Azure DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 104 79
Rank change year-on-year -14 -25 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 49 85 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.47% 1.83% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.45% 6.15% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 62 138
10th Percentile £300 £425 £423
25th Percentile £406 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £575 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
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 £31.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -51.91% -6.43% +21.33%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,102 1,382 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.14% 29.77% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 981 1,520
10th Percentile £256 £268 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £596
90th Percentile £638 £645 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 38
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -56.94% +81.95%
75th Percentile £73.44 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.49 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +21.43% -35.19% +50.70%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -9 23 £525 +1.20% 79
Yorkshire +4 22 £438 -10.26% 55
North East -4 4 £538 +13.76% 14
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 4 (8.16%) Power Automate
5 4 (8.16%) PowerApps
5 4 (8.16%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.08%) IaaS
7 2 (4.08%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (2.04%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Power BI
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.08%) MySQL
4 2 (4.08%) Power Query
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.04%) Big Data
5 1 (2.04%) Bigtable
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Metadata
5 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) JIRA
2 10 (20.41%) Selenium
3 7 (14.29%) Git
4 5 (10.20%) Postman
5 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.16%) GitLab
5 4 (8.16%) SoapUI
5 4 (8.16%) TestRail
6 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.04%) Appium
7 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.04%) Bugzilla
7 1 (2.04%) ERwin
7 1 (2.04%) JMeter
7 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (2.04%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.20%) Retail
5 4 (8.16%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Electronics
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Aviation
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 4 (8.16%) QA Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) QA Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Tester
6 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Integration Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
7 2 (4.08%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) ADO
2 5 (10.20%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.16%) pytest
3 4 (8.16%) YAML
4 3 (6.12%) React
5 2 (4.08%) Kafka
5 2 (4.08%) Laravel
5 2 (4.08%) React Native
5 2 (4.08%) Vue
5 2 (4.08%) WPF
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.04%) CSS
6 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.04%) HTML
6 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) NHS
1 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.04%) IoT
2 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.04%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Android
3 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (95.92%) DevOps
2 21 (42.86%) Agile
3 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) Scrum
5 7 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.29%) Project Management
5 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 5 (10.20%) Agile Project Management
6 5 (10.20%) API Testing
6 5 (10.20%) ETL
6 5 (10.20%) Migration
6 5 (10.20%) OWASP
6 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.16%) Manual Testing
7 4 (8.16%) Security Testing
7 4 (8.16%) Test Scripting
7 4 (8.16%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) Bicep
5 3 (6.12%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.08%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.04%) Java
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.16%) Grafana
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) Control-M
5 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) VMware
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.08%) Fujitsu
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.04%) Talend