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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 52 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 13 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.79% 2.33% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.28% 6.30% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 21
10th Percentile £412 £328 £400
25th Percentile £428 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £619 £538 £500
90th Percentile £658 £540 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +9.52% +13.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 246 254 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.79% 37.03% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 195 193
10th Percentile £273 £194 £290
25th Percentile £413 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.54%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £575
90th Percentile £642 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £505 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
% change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +8.12%

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 20 December 2025.

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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
4 5 (38.46%) SaaS
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (23.08%) GitHub
6 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (15.38%) AWS
7 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
7 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
7 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (7.69%) n8n
8 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 1 (7.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Business Architect
2 5 (38.46%) TOGAF Architect
2 5 (38.46%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) AI
4 5 (38.46%) Business Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Records Management
4 5 (38.46%) TOGAF
4 5 (38.46%) Zachman Framework
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) API Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) RBAC
6 2 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint