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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 7 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 50 87 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.96% 11.60% 18.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 41.23% 50.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 65 120
10th Percentile £106 £270 £362
25th Percentile £308 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.15% -1.67%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £620 £654 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -
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 150 211 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.88% 28.13% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 165 233
10th Percentile £191 £217 £313
25th Percentile £372 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £562 £625 £600
90th Percentile £636 £690 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.70% +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% +1.20%

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 9 June 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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
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 16 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (26.00%) Entra ID
3 11 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) AWS
5 7 (14.00%) 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%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.00%) Matillion
10 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
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 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.00%) Metadata
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) GIS
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.00%) Power Query
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) ERwin
2 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Retail
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Architect
1 7 (14.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Support Officer
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Developer
5 3 (6.00%) DevOps 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%) Junior
6 2 (4.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) ADO
3 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.00%) FHIR
3 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
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%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
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 15 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Android
3 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) DevOps
1 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (22.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.00%) Migration
3 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (16.00%) Agile
5 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (8.00%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (8.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (8.00%) Project Management
6 4 (8.00%) TOGAF
7 3 (6.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (6.00%) CRM
7 3 (6.00%) Data Security
7 3 (6.00%) Scrum
7 3 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) C#
1 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (8.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
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
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%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) 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 29 (58.00%) 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