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

 6 months to
2 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 21 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.46% 2.99% 3.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.24% 7.62% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 17
10th Percentile £413 £333 £380
25th Percentile £425 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -22.73%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £469
90th Percentile £641 £540 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -4.76% +20.00% -16.67%
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 290 210 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.04% 39.18% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 166 171
10th Percentile £313 £195 £250
25th Percentile £417 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £578
90th Percentile £680 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £21.20 - £14.03
25th Percentile £22.63 - £17.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +130.77% +62.65%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £66.80 - £37.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £18.74 £19.95
% change year-on-year +45.20% -6.07% +21.06%

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 2 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 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (19.05%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (9.52%) Route 53
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (23.81%) Power BI
2 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.52%) CircleCI
3 2 (9.52%) DbUnit
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) JMeter
3 2 (9.52%) jMock
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Business Architect
2 4 (19.05%) TOGAF Architect
2 4 (19.05%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (9.52%) ADO
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
1 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
1 2 (9.52%) JPA
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
1 2 (9.52%) PowerMock
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) RESTful
1 2 (9.52%) SOAP
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Batch
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Integration
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) AI
5 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Business Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Records Management
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
6 4 (19.05%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (14.29%) API Management
7 3 (14.29%) Change Management
7 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
7 3 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) VB
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Postfix
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) HP ALM
2 2 (9.52%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
2 2 (9.52%) HP
2 2 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Proofpoint
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