Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South East

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the South East is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 186 219
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 8 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 31
10th Percentile £408 £463 £425
25th Percentile £419 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £556 £663 £625
90th Percentile £590 £794 £675
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,097 5,465 7,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 94.65% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,079 3,820 5,047
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £396 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £617 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 241 333
10th Percentile £12.78 £17.00 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.95
90th Percentile £77.04 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +11 6 £450 -30.77%
Oxfordshire - 4 £450 -
Berkshire -6 2 £500 -18.43%
Hampshire -3 1 £550 +15.79% 2
Kent - 1 £525 - 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) JSON
5 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Docker
5 2 (25.00%) Go
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Dependency Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Go
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Rust
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft