Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £498, 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 305 335 290
Rank change year-on-year +30 -45 +45
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 48 56 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.31% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.34% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 152
10th Percentile £384 £406 £500
25th Percentile £425 £466 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £538 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% -12.24% +2.08%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £688
90th Percentile £576 £650 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £575
% change year-on-year - -10.87% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +5 4 £431 -21.59% 3
West London - 2 £475 -
South London +7 1 £495 -12.78%
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Azure
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (89.58%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (68.75%) CI/CD
4 28 (58.33%) Terraform
5 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (45.83%) Kubernetes
7 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
8 16 (33.33%) Python
9 15 (31.25%) Finance
9 15 (31.25%) Azure AKS
10 12 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (25.00%) Docker
11 11 (22.92%) GitLab
12 10 (20.83%) PaaS
12 10 (20.83%) Bash
12 10 (20.83%) Java
13 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
13 9 (18.75%) Databricks
14 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
14 8 (16.67%) C#
14 8 (16.67%) Cloudera
15 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
15 7 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
15 7 (14.58%) Linux
15 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
15 7 (14.58%) Agile
15 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
15 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) IIS
3 2 (4.17%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) JBoss
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 48 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (89.58%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (31.25%) Azure AKS
4 12 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (20.83%) PaaS
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (10.42%) AWS
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (8.33%) GitHub
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.17%) IaaS
10 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.17%) Serverless
11 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Hive
2 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) GitLab
2 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.42%) Git
5 2 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) Maven
5 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Ant
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Gradle
6 1 (2.08%) Selenium
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
2 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.33%) YAML
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.08%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) LDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) PySpark
3 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (14.58%) Agile
4 7 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (10.42%) Analytics
6 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security
6 5 (10.42%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (8.33%) ETL
7 4 (8.33%) High Availability
7 4 (8.33%) Migration
8 3 (6.25%) Data Engineering
8 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (6.25%) Release Management
8 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.17%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 16 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (20.83%) Bash
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.67%) C#
6 6 (12.50%) SQL
7 3 (6.25%) Bicep
8 1 (2.08%) Groovy
8 1 (2.08%) Perl
8 1 (2.08%) PHP
8 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (58.33%) Terraform
2 22 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
4 4 (8.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.08%) Packer
5 1 (2.08%) Podman
5 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.08%) Salt
5 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Databricks
2 8 (16.67%) Cloudera
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) Informatica
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.08%) Zscaler