Azure Certification Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Microsoft Azure Certification
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull with a requirement for Azure Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Certification 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 3.49% 1.64% 3.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.69% 3.57% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £345
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £620 £525
% change year-on-year -23.39% +18.10% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Solihull

Azure Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Solihull.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 39 28 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 45.35% 45.90% 64.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 24
10th Percentile £325 £220 £296
25th Percentile £413 £363 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £426
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.63% -14.80%
75th Percentile £544 £613 £486
90th Percentile £600 £638 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -6.00% -7.41% +2.86%

Azure Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Azure Certification job vacancy trend in Solihull

Azure Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Azure Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Azure Certification

Azure Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) DbUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) jMock
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) PowerMock
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Biometrics
2 2 (66.67%) BPMN
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks