Azure DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 46 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 9 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.63% 2.06% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 6.28% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 20
10th Percentile £281 £313 £398
25th Percentile £307 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £591
90th Percentile £619 £594 £674
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +7.69% +2.63% -5.00%

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 150 223 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.12% 32.84% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 179 230
10th Percentile £195 £250 £260
25th Percentile £315 £355 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £619 £605
90th Percentile £622 £728 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.69 £17.14
25th Percentile £56.88 £15.53 £18.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £19.25 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +205.19% -11.49% +57.27%
75th Percentile £60.63 £31.56 £24.47
90th Percentile - £45.63 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.88 £19.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year +76.00% -1.28% +9.86%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Birmingham

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Business Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Architect
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Test Management
6 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
6 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Twin
6 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Micro Focus
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP