Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the North of England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 181 214
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 -42
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 16 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.59% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 23
10th Percentile £455 £475 £408
25th Percentile £463 £481 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £595 £694 £700
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,340 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,710 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £383 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 280
10th Percentile £11.04 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £61.64 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North West +9 10 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +24 6 £475 -9.52% 2
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Azure
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (56.25%) Terraform
6 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
7 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
7 6 (37.50%) Python
8 5 (31.25%) Docker
9 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (25.00%) Bash
10 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
10 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 3 (18.75%) Linux
10 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
10 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 2 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
11 2 (12.50%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
11 2 (12.50%) Bicep
11 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
11 2 (12.50%) Go
11 2 (12.50%) GitLab
11 2 (12.50%) pytest
11 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (93.75%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) pytest
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
7 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (6.25%) Fintech
7 1 (6.25%) GitOps
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Observability
7 1 (6.25%) Service-Level Objective
7 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) MCSE
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Virgin Media
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft