Azure DevOps Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 98 87 76
Rank change year-on-year -11 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 22 50 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 1.81% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.44% 5.66% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 70
10th Percentile £405 £437 £418
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £550
90th Percentile £628 £626 £592
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -9 12 £550 +6.02% 55
Cheshire -2 6 £413 -13.16% 22
Lancashire +2 3 £425 -42.57% 38
Merseyside - 1 £525 - 7
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
2 3 (13.64%) SaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Appium
4 1 (4.55%) ERwin
4 1 (4.55%) Postman
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (22.73%) Retail
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Aviation
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ADO
2 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
3 2 (9.09%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) Chai
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (4.55%) IoT
1 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Data Management
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (9.09%) Business Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Fujitsu
4 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Talend