Azure DevOps Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 50 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 6 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 1.59% 2.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 4.57% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £401 £295 -
25th Percentile £403 £313 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £478 £488 £607
90th Percentile £514 £514 £675
North West median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Cheshire

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Cheshire

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -7 3 £469 -1.32% 2
Alderley Edge - 2 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £400 - 2
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft