Azure DevOps Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 31 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.53% 4.84% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.27% 18.11% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 15
10th Percentile £254 £546 £394
25th Percentile £320 £583 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.14% +6.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £383 £600 £625
90th Percentile £408 £639 £645
Wales median daily rate £363 £586 £533
% change year-on-year -38.14% +10.05% +25.29%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 117 127 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 35.78% 26.74% 26.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 104 159
10th Percentile £143 £157 £256
25th Percentile £313 £252 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +16.62%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £579 £659 £638
Wales median daily rate £490 £466 £488
% change year-on-year +5.09% -4.36% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £12.54 -
25th Percentile £12.25 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £12.50 £15.35 £12.31
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +24.73% -43.14%
75th Percentile £12.75 £18.00 £16.50
90th Percentile - £20.40 £16.78
Wales median hourly rate £15.84 £15.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +5.57% +7.14% -33.33%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in South Wales

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cardiff -9 5 £363 -38.14% 5
Azure DevOps
Wales

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Health Informatics
4 1 (20.00%) Informatics
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Planview