Azure DevOps Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 71 76
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,043 1,606 2,294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.84% 3.28% 3.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.88% 8.96% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 1,181 1,675
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £64.50 £44.45 £54.63
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £77.27 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £69.01
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,745 17,918 26,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.95% 36.59% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,475 13,111 19,842
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +17 653 £525 -4.55% 131
South East -12 139 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -18 87 £500 -4.76% 88
South West -48 59 £525 -8.70% 31
Midlands -25 52 £450 +5.88% 69
North West -13 51 £513 +2.50% 48
West Midlands -11 43 £475 - 49
Yorkshire 0 33 £475 -9.52% 29
East of England +21 23 £500 -9.09% 14
East Midlands -5 9 £419 +7.44% 19
North East +13 5 £473 -5.50% 11
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 43 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.84%) Confluence
3 26 (2.49%) IIS
4 24 (2.30%) CMS
5 8 (0.77%) Site Server
6 6 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Jadu
10 2 (0.19%) Kentico
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.096%) Appian
11 1 (0.096%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (2.49%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.19%) Shopify
8 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.096%) Endur
8 1 (0.096%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.096%) Maximo
8 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.096%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (99.71%) Azure
2 128 (12.27%) Power Platform
3 111 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
4 104 (9.97%) Dynamics 365
5 101 (9.68%) Serverless
6 91 (8.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 86 (8.25%) AWS
8 82 (7.86%) Entra ID
9 75 (7.19%) Azure Functions
10 73 (7.00%) GitHub
10 73 (7.00%) Power Automate
10 73 (7.00%) PowerApps
11 70 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 53 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 53 (5.08%) PaaS
14 52 (4.99%) Azure API Management
15 37 (3.55%) Azure AKS
16 34 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (2.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.59%) Firewall
2 17 (1.63%) DNS
3 16 (1.53%) Network Security
4 11 (1.05%) FTP
5 10 (0.96%) Internet
5 10 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.96%) VPN
6 5 (0.48%) HTTP
6 5 (0.48%) SSL
7 4 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.38%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.29%) IPv4
8 3 (0.29%) SSH
9 1 (0.096%) 4G
9 1 (0.096%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.096%) Extranet
9 1 (0.096%) Intranet
9 1 (0.096%) MQTT
9 1 (0.096%) RS-232
9 1 (0.096%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (25.60%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.40%) Power BI
3 62 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 59 (5.66%) Data Lake
5 29 (2.78%) Redis
6 28 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (1.53%) Big Data
10 15 (1.44%) GIS
11 13 (1.25%) MySQL
11 13 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.96%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.67%) OLTP
14 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 167 (16.01%) Git
2 80 (7.67%) JIRA
3 60 (5.75%) Selenium
3 60 (5.75%) Visual Studio
4 54 (5.18%) SpecFlow
5 43 (4.12%) Jenkins
6 36 (3.45%) GitLab
7 23 (2.21%) Postman
8 20 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 17 (1.63%) TeamCity
10 16 (1.53%) NUnit
10 16 (1.53%) WebDriver
11 15 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (1.15%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.86%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.86%) Visual Studio Team System
15 8 (0.77%) Moq
16 7 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 238 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 219 (21.00%) Finance
3 149 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 103 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (3.93%) Retail
6 39 (3.74%) Back Office
7 37 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (2.97%) Banking
9 26 (2.49%) General Ledger
9 26 (2.49%) Marketing
10 24 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.63%) Electronics
13 15 (1.44%) Front Office
14 14 (1.34%) Legal
15 11 (1.05%) Local Government
16 9 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.77%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.67%) German Language
19 6 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 318 (30.49%) Developer
2 183 (17.55%) Senior
3 144 (13.81%) Azure Engineer
4 113 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 88 (8.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 82 (7.86%) Lead
8 77 (7.38%) Architect
9 75 (7.19%) Analyst
10 73 (7.00%) Azure Developer
11 63 (6.04%) .NET Developer
11 63 (6.04%) Consultant
12 58 (5.56%) C# Developer
13 57 (5.47%) Software Developer
14 41 (3.93%) Backend Developer
15 40 (3.84%) Senior Software Developer
16 39 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (3.64%) Test Analyst
18 34 (3.26%) Data Engineer
19 33 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (31.74%) .NET
2 139 (13.33%) XML
3 123 (11.79%) .NET Core
4 102 (9.78%) .NET Framework
5 70 (6.71%) React
6 66 (6.33%) AngularJS
7 62 (5.94%) HTML
8 58 (5.56%) CSS
9 56 (5.37%) ASP.NET
10 54 (5.18%) ARM Templates
11 53 (5.08%) REST
12 51 (4.89%) YAML
13 41 (3.93%) JSON
14 32 (3.07%) Node.js
15 28 (2.68%) RESTful
16 26 (2.49%) SOAP
17 25 (2.40%) Web Services
18 24 (2.30%) Entity Framework
19 23 (2.21%) ADO
19 23 (2.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 30 (2.88%) Cloud Native
3 28 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 20 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.63%) Derivative
6 16 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.44%) Client/Server
8 11 (1.05%) Contactless
8 11 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 10 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 10 (0.96%) Wiki
10 8 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.67%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.58%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 72 (6.90%) Windows
2 64 (6.14%) Linux
3 38 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.77%) Unix
6 5 (0.48%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.29%) VMS
8 2 (0.19%) Android
8 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.19%) Solaris
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.096%) CentOS
9 1 (0.096%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (99.62%) DevOps
2 504 (48.32%) Agile
3 335 (32.12%) CI/CD
4 220 (21.09%) Scrum
5 143 (13.71%) Test Automation
6 118 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (10.93%) TDD
9 106 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (9.78%) Migration
11 98 (9.40%) Software Engineering
12 79 (7.57%) API Management
13 78 (7.48%) OO
14 74 (7.09%) B2C
15 72 (6.90%) Project Delivery
16 64 (6.14%) Computer Science
17 55 (5.27%) Analytics
17 55 (5.27%) OOD
18 54 (5.18%) Continuous Integration
18 54 (5.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 364 (34.90%) C#
2 260 (24.93%) PowerShell
3 216 (20.71%) SQL
4 168 (16.11%) Python
5 121 (11.60%) Bicep
6 97 (9.30%) JavaScript
7 67 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.37%) Java
9 34 (3.26%) Bash
10 23 (2.21%) T-SQL
11 21 (2.01%) C++
12 16 (1.53%) C
13 15 (1.44%) VBScript
14 13 (1.25%) Rust
15 12 (1.15%) Go
16 8 (0.77%) Korn
16 8 (0.77%) Scala
17 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.38%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 102 (9.78%) Degree
1 102 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 62 (5.94%) SC Cleared
3 33 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 29 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.96%) ISTQB
7 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.48%) CBAP
9 5 (0.48%) ISEB
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.29%) CISM
11 3 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.19%) CEH
12 2 (0.19%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.19%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.096%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.04%) QA
2 35 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.21%) WCAG
4 11 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.77%) PMO
6 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.38%) NIST
8 3 (0.29%) GDPR
8 3 (0.29%) GRC
8 3 (0.29%) IFRS
8 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.19%) COBIT
9 2 (0.19%) GxP
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.096%) HL7
10 1 (0.096%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 80 (7.67%) Docker
3 25 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.38%) NFS
7 1 (0.096%) Ceph
7 1 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.096%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (15.63%) Terraform
2 83 (7.96%) Kubernetes
3 52 (4.99%) Ansible
4 14 (1.34%) SCOM
4 14 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.15%) Puppet
6 10 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.96%) SCCM
7 8 (0.77%) Grafana
8 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.38%) Argo
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.29%) Nessus
9 3 (0.29%) Packer
10 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) Kibana
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Netcool
10 2 (0.19%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 383 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.47%) Oracle
3 32 (3.07%) Databricks
4 31 (2.97%) SAP
4 31 (2.97%) VMware
5 21 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.34%) F5
8 10 (0.96%) ESRI
9 8 (0.77%) Guidewire
9 8 (0.77%) Splunk
10 7 (0.67%) Xamarin
11 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.48%) Adobe
12 5 (0.48%) Informatica
13 4 (0.38%) Cadence
13 4 (0.38%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.38%) Optimizely
13 4 (0.38%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.29%) Dynatrace