Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Preston

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 1.39% - 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £280
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.92%
75th Percentile £410 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £400 £525 £394
% change year-on-year -23.81% +33.33% -39.42%

All Cloud Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 28 19 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 38.89% 43.18% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 5
10th Percentile £400 £489 £144
25th Percentile £422 £563 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +71.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £630 £631 £438
90th Percentile £667 £736 £550
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £563 £610
% change year-on-year -6.67% -7.79% +7.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £39.85 - £32.83
25th Percentile £42.58 - £44.07
Median hourly rate £47.12 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +141.02%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £47.93
Lancashire median hourly rate £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +2.04% - +102.74%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Preston

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared