Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.14% - 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.06% - 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £481 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £580 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +17.47% -10.23% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 62 23 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 38.99% 16.91% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 26
10th Percentile £369 - £353
25th Percentile £483 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £516 £521
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% -0.91% -5.27%
75th Percentile £588 £667 £634
90th Percentile £630 £716 £636
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +6.80% -10.43% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £70.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year -46.80% +295.70% -26.83%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Southampton

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Southampton over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Southampton

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Batch
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bicep
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft