Azure DevOps Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 50 80
Rank change year-on-year -11 +30 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 36 59 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.50% 3.31% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 7.98% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 60
10th Percentile £450 £418 £343
25th Percentile £491 £475 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £566
90th Percentile £600 £645 £640
North West median daily rate £519 £525 £458
% change year-on-year -1.19% +14.75% -8.04%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 531 739 1,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.82% 41.42% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 564 814
10th Percentile £313 £325 £277
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £615
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £22.90 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £18.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £37.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.62% +35.64% +71.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
% change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +50.83%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cheadle - 1 £400 -
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
3 2 (5.56%) IaaS
3 2 (5.56%) PaaS
3 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure App Service
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (8.33%) GIS
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Redis
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
1 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (8.33%) Finance
1 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
3 1 (2.78%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Architect
2 13 (36.11%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Applications Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) GIS Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
1 4 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 4 (11.11%) RESTful
2 3 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (8.33%) HTML
2 3 (8.33%) SOAP
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) pytest
3 2 (5.56%) React
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.78%) AWS SAM
4 1 (2.78%) Jest
4 1 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (55.56%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) Data Management
4 12 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 12 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
6 10 (27.78%) Migration
7 9 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 9 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
7 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (22.22%) Service Design
9 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
10 3 (8.33%) Analytics
10 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (8.33%) CRM
10 3 (8.33%) Integration Testing
10 3 (8.33%) MVC
10 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) C#
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) Bicep
3 3 (8.33%) C
3 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Mapbox
2 2 (5.56%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.78%) VMware
3 1 (2.78%) Xamarin