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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 22 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.44% 3.44% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.59% 9.78% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 9
10th Percentile £350 £311 £341
25th Percentile £408 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -12.82%
75th Percentile £497 £538 £525
90th Percentile £540 £539 £555
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 290 184 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.22% 35.18% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 152 157
10th Percentile £317 £191 £250
25th Percentile £413 £388 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +8.07% -12.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -10.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £30.08 - £14.05
25th Percentile £37.69 £56.88 £18.49
Median hourly rate £50.75 £58.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +125.96% +28.46%
75th Percentile £64.19 £60.63 £33.63
90th Percentile £72.03 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.11 £18.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year +43.99% -30.27% +46.73%

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 7 April 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.09%) Route 53
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) LAN
2 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.09%) DbUnit
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) JMeter
3 2 (9.09%) jMock
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) Mockito
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Business Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (9.09%) ADO
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) Bootstrap
3 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.09%) JPA
3 2 (9.09%) PowerMock
3 2 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Batch
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Integration
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) OpenCV
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Defect Management
5 6 (27.27%) Manual Testing
6 5 (22.73%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Change Control
8 3 (13.64%) Change Management
8 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (13.64%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) Open Source
8 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
9 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Java
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) VB
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) ISTQB
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Postfix
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
1 2 (9.09%) HP ALM
1 2 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 2 (9.09%) HP
2 2 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Proofpoint