Azure DevOps Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 141 205 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.53% 3.51% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.06% 11.97% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 170 192
10th Percentile £425 £463 £375
25th Percentile £463 £504 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £641 £613
90th Percentile £648 £675 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £32.36
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.51
Median hourly rate £52.50 £79.19 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +27.42% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - £68.49
90th Percentile - - £79.90
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +25.56%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,402 1,713 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.19% 29.35% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,257 1,787
10th Percentile £243 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.10 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -2.21%
75th Percentile £58.06 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +44.05% -2.33%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -9 90 £513 -14.58% 17
Berkshire -12 73 £550 - 7
Hampshire -23 28 £550 - 18
Surrey +11 17 £560 +5.16% 17
Oxfordshire - 10 £450 - 6
Buckinghamshire +4 7 £350 -46.15% 4
Kent +7 3 £550 -8.33% 4
West Sussex +6 2 £550 -
East Sussex 0 2 £475 -39.87% 2
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.51%) Confluence
2 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) CMS
4 2 (1.42%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.42%) Kentico
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Jadu
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) Site Server
5 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (12.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (7.09%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (5.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.71%) Maximo
6 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (17.02%) Power Platform
3 16 (11.35%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (9.93%) Azure Logic Apps
4 14 (9.93%) Power Automate
4 14 (9.93%) PowerApps
5 13 (9.22%) Serverless
6 11 (7.80%) Azure Functions
6 11 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (7.80%) PaaS
7 9 (6.38%) Azure API Management
8 8 (5.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.96%) AWS
9 7 (4.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.84%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.84%) IaaS
12 3 (2.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.42%) DNS
2 2 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.77%) Power BI
2 17 (12.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.13%) Big Data
7 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.42%) Tableau
9 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.71%) GIS
9 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.71%) MySQL
9 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (14.18%) JIRA
2 17 (12.06%) Git
3 12 (8.51%) Selenium
4 8 (5.67%) Visual Studio
5 7 (4.96%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (4.26%) Postman
6 6 (4.26%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.55%) SpecFlow
8 4 (2.84%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.13%) GitLab
10 2 (1.42%) Appium
10 2 (1.42%) NUnit
10 2 (1.42%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.71%) MSTest
11 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 33 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.89%) Finance
4 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.71%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (27.66%) Developer
2 22 (15.60%) Analyst
3 13 (9.22%) Lead
4 11 (7.80%) Consultant
4 11 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (7.09%) Azure Developer
6 9 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.38%) Test Analyst
7 8 (5.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Functional Consultant
7 8 (5.67%) Integration Developer
7 8 (5.67%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (5.67%) Oracle P2P Consultant
7 8 (5.67%) QA Analyst
7 8 (5.67%) QA Test Analyst
8 7 (4.96%) C# Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 6 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Senior
10 5 (3.55%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.31%) .NET
2 11 (7.80%) JSON
3 10 (7.09%) XML
4 9 (6.38%) ARM Templates
5 8 (5.67%) .NET Framework
5 8 (5.67%) CSS
6 7 (4.96%) HTML
6 7 (4.96%) REST
7 6 (4.26%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.26%) React
8 5 (3.55%) SOAP
9 4 (2.84%) ADO
9 4 (2.84%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.84%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.84%) OpenID
10 3 (2.13%) DOM
10 3 (2.13%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.13%) GatsbyJS
10 3 (2.13%) Node.js
10 3 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.64%) Client/Server
2 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.42%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) PKI
6 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.02%) Linux
2 18 (12.77%) Windows
3 17 (12.06%) Windows Server
4 16 (11.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (99.29%) DevOps
2 72 (51.06%) Agile
3 26 (18.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 25 (17.73%) Test Automation
5 22 (15.60%) CI/CD
5 22 (15.60%) Scrum
6 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (12.06%) Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (10.64%) Application Packaging
8 15 (10.64%) Application Virtualisation
9 12 (8.51%) Analytics
9 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (7.80%) Release Management
11 10 (7.09%) Migration
11 10 (7.09%) OO
11 10 (7.09%) Test Management
12 9 (6.38%) E-business
12 9 (6.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.99%) C#
2 30 (21.28%) SQL
3 28 (19.86%) PowerShell
3 28 (19.86%) Python
4 15 (10.64%) VBScript
5 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.09%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.55%) Scala
8 4 (2.84%) X++
9 3 (2.13%) C
9 3 (2.13%) Go
9 3 (2.13%) Java
10 2 (1.42%) Bicep
10 2 (1.42%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) Bash
11 1 (0.71%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) Rust
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.35%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) Degree
3 11 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.42%) CBAP
4 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) CSPO
5 1 (0.71%) IIBA
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) PMO
3 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) GxP
4 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.64%) Terraform
2 9 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.67%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Nessus
4 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) SCOM
4 1 (0.71%) vRealize
4 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.73%) Oracle
3 18 (12.77%) VMware
4 7 (4.96%) Databricks
5 5 (3.55%) Informatica
6 4 (2.84%) SAP
7 3 (2.13%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.42%) Atmel
8 2 (1.42%) Citrix
8 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) Adobe
9 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.71%) BMC
9 1 (0.71%) ESRI
9 1 (0.71%) Google
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.71%) Remedy
9 1 (0.71%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.71%) Talend