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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 31 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.36% 1.65% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.03% 6.16% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 11
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £400 £307 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £651 £619 £594
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +2.63%

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 281 146 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.48% 26.79% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 102 176
10th Percentile £304 £202 £250
25th Percentile £391 £316 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £597 £500 £617
90th Percentile £688 £624 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.69
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £15.53
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +205.19% -11.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £31.56
90th Percentile - - £45.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £33.88 £19.25
% change year-on-year +0.32% +76.00% -1.28%

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 6 August 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 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (6.45%) Azure API Management
5 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (6.45%) DbUnit
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) jMock
3 2 (6.45%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
3 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Test Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (6.45%) ADO
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
4 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.45%) JPA
4 2 (6.45%) PowerMock
4 2 (6.45%) SOAP
4 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Batch
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Integration
4 2 (6.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Blog
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
5 6 (19.35%) Observability
5 6 (19.35%) SDLC
6 5 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.13%) Manual Testing
6 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
7 4 (12.90%) Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.90%) Defect Management
7 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Java
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) C#
4 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Grafana
2 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) Argo
5 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.45%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.23%) Citrix
3 1 (3.23%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk