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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure 132 57 73
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 14.67% 9.61% 10.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.35% 32.39% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 37 51
10th Percentile £271 £106 £363
25th Percentile £404 £263 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -10.24% +2.50%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £573
90th Percentile £700 £615 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -9.72% -1.82% +10.00%
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 273 176 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.33% 29.68% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 120 187
10th Percentile £257 £200 £211
25th Percentile £384 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £591
90th Percentile £712 £634 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - £38.09 £17.58
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.22 £19.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.38 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.76% +22.26% +61.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.47 £56.25
90th Percentile - £58.16 £58.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £33.74
% change year-on-year -4.23% +5.20% +77.55%

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 14 September 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 18 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.03%) ArcGIS
3 4 (3.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 30 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (21.97%) Entra ID
4 13 (9.85%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.30%) GCP
9 6 (4.55%) SaaS
10 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.79%) IaaS
10 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.03%) GitHub
11 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.03%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.03%) Serverless
12 3 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) Firewall
2 11 (8.33%) DHCP
2 11 (8.33%) DNS
2 11 (8.33%) VPN
3 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (3.79%) WAN
5 4 (3.03%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.27%) BGP
6 3 (2.27%) BIG-IP
6 3 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (2.27%) OSPF
6 3 (2.27%) SAN
6 3 (2.27%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.27%) Wireless
6 3 (2.27%) WLAN
7 2 (1.52%) LAN
7 2 (1.52%) NAS
7 2 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.09%) Power BI
1 12 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.03%) DataStage
3 4 (3.03%) GIS
3 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.52%) Looker
5 2 (1.52%) Metadata
5 2 (1.52%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) JIRA
3 7 (5.30%) GitLab
4 5 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.27%) JMeter
6 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.52%) JUnit
6 2 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.52%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.52%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.06%) Banking
3 8 (6.06%) Finance
4 6 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.52%) Military
5 2 (1.52%) Publishing
5 2 (1.52%) Retail
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Law
6 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (15.15%) Architect
2 17 (12.88%) Senior
3 15 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (9.85%) Analyst
5 11 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.82%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) IT Support
8 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) SharePoint Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 5 (3.79%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) Terraform
2 10 (7.58%) REST
3 4 (3.03%) .NET
4 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.52%) ADO
5 2 (1.52%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.52%) CSS
5 2 (1.52%) Node.js
5 2 (1.52%) React
5 2 (1.52%) React Native
5 2 (1.52%) Spring
5 2 (1.52%) WireMock
5 2 (1.52%) YAML
6 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.76%) Django
6 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Blog
7 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.18%) Windows
2 10 (7.58%) Windows 10
3 9 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.03%) Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.85%) DevOps
2 31 (23.48%) CI/CD
3 25 (18.94%) Migration
4 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (12.88%) ITSM
5 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.36%) Agile
6 15 (11.36%) Project Delivery
7 14 (10.61%) Analytics
7 14 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.85%) ETL
9 12 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 12 (9.09%) Observability
10 11 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (8.33%) Data Engineering
10 11 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 11 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.94%) SQL
2 24 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.30%) Bicep
4 7 (5.30%) C#
5 6 (4.55%) Java
6 5 (3.79%) Bash
7 2 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.03%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.03%) CISSP
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.52%) CCNP
5 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.76%) CISM
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) GCIH
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) NIST
2 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) GDPR
3 4 (3.03%) SLA
4 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.55%) Docker
3 4 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.30%) Ansible
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
3 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.79%) SCCM
5 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.52%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) Control-M
7 1 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 67 (50.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.79%) IBM
4 5 (3.79%) Splunk
5 4 (3.03%) Cisco
5 4 (3.03%) Cognos
5 4 (3.03%) Netezza
5 4 (3.03%) Remedy
5 4 (3.03%) VMware
6 3 (2.27%) Arista
6 3 (2.27%) Aruba
6 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) F5
6 3 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.27%) Veeam
7 2 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.52%) Meraki
7 2 (1.52%) Sparx