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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 20 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.17% 2.69% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.04% 8.70% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 9
10th Percentile £350 £331 £341
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £534 £588 £631
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 284 161 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.84% 30.96% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 123 163
10th Percentile £296 £166 £250
25th Percentile £400 £348 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +5.44% -9.90%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £688 £635 £671
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £37.00 - £14.08
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +88.15% -19.71% +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 18 May 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Route 53
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (10.00%) DbUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JMeter
2 2 (10.00%) jMock
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) Mockito
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Release Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) ADO
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.00%) JPA
3 2 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Integration
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.00%) Loki
4 1 (5.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 6 (30.00%) SDLC
4 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Change Control
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Open Source
6 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Postfix
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) New Relic