Azure Contract Job Trends in Dudley

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Dudley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dudley requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dudley 42.86% - 50.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £402 - £393
25th Percentile £405 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £525
75th Percentile £430 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - +3.96%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dudley

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 Dudley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dudley 42.86% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £402 - £336
25th Percentile £405 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.75%
75th Percentile £430 - £547
90th Percentile - - £564
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +0.71% +9.78% -10.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Dudley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dudley.

Azure job vacancy trend in Dudley

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Dudley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dudley citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dudley citing Azure

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dudley 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 2 (66.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) ETL Development
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow