Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Leeds is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -11 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.19% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £350 - £386
25th Percentile £360 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £506
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -16.05% -7.95%
75th Percentile £420 £438 £580
90th Percentile £431 - £622
West Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -16.80% -6.25% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 1,010 576 665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 97.46% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 383 434
10th Percentile £363 £313 £352
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 30
10th Percentile £18.39 £25.15 £17.89
25th Percentile £25.88 £25.38 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.56 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +22.23% +27.26%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.48 £46.25
90th Percentile - £79.33 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.89 £77.50 £24.59
% change year-on-year -66.60% +215.17% +29.42%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 5 September 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft