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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 50 85 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.52% 11.21% 18.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.78% 40.09% 50.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 65 123
10th Percentile £106 £273 £363
25th Percentile £305 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £622 £654 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +0.39%
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 148 212 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.19% 27.97% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 165 236
10th Percentile £190 £207 £311
25th Percentile £327 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £571 £625 £603
90th Percentile £638 £690 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +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 £18.74 £22.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year -16.71% +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

Azure
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

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Birmingham

Azure
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

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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (26.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (16.00%) AWS
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
8 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
9 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.00%) GitHub
9 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.00%) IaaS
10 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.00%) PaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Network Security
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) DSL
4 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.00%) Metadata
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) GIS
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Power Query
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) ERwin
2 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Retail
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (12.00%) Architect
2 6 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Support Officer
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) IT Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (4.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.00%) ADO
3 1 (2.00%) FHIR
3 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (4.00%) Replication
2 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.00%) NHS
2 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.00%) PKI
2 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Android
3 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.00%) Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) DevOps
2 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (22.00%) ITIL
3 11 (22.00%) Migration
4 10 (20.00%) Agile
5 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
6 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
7 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (8.00%) Asset Management
8 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (8.00%) Data Security
8 4 (8.00%) Project Management
8 4 (8.00%) Scrum
9 3 (6.00%) Business Continuity
9 3 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.00%) CRM
9 3 (6.00%) Data Modelling
9 3 (6.00%) ETL
9 3 (6.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) C#
2 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) Bash
4 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.00%) CEH
5 1 (2.00%) CISA
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CITP
5 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) GIAC
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
5 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) SCCM
5 1 (2.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Kibana
5 1 (2.00%) logstash
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Apple
3 2 (4.00%) Fujitsu
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Alibaba
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Commvault
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Snow
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.00%) Veeam