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 in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 443 337
Rank change year-on-year +43 -106 +53
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 85 99 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.27% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.29% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 77 268
10th Percentile £405 £420 £475
25th Percentile £425 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £565 £576 £675
90th Percentile £638 £600 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £71.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +30 48 £498 -7.44% 9
South East +58 20 £550 +22.22% 14
North of England +13 11 £538 +4.88% 6
North West +12 5 £550 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 -10.53% 2
North East - 3 £525 -
Midlands +23 2 £450 - 2
West Midlands +15 2 £450 -
South West +44 1 £475 -9.52% 4
Azure DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 85 (100.00%) Azure
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (91.76%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (61.18%) CI/CD
4 50 (58.82%) Terraform
5 38 (44.71%) Kubernetes
6 36 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (41.18%) PowerShell
8 28 (32.94%) Python
9 25 (29.41%) Azure AKS
10 22 (25.88%) Finance
11 19 (22.35%) Docker
12 18 (21.18%) PaaS
13 17 (20.00%) Bash
13 17 (20.00%) GitLab
14 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
15 15 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure Automation
16 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
16 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
17 13 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
17 13 (15.29%) Linux
17 13 (15.29%) SQL
17 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
18 12 (14.12%) Bicep
18 12 (14.12%) C#
18 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
19 11 (12.94%) Agile
19 11 (12.94%) IaaS

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 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) IIS
3 2 (2.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (91.76%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (29.41%) Azure AKS
4 18 (21.18%) PaaS
5 15 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (12.94%) IaaS
7 9 (10.59%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (9.41%) GitHub
9 6 (7.06%) AWS
10 5 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.88%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.88%) Serverless
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.53%) Power Automate
13 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) Firewall
2 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.35%) DHCP
3 2 (2.35%) Network Security
3 2 (2.35%) SAN
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.88%) Power BI
3 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.53%) Big Data
5 2 (2.35%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.24%) Git
3 7 (8.24%) Selenium
4 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.35%) JIRA
7 2 (2.35%) JMeter
7 2 (2.35%) Maven
8 1 (1.18%) Ant
8 1 (1.18%) Gradle
8 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (25.88%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.88%) Electronics
5 5 (5.88%) Marketing
5 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Police
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 7 (8.24%) YAML
3 6 (7.06%) ADO
4 5 (5.88%) .NET
4 5 (5.88%) pytest
5 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.35%) Web Services
6 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.18%) CSS
6 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.18%) HTML
6 1 (1.18%) Kafka
6 1 (1.18%) LDAP
6 1 (1.18%) Middleware
6 1 (1.18%) Node.js
6 1 (1.18%) OAuth
6 1 (1.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Replication
4 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows
3 6 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
5 1 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.18%) VMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (61.18%) CI/CD
3 36 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure Automation
4 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (12.94%) Agile
7 10 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 10 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 9 (10.59%) Migration
9 7 (8.24%) Analytics
9 7 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.06%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (7.06%) High Availability
11 5 (5.88%) Digital Marketing
11 5 (5.88%) Information Security
11 5 (5.88%) Programme Management
11 5 (5.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 28 (32.94%) Python
3 17 (20.00%) Bash
4 13 (15.29%) SQL
5 12 (14.12%) Bicep
5 12 (14.12%) C#
6 10 (11.76%) Java
7 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.18%) Groovy
8 1 (1.18%) Perl
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.18%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (22.35%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.35%) DFS Replication
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) vSphere
4 1 (1.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (58.82%) Terraform
2 38 (44.71%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.76%) Ansible
3 10 (11.76%) Puppet
4 6 (7.06%) Grafana
4 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.18%) Packer
6 1 (1.18%) Podman
6 1 (1.18%) Salt
6 1 (1.18%) SCCM
6 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Databricks
3 8 (9.41%) Cloudera
4 5 (5.88%) SAP
5 4 (4.71%) VMware
6 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.35%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.35%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.18%) Citrix
8 1 (1.18%) Informatica
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle
8 1 (1.18%) UiPath
8 1 (1.18%) Zscaler