Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.22% 0.95% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 3.23% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £360 £326 £428
25th Percentile £370 £390 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £463 £481
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -3.90% +0.79%
75th Percentile £405 £488 £494
90th Percentile £406 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 213 155 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.37% 29.41% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 110 80
10th Percentile £267 £318 £211
25th Percentile £350 £377 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £560 £496
90th Percentile £538 £638 £566
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 10
10th Percentile - - £13.73
25th Percentile £12.82 £82.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £16.00 £85.00 £27.77
Median % change year-on-year -81.18% +206.14% +27.48%
75th Percentile £18.87 £87.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £57.57 - £43.50
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £41.09 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.08% +17.40% +32.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure DevOps

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 20 September 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
Knutsford - 5 £405 -
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
Neston - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Figma
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Gradle
1 4 (50.00%) Storybook
1 4 (50.00%) Xcode
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
2 4 (50.00%) D3.js
2 4 (50.00%) React Native
2 4 (50.00%) SVG
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) PySpark
5 1 (12.50%) React
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) Vue
5 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
1 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) B2C
2 4 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Application Security
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) LLM
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) SOLID
4 1 (12.50%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CBAP
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) InterSystems
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI