Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South East > Berkshire

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Berkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 94 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 10 18 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.70% 1.13% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.24% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 7
10th Percentile £404 £516 £448
25th Percentile £406 £578 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £438 £668 £613
90th Percentile - £671 £625
South East median daily rate £425 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -32.00% +16.28% -8.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,296 1,454 1,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 90.88% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 820 1,014
10th Percentile £304 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 74
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.12 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £58.38 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% -5.30% +29.78%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.43 £68.41
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.69 £75.97
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +38.49%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Wokingham - 5 £425 -
Reading +2 4 £413 -35.04%
Azure DevOps Engineer
South East

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) ADO
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Storage
4 4 (40.00%) B2C
4 4 (40.00%) Bash
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 4 (40.00%) IaaS
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) PaaS
4 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) RBAC
4 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (30.00%) AI

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) IaaS
3 4 (40.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Billing
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) ADO
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (30.00%) OpenID
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) SAML
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) B2C
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) RBAC
3 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) AI
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) CRM
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (30.00%) MLOps
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks