 (13.16%) Grafana
2 10 (13.16%) Prometheus
3 9 (11.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.84%) Nessus
3 9 (11.84%) Proxmox
4 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (46.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 9 (11.84%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (5.26%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco
6 2 (2.63%) Citrix
6 2 (2.63%) F5
6 2 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) Aruba
7 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.32%) BT
7 1 (1.32%) CenturyLink
7 1 (1.32%) Commvault
7 1 (1.32%) Dell
7 1 (1.32%) Intapp
7 1 (1.32%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.32%) QAD
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.32%) VMware