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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 216 420 560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.43% 18.61% 15.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.85% 50.54% 45.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 292 434
10th Percentile £295 £350 £366
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +15.56%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £625
90th Percentile £688 £702 £700
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.95 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £61.85 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.41% +30.21% -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 461 831 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.39% 36.82% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 589 894
10th Percentile £210 £298 £213
25th Percentile £343 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +7.95% +17.19%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile - £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +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 18 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 18 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 90 £488 -7.14% 147
Warwickshire +1 49 £580 +10.48% 49
Coventry 0 37 £575 +19.79% 31
Staffordshire -1 6 £331 -33.75% 23
Dudley 0 3 £525 +5.00% 6
Worcestershire -9 3 £500 - 11
West Bromwich +2 2 £331 -11.67% 3
Shropshire +6 1 £523 +12.97% 3
Solihull -16 1 £345 -34.29% 6
Herefordshire -20 1 £750 +15.38% 5
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 20 (9.26%) 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 57 (26.39%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (19.91%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (17.59%) Power Platform
4 34 (15.74%) AWS
5 20 (9.26%) Entra ID
6 18 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (7.87%) Power Automate
7 17 (7.87%) Serverless
8 15 (6.94%) PowerApps
9 14 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (6.48%) Azure Functions
9 14 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (6.48%) GCP
9 14 (6.48%) OneDrive
10 13 (6.02%) PaaS
11 9 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.70%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (3.24%) Azure App Service
13 7 (3.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.19%) DNS
2 20 (9.26%) Firewall
3 15 (6.94%) VPN
4 13 (6.02%) Network Security
5 9 (4.17%) SAN
6 8 (3.70%) NetScaler
7 7 (3.24%) LAN
7 7 (3.24%) WAN
8 6 (2.78%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.31%) SSL
10 3 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.39%) VLAN
10 3 (1.39%) VoIP
10 3 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.93%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.93%) NAS
11 2 (0.93%) Wireless
12 1 (0.46%) IPsec
12 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.28%) Power BI
2 27 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.24%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (3.24%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.31%) Big Data
6 4 (1.85%) 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 7 (3.24%) JIRA
2 7 (3.24%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.31%) Selenium
4 4 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.39%) Hudson
5 3 (1.39%) NUnit
5 3 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.39%) Subversion
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.93%) kappa
6 2 (0.93%) Moq
6 2 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.46%) GitLab
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 51 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.50%) Finance
3 18 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.63%) Retail
6 6 (2.78%) 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%) Back Office
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%) Police
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (18.52%) Developer
2 38 (17.59%) Architect
3 25 (11.57%) Analyst
4 16 (7.41%) 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 23 (10.65%) .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%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.31%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.85%) ADO
5 4 (1.85%) JSON
5 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.85%) Web Services
5 4 (1.85%) XML
6 3 (1.39%) Entity Framework
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%) XSLT
7 2 (0.93%) LAMP
7 2 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.63%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.70%) 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
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%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.85%) Replication
6 3 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.39%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) NHS
6 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.61%) Windows
2 25 (11.57%) 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 68 (31.48%) DevOps
2 50 (23.15%) Agile
3 34 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 22 (10.19%) Analytics
7 20 (9.26%) Migration
8 19 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (8.80%) ITIL
9 18 (8.33%) ETL
10 15 (6.94%) Computer Science
10 15 (6.94%) Machine Learning
10 15 (6.94%) Roadmaps
11 13 (6.02%) CRM
11 13 (6.02%) Data Modelling
11 13 (6.02%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (6.02%) Incident Management
11 13 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (6.02%) Scrum
12 11 (5.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.15%) SQL
2 39 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 20 (9.26%) C#
4 17 (7.87%) Python
5 8 (3.70%) Bicep
6 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.39%) Bash
8 3 (1.39%) Java
8 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (10.19%) Degree
2 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.09%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.31%) CISSP
6 5 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.85%) ISEB
8 3 (1.39%) CCNA
8 3 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.39%) PMP
9 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) CEH
9 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.39%) SLA
3 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.09%) Docker
5 9 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
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 25 (11.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (6.94%) 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%) linkerd
10 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.46%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.46%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) SCOM
10 1 (0.46%) SELinux
Vendors
1 82 (37.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.80%) VMware
3 16 (7.41%) Citrix
4 15 (6.94%) Oracle
5 10 (4.63%) Databricks
5 10 (4.63%) NetApp
6 6 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.31%) Cisco
7 5 (2.31%) New Relic
7 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.85%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.85%) F5
8 4 (1.85%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.39%) Apple
9 3 (1.39%) Datto
9 3 (1.39%) Informatica
9 3 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.39%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.39%) Workday