Azure Pipelines Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Pipelines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 426 497
Rank change year-on-year +35 +71 -82
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 5 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.090% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.095% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 4
10th Percentile £566 £413 £434
25th Percentile £580 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £589
90th Percentile £642 £669 £596
UK median daily rate £500 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +22.22%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Pipelines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK excluding London

Azure Pipelines
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West - 3 - - 1
South East +23 1 £650 - 5
North West - 1 £563 - 5
North of England - 1 £563 - 6
Azure Pipelines
UK

Azure Pipelines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft