Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North West

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the North West is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 143 161
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -29
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 10 23 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.72% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.76% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 10
10th Percentile £485 - £426
25th Percentile £494 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £644
90th Percentile £600 £669 £700
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,591 3,016 3,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 94.87% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,161 2,862
10th Percentile £283 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 131 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North West

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North West

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North West

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +17 10 £525 +5.00% 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Azure DevOps 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 North West region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (20.00%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Grafana
5 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
5 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) YAML
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Redis
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) GitLab
5 2 (20.00%) pytest
5 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (20.00%) Selenium
6 1 (10.00%) Network Security

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) pytest
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft