Azure DevOps Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 81 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 54 96 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.49% 3.49% 3.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.41% 9.68% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 71 89
10th Percentile £329 £400 £375
25th Percentile £363 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £558 £538
90th Percentile £548 £594 £628
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 992 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.11% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 735 778
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Edinburgh +12 34 £413 -8.33% 10
Glasgow +4 5 £488 -10.14% 2
Perthshire +6 4 £525 -6.08%
Lanarkshire +4 2 £388 -33.53% 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.85%) WildFly
3 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.41%) SaaS
4 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.70%) IaaS
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.85%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (1.85%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
1 8 (14.81%) Selenium
2 7 (12.96%) JIRA
2 7 (12.96%) WebDriver
3 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.56%) Subversion
4 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.70%) Maven
5 2 (3.70%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (1.85%) Appium
6 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.85%) Gradle
6 1 (1.85%) gulp
6 1 (1.85%) JUnit
6 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (51.85%) Public Sector
2 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Finance
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) .NET Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Senior
3 9 (16.67%) React Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Analyst
4 8 (14.81%) Lead
4 8 (14.81%) Senior .NET Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 7 (12.96%) Senior React Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Automation Tester
6 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 5 (9.26%) Tester
7 4 (7.41%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Test Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Project Support Officer
8 3 (5.56%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) .NET
2 11 (20.37%) React
3 4 (7.41%) CSS
3 4 (7.41%) HTML
3 4 (7.41%) Playwright
3 4 (7.41%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) SOAP
3 4 (7.41%) WinForms
3 4 (7.41%) WPF
4 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) Web Services
5 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.85%) Jest
5 1 (1.85%) JSP
5 1 (1.85%) OpenJDK
5 1 (1.85%) STL
5 1 (1.85%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 11 (20.37%) Legacy Applications
2 11 (20.37%) Wiki
3 4 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) AIX
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (55.56%) Agile
3 16 (29.63%) User Experience
4 13 (24.07%) Code Quality
5 12 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
6 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
6 11 (20.37%) Test Scripting
7 10 (18.52%) Project Management
7 10 (18.52%) Scrum
8 9 (16.67%) Software Delivery
9 8 (14.81%) Supplier Management
10 7 (12.96%) Change Control
10 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.96%) Dependency Management
10 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
10 7 (12.96%) Risk Management
10 7 (12.96%) User Research
11 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (9.26%) User Stories
12 4 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) C#
2 12 (22.22%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.26%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) VB
5 4 (7.41%) VB6
6 3 (5.56%) C++
6 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) VBA
7 2 (3.70%) VBScript
8 1 (1.85%) Bash
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) Groovy
8 1 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.85%) Python
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) ISEB
1 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
1 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) PMO
3 1 (1.85%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) Infragistics
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe
3 2 (3.70%) HP
3 2 (3.70%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) VMware