Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 106 110
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +61
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 13 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.72% 0.11% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 0.37% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £518 - £471
25th Percentile £525 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile - - £591
90th Percentile £615 - £643
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Microsoft Purview 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 573 538 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.87% 28.42% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 363 534
10th Percentile £268 £213 £207
25th Percentile £413 £351 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.63
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +77.55% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £22.94
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £24.94
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the West Midlands

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Purview.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview
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 Microsoft Purview within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Coventry - 7 £550 -
Birmingham +8 3 £625 - 3
Solihull - 3 £600 -
Microsoft Purview
England

Microsoft Purview
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) SAP PM
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) Collibra
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (46.15%) Delta Lake
1 6 (46.15%) GIS
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
3 4 (30.77%) Power BI
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (15.38%) QlikView
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Business Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) IoT
1 6 (46.15%) SCADA
2 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Governance
2 7 (53.85%) Migration
3 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Data Migration
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) Data Mapping
4 5 (38.46%) ETL
4 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
5 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
6 3 (23.08%) Project Planning
6 3 (23.08%) RBAC
6 3 (23.08%) Validation
6 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Kusto Query Language
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Databricks
2 6 (46.15%) Informatica
2 6 (46.15%) SAP
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian