Azure DevOps Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 104 79 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 85 156 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.83% 2.79% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.15% 7.67% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 138 143
10th Percentile £425 £423 £346
25th Percentile £453 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £660
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £48.50 £55.25
Median hourly rate - £49.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - -11.71% -
75th Percentile - £49.50 £55.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +26.80%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 2,034 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.77% 36.41% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1,520 1,907
10th Percentile £268 £300 £195
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £588
90th Percentile £645 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 74
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.05 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +81.95% +7.89%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £77.50
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -21 50 £519 -1.19% 52
Yorkshire -5 32 £488 -7.14% 36
North East +8 5 £473 -5.50% 13
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.35%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (10.59%) GitHub
2 9 (10.59%) Serverless
3 7 (8.24%) Azure Functions
4 6 (7.06%) Akamai
4 6 (7.06%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (7.06%) Cloudflare
5 4 (4.71%) AWS
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.24%) Redis
3 5 (5.88%) GIS
3 5 (5.88%) InterSystems Cache
3 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) JIRA
2 12 (14.12%) Git
3 5 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (4.71%) Selenium
5 3 (3.53%) GitLab
5 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.18%) Postman
6 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (10.59%) Finance
1 9 (10.59%) Retail
2 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.35%) Marketing
4 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Developer
2 22 (25.88%) Architect
3 18 (21.18%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (16.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) Senior
7 6 (7.06%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.06%) SQL Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Applications Architect
8 5 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.88%) SQL BI Developer
9 4 (4.71%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Programme Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.53%) IT Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) .NET
2 7 (8.24%) Node.js
3 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 5 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 5 (5.88%) SignalR
4 4 (4.71%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.71%) HTML
4 4 (4.71%) RESTful
5 3 (3.53%) CSS
5 3 (3.53%) React
5 3 (3.53%) REST
5 3 (3.53%) SOAP
6 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.35%) OpenLayers
6 2 (2.35%) PostGIS
6 2 (2.35%) pytest
6 2 (2.35%) Sass
6 2 (2.35%) YAML
7 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.35%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (54.12%) Agile
3 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.35%) Data Management
5 18 (21.18%) Migration
5 18 (21.18%) Project Delivery
6 17 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 16 (18.82%) Architectural Design
7 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (17.65%) Computer Science
9 14 (16.47%) Architecture Governance
10 13 (15.29%) Service Design
11 10 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
12 9 (10.59%) Software Testing
13 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (9.41%) Test Automation
14 6 (7.06%) Continuous Deployment
14 6 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.12%) SQL
2 10 (11.76%) C#
3 9 (10.59%) Python
4 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.41%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.71%) Bash
6 4 (4.71%) Bicep
7 3 (3.53%) C
8 2 (2.35%) Go
8 2 (2.35%) Java
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) MCSE
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) PMO
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (17.65%) Terraform
2 8 (9.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Grafana
3 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) F5
3 4 (4.71%) Cadence
4 2 (2.35%) Mapbox
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.18%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) Imperva
5 1 (1.18%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) Xamarin