Azure DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 26 45 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.93% 2.31% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.99% 9.59% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 41
10th Percentile £413 £332 £398
25th Percentile £434 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £575
90th Percentile £638 £622 £673
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.43% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +16 14 £525 +23.53% 27
Warwickshire -5 5 £550 -9.39% 3
Shropshire - 5 £626 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £525 - 13
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) GIS
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Agile Coach
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Data Coordinator
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) ADO
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Software Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Project Management
6 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) High Availability
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Scrum
7 3 (11.54%) User Experience
8 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.69%) CRM
8 2 (7.69%) Data Management
8 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
8 2 (7.69%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C#
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Fujitsu
3 1 (3.85%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SAP