Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 68 69
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 49 39 49
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.18% 2.33% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.29% 7.01% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 37
10th Percentile £404 £342 £370
25th Percentile £456 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +13.51% -7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £598 £550
90th Percentile £665 £644 £643
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £68.38 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -7.28% +18.95% -5.76%

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 779 556 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.61% 33.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 377 457
10th Percentile £303 £228 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure DevOps

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 17 December 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 17 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
Worcestershire -4 15 £625 - 1
Warwickshire -4 14 £463 -22.92% 1
Birmingham -13 13 £588 +17.50% 13
Herefordshire -10 7 £650 +9.70%
Coventry -17 2 £440 +10.00% 2
Solihull +1 1 - -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
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 5 (10.20%) OpenStack
2 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (4.08%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) GitHub
3 17 (34.69%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (32.65%) Serverless
5 12 (24.49%) GCP
6 10 (20.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (18.37%) AWS
8 8 (16.33%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (14.29%) Apigee
9 7 (14.29%) Azure AKS
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
9 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 7 (14.29%) SaaS
10 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (10.20%) Datadog
11 5 (10.20%) npm
11 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
11 5 (10.20%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
1 2 (4.08%) LAN
1 2 (4.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) DHCP
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.04%) VLAN
2 1 (2.04%) VPN
2 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.33%) Redis
3 7 (14.29%) Power BI
4 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.24%) MySQL
4 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Git
2 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.33%) JIRA
3 7 (14.29%) CircleCI
4 6 (12.24%) Bitbucket
4 6 (12.24%) Cypress.io
4 6 (12.24%) Selenium
4 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
5 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
5 5 (10.20%) GitLab
5 5 (10.20%) Gradle
5 5 (10.20%) JUnit
5 5 (10.20%) Maven
5 5 (10.20%) Postman
5 5 (10.20%) Snyk
5 5 (10.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (10.20%) webpack
General
1 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Backend Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Python Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Architect
4 7 (14.29%) GCP Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Azure Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Cloud Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Business Architect
6 5 (10.20%) TOGAF Architect
6 5 (10.20%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Test Manager
8 3 (6.12%) Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior
9 2 (4.08%) Application Integration Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead
9 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) REST
2 8 (16.33%) FastAPI
2 8 (16.33%) Flask
2 8 (16.33%) GraphQL
2 8 (16.33%) WebSockets
2 8 (16.33%) YAML
3 7 (14.29%) gRPC
4 6 (12.24%) Node.js
5 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (10.20%) JSON
6 3 (6.12%) .NET
7 2 (4.08%) ADO
7 2 (4.08%) OAuth
7 2 (4.08%) RESTful
8 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.04%) Django
8 1 (2.04%) Middleware
8 1 (2.04%) PySpark
8 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) CMDB
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) SUSE
4 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (61.22%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
4 13 (26.53%) Agile
5 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.45%) Task Automation
7 9 (18.37%) API Management
8 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.29%) Analytics
9 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (14.29%) Microservices
9 7 (14.29%) Scrum
10 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
10 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
10 6 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (12.24%) DevSecOps
10 6 (12.24%) ETL
10 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) Go
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
4 6 (12.24%) VBA
5 3 (6.12%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) VBScript
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.12%) Degree
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.04%) PMP
7 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 13 (26.53%) Grafana
2 13 (26.53%) Prometheus
3 10 (20.41%) Terraform
4 5 (10.20%) Ansible
4 5 (10.20%) Podman
4 5 (10.20%) Progress Chef
4 5 (10.20%) Puppet
5 2 (4.08%) HP ALM
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Google
3 5 (10.20%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) Adobe
5 2 (4.08%) ArcSight
5 2 (4.08%) Databricks
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) Workday
6 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.04%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Veeam