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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 31 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.29% 2.00% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.58% 7.38% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 12
10th Percentile £350 £289 £413
25th Percentile £400 £308 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £552
90th Percentile £633 £613 £622
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 293 149 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.14% 27.14% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 107 179
10th Percentile £304 £190 £207
25th Percentile £400 £314 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £588 £544 £607
90th Percentile £688 £630 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.26%
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 9 July 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 Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
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 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
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%) Route 53
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Power BI
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (6.45%) DbUnit
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) JMeter
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%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
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 6 (19.35%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Test Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) ADO
2 4 (12.90%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
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%) React
5 1 (3.23%) React Native
5 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Blog
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Agile
4 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
5 7 (22.58%) Defect Management
5 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (22.58%) Test Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 6 (19.35%) Manual Testing
6 6 (19.35%) SDLC
7 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.90%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (12.90%) Change Control
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
8 4 (12.90%) Observability
8 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
4 4 (12.90%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.45%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) VB
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) ISTQB
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Postfix
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) Grafana
3 3 (9.68%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (6.45%) HP ALM
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) Argo
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%) HP
2 2 (6.45%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 2 (6.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk