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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 57 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 15 14 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.20% 1.94% 3.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.61% 5.45% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 21
10th Percentile £406 £318 £400
25th Percentile £413 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £500
90th Percentile £656 - £538
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Cloud 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 227 257 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.24% 35.60% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 192 208
10th Percentile £300 £200 £282
25th Percentile £413 £348 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% +0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £613 £578
90th Percentile £664 £713 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +0.50% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £23.40 £25.13 £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 £30.94 £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £41.25 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +10.74% +29.21%
75th Percentile £56.63 £50.94 £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 £56.38 £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.94 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year -5.32% +82.35% +8.12%

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 14 November 2025.

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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) SaaS
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (13.33%) AWS
7 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (6.67%) n8n
8 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (6.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Business Architect
2 5 (33.33%) TOGAF Architect
2 5 (33.33%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) AI
4 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (33.33%) Records Management
4 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 5 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) API Management
6 3 (20.00%) RBAC
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint