Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.98% 1.34% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 7.14% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £458
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.80%
75th Percentile - - £461
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £538 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +22.14% -
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.69% +12.60% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bedfordshire

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 28 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 25.73% 18.79% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 16 22
10th Percentile £404 £268 £180
25th Percentile £425 £397 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +43.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £582 £488
90th Percentile £638 £625 £550
East of England median daily rate £495 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -1.58% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - £58.25
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £80.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +22.14% +177.37%
75th Percentile £78.00 - £65.75
90th Percentile £81.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £18.00
% change year-on-year -1.73% +18.72% +2.86%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Luton -4 3 £500 - 2
Azure DevOps
East of England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) WinForms
2 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft