Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > Midlands

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the Midlands is £374, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 129 138
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.19% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile - £527 £640
25th Percentile £348 £530 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £581 £675
Median % change year-on-year -35.66% -13.89% +17.39%
75th Percentile £444 £639 £738
90th Percentile £523 £646 £745
England median daily rate £471 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -14.41% - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,370 2,524 2,783
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 93.14% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,600 1,924
10th Percentile £213 £250 £221
25th Percentile £358 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.71% +0.53%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £594
90th Percentile £639 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 115 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +11.98%
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.63 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.26 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
East Midlands - 4 £348 - 1
West Midlands -15 1 £400 -31.18%
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) ADO
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (20.00%) Git

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow