Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Birmingham is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.44% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.19% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £524 - -
25th Percentile £541 £425 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £641 £475 £594
90th Percentile £661 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £588 £425 £563
% change year-on-year +38.24% -24.44% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 838 535 687
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 89.32% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 357 454
10th Percentile £313 £182 £206
25th Percentile £406 £336 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £540 £625
90th Percentile £688 £639 £736
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.87% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 46 16
10th Percentile £14.79 - £15.61
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £14.00 £31.81
Median % change year-on-year +100.64% -55.99% +51.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £25.78 £50.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £33.15 £55.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £19.59
% change year-on-year +19.28% +28.38% -6.65%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Bicep
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) ADO
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Information Governance

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix