Azure DevOps Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 34 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.25% 1.48% 1.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 7.94% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £482 £376 £394
25th Percentile £502 £395 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -5.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £573 £549 £581
90th Percentile £574 - £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £49.00
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.43% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 63 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 33.44% 18.64% 45.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 32 147
10th Percentile £321 £161 £350
25th Percentile £411 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North East

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -6 4 £538 +13.76% 13
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) pytest
2 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft