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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 107 77 129
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 12.49% 14.84% 16.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.28% 40.31% 55.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 99
10th Percentile £351 £348 £305
25th Percentile £425 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £649 £638 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - +5.00%
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 £76.50 £32.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +135.38% +75.68% +4.40%

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 287 191 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.49% 36.80% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 153 178
10th Percentile £325 £190 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £666 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £495 £460
% change year-on-year +1.01% +7.61% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £21.20 - £14.03
25th Percentile £22.63 - £17.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.65%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £66.80 - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.11 £18.13 £19.95
% change year-on-year +43.99% -9.12% +21.06%

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 13 March 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 19 (17.76%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.87%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.93%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) AWS
2 21 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (18.69%) Power Platform
4 16 (14.95%) GitHub
5 15 (14.02%) GCP
5 15 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (12.15%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (7.48%) Azure API Management
9 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (7.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (6.54%) Entra ID
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.67%) SaaS
13 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) Firewall
2 9 (8.41%) VPN
3 5 (4.67%) Network Security
4 2 (1.87%) DHCP
4 2 (1.87%) DNS
5 1 (0.93%) LAN
5 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.76%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.08%) Power BI
3 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.80%) Power Query
6 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (24.30%) Git
2 20 (18.69%) JIRA
3 19 (17.76%) Jenkins
4 17 (15.89%) JUnit
5 16 (14.95%) JMeter
6 14 (13.08%) Selenium
7 13 (12.15%) Cucumber
8 12 (11.21%) WebDriver
9 7 (6.54%) GitLab
10 4 (3.74%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.74%) jMock
10 4 (3.74%) Maven
10 4 (3.74%) Mockito
10 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.93%) Postman
12 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.93%) Serenity BDD
General
1 48 (44.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.08%) Finance
4 10 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Law
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.87%) Military
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (14.95%) Architect
1 16 (14.95%) Senior
2 13 (12.15%) Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Analyst
3 11 (10.28%) Data Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Tester
4 8 (7.48%) Automation Tester
4 8 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Lead
5 7 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Architect
6 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) Senior Automation Tester
6 6 (5.61%) Senior Tester
6 6 (5.61%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.95%) Spring
2 12 (11.21%) WireMock
3 7 (6.54%) REST
4 5 (4.67%) .NET
4 5 (4.67%) Web Services
5 4 (3.74%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.74%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.74%) JPA
5 4 (3.74%) Node.js
5 4 (3.74%) PowerMock
5 4 (3.74%) RESTful
5 4 (3.74%) SOAP
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Integration
6 3 (2.80%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.80%) YAML
7 2 (1.87%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (7.48%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.61%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.02%) Windows
2 8 (7.48%) Linux
3 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.80%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (39.25%) CI/CD
2 36 (33.64%) DevOps
3 35 (32.71%) Agile
4 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (21.50%) Analytics
6 20 (18.69%) Test Automation
7 19 (17.76%) Microservices
7 19 (17.76%) TDD
8 17 (15.89%) Test Strategy
9 16 (14.95%) BDD
9 16 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (14.95%) Containerisation
9 16 (14.95%) Data Modelling
10 15 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.08%) Observability
11 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (13.08%) Validation
12 13 (12.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (12.15%) Load Testing
13 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.69%) Python
2 18 (16.82%) SQL
3 11 (10.28%) Java
4 7 (6.54%) C#
4 7 (6.54%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) Bicep
6 4 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.80%) R
8 2 (1.87%) Bash
8 2 (1.87%) Go
8 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.87%) Scala
8 2 (1.87%) VB
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.61%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.80%) Degree
8 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.87%) QA
4 2 (1.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (21.50%) Docker
2 9 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.74%) Postfix
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.82%) Grafana
3 13 (12.15%) Prometheus
3 13 (12.15%) Terraform
4 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.67%) Ansible
6 2 (1.87%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.87%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.87%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.93%) Argo
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (42.99%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) Databricks
3 5 (4.67%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.74%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.87%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.87%) Dell
6 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.87%) Google
6 2 (1.87%) HP
6 2 (1.87%) Isilon
6 2 (1.87%) Northgate
6 2 (1.87%) SAP
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.93%) Veeam
7 1 (0.93%) Zscaler