Azure DevOps Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 87 71 92
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 48 86 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.72% 2.86% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 7.66% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 75 88
10th Percentile £450 £405 £322
25th Percentile £472 £469 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £466
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +12.60% -5.81%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £541
90th Percentile £663 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,122 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.77% 37.25% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 836 1,101
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.83 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.41 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% -15.10% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £64.65 £77.50
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester -7 36 £525 - 28
Cheshire -5 8 £475 -15.63% 3
Lancashire +2 4 £740 +90.97% 1
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 2 (4.17%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Serverless
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Storage
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) IaaS
4 2 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.08%) Commercetools
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.25%) GIS
3 2 (4.17%) Redis
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
1 6 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
2 3 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
3 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.08%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (14.58%) Finance
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Architect
2 14 (29.17%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (20.83%) Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior
7 5 (10.42%) Applications Architect
8 4 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Programme Manager
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (6.25%) GIS Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Lead
10 2 (4.17%) Analyst
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Developer
10 2 (4.17%) C# Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
2 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
2 5 (10.42%) Entity Framework
3 4 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) CSS
4 3 (6.25%) HTML
4 3 (6.25%) React
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) SOAP
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) pytest
5 2 (4.17%) YAML
6 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (2.08%) CSS3
6 1 (2.08%) Kafka
6 1 (2.08%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (64.58%) Agile
3 15 (31.25%) Data Management
4 13 (27.08%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
4 13 (27.08%) Project Delivery
5 11 (22.92%) Computer Science
5 11 (22.92%) Migration
6 10 (20.83%) Architectural Design
6 10 (20.83%) Architecture Governance
6 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.75%) Service Design
8 5 (10.42%) Project Management
8 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
8 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (8.33%) ITSM
9 4 (8.33%) MVC
9 4 (8.33%) Performance Management
9 4 (8.33%) Scrum
9 4 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) C#
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) Python
4 4 (8.33%) Bicep
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.25%) C
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
1 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Terraform
2 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Cadence
3 2 (4.17%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.08%) HP
4 1 (2.08%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) Xamarin