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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 45
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 19 18 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.20% 3.46% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.74% 9.68% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 15
10th Percentile £375 £311 £375
25th Percentile £419 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £472
90th Percentile £583 £539 £533
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £525 £460
% change year-on-year -11.90% +14.13% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 282 186 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.64% 35.77% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 155 172
10th Percentile £325 £194 £250
25th Percentile £425 £369 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £21.20 - £14.05
25th Percentile £22.63 £56.88 £18.49
Median hourly rate £25.00 £58.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.45% +125.96% +28.46%
75th Percentile £51.13 £60.63 £33.63
90th Percentile £66.80 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £24.25
% change year-on-year +37.89% -25.24% +36.85%

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 31 March 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Route 53
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (10.53%) DbUnit
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) JMeter
2 2 (10.53%) jMock
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) Mockito
2 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Analyst
1 3 (15.79%) Lead
1 3 (15.79%) Test Leader
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Release Manager
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior
2 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Software Tester
3 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (10.53%) ADO
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
1 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
1 2 (10.53%) JPA
1 2 (10.53%) Node.js
1 2 (10.53%) PowerMock
1 2 (10.53%) REST
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
1 2 (10.53%) SOAP
1 2 (10.53%) Spring
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Batch
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Integration
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) Playwright
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) Defect Management
5 4 (21.05%) Manual Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Change Control
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Open Source
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) SDLC
6 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.53%) API Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) VB
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Postfix
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) HP ALM
1 2 (10.53%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.53%) HP
2 2 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Proofpoint