Azure DevOps Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 51 43
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 68 74 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.80% 3.73% 4.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.17% 13.43% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 62
10th Percentile £385 £460 £488
25th Percentile £413 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £683 £672
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19
75th Percentile £32.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - +27.42%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Berkshire

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Berkshire

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Berkshire

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in Berkshire

Azure DevOps
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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +11 41 £568 +8.10% 21
Windsor - 13 £500 -
Wokingham -3 10 £425 -45.16% 1
Bracknell +15 1 £550 - 1
Azure DevOps
South East

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) Azure AKS
3 14 (20.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (16.18%) Azure API Management
5 10 (14.71%) IaaS
5 10 (14.71%) Power Platform
6 9 (13.24%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (13.24%) GitHub
6 9 (13.24%) PaaS
7 8 (11.76%) AWS
7 8 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (10.29%) Azure Storage
9 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.88%) SaaS
11 4 (5.88%) Serverless
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (4.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.47%) 2G
2 1 (1.47%) 3G
2 1 (1.47%) 4G
2 1 (1.47%) 5G
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (14.71%) Big Data
3 7 (10.29%) Power BI
4 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.47%) HBase
6 1 (1.47%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.47%) Impala
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata
6 1 (1.47%) MySQL
6 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Parquet
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.47%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) Selenium
3 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.82%) JIRA
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Snyk
5 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.47%) Vite
General
1 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Electronics
6 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.94%) Billing
7 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Games
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (25.00%) Developer
3 16 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (22.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Azure Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Site Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Administrator
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Lead
8 4 (5.88%) PMO Administrator
9 3 (4.41%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) ADO
2 13 (19.12%) .NET
3 10 (14.71%) CSS
3 10 (14.71%) HTML
4 5 (7.35%) ARM Templates
5 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.88%) OAuth
5 4 (5.88%) PySpark
6 3 (4.41%) OpenID
6 3 (4.41%) React
6 3 (4.41%) SAML
6 3 (4.41%) YAML
7 2 (2.94%) Blazor
7 2 (2.94%) Node.js
7 2 (2.94%) Playwright
7 2 (2.94%) REST
7 2 (2.94%) Web Services
8 1 (1.47%) Next.js
8 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.47%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) IoT
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.47%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Linux
3 5 (7.35%) Ubuntu
3 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (42.65%) Agile
3 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 13 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
6 11 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 9 (13.24%) Analytics
9 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (10.29%) High Availability
10 7 (10.29%) Migration
10 7 (10.29%) SDLC
11 6 (8.82%) API Management
11 6 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.82%) Scrum
11 6 (8.82%) Unit Testing
12 5 (7.35%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Python
2 25 (36.76%) SQL
3 19 (27.94%) PowerShell
4 18 (26.47%) C#
5 11 (16.18%) Bicep
5 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
6 9 (13.24%) Java
7 6 (8.82%) Bash
8 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.47%) Perl
10 1 (1.47%) R
10 1 (1.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
1 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Terraform
2 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.29%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.41%) Puppet
5 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) Databricks
3 5 (7.35%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Cramer
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Snow
6 1 (1.47%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.47%) UiPath