Azure Contracts in Staffordshire

Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.17% 4.07% 8.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 16.13% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £254 £280 £320
25th Percentile £297 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £313 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -26.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £472 £375 £525
90th Percentile £511 £495 £668
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 31 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.70% 25.20% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 32
10th Percentile £278 £244 £160
25th Percentile £356 £306 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £350 £438
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -20.00% +52.17%
75th Percentile £547 £438 £512
90th Percentile £564 £540 £631
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.93 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Staffordshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Staffordshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Staffordshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Coach
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune