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

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 11 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.20% 1.73% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.25% 5.56% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 10
10th Percentile £177 £260 £217
25th Percentile £305 £334 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £388 £444
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -12.68% -22.83%
75th Percentile £488 £410 £547
90th Percentile £502 £429 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £388 £463
% change year-on-year +4.52% -16.22% -19.57%

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 83 108 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 31.68% 31.12% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 80 99
10th Percentile £190 £143 £150
25th Percentile £292 £220 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +8.61% -14.29%
75th Percentile £489 £544 £575
90th Percentile £544 £589 £638
Wales median daily rate £446 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -8.75% +8.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £15.60 £13.05 £12.58
25th Percentile - £14.26 £14.31
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.05 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +6.53% -
75th Percentile £20.68 £20.35 £22.88
90th Percentile £23.20 £21.87 £24.65
Wales median hourly rate £18.50 £19.17 £16.00
% change year-on-year -3.50% +19.81% +6.67%

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 5 August 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 5 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
Cardiff +9 10 £405 +4.52% 13
Newport - 1 - - 5
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 3 (27.27%) Oracle Service Bus
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) OCI
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Asana
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) CRM Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) FHIR
4 1 (9.09%) Flutter
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Data Security
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
5 2 (18.18%) CRM
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (9.09%) Data Mapping
6 1 (9.09%) Kanban
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Project Management
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (9.09%) R
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HL7
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) RedGate