Azure DevOps Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 63 44
Rank change year-on-year +28 -19 +30
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 25 7 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.11% 0.87% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.74% 3.29% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 32
10th Percentile £439 £299 £300
25th Percentile £456 £333 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £368
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% +11.43% -16.00%
75th Percentile £530 £474 £438
90th Percentile £681 £544 £449
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 182 213 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.93% 26.53% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 144 218
10th Percentile £250 £163 £205
25th Percentile £363 £306 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £500 £513 £559
90th Percentile £545 £646 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile £14.69 - £13.16
25th Percentile £17.65 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £15.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -23.43% +1.91%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £26.48
90th Percentile £21.87 £27.50 £30.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the East Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the East Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the East Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Leicestershire +9 9 £463 +27.59% 43
Derbyshire +15 8 £700 +16.67% 72
Nottinghamshire - 5 £520 - 36
Northamptonshire 0 3 £500 +5.26% 38
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Batch
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Chocolatey
3 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Games
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Android Developer
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Android Jetpack
1 7 (28.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) ADO
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OpenID
4 1 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Android
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (32.00%) Scrum
5 7 (28.00%) Android Development
5 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.00%) API Integration
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) ITIL
8 3 (12.00%) Microservices
8 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Service Catalogue
9 2 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
9 2 (8.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (28.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) Kotlin
3 4 (16.00%) Python
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Perforce