Azure DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 62 88
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 51 114 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.89% 3.47% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.66% 10.03% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 77 102
10th Percentile £317 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £587
90th Percentile £634 £659 £638
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 666 1,137 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.73% 34.63% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 817 1,199
10th Percentile £195 £213 £205
25th Percentile £325 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £576 £575
90th Percentile £679 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 33
10th Percentile - £14.66 £13.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.23 £18.86 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% +1.95% +23.33%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.41 £22.25
90th Percentile £31.53 £26.48 £24.95
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands -1 43 £475 - 49
East Midlands -17 8 £410 +5.00% 19
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) CMS
1 3 (5.88%) Drupal
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Appian
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (96.08%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) Azure AKS
3 6 (11.76%) Azure App Service
3 6 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (9.80%) AWS
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Functions
4 5 (9.80%) Power Automate
4 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
4 5 (9.80%) PowerApps
4 5 (9.80%) Serverless
5 4 (7.84%) PaaS
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
7 2 (3.92%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) SSL
3 2 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) Extranet
4 1 (1.96%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) Power BI
3 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (5.88%) MySQL
3 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.92%) Big Data
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.96%) Flink
5 1 (1.96%) Metadata
5 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) Visual Studio
3 7 (13.73%) Selenium
4 4 (7.84%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.88%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) NUnit
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (5.88%) Subversion
6 2 (3.92%) Moq
6 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.92%) TestRail
7 1 (1.96%) Hudson
7 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.96%) Games
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Developer
2 15 (29.41%) Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Test Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Angular Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.88%) QA Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.92%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) .NET
2 5 (9.80%) .NET Framework
2 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
2 5 (9.80%) RESTful
3 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 3 (5.88%) Web Services
3 3 (5.88%) XML
3 3 (5.88%) XSLT
4 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (3.92%) CSS
4 2 (3.92%) HTML
4 2 (3.92%) JSON
4 2 (3.92%) React
4 2 (3.92%) YAML
5 1 (1.96%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.96%) Jest
5 1 (1.96%) Redux
5 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) e-Health
4 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.96%) LIMS
4 1 (1.96%) NHS
4 1 (1.96%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.96%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
1 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (96.08%) DevOps
2 27 (52.94%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (19.61%) Scrum
6 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (17.65%) Software Testing
7 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.76%) CRM
8 6 (11.76%) Kanban
8 6 (11.76%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) Business Analysis
9 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (9.80%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (9.80%) SDLC
9 5 (9.80%) User Experience
9 5 (9.80%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (11.76%) Bicep
3 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.80%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.88%) ISEB
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (27.45%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
2 5 (9.80%) Ansible
3 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.96%) Argo
4 1 (1.96%) Istio
4 1 (1.96%) linkerd
4 1 (1.96%) Packer
4 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
4 1 (1.96%) Rancher
4 1 (1.96%) SELinux
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle
3 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.92%) Databricks
5 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Ariba
6 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.96%) Citrix
6 1 (1.96%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.96%) VMware
6 1 (1.96%) Workday