Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft Azure DevOps
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.78% - 3.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% - 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £383 - £425
25th Percentile £388 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile £432 - £525
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 74 28 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 28.91% 29.47% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 17 30
10th Percentile £311 £208 £244
25th Percentile £363 £231 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £318 £493
Median % change year-on-year +52.30% -35.34% -1.50%
75th Percentile £532 £473 £556
90th Percentile £596 £480 £675
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £15.25 £64.00 £23.18
25th Percentile £16.50 £115.00 £33.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £200.00 £51.99
Median % change year-on-year -91.25% +284.69% +111.17%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £55.40 - £80.80
East of England median hourly rate £23.00 £18.31 £16.30
% change year-on-year +25.61% +12.33% -24.73%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Essex

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 £380 -
Chelmsford - 1 £425 - 2
Azure DevOps
East of England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP