Azure DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 14 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.68% 1.94% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.14% 7.08% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 17
10th Percentile £331 £341 £398
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £575
90th Percentile £588 £555 £652
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
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 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Consultant
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Management
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Security
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (7.14%) Product Strategy
6 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CITP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Fujitsu
3 1 (7.14%) Micro Focus
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP