Azure Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 68 62
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 6 8 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.78% 0.90% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.93% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 25
10th Percentile £386 £414 £414
25th Percentile £403 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £504 £650 £600
90th Percentile £601 £680 £629
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.33% +13.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 720 859 1,250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 96.63% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 572 903
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £335 £375 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 37 18
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.30 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.70 £14.08
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +15.94% +7.81%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.00 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £58.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) B2C
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) B2C
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (16.67%) VMware