Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 21 11 29
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 4.41% 2.57% 6.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.94% 7.75% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 25
10th Percentile £375 £388 £155
25th Percentile £405 £408 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £363
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +32.76% -42.69%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £600
90th Percentile £733 £603 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%

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 124 142 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 26.05% 33.18% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 110 119
10th Percentile £170 £180 £173
25th Percentile £293 £234 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £454 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% +10.00% -17.50%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £551
90th Percentile £696 £638 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 5
10th Percentile £15.72 £20.77 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.50 £13.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% +79.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £21.50 £35.46 £23.75
90th Percentile £28.57 £39.27 £103.10
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Wales

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Wales over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 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
South Wales +14 20 £463 -3.90% 4
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) GitHub
3 8 (38.10%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
6 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) JMeter
1 9 (42.86%) Selenium
2 7 (33.33%) MSTest
3 6 (28.57%) Visual Studio
4 5 (23.81%) Git
4 5 (23.81%) GitLab
4 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (23.81%) JIRA
5 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
5 4 (19.05%) Zephyr
6 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (9.52%) Postman
6 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
7 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 6 (28.57%) Tester
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Automation Tester
3 5 (23.81%) Senior Tester
4 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
6 2 (9.52%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Web Services
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) ADO
4 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) Flutter
4 2 (9.52%) HTML
4 2 (9.52%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (9.52%) Playwright
4 2 (9.52%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) NHS
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
4 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 8 (38.10%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
6 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 6 (28.57%) Design Patterns
6 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 6 (28.57%) Unit Testing
7 5 (23.81%) AI
7 5 (23.81%) ETL
8 4 (19.05%) BDD
8 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) C#
2 11 (52.38%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) ISTQB
3 5 (23.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (28.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (14.29%) QA
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Argo
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Podman
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk