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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 63 53
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 26 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.92% 1.72% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.00% 5.37% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 8
10th Percentile £400 £386 £409
25th Percentile £406 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +17.07% +10.81%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £552
90th Percentile £676 £664 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.20% +7.89%

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 289 205 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.47% 32.03% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 147 178
10th Percentile £261 £203 £200
25th Percentile £375 £400 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £638 £550 £575
90th Percentile £718 £665 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £21.83 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £24.19 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.79% +25.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £32.19 £41.88
90th Percentile - £34.48 £52.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £31.94 £33.74
% change year-on-year -32.69% -5.32% +82.35%

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 9 October 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 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure AKS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) n8n
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Postman
4 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (15.38%) Banking
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) ADO
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) Blazor
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) Jest
4 1 (3.85%) Loki
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.85%) Playwright
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) React Native
4 1 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Blog
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (19.23%) Log Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
7 3 (11.54%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Bicep
2 6 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe
2 1 (3.85%) Citrix
2 1 (3.85%) New Relic
2 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk