Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 368 396
Rank change year-on-year -103 +28 -97
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 127 395 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.70% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 294 424
10th Percentile £411 £475 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -1.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £694 £746 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +16.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -89 100 £513 -10.87% 22
London -49 57 £538 -12.24% 8
Work from Home -19 47 £513 -10.87% 14
UK excluding London -8 39 £500 -9.09% 15
North of England +18 17 £513 -2.38% 3
North West +3 10 £525 - 2
South East +2 8 £450 -18.18% 9
Yorkshire +18 7 £475 -9.52% 1
East of England +19 5 £450 -30.77%
Scotland +35 3 £440 - 1
South West -3 3 £525 -6.67% 1
Wales - 2 £650 -
West Midlands +15 1 £450 -28.00%
Midlands +8 1 £450 -28.00% 1

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (100.00%) Azure
1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (83.46%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (53.54%) Terraform
4 63 (49.61%) CI/CD
5 51 (40.16%) Kubernetes
6 50 (39.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (37.01%) PowerShell
8 39 (30.71%) Docker
9 38 (29.92%) Python
10 30 (23.62%) Microsoft
11 29 (22.83%) Agile
12 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
13 22 (17.32%) AWS
14 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
15 20 (15.75%) PaaS
15 20 (15.75%) .NET
15 20 (15.75%) Finance
15 20 (15.75%) Ansible
16 19 (14.96%) Linux
17 18 (14.17%) ARM Templates
17 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
18 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (12.60%) Git
20 15 (11.81%) Computer Science
20 15 (11.81%) GitLab
20 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
21 14 (11.02%) Containerisation
21 14 (11.02%) Azure Certification
21 14 (11.02%) GitHub

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (6.30%) IIS
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Trello
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) Azure
2 106 (83.46%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.32%) AWS
4 20 (15.75%) PaaS
5 14 (11.02%) GitHub
6 12 (9.45%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.30%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.30%) Serverless
8 7 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.72%) GCP
9 6 (4.72%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.94%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (3.94%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.15%) Miro
11 4 (3.15%) SaaS
12 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) DNS
2 8 (6.30%) VPN
3 6 (4.72%) Firewall
4 5 (3.94%) HTTP
4 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.15%) Internet
5 4 (3.15%) SSH
6 1 (0.79%) IPv4
6 1 (0.79%) MQTT
6 1 (0.79%) Network Security
6 1 (0.79%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.94%) Power BI
2 5 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.15%) Redis
4 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) Flink
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.60%) Git
2 15 (11.81%) GitLab
3 14 (11.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.51%) Selenium
5 4 (3.15%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.36%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.79%) Gradle
8 1 (0.79%) JIRA
8 1 (0.79%) JMeter
8 1 (0.79%) Maven
8 1 (0.79%) Snyk
8 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (15.75%) Finance
2 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.24%) Banking
5 5 (3.94%) Electronics
5 5 (3.94%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.94%) Marketing
5 5 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.57%) Wearables
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.75%) .NET
2 18 (14.17%) ARM Templates
3 12 (9.45%) JSON
4 11 (8.66%) YAML
5 8 (6.30%) Kafka
6 4 (3.15%) LDAP
6 4 (3.15%) Node.js
6 4 (3.15%) pytest
7 3 (2.36%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.36%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.57%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.57%) CSS
8 2 (1.57%) HTML
8 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.57%) RESTful
9 1 (0.79%) ADO
9 1 (0.79%) MFC
9 1 (0.79%) React
9 1 (0.79%) WinForms
9 1 (0.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.36%) Tandem
6 2 (1.57%) Genomics
6 2 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.79%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.79%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.96%) Linux
2 13 (10.24%) Windows
3 5 (3.94%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.79%) CentOS
5 1 (0.79%) Debian
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (49.61%) CI/CD
3 50 (39.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (22.83%) Agile
5 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.81%) Computer Science
7 14 (11.02%) Containerisation
8 11 (8.66%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (7.87%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (7.87%) Test Automation
10 9 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (7.09%) Open Source
11 8 (6.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.51%) Microservices
12 7 (5.51%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (5.51%) Software Engineering
13 6 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (4.72%) Migration
13 6 (4.72%) Scrum
13 6 (4.72%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.01%) PowerShell
2 38 (29.92%) Python
3 14 (11.02%) Bash
4 13 (10.24%) C#
4 13 (10.24%) SQL
5 8 (6.30%) Java
6 7 (5.51%) Bicep
6 7 (5.51%) Go
7 4 (3.15%) C++
8 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.57%) C
9 2 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.57%) Ruby
9 2 (1.57%) Rust
9 2 (1.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.79%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.02%) Azure Certification
3 14 (11.02%) Degree
4 9 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.79%) MCSE
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (30.71%) Docker
2 12 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 68 (53.54%) Terraform
2 51 (40.16%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.75%) Ansible
4 6 (4.72%) Grafana
4 6 (4.72%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.72%) Puppet
5 5 (3.94%) SCOM
6 4 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.15%) SCCM
7 3 (2.36%) Argo
8 2 (1.57%) Netcool
8 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.79%) Consul
9 1 (0.79%) Istio
9 1 (0.79%) linkerd
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) SELinux
9 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) Databricks
2 6 (4.72%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.72%) Splunk
3 5 (3.94%) SAP
4 4 (3.15%) F5
5 2 (1.57%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.57%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) VMware
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