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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 89 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 -29 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 43 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.50% 1.62% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.16% 6.33% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 30 71
10th Percentile £378 £312 £310
25th Percentile £456 £349 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £494
90th Percentile £653 £659 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 760 679 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.62% 25.65% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 491 816
10th Percentile £275 £200 £210
25th Percentile £381 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £666 £688 £688
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 25
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.14 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.56 £14.52
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.41 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% +2.05% +5.96%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.11 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.29 £50.11 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% -31.82% +53.49%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -7 37 £525 +7.69% 41
East Midlands +18 25 £469 +29.31% 24
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 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) GitHub
3 9 (14.52%) AWS
4 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.68%) Serverless
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.84%) Azure API Management
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.84%) Collibra
9 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.84%) GCP
9 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) LAN
1 2 (3.23%) WAN
2 1 (1.61%) DHCP
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.61%) VLAN
2 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Power BI
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.45%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.45%) GIS
4 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Git
2 8 (12.90%) GitLab
3 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.84%) Chocolatey
5 3 (4.84%) JIRA
6 2 (3.23%) Selenium
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.61%) Gradle
7 1 (1.61%) JUnit
7 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.61%) Maven
7 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.61%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Law
4 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
1 14 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Android Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Data Architect
4 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Architect
5 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 2 (3.23%) Application Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) DevOps Architect
6 2 (3.23%) DevOps Manager
6 2 (3.23%) Integration Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) RESTful
2 11 (17.74%) .NET
3 9 (14.52%) Android Jetpack
3 9 (14.52%) Jetpack Compose
4 8 (12.90%) ADO
5 4 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (6.45%) YAML
6 3 (4.84%) Kafka
6 3 (4.84%) Web Services
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.23%) JSON
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.61%) Prophet
8 1 (1.61%) PySpark
8 1 (1.61%) REST
8 1 (1.61%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.61%) XGBoost
8 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.68%) PKI
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) IoT
4 3 (4.84%) SCADA
5 2 (3.23%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
6 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.61%) Replication
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Android
2 6 (9.68%) Linux
3 4 (6.45%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (59.68%) CI/CD
3 29 (46.77%) Agile
4 20 (32.26%) Test Automation
5 17 (27.42%) Scrum
6 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (16.13%) Analytics
7 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.52%) Android Development
8 9 (14.52%) TDD
8 9 (14.52%) Unit Testing
9 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.90%) Software Delivery
10 7 (11.29%) API Integration
11 6 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (9.68%) Data Governance
11 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) C#
1 12 (19.35%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.52%) Kotlin
4 7 (11.29%) SQL
5 5 (8.06%) Bicep
6 4 (6.45%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.23%) VBScript
9 1 (1.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) EMIR
4 1 (1.61%) MiFID
4 1 (1.61%) NCSC
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (37.10%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) Ansible
3 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.84%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) Consul
6 1 (1.61%) Podman
6 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Databricks
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) SAP
4 3 (4.84%) Informatica
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.61%) Perforce
6 1 (1.61%) Trayport
6 1 (1.61%) Veeam