Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £513 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 435 346 388
Rank change year-on-year -89 +42 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 100 355 459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.70% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.74% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 267 333
10th Percentile £420 £475 £439
25th Percentile £455 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £576 £675 £660
90th Percentile £600 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -11.39% -1.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London -49 57 £538 -12.24% 8
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%
South West -3 3 £525 -6.67% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £450 -28.00%
Midlands +8 1 £450 -28.00% 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
UK

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

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 across the England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) Azure
1 100 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (91.00%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (53.00%) Terraform
3 53 (53.00%) CI/CD
4 42 (42.00%) PowerShell
5 39 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (35.00%) Kubernetes
7 30 (30.00%) Python
8 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
9 26 (26.00%) Docker
10 19 (19.00%) Linux
11 18 (18.00%) .NET
12 17 (17.00%) Finance
12 17 (17.00%) Agile
13 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
13 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
14 15 (15.00%) Ansible
15 14 (14.00%) GitLab
16 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
16 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
16 13 (13.00%) PaaS
16 13 (13.00%) C#
16 13 (13.00%) ARM Templates
17 12 (12.00%) Azure AKS
17 12 (12.00%) GitHub
17 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
17 12 (12.00%) JSON
18 11 (11.00%) Computer Science

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) Azure
2 91 (91.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (13.00%) PaaS
4 12 (12.00%) Azure AKS
4 12 (12.00%) GitHub
5 11 (11.00%) AWS
6 7 (7.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.00%) Serverless
8 5 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Storage
9 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.00%) GCP
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.00%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Service Fabric
11 2 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) DNS
2 8 (8.00%) VPN
3 6 (6.00%) Firewall
4 5 (5.00%) HTTP
4 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.00%) Internet
5 4 (4.00%) SSH
6 1 (1.00%) IPv4
6 1 (1.00%) MQTT
6 1 (1.00%) Network Security
6 1 (1.00%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) Power BI
1 4 (4.00%) Redis
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) GitLab
2 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.00%) Git
4 7 (7.00%) Selenium
5 4 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.00%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.00%) Gradle
8 1 (1.00%) JIRA
8 1 (1.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Maven
8 1 (1.00%) Snyk
8 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (17.00%) Finance
2 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.00%) Banking
5 4 (4.00%) Electronics
5 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.00%) Marketing
5 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.00%) .NET
2 13 (13.00%) ARM Templates
3 12 (12.00%) JSON
4 10 (10.00%) YAML
5 4 (4.00%) LDAP
5 4 (4.00%) pytest
6 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.00%) CSS
6 2 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.00%) HTML
6 2 (2.00%) Kafka
6 2 (2.00%) Node.js
6 2 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.00%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.00%) MFC
7 1 (1.00%) REST
7 1 (1.00%) RESTful
7 1 (1.00%) WinForms
7 1 (1.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.00%) Tandem
3 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.00%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.00%) Media Streaming
4 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.00%) CentOS
5 1 (1.00%) Debian
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (53.00%) CI/CD
3 39 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (17.00%) Agile
5 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.00%) Computer Science
6 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (7.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (6.00%) Customer Experience
9 6 (6.00%) Microservices
9 6 (6.00%) Migration
9 6 (6.00%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (5.00%) Data Collection
10 5 (5.00%) DevSecOps
10 5 (5.00%) Load Balancing
10 5 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.00%) PowerShell
2 30 (30.00%) Python
3 13 (13.00%) C#
4 11 (11.00%) Bash
5 10 (10.00%) SQL
6 7 (7.00%) Bicep
6 7 (7.00%) Go
7 6 (6.00%) Java
8 4 (4.00%) C++
9 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.00%) C
10 2 (2.00%) Rust
10 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.00%) C++/CLI
11 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Degree
5 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.00%) MCSE
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 26 (26.00%) Docker
2 11 (11.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 53 (53.00%) Terraform
2 35 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.00%) Grafana
4 5 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.00%) SCOM
5 4 (4.00%) SCCM
6 3 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.00%) Argo
6 3 (3.00%) Puppet
7 2 (2.00%) Netcool
8 1 (1.00%) Consul
8 1 (1.00%) Istio
8 1 (1.00%) linkerd
8 1 (1.00%) Packer
8 1 (1.00%) SELinux
8 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.00%) Databricks
2 4 (4.00%) F5
2 4 (4.00%) SAP
3 2 (2.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.00%) Splunk
3 2 (2.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.00%) VMware