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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 11 36 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.20% 2.49% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 6.82% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 48
10th Percentile £485 £450 £417
25th Percentile £509 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £629 £600 £683
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -1.20% -1.19% +10.53%

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 366 528 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 39.87% 36.49% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 413 557
10th Percentile £367 £313 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £583
90th Percentile £656 £650 £659
North West median daily rate £463 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 14
10th Percentile £69.25 £22.90 £15.80
25th Percentile £71.88 £25.50 £17.09
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% +182.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £91.88 £72.50 £58.65
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.10 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.47
% change year-on-year +79.02% -28.53% -14.87%

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 10 June 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Appium
2 1 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Developer
1 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) Blazor
2 1 (9.09%) Chai
2 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) API Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Backlog Management
5 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) RBAC
5 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
5 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Talend