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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 59 72 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.75% 10.01% 16.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 29.03% 51.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 106
10th Percentile £106 £363 £319
25th Percentile £272 £444 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £573 £649
90th Percentile £620 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +207.69% -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £60.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +224.32% -58.89%

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 183 248 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.25% 34.49% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 185 197
10th Percentile £200 £210 £283
25th Percentile £370 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £594 £600
90th Percentile £637 £703 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £489 £475
% change year-on-year +4.24% +2.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £38.09 £17.58 -
25th Percentile £41.22 £19.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £47.38 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% +98.72% -32.36%
75th Percentile £54.47 £56.25 £19.75
90th Percentile £58.16 £58.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (16.95%) Confluence
2 9 (15.25%) nginx
3 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.39%) Trello
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (30.51%) AWS
3 12 (20.34%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (15.25%) AWS KMS
5 9 (15.25%) Route 53
5 9 (15.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (11.86%) Power Platform
7 7 (11.86%) SaaS
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (10.17%) GCP
9 5 (8.47%) OneDrive
10 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.42%) Firewall
2 11 (18.64%) DNS
3 9 (15.25%) FTP
3 9 (15.25%) HTTP
3 9 (15.25%) IMAP
3 9 (15.25%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (15.25%) SMTP
3 9 (15.25%) SSH
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security
5 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.39%) WAN
5 2 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.69%) DHCP
6 1 (1.69%) DSL
6 1 (1.69%) LAN
6 1 (1.69%) MPLS
6 1 (1.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.17%) Power BI
4 3 (5.08%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) JIRA
2 10 (16.95%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.25%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.25%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Finance
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Architect
2 10 (16.95%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (15.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (10.17%) Support Officer
6 5 (8.47%) Business Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) TOGAF Architect
8 3 (5.08%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) LDAP
2 4 (6.78%) .NET
3 3 (5.08%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) React
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.69%) CSS
5 1 (1.69%) EDI
5 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.69%) Laravel
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) PySpark
5 1 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.69%) Vue
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Replication
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Windows
2 13 (22.03%) Linux
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (15.25%) Ubuntu
3 9 (15.25%) VMS
4 6 (10.17%) Android
5 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) DevOps
2 15 (25.42%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.03%) ITIL
4 12 (20.34%) Cloud Security
5 11 (18.64%) Agile
5 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.95%) Change Management
6 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (15.25%) Configuration Management
7 9 (15.25%) Customer Service
7 9 (15.25%) Patch Management
7 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.17%) Analytics
9 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.17%) Migration
10 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) SQL
2 14 (23.73%) Python
3 13 (22.03%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.25%) Groovy
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) C#
7 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) Degree
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) AWS Certification
4 9 (15.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.69%) CEH
6 1 (1.69%) CISA
6 1 (1.69%) CISM
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.69%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 9 (15.25%) DFS Replication
2 9 (15.25%) Dovecot
2 9 (15.25%) Postfix
2 9 (15.25%) Squid
3 8 (13.56%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.69%) Snort
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Terraform
2 10 (16.95%) Grafana
2 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
3 9 (15.25%) Nessus
3 9 (15.25%) Proxmox
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.69%) Ansible
6 1 (1.69%) Kibana
6 1 (1.69%) logstash
6 1 (1.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (45.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) ServiceNow
3 9 (15.25%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.39%) Cisco
5 2 (3.39%) Citrix
5 2 (3.39%) F5
5 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.69%) BT
6 1 (1.69%) CenturyLink
6 1 (1.69%) Commvault
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Intapp
6 1 (1.69%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.69%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.69%) QAD
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) VMware
80 Azure jobs in Birmingham