Azure DevOps Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 37 32
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.55% 1.96% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 5.81% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £423 £307 £519
25th Percentile £447 £347 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £394 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% -
75th Percentile £563 £402 £694
90th Percentile - £404 £734
North West median daily rate £544 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +5.00%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 53 86 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 27.32% 33.73% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 50 64
10th Percentile £355 £357 £155
25th Percentile £440 £400 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £623 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% -4.23% +52.94%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £715
90th Percentile £634 £717 £750
North West median daily rate £489 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.82% -3.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 4
10th Percentile - £38.59 £11.00
25th Percentile - - £16.24
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - +105.38% +28.49%
75th Percentile - - £27.23
90th Percentile - - £27.49
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -49.23% +242.11%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Lancashire

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Lancashire

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Chorley 0 2 £525 +31.25%
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft