Azure DevOps Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 37 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 5 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 4.60% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 17.72% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 19
10th Percentile £254 £445 £363
25th Percentile £320 £558 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £586 £515
Median % change year-on-year -38.14% +13.79% +21.18%
75th Percentile £383 £600 £606
90th Percentile £408 £649 £640
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 129 158 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.25% 25.94% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 130 179
10th Percentile £143 £162 £225
25th Percentile £313 £256 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £575
90th Percentile £571 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.54 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.59 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £14.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +4.46% -35.72%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £17.43
90th Percentile £18.53 £16.43 £22.88
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Wales

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales -2 5 £363 -38.14% 15
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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