Azure DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 44 76 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.31% 3.26% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.65% 8.66% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 85
10th Percentile £332 £398 £389
25th Percentile £400 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £600
90th Percentile £622 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 456 878 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.90% 37.68% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 624 901
10th Percentile £213 £300 £213
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.69 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +17.19%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile £29.35 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
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 DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Warwickshire +16 14 £607 +21.40% 18
Birmingham +2 13 £425 -12.82% 28
Coventry -5 7 £475 +11.76% 3
West Bromwich - 2 £331 -
Worcestershire +2 1 £400 -11.11% 2
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
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 3 (6.82%) CMS
1 3 (6.82%) Drupal
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Azure App Service
2 7 (15.91%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
4 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.36%) PowerApps
4 5 (11.36%) Serverless
5 4 (9.09%) PaaS
5 4 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.82%) AWS
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub
7 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 2 (4.55%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) SSL
3 2 (4.55%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) Extranet
4 1 (2.27%) FTP
4 1 (2.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.55%) Big Data
4 2 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Flink
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 6 (13.64%) Visual Studio
3 5 (11.36%) Selenium
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
5 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.82%) NUnit
5 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (6.82%) Subversion
6 2 (4.55%) Moq
7 1 (2.27%) Hudson
7 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Electronics
4 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Test Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Angular Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (6.82%) QA Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 5 (11.36%) .NET Framework
3 5 (11.36%) RESTful
4 3 (6.82%) Entity Framework
4 3 (6.82%) YAML
5 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.55%) JSON
5 2 (4.55%) Web Services
5 2 (4.55%) XML
5 2 (4.55%) XSLT
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) Kafka
6 1 (2.27%) LDAP
6 1 (2.27%) MDX
6 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.27%) SAML
6 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (56.82%) Agile
3 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (22.73%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (15.91%) CRM
8 6 (13.64%) Microservices
8 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.36%) Business Analysis
9 5 (11.36%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (11.36%) Kanban
9 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Software Testing
9 5 (11.36%) User Experience
9 5 (11.36%) UX Design
10 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (9.09%) ITIL
10 4 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) C#
2 14 (31.82%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Bicep
3 5 (11.36%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) ISTQB
2 3 (6.82%) ISEB
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.27%) Argo
4 1 (2.27%) HP ALM
4 1 (2.27%) Istio
4 1 (2.27%) linkerd
4 1 (2.27%) Packer
4 1 (2.27%) SELinux
4 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix
5 1 (2.27%) HP
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat