Azure DevOps Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 28 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 6 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.46% 3.57% 4.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 9.38% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 21
10th Percentile £234 £342 £455
25th Percentile £344 £361 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £586
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -8.28% +18.38%
75th Percentile £459 £650 £600
90th Percentile £484 £654 £648
Wales median daily rate £425 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -20.93% -8.28% +17.20%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 98 128 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.16% 38.10% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 110 109
10th Percentile £196 £143 £162
25th Percentile £258 £336 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £613
90th Percentile £608 £625 £665
Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £466
% change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.25 £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%
75th Percentile £38.13 £12.75 £16.27
90th Percentile £41.25 - £16.51
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
% change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales 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
Cardiff +1 6 £425 -2.86% 22
Azure DevOps
Wales

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Webhook
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft