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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 -24 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 29 39 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.32% 1.63% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.24% 5.19% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 88
10th Percentile £394 £440 £400
25th Percentile £413 £469 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £624 £662 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 684 752 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.16% 31.50% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 511 857
10th Percentile £305 £300 £285
25th Percentile £387 £397 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 51
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +13.20%
75th Percentile £47.12 £31.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.28 £63.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +11.78% -35.34% +61.84%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -13 16 £550 +4.76% 40
Cheshire -17 5 £413 -10.81% 12
Merseyside - 5 £510 - 7
Lancashire -5 3 £425 -39.07% 24
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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Figma
4 1 (3.45%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) Postman
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) Git
5 1 (3.45%) Appium
5 1 (3.45%) ERwin
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Gradle
5 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) Storybook
5 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.45%) Xcode
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL Change Manager
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Scrum Master
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) React
2 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 3 (10.34%) jQuery
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 3 (10.34%) POJO
3 3 (10.34%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.34%) Thymeleaf
4 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.90%) YAML
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) ADO
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth
5 1 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) SVG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Scrum
5 4 (13.79%) API Development
5 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (13.79%) Process Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Backlog Management
6 3 (10.34%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
6 3 (10.34%) Microservices
6 3 (10.34%) Release Management
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.34%) User Research
6 3 (10.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
1 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
2 3 (10.34%) C#
2 3 (10.34%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Bicep
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
2 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Fujitsu
3 1 (3.45%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) InterSystems
3 1 (3.45%) Talend