Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > West Midlands

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the West Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 90 111
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 +20
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% 0.22% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.25% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -28.00%
75th Percentile £438 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -12.95%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,628 1,218 1,796
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 90.29% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 832 1,208
10th Percentile £305 £200 £246
25th Percentile £402 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £662 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 57 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.18
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -17.59% +17.76%
75th Percentile £33.75 £28.18 £39.38
90th Percentile £64.10 £34.25 £56.75
England median hourly rate £38.63 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.37% +7.69% -23.53%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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
Birmingham -22 1 £425 -5.56% 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 March 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
1 1 (100.00%) Zapier

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) n8n
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint