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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 58 40
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 74 54 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.18% 3.12% 4.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.55% 11.46% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 47 65
10th Percentile £400 £473 £463
25th Percentile £413 £504 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £536 £616 £638
90th Percentile £599 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £458 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.86% -12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
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

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 447 471 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.31% 27.24% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 326 356
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £666 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile - £19.88 £16.84
25th Percentile £14.75 £34.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +102.38% -2.44%
75th Percentile £32.12 £60.83 £60.50
90th Percentile £40.13 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +16 43 £488 -9.30% 11
Wokingham - 20 £425 - 3
Windsor +2 6 £500 - 1
Bracknell - 1 £425 - 1
Thatcham - 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 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (20.27%) Azure AKS
3 13 (17.57%) GitHub
4 11 (14.86%) Azure Storage
5 10 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.51%) IaaS
5 10 (13.51%) PaaS
6 9 (12.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (12.16%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.11%) OCI
8 5 (6.76%) AWS
8 5 (6.76%) GCP
9 4 (5.41%) SaaS
10 3 (4.05%) Azure App Service
10 3 (4.05%) Azure Table
10 3 (4.05%) Miro
10 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Network Security
1 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (10.81%) Power BI
3 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.35%) Parquet
6 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Git
2 7 (9.46%) JIRA
3 5 (6.76%) Selenium
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.70%) Snyk
5 2 (2.70%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) MLflow
6 1 (1.35%) NUnit
6 1 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.76%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Billing
4 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Automotive
5 1 (1.35%) Games
5 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Retail
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Senior
5 9 (12.16%) Site Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Analyst
7 7 (9.46%) Cloud Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Project Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Security Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Security Project Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Test Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Lead
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.76%) Tester
10 4 (5.41%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) ADO
2 12 (16.22%) .NET
3 7 (9.46%) HTML
3 7 (9.46%) RESTful
4 6 (8.11%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.76%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.76%) FastAPI
5 5 (6.76%) REST
6 4 (5.41%) CSS
6 4 (5.41%) JSON
6 4 (5.41%) Playwright
7 3 (4.05%) jQuery
7 3 (4.05%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (4.05%) XML
8 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.70%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.70%) Kafka
8 2 (2.70%) React
8 2 (2.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.70%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.35%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.35%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.35%) Replication
3 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) VMS
1 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 23 (31.08%) Agile
4 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (14.86%) Scrum
6 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 9 (12.16%) Test Scripting
8 7 (9.46%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.11%) Project Management
9 6 (8.11%) Test Management
10 5 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (6.76%) Data Protection
10 5 (6.76%) Incident Management
10 5 (6.76%) Observability
10 5 (6.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) SQL
2 15 (20.27%) Python
3 13 (17.57%) C#
4 10 (13.51%) Bicep
5 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.41%) Bash
8 3 (4.05%) Apex Code
8 3 (4.05%) Java
8 3 (4.05%) SOQL
9 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.70%) X++
10 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.05%) Degree
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) GRC
2 2 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) HL7
3 1 (1.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.92%) Terraform
3 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.35%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.11%) Databricks
4 4 (5.41%) Virgin Media
5 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) HP
6 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) Snow