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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 13 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.93% 2.08% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.94% 5.86% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 21
10th Percentile £396 £323 £400
25th Percentile £428 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £500
90th Percentile £658 £583 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
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 219 256 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.44% 35.56% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 191 206
10th Percentile £298 £200 £281
25th Percentile £413 £351 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £669 £713 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £21.83 £25.13 £22.83
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.94 £28.19
Median hourly rate £28.25 £41.25 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.52% +10.74% +29.21%
75th Percentile £32.19 £50.94 £46.19
90th Percentile £34.48 £56.38 £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +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 7 November 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (38.46%) SaaS
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (15.38%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.69%) n8n
7 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
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%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 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
4 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
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 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) API Management
6 3 (23.08%) RBAC
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 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
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 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint