Azure DevOps Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 86 99 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 -53 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 25 58 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.49% 1.81% 4.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.09% 7.11% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 38 144
10th Percentile £311 £425 £433
25th Percentile £416 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £586
Median % change year-on-year - -10.37% +26.65%
75th Percentile £632 £581 £640
90th Percentile £697 £600 £698
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.43% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol -5 8 £550 +4.76% 22
Wiltshire +29 4 £340 -24.44% 2
Devon +13 4 - - 6
Somerset +4 3 £718 +59.44% 8
Gloucestershire +7 2 £400 -38.46% 20
Cornwall - 2 £575 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (4.00%) Appian
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Pendo
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) NUnit
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Postman
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Electronics
3 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (20.00%) Marketing
3 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (16.00%) Military
5 3 (12.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Back Office
7 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Test Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Test Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead .NET Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Agile Product Owner
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.00%) Playwright
4 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (8.00%) Swagger
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) Django
5 1 (4.00%) EDI
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.00%) HTML
5 1 (4.00%) PySpark
5 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) EPoS
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.00%) BDD
6 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) System Integration Testing
6 4 (16.00%) TDD
6 4 (16.00%) Test Scripting
7 3 (12.00%) Integration Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.00%) ISEB
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Citrix
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) VMware