Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 76 65 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,214 1,922 3,030
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.82% 3.31% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.72% 8.99% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1,398 2,213
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.88
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £68.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.13% +23.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,922 21,371 33,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 36.84% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,900 15,444 24,526
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 346 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.54
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £62.45 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 within the UK 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
England -1 1,042 £521 -5.33% 400
London +15 653 £525 -4.55% 141
Work from Home +4 519 £520 -4.15% 258
UK excluding London -38 415 £500 -8.26% 289
South East -12 138 £525 -4.55% 45
North of England -16 87 £500 - 79
South West -48 59 £525 -8.70% 35
Scotland +1 53 £450 -5.26% 19
Midlands -14 53 £438 - 66
North West -15 51 £513 +2.50% 45
West Midlands -7 43 £475 - 46
Yorkshire +2 33 £475 -9.52% 28
East of England +14 23 £500 -9.09% 14
East Midlands -1 10 £419 +4.42% 19
Wales -1 7 £363 -38.14% 20
North East +11 5 £473 -5.50% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 14
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

Azure DevOps
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 57 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.04%) Confluence
3 30 (2.47%) IIS
4 29 (2.39%) CMS
5 9 (0.74%) Apache
5 9 (0.74%) Site Server
6 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Kentico
7 6 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.16%) Jadu
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.082%) InVision
6 1 (0.082%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Shopify
9 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.082%) Endur
9 1 (0.082%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.082%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (99.67%) Azure
2 148 (12.19%) Power Platform
3 121 (9.97%) Azure Service Bus
4 112 (9.23%) AWS
5 111 (9.14%) Dynamics 365
6 106 (8.73%) Serverless
7 95 (7.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 95 (7.83%) GitHub
8 90 (7.41%) Entra ID
9 83 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
10 78 (6.43%) Azure Functions
11 75 (6.18%) PaaS
11 75 (6.18%) Power Automate
11 75 (6.18%) PowerApps
12 74 (6.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 63 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 57 (4.70%) Azure API Management
15 46 (3.79%) IaaS
16 45 (3.71%) Azure AKS
17 39 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.55%) Firewall
2 23 (1.89%) Network Security
3 21 (1.73%) DNS
4 11 (0.91%) FTP
5 10 (0.82%) Internet
5 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) SSL
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.33%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.25%) IPv4
9 3 (0.25%) SSH
10 1 (0.082%) 4G
10 1 (0.082%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.082%) Extranet
10 1 (0.082%) Intranet
10 1 (0.082%) MQTT
10 1 (0.082%) PPP
10 1 (0.082%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (23.15%) SQL Server
2 114 (9.39%) Power BI
3 73 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 67 (5.52%) Data Lake
5 38 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.47%) Redis
8 29 (2.39%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.40%) MySQL
12 16 (1.32%) Big Data
12 16 (1.32%) GIS
13 14 (1.15%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.91%) Tableau
15 8 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.58%) OLTP
16 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 200 (16.47%) Git
2 98 (8.07%) JIRA
3 70 (5.77%) Selenium
4 65 (5.35%) Visual Studio
5 55 (4.53%) SpecFlow
6 53 (4.37%) Jenkins
7 39 (3.21%) GitLab
8 30 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.98%) Postman
10 23 (1.89%) WebDriver
11 21 (1.73%) TeamCity
12 18 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
13 16 (1.32%) NUnit
14 15 (1.24%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.82%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.82%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
17 8 (0.66%) Moq
General
1 282 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 235 (19.36%) Finance
3 186 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 114 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.87%) Retail
6 39 (3.21%) Back Office
7 36 (2.97%) Banking
8 35 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.31%) Marketing
10 27 (2.22%) General Ledger
11 26 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.57%) Electronics
14 17 (1.40%) Legal
15 16 (1.32%) Front Office
16 15 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.91%) Local Government
18 11 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
19 10 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 350 (28.83%) Developer
2 200 (16.47%) Senior
3 163 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 127 (10.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 117 (9.64%) Senior Developer
6 104 (8.57%) Lead
7 100 (8.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 95 (7.83%) Architect
9 87 (7.17%) Analyst
10 81 (6.67%) Azure Developer
11 78 (6.43%) .NET Developer
12 70 (5.77%) Consultant
13 63 (5.19%) C# Developer
14 59 (4.86%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.54%) Test Analyst
17 41 (3.38%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.38%) Data Engineer
17 41 (3.38%) Senior Software Developer
18 35 (2.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (30.23%) .NET
2 142 (11.70%) XML
3 130 (10.71%) .NET Core
4 108 (8.90%) .NET Framework
5 92 (7.58%) React
6 76 (6.26%) ARM Templates
7 73 (6.01%) HTML
8 72 (5.93%) CSS
9 70 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 64 (5.27%) REST
11 60 (4.94%) ASP.NET
12 56 (4.61%) YAML
13 42 (3.46%) JSON
14 35 (2.88%) RESTful
15 34 (2.80%) Node.js
16 33 (2.72%) SOAP
17 31 (2.55%) Entity Framework
18 29 (2.39%) GraphQL
19 28 (2.31%) Web Services
20 25 (2.06%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.64%) Cloud Native
3 30 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 24 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 22 (1.81%) Wiki
6 17 (1.40%) Client/Server
6 17 (1.40%) Derivative
6 17 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
7 14 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.07%) Contactless
8 13 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.66%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (7.74%) Windows
2 72 (5.93%) Linux
3 42 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.99%) Unix
6 9 (0.74%) VMS
7 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Solaris
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.082%) AIX
11 1 (0.082%) CentOS
11 1 (0.082%) Debian
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (99.51%) DevOps
2 573 (47.20%) Agile
3 367 (30.23%) CI/CD
4 245 (20.18%) Scrum
5 180 (14.83%) Test Automation
6 136 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
7 131 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (9.72%) Migration
10 117 (9.64%) TDD
11 116 (9.56%) Software Engineering
12 84 (6.92%) API Management
12 84 (6.92%) Project Delivery
13 79 (6.51%) OO
14 77 (6.34%) Computer Science
15 76 (6.26%) B2C
16 69 (5.68%) Analytics
17 66 (5.44%) Continuous Integration
18 63 (5.19%) Kanban
19 62 (5.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 398 (32.78%) C#
2 285 (23.48%) PowerShell
3 271 (22.32%) SQL
4 191 (15.73%) Python
5 124 (10.21%) Bicep
6 114 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 72 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 68 (5.60%) Java
9 37 (3.05%) Bash
10 26 (2.14%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.98%) C++
12 17 (1.40%) VBScript
13 15 (1.24%) C
14 13 (1.07%) Go
14 13 (1.07%) Rust
15 9 (0.74%) Korn
16 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.66%) Scala
17 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 125 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 119 (9.80%) Degree
3 82 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.24%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.41%) CBAP
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.25%) CISSP
15 2 (0.16%) CEH
15 2 (0.16%) CISM
15 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.10%) QA
2 36 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.98%) WCAG
4 12 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.99%) NCSC
4 12 (0.99%) PMO
5 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.58%) GDPR
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.33%) PSD2
10 3 (0.25%) GRC
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) COBIT
11 2 (0.16%) GxP
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.082%) SLA
System Software
1 135 (11.12%) Active Directory
2 100 (8.24%) Docker
3 26 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.082%) Ceph
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (15.57%) Terraform
2 112 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.44%) Ansible
4 17 (1.40%) SCOM
5 16 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.15%) Grafana
7 14 (1.15%) SCCM
8 13 (1.07%) Puppet
9 12 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.33%) Argo
12 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.25%) Nessus
12 3 (0.25%) Packer
13 2 (0.16%) Kibana
13 2 (0.16%) Nagios
13 2 (0.16%) Netcool
13 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 407 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.01%) Oracle
3 41 (3.38%) SAP
4 37 (3.05%) Databricks
5 30 (2.47%) VMware
6 22 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.15%) F5
9 12 (0.99%) Splunk
10 11 (0.91%) ESRI
11 9 (0.74%) Xamarin
12 8 (0.66%) Adobe
13 7 (0.58%) Google
14 6 (0.49%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.49%) Informatica
14 6 (0.49%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.41%) HP
15 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
15 5 (0.41%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.33%) Cadence