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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 210 415 552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.80% 18.55% 15.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.26% 51.11% 44.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 288 426
10th Percentile £304 £350 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £524
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -1.19% +16.39%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £619
90th Percentile £699 £701 £700
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £63.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.63% -13.64%

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 464 812 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.86% 36.30% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 569 888
10th Percentile £207 £275 £214
25th Percentile £341 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
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 12 4 17
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.54 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +12.44% +22.03%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £33.19 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 89 £488 -7.14% 105
Warwickshire -3 50 £580 +9.18% 43
Coventry +1 35 £575 +19.79% 25
Staffordshire 0 6 £331 -32.91% 22
Worcestershire -10 3 £500 - 12
West Bromwich +1 2 £331 -11.67% 1
Dudley 0 1 £525 +5.00% 2
Solihull -10 1 £345 -34.29% 7
Shropshire -11 1 £523 +10.00% 2
Herefordshire -24 1 £750 +15.38% 7
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 (12.38%) SharePoint
2 19 (9.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.43%) CMS
3 3 (1.43%) Drupal
4 2 (0.95%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) IIS
4 2 (0.95%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 31 (14.76%) AWS
5 20 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 18 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (8.10%) PowerApps
8 16 (7.62%) Power Automate
9 15 (7.14%) Serverless
10 14 (6.67%) OneDrive
11 13 (6.19%) PaaS
12 12 (5.71%) Azure Functions
13 11 (5.24%) GCP
14 10 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (3.81%) Azure AKS
15 8 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (3.33%) Azure App Service
16 7 (3.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.95%) DNS
2 20 (9.52%) Firewall
3 15 (7.14%) VPN
4 13 (6.19%) Network Security
5 9 (4.29%) SAN
6 8 (3.81%) NetScaler
7 7 (3.33%) LAN
7 7 (3.33%) WAN
8 6 (2.86%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.38%) SSL
10 3 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.43%) VLAN
10 3 (1.43%) VoIP
10 3 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.95%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.95%) NAS
11 2 (0.95%) Wireless
12 1 (0.48%) DHCP
12 1 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.24%) Power BI
2 28 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.81%) BusinessObjects
3 8 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.38%) MySQL
4 5 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.43%) OLAP
6 3 (1.43%) OLTP
6 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.95%) Metadata
7 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.95%) Tableau
8 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.19%) Git
2 8 (3.81%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.86%) JIRA
4 5 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.38%) Selenium
5 4 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.43%) Hudson
6 3 (1.43%) NUnit
6 3 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.43%) Subversion
7 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.95%) kappa
7 2 (0.95%) Moq
7 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.48%) GitLab
8 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 50 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.33%) Finance
3 18 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.29%) Retail
6 6 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.38%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.43%) German Language
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (18.57%) Developer
2 37 (17.62%) Architect
3 27 (12.86%) Analyst
4 16 (7.62%) Senior
5 15 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Architect
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Administrator
8 9 (4.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 9 (4.29%) Test Analyst
9 8 (3.81%) Azure Developer
9 8 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.81%) Lead
9 8 (3.81%) SharePoint Administrator
10 7 (3.33%) Azure Administrator
10 7 (3.33%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.33%) Consultant
10 7 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.43%) .NET
2 7 (3.33%) OAuth
3 6 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.86%) RESTful
3 6 (2.86%) SAML
4 5 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.38%) Web Services
4 5 (2.38%) XML
5 4 (1.90%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.90%) JSON
5 4 (1.90%) XSLT
6 3 (1.43%) ADO
6 3 (1.43%) Flask
6 3 (1.43%) Middleware
6 3 (1.43%) Pandas
6 3 (1.43%) React Native
7 2 (0.95%) Highcharts JS
7 2 (0.95%) Kafka
7 2 (0.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.81%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.86%) Digital Signage
4 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.86%) PKI
5 4 (1.90%) Clustering
5 4 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.90%) Replication
6 3 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.43%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) NHS
6 3 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.29%) Windows
2 25 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.29%) Linux
5 9 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.38%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.43%) Android
8 3 (1.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.48%) Unix
10 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (30.00%) DevOps
2 49 (23.33%) Agile
3 32 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 21 (10.00%) ITIL
7 20 (9.52%) Migration
8 18 (8.57%) Analytics
9 17 (8.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (7.62%) Machine Learning
11 15 (7.14%) Computer Science
11 15 (7.14%) Roadmaps
12 14 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (6.19%) CRM
13 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (5.71%) ETL
14 12 (5.71%) Identity Access Management
14 12 (5.71%) Incident Management
15 11 (5.24%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (5.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.00%) SQL
2 37 (17.62%) PowerShell
3 22 (10.48%) C#
4 14 (6.67%) Python
5 8 (3.81%) Bicep
6 7 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.43%) Bash
8 3 (1.43%) Java
9 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.48%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (10.48%) Degree
2 16 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.38%) CISSP
6 5 (2.38%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.90%) ISEB
8 3 (1.43%) CCNA
8 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.43%) PMP
9 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.95%) CEH
9 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) QA
2 3 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.43%) SLA
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.24%) Docker
5 9 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (3.81%) XenApp
6 8 (3.81%) XenDesktop
7 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.90%) vSphere
8 1 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.62%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (7.14%) Terraform
4 11 (5.24%) SCCM
5 10 (4.76%) Ansible
6 8 (3.81%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.38%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.43%) Autotask
8 3 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.95%) Kibana
9 2 (0.95%) logstash
9 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) Istio
10 1 (0.48%) linkerd
10 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.48%) Puppet
10 1 (0.48%) Rancher
10 1 (0.48%) SCOM
10 1 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 81 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.57%) VMware
3 15 (7.14%) Citrix
4 14 (6.67%) Oracle
5 10 (4.76%) NetApp
6 8 (3.81%) Databricks
7 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.38%) Cisco
8 5 (2.38%) New Relic
8 5 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.90%) F5
9 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.43%) Apple
10 3 (1.43%) Datto
10 3 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.95%) Informatica
11 2 (0.95%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.95%) SAP
11 2 (0.95%) Workday