Azure Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 18.60% 14.29% 5.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.33% 44.44% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £500 £348 £283
25th Percentile £544 £351 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £365 £583
Median % change year-on-year +60.96% -37.34% +60.69%
75th Percentile £625 £373 £841
90th Percentile £631 - £846
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 34.88% 32.14% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 8
10th Percentile £450 £174 £247
25th Percentile £500 £302 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £365 £340
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% +7.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £422 £678
90th Percentile £638 £489 £841
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.30% +8.70% -8.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Azure job vacancy trend in Solihull

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Solihull over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Solihull

Azure
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Route 53
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) FTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) IMAP
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) SMTP
1 1 (12.50%) SSH
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) ITSM
5 1 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) DFS Replication
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Dovecot
1 1 (12.50%) Postfix
1 1 (12.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Proxmox
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) BT
2 1 (12.50%) CenturyLink
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
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