Azure DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 66 88
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 54 112 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 3.26% 2.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.99% 9.11% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 74 101
10th Percentile £319 £333 £366
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £585
90th Percentile £611 £646 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +25.56%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Azure DevOps 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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,230 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.76% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 880 1,225
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands +2 44 £475 - 41
East Midlands -7 10 £419 +0.96% 24
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 3 (5.56%) CMS
1 3 (5.56%) Drupal
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Appian
Business Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (96.30%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Azure App Service
3 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (11.11%) Serverless
4 4 (7.41%) PaaS
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.56%) GCP
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub
6 2 (3.70%) IaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) SonarCloud
7 1 (1.85%) AWS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) DNS
2 4 (7.41%) SSL
3 3 (5.56%) Firewall
3 3 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.85%) Extranet
4 1 (1.85%) FTP
4 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.85%) Intranet
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.70%) Big Data
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.85%) Flink
4 1 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Selenium
3 6 (11.11%) JIRA
4 5 (9.26%) Visual Studio
5 3 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) NUnit
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (5.56%) Subversion
6 2 (3.70%) Moq
6 2 (3.70%) TestRail
7 1 (1.85%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.85%) Hudson
7 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 20 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Electronics
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) Test Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Angular Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) C# Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) QA Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) Test Assurance Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) .NET
2 6 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 5 (9.26%) RESTful
4 4 (7.41%) React
5 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.56%) YAML
6 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.70%) JSON
7 1 (1.85%) CSS
7 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.85%) Jest
7 1 (1.85%) Kafka
7 1 (1.85%) Node.js
7 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.85%) Redux
7 1 (1.85%) REST
7 1 (1.85%) Swagger
7 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) e-Health
4 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.85%) LIMS
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.85%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (96.30%) DevOps
2 26 (48.15%) Agile
3 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
6 10 (18.52%) Software Testing
7 9 (16.67%) Scrum
8 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (11.11%) CRM
10 6 (11.11%) Defect Management
10 6 (11.11%) ITIL
10 6 (11.11%) Microservices
10 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.26%) Business Analysis
11 5 (9.26%) Kanban
11 5 (9.26%) Test Strategy
11 5 (9.26%) User Experience
11 5 (9.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) C#
1 17 (31.48%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.26%) Bicep
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) ISEB
3 3 (5.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.63%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Terraform
2 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) HP ALM
4 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.85%) Argo
5 1 (1.85%) Istio
5 1 (1.85%) linkerd
5 1 (1.85%) Packer
5 1 (1.85%) SELinux
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.56%) Databricks
4 3 (5.56%) HP
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
4 3 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Ariba
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.85%) Citrix
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Workday
5 1 (1.85%) Zscaler