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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 45 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 32 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.44% 1.94% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.77% 7.14% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 13
10th Percentile £350 £289 £333
25th Percentile £400 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £639 £613 £619
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -

All Cloud Computing 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 297 154 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.97% 27.21% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 110 183
10th Percentile £311 £199 £235
25th Percentile £400 £361 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £607
90th Percentile £679 £625 £721
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £57.00 - £14.08
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +161.11% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £32.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend 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 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Route 53
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (9.38%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (6.25%) DbUnit
3 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) JMeter
3 2 (6.25%) jMock
3 2 (6.25%) JUnit
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) Mockito
3 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.13%) Postman
4 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Analyst
1 6 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Test Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) ADO
2 4 (12.50%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.25%) Bootstrap
4 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.25%) JPA
4 2 (6.25%) PowerMock
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 2 (6.25%) Spring
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Batch
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Integration
4 2 (6.25%) Web Services
5 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.13%) Loki
5 1 (3.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Blog
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.88%) Defect Management
6 7 (21.88%) SDLC
6 7 (21.88%) Test Strategy
7 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.75%) Manual Testing
7 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Observability
8 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (12.50%) Change Control
9 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.25%) VB
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) ISTQB
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Grafana
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) HP ALM
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Adobe
2 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.25%) HP
2 2 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Citrix
3 1 (3.13%) New Relic
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk