Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.33% 1.31% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 3.57% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £513 £478 £443
25th Percentile £569 £491 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £609 £555 £569
90th Percentile £626 £566 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 160 112 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.44% 36.60% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 61 52
10th Percentile £215 £310 £163
25th Percentile £385 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +17.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £525
90th Percentile £700 £626 £580
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £39.40 - £15.88
25th Percentile £44.50 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% +43.19% +43.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £43.07
90th Percentile - - £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure DevOps

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 10 December 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 -12 2 £613 +16.67% 15
Durham - 1 £500 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) ERP
4 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Argo
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Podman
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk