Azure Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands 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 98 96 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 13 33 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.64% 1.49% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.58% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 40
10th Percentile £338 £433 £413
25th Percentile £375 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £625
90th Percentile £652 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £555 £563
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.33% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in the West Midlands

Azure Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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 +11 6 £438 -16.67% 9
Warwickshire -5 3 £338 -41.30% 1
Coventry +6 1 £450 -35.71% 1
Solihull - 1 £345 -
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
Azure Engineer
England

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Terraform
4 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
6 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
6 3 (23.08%) Bicep
6 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 3 (23.08%) PaaS
6 3 (23.08%) IaaS
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Firewall
6 3 (23.08%) JSON
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 2 (15.38%) Degree
7 2 (15.38%) YAML
7 2 (15.38%) Git
7 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
7 2 (15.38%) Dependency Management

Azure Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
3 3 (23.08%) IaaS
3 3 (23.08%) PaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Hudson
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) API Management
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Dependency Management
5 1 (7.69%) B2C
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.69%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) VMware