Azure DevOps Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -50 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 56 151 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.72% 4.44% 3.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.97% 13.49% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 129 75
10th Percentile £421 £411 £413
25th Percentile £461 £510 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.94% +15.02% +10.81%
75th Percentile £580 £640 £596
90th Percentile £591 £703 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +25.85%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 1,119 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.68% 32.89% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 899 870
10th Percentile £213 £288 £250
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £612
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 60 21
10th Percentile £12.70 £16.51 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +155.81% -55.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bristol +1 33 £525 -4.55% 8
Gloucestershire +8 12 £575 -4.17% 4
Devon +3 6 £575 +130.00% 4
Wiltshire -57 3 £450 -21.74% 3
Somerset -15 2 £450 -34.71% 4
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 7 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.57%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 55 (98.21%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (7.14%) PaaS
5 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.57%) GCP
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Power BI
3 3 (5.36%) GIS
4 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) SonarQube
1 8 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 7 (12.50%) Postman
3 6 (10.71%) Artifactory
3 6 (10.71%) Git
4 5 (8.93%) JIRA
4 5 (8.93%) NUnit
5 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.36%) Selenium
7 2 (3.57%) GitLab
7 2 (3.57%) Snyk
8 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.79%) TestRail
General
1 8 (14.29%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.71%) Legal
4 4 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Electronics
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Architect
2 11 (19.64%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (16.07%) Senior
4 8 (14.29%) Developer
5 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) SharePoint Architect
6 6 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Test Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Test Manager
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.36%) GIS Architect
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.71%) .NET
2 7 (12.50%) YAML
3 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.93%) GraphQL
4 5 (8.93%) Playwright
5 3 (5.36%) Blazor
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.79%) CSS
6 1 (1.79%) CSS3
6 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.79%) HTML
6 1 (1.79%) HTML5
6 1 (1.79%) PySpark
6 1 (1.79%) REST
6 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) DevOps
2 30 (53.57%) Agile
3 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.43%) Data Management
5 10 (17.86%) Migration
6 9 (16.07%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
6 9 (16.07%) Test Strategy
7 8 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 8 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 8 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
8 7 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 7 (12.50%) Scrum
8 7 (12.50%) Software Delivery
9 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.71%) CRM
9 6 (10.71%) Kanban
9 6 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) C#
2 11 (19.64%) SQL
3 9 (16.07%) C
4 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (12.50%) Bash
6 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.14%) Bicep
7 4 (7.14%) Python
8 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.57%) Java
10 1 (1.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Degree
4 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (14.29%) Ansible
3 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.57%) Argo
4 2 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Mapbox
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.57%) VMware
3 2 (3.57%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle