Azure DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 65 64 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 43 74 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.28% 3.27% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.39% 8.81% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 84
10th Percentile £329 £398 £384
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% +10.56%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £600
90th Percentile £653 £686 £638
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 458 840 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.23% 37.12% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 594 885
10th Percentile £213 £276 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +7.95% +20.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile - £25.31 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Warwickshire +15 15 £607 +21.40% 12
Birmingham 0 12 £475 -2.56% 21
Coventry -4 7 £475 +11.76% 4
West Bromwich - 2 £331 -
Worcestershire +1 1 £400 -11.11%
Solihull -14 1 £345 -34.29% 1
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (6.98%) CMS
1 3 (6.98%) Drupal
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Azure AKS
3 6 (13.95%) Azure App Service
3 6 (13.95%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (11.63%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Power Automate
4 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.63%) PowerApps
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
5 4 (9.30%) PaaS
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) SSL
3 2 (4.65%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) Extranet
4 1 (2.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
3 3 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
3 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 1 (2.33%) Flink
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) Visual Studio
3 5 (11.63%) Selenium
4 4 (9.30%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.98%) JIRA
5 3 (6.98%) NUnit
5 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (6.98%) Subversion
6 2 (4.65%) Moq
6 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.33%) Hudson
7 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Test Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Angular Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 4 (9.30%) Power Platform Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.98%) QA Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (41.86%) .NET
2 5 (11.63%) .NET Framework
2 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
2 5 (11.63%) RESTful
3 3 (6.98%) Entity Framework
3 3 (6.98%) Web Services
3 3 (6.98%) XML
3 3 (6.98%) XSLT
4 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.65%) JSON
4 2 (4.65%) YAML
5 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) LDAP
5 1 (2.33%) MDX
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) SAML
5 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
1 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (58.14%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
4 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (23.26%) Scrum
6 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (13.95%) CRM
8 6 (13.95%) Kanban
8 6 (13.95%) Microservices
8 6 (13.95%) Software Testing
8 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.63%) Business Analysis
9 5 (11.63%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) SDLC
9 5 (11.63%) User Experience
9 5 (11.63%) UX Design
10 4 (9.30%) Functional Testing
10 4 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) C#
1 15 (34.88%) SQL
2 6 (13.95%) Bicep
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.63%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
2 3 (6.98%) ISEB
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) Argo
4 1 (2.33%) Istio
4 1 (2.33%) linkerd
4 1 (2.33%) Packer
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) Rancher
4 1 (2.33%) SELinux
4 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.33%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) VMware