Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > Yorkshire

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Yorkshire is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 113 97
Rank change year-on-year -41 -16 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.10% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £350 £441 £380
25th Percentile £360 £483 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.59% +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £420 £550 £588
90th Percentile £431 - £625
England median daily rate £494 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +3.89% -13.64% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,656 1,423 1,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.50% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,604 927 839
10th Percentile £325 £246 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 46 57
10th Percentile £15.39 £15.55 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +5.43% +2.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £81.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £40.89 - £48.75
England median hourly rate £44.03 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +75.07% -47.05% +8.20%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
West Yorkshire -18 2 £390 -16.80% 2
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 Yorkshire region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft