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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 30 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.28% 1.43% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.75% 5.41% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 10
10th Percentile £350 £273 £312
25th Percentile £400 £365 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £657 £625 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% +5.26%

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 279 148 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.49% 26.38% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 101 178
10th Percentile £299 £200 £250
25th Percentile £397 £331 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £478
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.72% +0.58%
75th Percentile £591 £500 £598
90th Percentile £688 £613 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £38.09 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.22 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.76% +110.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.47 £39.38
90th Percentile - £58.16 £48.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £30.88
% change year-on-year -1.28% +11.51% +62.50%

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 15 August 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.33%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.33%) jMock
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Mockito
4 1 (3.33%) Postman
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (13.33%) Banking
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) ADO
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) YAML
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.33%) HTML
4 1 (3.33%) JPA
4 1 (3.33%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) PowerMock
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Batch
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Integration
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Blog
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (23.33%) Agile
4 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 4 (13.33%) Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
7 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Log Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Bicep
2 5 (16.67%) C#
2 5 (16.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Grafana
4 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.67%) Ansible
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.33%) Argo
6 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.33%) Citrix
3 1 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.33%) New Relic
3 1 (3.33%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk