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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 505 595
Rank change year-on-year +45 +90 +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 16 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.087% 0.088%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 21
10th Percentile £502 £424 -
25th Percentile £575 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £606 £713
90th Percentile £628 £665 £825
UK median daily rate £565 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +18.95% -13.64% -

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 9,018 11,776 17,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.52% 32.02% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,184 8,491 12,612
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 322 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.04 £15.91 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%
75th Percentile £36.38 £38.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.88 £69.43 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.25
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.63% +66.29%

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 30 May 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 30 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 +24 5 £600 +29.73% 15
South West +45 4 - - 11
South East +60 3 - - 27
North of England - 1 - - 21
North West - 1 - - 11
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 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Serverless
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (12.50%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Military
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (12.50%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) ADO
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 2 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.25%) GitOps
5 1 (6.25%) Observability
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) VB
2 2 (12.50%) VB6
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (12.50%) InterSystems
2 2 (12.50%) Spotify
2 2 (12.50%) VMware