Azure Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Azure 94 172 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.55% 19.44% 18.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.19% 51.65% 54.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 130 191
10th Percentile £250 £362 £381
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +1.19% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £625
90th Percentile £652 £701 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £525 £519
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.16% +15.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 - -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 208 333 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.77% 37.63% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 239 344
10th Percentile £250 £333 £308
25th Percentile £358 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.50% +10.56%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.54 £11.14
25th Percentile £15.53 £15.98 £11.78
Median hourly rate £22.98 £20.24 £12.86
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +57.45% -19.66%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £13.93
90th Percentile £35.05 £25.31 £14.57
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%

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 10 May 2024.

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 16 (17.02%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) IIS
3 2 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (22.34%) Power Platform
3 14 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.77%) Serverless
5 11 (11.70%) Azure Functions
5 11 (11.70%) Power Automate
6 10 (10.64%) AWS
7 9 (9.57%) Entra ID
7 9 (9.57%) PowerApps
8 8 (8.51%) GCP
8 8 (8.51%) OneDrive
9 7 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (7.45%) PaaS
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.26%) Apigee
12 4 (4.26%) GitHub
13 3 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) LAN
2 7 (7.45%) WAN
3 6 (6.38%) Unified Communications
3 6 (6.38%) VPN
4 3 (3.19%) SAN
4 3 (3.19%) VLAN
4 3 (3.19%) VoIP
4 3 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.13%) DNS
5 2 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.13%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.13%) NAS
5 2 (2.13%) Network Security
5 2 (2.13%) Wireless
6 1 (1.06%) FTP
6 1 (1.06%) IPsec
6 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) Power BI
2 17 (18.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.06%) Big Data
7 1 (1.06%) DB2
7 1 (1.06%) Flink
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.06%) OLAP
7 1 (1.06%) OLTP
7 1 (1.06%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.06%) Redis
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Git
1 2 (2.13%) Hudson
1 2 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (2.13%) Selenium
2 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.64%) Finance
3 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.19%) German Language
5 3 (3.19%) Retail
6 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (14.89%) Architect
2 12 (12.77%) Analyst
3 11 (11.70%) Developer
4 10 (10.64%) Azure Architect
4 10 (10.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Administrator
6 8 (8.51%) SharePoint Administrator
7 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Administrator
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
8 6 (6.38%) Test Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Test Manager
11 3 (3.19%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (3.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) .NET
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.13%) JSON
3 2 (2.13%) Kafka
3 2 (2.13%) LAMP
3 2 (2.13%) Middleware
3 2 (2.13%) OAuth
3 2 (2.13%) React Native
3 2 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.06%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.06%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) RESTful
4 1 (1.06%) Spring
4 1 (1.06%) Web Services
4 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Digital Signage
1 6 (6.38%) PKI
2 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) Clustering
3 4 (4.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.66%) Windows
2 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (7.45%) Linux
6 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.13%) VMS
9 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.66%) DevOps
2 19 (20.21%) Agile
3 17 (18.09%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (14.89%) ITIL
5 10 (10.64%) CRM
6 9 (9.57%) Analytics
6 9 (9.57%) Migration
6 9 (9.57%) Runbook
6 9 (9.57%) Scrum
7 8 (8.51%) Data Science
7 8 (8.51%) Proactive Management
7 8 (8.51%) Web SSO
8 7 (7.45%) Customer Service
8 7 (7.45%) ETL
8 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.45%) Waterfall
9 6 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (6.38%) Test Strategy
9 6 (6.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.02%) SQL
3 5 (5.32%) C#
4 3 (3.19%) Python
5 1 (1.06%) Bicep
5 1 (1.06%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.13%) PMP
6 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.06%) ISEB
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.13%) Docker
6 2 (2.13%) vSphere
7 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (15.96%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (11.70%) SCCM
4 5 (5.32%) SysTrack
5 4 (4.26%) Terraform
6 3 (3.19%) Autotask
6 3 (3.19%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.19%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (2.13%) Ansible
8 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
8 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.06%) Packer
8 1 (1.06%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.06%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.06%) Puppet
8 1 (1.06%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.64%) VMware
3 8 (8.51%) Oracle
4 6 (6.38%) Citrix
5 5 (5.32%) New Relic
5 5 (5.32%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.19%) Apple
6 3 (3.19%) Databricks
6 3 (3.19%) Datto
6 3 (3.19%) SAP
7 2 (2.13%) Aruba
7 2 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.13%) ProCurve
7 2 (2.13%) Synology
7 2 (2.13%) Veeam
7 2 (2.13%) Zerto
8 1 (1.06%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.06%) Jitterbit
8 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.06%) SnapLogic