Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.23% 2.02% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 4.60% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £419 £478 £443
25th Percentile £447 £491 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £609 £555 £569
90th Percentile £626 £566 £588
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +2.94%

All Cloud Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 139 87 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 42.64% 43.94% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 46 36
10th Percentile £260 £305 £163
25th Percentile £388 £357 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £407
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +10.57% -29.22%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £543
90th Percentile £700 £625 £610
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £407
% change year-on-year -0.88% +11.55% -29.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -28.89%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Icinga
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat