Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 56 47
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 6 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.00% 1.53% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 4.47% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 20
10th Percentile £418 £409 £411
25th Percentile £588 £480 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £552 £538
90th Percentile £648 £613 £586
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 180 246 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.90% 34.31% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 184 196
10th Percentile £201 £209 £281
25th Percentile £378 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £541 £594 £600
90th Percentile £633 £705 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +5.27% +2.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £38.09 £17.58 -
25th Percentile £41.22 £19.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £47.38 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% +98.72% -32.36%
75th Percentile £54.47 £56.25 £19.75
90th Percentile £58.16 £58.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Business Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Architect
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Records Management
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Micro Focus
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP