Azure Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Azure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 216 435 561
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.35% 18.76% 15.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.79% 50.12% 46.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 298 439
10th Percentile £304 £350 £375
25th Percentile £375 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.35% +15.11%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £622
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £545 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £58.65 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.32% +23.47% -7.77%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Azure is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 452 868 1,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.75% 37.43% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 613 888
10th Percentile £213 £300 £219
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +11.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.69 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile £29.35 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in the West Midlands

Azure
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 -6 92 £475 -10.59% 128
Warwickshire 0 49 £580 +10.48% 37
Coventry 0 36 £575 +19.79% 33
Staffordshire -3 4 £375 -25.00% 32
Dudley 0 3 £525 +5.00% 7
Worcestershire -9 3 £500 - 12
West Bromwich +1 2 £331 -11.67% 3
Shropshire +13 1 £523 +20.81% 5
Herefordshire -20 1 £750 +15.38% 8
Azure
England

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (12.04%) SharePoint
2 19 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.39%) CMS
3 3 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.39%) Drupal
4 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 2 (0.93%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.39%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 3 (1.39%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (17.59%) Power Platform
4 32 (14.81%) AWS
5 20 (9.26%) Entra ID
6 17 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (7.87%) Serverless
7 16 (7.41%) Power Automate
8 14 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (6.48%) Azure Functions
8 14 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (6.48%) GCP
8 14 (6.48%) OneDrive
8 14 (6.48%) PowerApps
9 13 (6.02%) PaaS
10 10 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (3.24%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.24%) Azure App Service
12 7 (3.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.19%) DNS
2 21 (9.72%) Firewall
3 15 (6.94%) Network Security
3 15 (6.94%) VPN
4 9 (4.17%) SAN
5 8 (3.70%) NetScaler
6 7 (3.24%) LAN
6 7 (3.24%) WAN
7 6 (2.78%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.31%) SSL
9 3 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.39%) VLAN
9 3 (1.39%) VoIP
9 3 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.93%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.93%) NAS
10 2 (0.93%) Wireless
11 1 (0.46%) Intranet
11 1 (0.46%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.81%) Power BI
2 26 (12.04%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.24%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.31%) Big Data
7 3 (1.39%) MySQL
7 3 (1.39%) OLAP
7 3 (1.39%) OLTP
7 3 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.93%) Metadata
8 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 15 (6.94%) Git
2 8 (3.70%) JIRA
3 6 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.31%) Selenium
5 4 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.39%) Hudson
6 3 (1.39%) NUnit
6 3 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.39%) Subversion
7 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.93%) kappa
7 2 (0.93%) Moq
7 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.46%) GitLab
8 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 52 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.96%) Finance
3 19 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.63%) Retail
6 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.39%) German Language
8 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (18.52%) Architect
2 37 (17.13%) Developer
3 25 (11.57%) Analyst
4 17 (7.87%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.94%) Azure Architect
5 15 (6.94%) Senior
6 14 (6.48%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.63%) Lead
8 10 (4.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 9 (4.17%) Administrator
9 9 (4.17%) Test Analyst
10 8 (3.70%) Azure Developer
10 8 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) SharePoint Administrator
11 7 (3.24%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Engineer
12 6 (2.78%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.78%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.26%) .NET
2 7 (3.24%) OAuth
3 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.78%) RESTful
3 6 (2.78%) SAML
4 5 (2.31%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.85%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.85%) ADO
5 4 (1.85%) JSON
5 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.39%) Flask
6 3 (1.39%) Pandas
6 3 (1.39%) PySpark
6 3 (1.39%) React Native
6 3 (1.39%) Web Services
6 3 (1.39%) XML
7 2 (0.93%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.93%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.63%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.78%) Digital Signage
3 6 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.78%) PKI
4 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.85%) Clustering
5 4 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.85%) Replication
5 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.39%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.15%) Windows
2 24 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.94%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.17%) Linux
5 9 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.85%) Android
8 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.39%) VMS
9 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.46%) Unix
10 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.02%) DevOps
2 50 (23.15%) Agile
3 33 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 23 (10.65%) Analytics
7 21 (9.72%) ITIL
7 21 (9.72%) Migration
8 18 (8.33%) ETL
8 18 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 15 (6.94%) Machine Learning
10 15 (6.94%) Roadmaps
11 14 (6.48%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (6.02%) CRM
12 13 (6.02%) Data Modelling
12 13 (6.02%) Incident Management
12 13 (6.02%) Scrum
13 12 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.22%) SQL
2 38 (17.59%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.87%) C#
3 17 (7.87%) Python
4 7 (3.24%) Bicep
4 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.39%) Java
6 3 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.93%) Bash
8 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (10.65%) Degree
2 18 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.78%) CISSP
5 6 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.85%) ISEB
8 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.39%) CCNA
8 3 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.39%) PMP
9 2 (0.93%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.87%) QA
2 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.93%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (18.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.09%) Docker
5 9 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.70%) XenApp
6 8 (3.70%) XenDesktop
7 4 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (12.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (6.48%) Terraform
4 13 (6.02%) SCCM
5 11 (5.09%) Ansible
6 8 (3.70%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.31%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.39%) Autotask
8 3 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.93%) Kibana
9 2 (0.93%) logstash
9 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.46%) linkerd
10 1 (0.46%) Packer
10 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.46%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) SELinux
Vendors
1 82 (37.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.33%) VMware
3 15 (6.94%) Citrix
4 14 (6.48%) Oracle
5 10 (4.63%) Databricks
6 9 (4.17%) NetApp
7 8 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.31%) Cisco
8 5 (2.31%) New Relic
8 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.85%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.85%) F5
9 4 (1.85%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.39%) Apple
10 3 (1.39%) Datto
10 3 (1.39%) Informatica
10 3 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.39%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.39%) Workday