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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 39 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 26 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.81% 2.15% 1.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.19% 7.38% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 8
10th Percentile £353 £299 £381
25th Percentile £402 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +13.51% -5.13%
75th Percentile £505 £540 £550
90th Percentile £575 £606 £634
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -2.56%

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 283 149 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.59% 29.10% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 111 167
10th Percentile £306 £190 £222
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £53.00 - £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 £18.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +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 12 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 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure AKS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) Route 53
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (7.69%) DbUnit
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JMeter
2 2 (7.69%) jMock
2 2 (7.69%) JUnit
2 2 (7.69%) Maven
2 2 (7.69%) Mockito
2 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Release Manager
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Test Leader
4 1 (3.85%) Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Server Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Node.js
1 4 (15.38%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) ADO
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
3 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.69%) JPA
3 2 (7.69%) PowerMock
3 2 (7.69%) SOAP
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Batch
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Integration
3 2 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) Jest
4 1 (3.85%) Redux
4 1 (3.85%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Blog
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
4 7 (26.92%) Test Strategy
5 6 (23.08%) Defect Management
5 6 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 6 (23.08%) SDLC
6 4 (15.38%) Change Control
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Open Source
7 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) VB
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Postfix
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) HP ALM
2 2 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Argo
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe
2 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.69%) HP
2 2 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) New Relic