Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 139 138
Rank change year-on-year -55 -1 +53
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 7 25 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.69% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.75% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 47
10th Percentile £408 £416 £425
25th Percentile £413 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £550 £587 £575
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,241 3,336 4,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 92.18% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 1,921 2,932
10th Percentile £213 £235 £266
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 175 203
10th Percentile £16.47 £15.36 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -8.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £56.44 £44.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire -47 5 £513 +7.89%
North West -32 2 £410 -25.45%
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Docker
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Ansible
6 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
6 1 (14.29%) JMeter
6 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) NuGet
6 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
6 1 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
6 1 (14.29%) Puppet
6 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) NuGet
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor