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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 28 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.00% 2.33% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.93% 8.39% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 10
10th Percentile £359 £297 £402
25th Percentile £400 £337 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +2.63%
75th Percentile £502 £538 £577
90th Percentile £575 £606 £628
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -

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 282 143 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.19% 27.71% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 103 172
10th Percentile £294 £190 £210
25th Percentile £400 £314 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £617
90th Percentile £688 £625 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £57.00 - £14.08
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +161.11% +11.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £32.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%

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 27 June 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 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 2 (7.14%) Route 53
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (7.14%) DbUnit
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JMeter
2 2 (7.14%) jMock
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
2 2 (7.14%) Maven
2 2 (7.14%) Mockito
2 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Test Leader
5 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
5 1 (3.57%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Software Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) ADO
2 4 (14.29%) Node.js
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
4 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 2 (7.14%) JPA
4 2 (7.14%) PowerMock
4 2 (7.14%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Batch
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Integration
4 2 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (3.57%) Jest
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Blog
1 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 6 (21.43%) Defect Management
5 6 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 6 (21.43%) SDLC
6 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (14.29%) Change Control
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
8 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.71%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Bicep
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) VB
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Grafana
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) HP ALM
2 2 (7.14%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.57%) Argo
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.14%) HP
2 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic