Azure DevOps Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 26 28 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.71% 2.05% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 7.02% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £395 £638 £376
25th Percentile £401 £676 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £740 £438
Median % change year-on-year -42.57% +69.14% -45.31%
75th Percentile £463 £745 £472
90th Percentile £478 £748 £489
North West median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 55 57 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 31.43% 29.23% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 36
10th Percentile £392 £200 £173
25th Percentile £481 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £675
90th Percentile £630 £740 £775
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile £26.88 - £48.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £52.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -69.69% +184.98%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £55.55
90th Percentile £37.01 - £56.06
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Lancashire

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Lancashire

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -2 2 £438 -41.28% 11
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Finance Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared