Azure DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 63 78 71
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 50 55 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.61% 1.99% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 7.99% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 74
10th Percentile £413 £319 £333
25th Percentile £456 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £611 £646
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.43% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
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 within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -5 26 £525 +10.53% 60
East Midlands +24 24 £500 +19.33% 32
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.00%) Big Data
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) GIS
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.00%) Chocolatey
4 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Games
6 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Architect
2 6 (12.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Android Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) DevOps Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 6 (12.00%) ADO
3 5 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
3 5 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (8.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.00%) JSON
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) SAML
5 1 (2.00%) XML
5 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 5 (10.00%) PKI
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (44.00%) Agile
4 16 (32.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (18.00%) Scrum
6 8 (16.00%) Software Delivery
7 7 (14.00%) High Availability
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Android Development
9 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.00%) Project Management
9 5 (10.00%) Unit Testing
10 4 (8.00%) Analytics
10 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (20.00%) C#
3 7 (14.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 4 (8.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) Bash
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
6 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.00%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.00%) Ansible
3 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) Fujitsu
3 2 (4.00%) Perforce
4 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
4 1 (2.00%) SAP