Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.62% 1.83% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 4.49% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £601 £478 £443
25th Percentile £603 £491 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £628 £555 £569
90th Percentile £634 £566 £588
North East median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +2.94%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 141 89 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 43.38% 40.83% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 46 43
10th Percentile £213 £305 £163
25th Percentile £367 £358 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £452 £405
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +11.60% -29.57%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £533
90th Percentile £700 £625 £586
North East median daily rate £475 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +1.06% +17.50% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £39.40 - £18.65
25th Percentile £44.50 - £23.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £32.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £32.88
90th Percentile - - £33.40
North East median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £32.25
% change year-on-year +13.69% +43.19% +43.33%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -14 2 £613 +16.67% 11
Azure DevOps
North East

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat