Azure DevOps Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -41 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 60 165 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.87% 4.47% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.36% 12.80% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 138 82
10th Percentile £443 £419 £405
25th Percentile £475 £481 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +27.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £550
90th Percentile £683 £688 £633
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.74% +27.78%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 815 1,289 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.40% 34.95% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 1,033 866
10th Percentile £208 £288 £259
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £719 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 60 24
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.17 £12.17
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.84% +177.13% -55.56%
75th Percentile £18.00 £70.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £78.00 £42.00
England median hourly rate £20.87 £28.33 £20.70
% change year-on-year -26.33% +36.86% -5.91%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bristol +6 33 £525 - 15
Gloucestershire +19 13 £575 -4.17% 8
Wiltshire -49 7 £625 +8.70% 10
Devon +5 5 £588 +135.00% 1
Somerset -17 2 £450 -28.00% 2
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 9 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 59 (98.33%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (8.33%) PaaS
5 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub
5 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.00%) IaaS
6 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DNS
1 1 (1.67%) FTP
1 1 (1.67%) PSTN
1 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) GIS
3 3 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) SonarQube
3 6 (10.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) NUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Postman
5 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.33%) Snyk
7 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) Selenium
7 1 (1.67%) TestRail
General
1 8 (13.33%) Finance
1 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.00%) Legal
3 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.67%) German Language
5 3 (5.00%) Electronics
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Architect
2 13 (21.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) SharePoint Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.00%) GIS Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.33%) .NET
2 7 (11.67%) YAML
3 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.00%) Playwright
5 2 (3.33%) Blazor
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (3.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.67%) CSS
6 1 (1.67%) CSS3
6 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.67%) HTML
6 1 (1.67%) HTML5
6 1 (1.67%) REST
6 1 (1.67%) SOAP
6 1 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (98.33%) DevOps
2 31 (51.67%) Agile
3 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
4 16 (26.67%) Migration
5 12 (20.00%) Data Management
6 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 8 (13.33%) Software Delivery
9 7 (11.67%) Architecture Governance
9 7 (11.67%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.00%) Architectural Design
10 6 (10.00%) CRM
10 6 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 6 (10.00%) Scrum
10 6 (10.00%) Service Design
10 6 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) C#
2 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (20.00%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) Bash
3 8 (13.33%) C
4 5 (8.33%) Python
5 4 (6.67%) Bicep
5 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) DV Cleared
3 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.00%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (36.67%) Terraform
2 14 (23.33%) Ansible
3 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.33%) Argo
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.67%) Packer
5 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) SAP
2 3 (5.00%) VMware
3 2 (3.33%) Mapbox
3 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Ribbon