Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in Reading

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Berkshire > Reading

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Reading is £625, 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 54 90 81
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 0.084% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 0.090% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £556
25th Percentile £588 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 £613
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -30.67% +16.76%
75th Percentile £669 £438 £675
90th Percentile £673 - £728
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +15.00% -18.43% +6.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in Reading

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) YAML
3 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Electronics
3 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (50.00%) Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) RBAC
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) B2B
5 1 (16.67%) B2C
5 1 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) UiPath