Azure Security Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Azure Security Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.043% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £419 £600
% change year-on-year +19.40% -30.21% +1.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,084 1,436 1,669
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.76% 92.59% 93.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 909 1,107
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £380 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 94
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.95 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +3.57% +29.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%

Azure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Azure Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Security Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Security Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure Security Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Azure Security Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Security Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 1 £463 -
Azure Security Engineer
England

Azure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 January 2026, Azure Security Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Azure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Azure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft