Azure DevOps Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 34 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 41 61 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 6.87% 5.12% 5.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.40% 16.53% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 57 43
10th Percentile £363 £456 £501
25th Percentile £422 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% -6.17% -6.75%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £619
90th Percentile £640 £638 £643
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - -6.84%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Reading

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Reading

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Reading

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in Reading

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) Azure API Management
2 7 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.20%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 2 (4.88%) SonarCloud
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.44%) AWS
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) IaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) HBase
3 1 (2.44%) HDInsight
3 1 (2.44%) Impala
3 1 (2.44%) Metadata
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.44%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Git
2 9 (21.95%) Selenium
3 5 (12.20%) JIRA
4 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.88%) Snyk
5 2 (4.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.44%) GitLab
6 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.44%) Vite
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.32%) Electronics
4 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.32%) Marketing
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Billing
5 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Administrator
4 4 (9.76%) PMO Administrator
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Compliance Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) QA Tester
6 2 (4.88%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.88%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Security Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) ADO
2 9 (21.95%) CSS
2 9 (21.95%) HTML
3 6 (14.63%) .NET
4 3 (7.32%) YAML
5 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.88%) Playwright
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.44%) Blazor
6 1 (2.44%) Express.js
6 1 (2.44%) Framer.js
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) OAuth
6 1 (2.44%) PySpark
6 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.44%) React
6 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.44%) TanStack
6 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.88%) IoT
2 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) Agile
3 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.83%) Test Automation
4 8 (19.51%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (17.07%) SDLC
6 6 (14.63%) Scrum
7 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Integration Testing
7 5 (12.20%) LLM
7 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
7 5 (12.20%) System Testing
7 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
8 4 (9.76%) Channel Management
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.76%) ETL
8 4 (9.76%) Project Management
8 4 (9.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) C#
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.32%) Bicep
7 2 (4.88%) Bash
8 1 (2.44%) Perl
8 1 (2.44%) R
8 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) PMO
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.32%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Cramer
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.44%) UiPath
54 Azure DevOps jobs in Berkshire