Azure DevOps Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 13 4 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.33% 0.98% 4.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.71% 3.03% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 24
10th Percentile £175 £239 £443
25th Percentile £274 £283 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £363 £586
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -38.14% +10.05%
75th Percentile £459 £397 £600
90th Percentile £502 £414 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.77% -6.43% +21.33%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 111 132 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 37.00% 32.35% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 104 133
10th Percentile £190 £143 £158
25th Percentile £278 £313 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £486 £538 £600
90th Percentile £587 £584 £663
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.98 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% -1.03% +6.67%
75th Percentile £38.25 £17.57 £19.33
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £23.60
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.23% -38.57% +59.09%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
South Wales +10 10 £405 +11.72% 27
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) OCI
3 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) Asana
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) Subversion
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Power Apps Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (23.08%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (7.69%) FHIR
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) CRM
5 3 (23.08%) Data Security
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) SOA
6 2 (15.38%) Business Case
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Kanban
6 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) RedGate
4 1 (7.69%) Sparx