Azure DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 64 80
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 41 66 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.01% 2.98% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 8.15% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 40 79
10th Percentile £328 £398 £399
25th Percentile £400 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £611 £591 £625
90th Percentile £656 £689 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 486 810 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.80% 36.60% 34.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 565 884
10th Percentile £203 £272 £213
25th Percentile £326 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £611 £610 £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 12 4 14
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.54 £12.55
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.98 £15.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +6.53% +31.03%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £21.82
90th Percentile £33.19 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Warwickshire +5 14 £607 +21.40% 11
Birmingham -3 11 £463 -5.13% 19
Coventry -1 7 £475 -20.83% 6
West Bromwich - 2 £331 -
Worcestershire -5 1 £400 -11.11%
Solihull -12 1 £345 -16.36% 3
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 (7.32%) CMS
1 3 (7.32%) Drupal
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Azure AKS
2 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
3 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Azure App Service
3 6 (14.63%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (14.63%) Power Automate
3 6 (14.63%) PowerApps
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Functions
4 4 (9.76%) PaaS
4 4 (9.76%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) IaaS
6 2 (4.88%) SonarCloud
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) SSL
3 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) Extranet
4 1 (2.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.63%) Power BI
3 4 (9.76%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (9.76%) MySQL
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.44%) Flink
6 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) Visual Studio
3 5 (12.20%) Selenium
4 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 3 (7.32%) NUnit
5 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (7.32%) Subversion
6 2 (4.88%) Moq
6 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.44%) Hudson
7 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Test Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Angular Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Power Platform Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.32%) QA Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) .NET
2 6 (14.63%) .NET Framework
3 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.20%) RESTful
4 4 (9.76%) Entity Framework
4 4 (9.76%) Web Services
4 4 (9.76%) XML
4 4 (9.76%) XSLT
5 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.88%) JSON
5 2 (4.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) LDAP
6 1 (2.44%) MDX
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.95%) Scrum
6 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (14.63%) CRM
8 5 (12.20%) Business Analysis
8 5 (12.20%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (12.20%) Kanban
8 5 (12.20%) Microservices
8 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
8 5 (12.20%) User Experience
8 5 (12.20%) UX Design
9 4 (9.76%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (9.76%) Intelligent Automation
9 4 (9.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) C#
2 14 (34.15%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Bicep
4 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) Bash
5 3 (7.32%) Python
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.32%) ISEB
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (7.32%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.44%) Argo
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
4 1 (2.44%) linkerd
4 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.44%) Puppet
4 1 (2.44%) Rancher
4 1 (2.44%) SELinux
4 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) VMware