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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 60 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 26 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.89% 1.63% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.93% 5.26% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 8
10th Percentile £400 £376 £409
25th Percentile £420 £523 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +17.07% +11.11%
75th Percentile £604 £634 £552
90th Percentile £676 £664 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.20% +7.89%

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 291 190 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.33% 30.94% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 134 178
10th Percentile £261 £200 £204
25th Percentile £375 £390 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £711 £667 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -7.32% +4.59% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £21.83 £17.05
25th Percentile £65.00 £24.19 £18.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.79% +25.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £32.19 £41.88
90th Percentile - £34.48 £52.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £31.94 £33.74
% change year-on-year -32.69% -5.32% +82.35%

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 6 October 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Azure AKS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.85%) Datadog
6 1 (3.85%) IaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) n8n
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (15.38%) Banking
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) ADO
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) YAML
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) Loki
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) React Native
4 1 (3.85%) Redux
4 1 (3.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Blog
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (19.23%) Log Analytics
7 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) Migration
7 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
8 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Bicep
2 6 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) New Relic
3 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk