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 £538, 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 155 168 188
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 11 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.36% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.38% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 25
10th Percentile £413 £455 -
25th Percentile £478 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £578 £595 £688
England median daily rate £513 £513 £575
% change year-on-year - -10.87% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +12 5 £550 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 -10.53% 2
North East - 3 £525 -
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 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 North of England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (63.64%) Docker
4 6 (54.55%) Linux
4 6 (54.55%) Python
4 6 (54.55%) GitLab
5 5 (45.45%) pytest
5 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (45.45%) Selenium
6 4 (36.36%) Finance
6 4 (36.36%) Grafana
6 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
8 2 (18.18%) PaaS
8 2 (18.18%) Marketing
8 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (18.18%) Ansible
8 2 (18.18%) Puppet
8 2 (18.18%) NuGet
8 2 (18.18%) Analytics
8 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
8 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
2 2 (18.18%) NuGet
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
3 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Electronics
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) pytest
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Release Management
5 1 (9.09%) SFIA
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) VMware