Azure DevOps Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 92 71 88
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 50 95 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.87% 3.09% 2.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 8.28% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 82 89
10th Percentile £437 £419 £323
25th Percentile £466 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £560 £550
90th Percentile £653 £636 £653
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,148 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.13% 37.39% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 850 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £313 £230
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.63
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £24.03
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +45.67% +32.31%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester 0 38 £525 - 41
Cheshire +1 8 £475 -14.65% 3
Lancashire +7 4 £740 +97.33% 4
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Serverless
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) IaaS
5 1 (2.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.00%) GIS
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA
3 4 (8.00%) Selenium
4 3 (6.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.00%) Postman
5 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (16.00%) Finance
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Architect
2 14 (28.00%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (24.00%) Developer
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Applications Architect
8 4 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Lead
8 4 (8.00%) Programme Manager
9 3 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (6.00%) GIS Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Architect
10 2 (4.00%) C# Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 5 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 5 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.00%) RESTful
4 3 (6.00%) CSS
4 3 (6.00%) HTML
4 3 (6.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) SOAP
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) pytest
5 2 (4.00%) YAML
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.00%) HTML5
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) Agile
3 15 (30.00%) Data Management
4 13 (26.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (24.00%) Project Delivery
6 11 (22.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (22.00%) Migration
7 10 (20.00%) Architectural Design
7 10 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
8 9 (18.00%) Service Design
9 5 (10.00%) Project Management
9 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (8.00%) Performance Management
10 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (8.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) C#
2 7 (14.00%) SQL
3 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) C
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Go
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) MCSE
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
1 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
3 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Cadence
3 2 (4.00%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Xamarin