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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 139 65 73
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 15.55% 10.52% 10.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.93% 34.21% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 42 49
10th Percentile £261 £106 £363
25th Percentile £411 £378 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% +2.55% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £611 £567
90th Percentile £696 £636 £621
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +224.32%

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 290 190 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.44% 30.74% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 133 177
10th Percentile £261 £200 £204
25th Percentile £375 £386 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £712 £668 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -7.32% +3.54% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £21.83 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £24.19 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.79% +25.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £32.19 £41.88
90th Percentile - £34.48 £52.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £31.94 £33.74
% change year-on-year -32.69% -5.32% +82.35%

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 5 October 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 17 (12.23%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.44%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.18%) AWS
2 34 (24.46%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (21.58%) Entra ID
4 26 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (12.95%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (7.19%) GCP
6 10 (7.19%) OneDrive
7 9 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (6.47%) SaaS
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (5.04%) IaaS
9 6 (4.32%) PaaS
10 5 (3.60%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.16%) GitHub
12 3 (2.16%) OCI
12 3 (2.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.07%) Firewall
2 10 (7.19%) DNS
2 10 (7.19%) VPN
3 9 (6.47%) DHCP
4 7 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.60%) WAN
7 4 (2.88%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.88%) Wireless
8 3 (2.16%) BGP
8 3 (2.16%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (2.16%) Network Security
8 3 (2.16%) OSPF
8 3 (2.16%) SAN
8 3 (2.16%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.16%) WLAN
9 2 (1.44%) LAN
9 2 (1.44%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.07%) Power BI
2 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.88%) DataStage
4 4 (2.88%) GIS
5 3 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.44%) Looker
6 2 (1.44%) Metadata
6 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.44%) Tableau
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.72%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) JIRA
2 6 (4.32%) Git
2 6 (4.32%) GitLab
3 4 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.44%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.72%) JMeter
5 1 (0.72%) JUnit
5 1 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.47%) Finance
4 8 (5.76%) Banking
5 7 (5.04%) Legal
6 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Military
7 2 (1.44%) Publishing
7 2 (1.44%) Retail
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Local Government
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (18.71%) Architect
2 19 (13.67%) Senior
3 17 (12.23%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (8.63%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Analyst
7 9 (6.47%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) IT Support
8 8 (5.76%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) SharePoint Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.39%) Terraform
2 10 (7.19%) REST
3 4 (2.88%) .NET
4 3 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.16%) JSON
5 2 (1.44%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.44%) ADO
5 2 (1.44%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.44%) CSS
5 2 (1.44%) React
5 2 (1.44%) React Native
5 2 (1.44%) YAML
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.72%) HTML
6 1 (0.72%) Loki
6 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.72%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.72%) Sass
6 1 (0.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.16%) Blog
6 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.44%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.72%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.42%) Windows
2 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.88%) Linux
5 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.09%) DevOps
2 29 (20.86%) Migration
3 26 (18.71%) CI/CD
4 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (10.79%) Analytics
6 15 (10.79%) ITSM
6 15 (10.79%) Project Delivery
7 14 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (9.35%) Agile
8 13 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (8.63%) Customer Service
9 12 (8.63%) ETL
9 12 (8.63%) Observability
10 11 (7.91%) Cloud Security
10 11 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.71%) SQL
2 24 (17.27%) Python
3 8 (5.76%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.04%) C#
5 6 (4.32%) Bicep
5 6 (4.32%) Java
6 5 (3.60%) Bash
7 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.72%) Go
8 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (7.19%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.04%) CISSP
3 6 (4.32%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.88%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.88%) CISM
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) CRISC
5 3 (2.16%) Degree
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.44%) CCNP
6 2 (1.44%) CISA
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) NIST
2 8 (5.76%) QA
3 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.04%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.88%) GDPR
4 4 (2.88%) GRC
4 4 (2.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.44%) COBIT
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (17.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.60%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.16%) vSphere
4 1 (0.72%) Firmware
4 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (12.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.32%) Ansible
3 6 (4.32%) Grafana
3 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.60%) SCCM
5 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.44%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.72%) Argo
7 1 (0.72%) Control-M
7 1 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (51.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.63%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.47%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.60%) IBM
4 5 (3.60%) Splunk
4 5 (3.60%) VMware
5 4 (2.88%) Cisco
5 4 (2.88%) Cognos
5 4 (2.88%) Netezza
5 4 (2.88%) Remedy
6 3 (2.16%) Arista
6 3 (2.16%) Aruba
6 3 (2.16%) Databricks
6 3 (2.16%) F5
6 3 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.16%) Veeam
7 2 (1.44%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.44%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.44%) Sparx