Azure DevOps Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 67 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 12 38 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 2.50% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 6.81% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 32
10th Percentile £500 £450 £413
25th Percentile £509 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £636 £589 £610
North West median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Appium
3 1 (8.33%) ERwin
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) Chai
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (8.33%) BDD
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Fujitsu
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Talend