Azure Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 7 1
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 49 91 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.11% 11.70% 18.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.56% 39.57% 52.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 126
10th Percentile £106 £289 £325
25th Percentile £280 £372 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £650
90th Percentile £613 £652 £706
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £19.95 -

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 146 230 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.14% 29.56% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 178 234
10th Percentile £190 £224 £283
25th Percentile £315 £356 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £621
90th Percentile £633 £712 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £16.00 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +161.11% +11.17% +59.87%
75th Percentile £60.63 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile - £32.20 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Birmingham

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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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (26.53%) Entra ID
3 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.24%) AWS
4 6 (12.24%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.16%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.08%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) Network Security
3 2 (4.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.04%) DHCP
4 1 (2.04%) DSL
4 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Metadata
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Big Data
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) GIS
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Power Query
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) ERwin
2 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.04%) Pa11y
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.16%) Finance
5 3 (6.12%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (12.24%) 1st Line Support
1 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (12.24%) Consultant
1 6 (12.24%) Support Officer
2 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Developer
3 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Analyst
4 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
4 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (4.08%) IT Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Lead
5 2 (4.08%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.08%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (4.08%) JSON
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (4.08%) REST
2 2 (4.08%) XML
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) ADO
3 1 (2.04%) FHIR
3 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.08%) Replication
2 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.04%) NHS
2 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Android
3 5 (10.20%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.08%) Linux
4 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) DevOps
2 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) ITIL
5 10 (20.41%) Migration
6 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.37%) Customer Service
7 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 6 (12.24%) Scrum
9 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.16%) Asset Management
10 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.16%) CRM
10 4 (8.16%) Data Architecture
10 4 (8.16%) Data Modelling
10 4 (8.16%) Data Security
10 4 (8.16%) Project Management
11 3 (6.12%) Data Protection
11 3 (6.12%) Identity Access Management
11 3 (6.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.20%) C#
3 4 (8.16%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) Bicep
6 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.04%) CEH
5 1 (2.04%) CISA
5 1 (2.04%) CISM
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.24%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.08%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Kibana
5 1 (2.04%) logstash
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Citrix
2 2 (4.08%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) SAP
2 2 (4.08%) VMware
3 1 (2.04%) Apple
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.04%) Commvault
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Fujitsu
3 1 (2.04%) IBM
3 1 (2.04%) Micro Focus
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.04%) Snow
3 1 (2.04%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Veeam