Azure Pipelines Contracts in England

Azure Pipelines
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 512 592
Rank change year-on-year +36 +80 +116
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 22 40 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.11% 0.100%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 31
10th Percentile £320 £423 £463
25th Percentile £338 £445 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £611 £551 £719
90th Percentile £625 £660 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.77%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Pipelines 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,988 12,162 17,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.61% 32.68% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,733 8,677 12,840
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 327 302
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Pipelines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines in England

Azure Pipelines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Pipelines in England

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Pipelines in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Pipelines in England

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +11 9 £455 -6.67% 12
South East +44 4 £320 -50.77% 1
South West +40 4 - -
North of England +4 2 £500 -23.08% 1
North West +8 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Azure Pipelines
UK

Azure Pipelines
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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Serverless
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 4 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (9.09%) PaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
8 1 (4.55%) GCP
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (9.09%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.55%) git-flow
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Military
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Test Manager
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (9.09%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
3 4 (18.18%) .NET Core
4 3 (13.64%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 3 (13.64%) React
5 2 (9.09%) ADO
5 2 (9.09%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.55%) Next.js
6 1 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.64%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
8 2 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Software Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Bug Management
9 1 (4.55%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C#
1 4 (18.18%) Python
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) VB
3 2 (9.09%) VB6
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) Korn
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix
2 2 (9.09%) InterSystems
2 2 (9.09%) Spotify
2 2 (9.09%) VMware