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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 49 32
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 42 44 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.14% 3.81% 5.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.58% 12.98% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 51
10th Percentile £364 £479 £463
25th Percentile £408 £501 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £601
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.65% +0.17%
75th Percentile £564 £594 £638
90th Percentile £599 £648 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £481 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.50% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19

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 226 339 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 38.44% 29.35% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 246 267
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £674
90th Percentile £650 £681 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -13.04% +3.14% +9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.05 £27.84
25th Percentile £14.75 £56.50 £44.34
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.60 £67.10
Median % change year-on-year -74.42% -9.68% +176.68%
75th Percentile £16.25 £61.06 £79.19
90th Percentile £31.70 £66.24 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -67.47% +152.17% +9.39%

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 26 July 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 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) GitHub
2 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
3 5 (11.90%) SaaS
4 4 (9.52%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) OCI
4 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.14%) Miro
6 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle CX
6 2 (4.76%) SonarCloud
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
7 1 (2.38%) Figma
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (2.38%) Twilio
7 1 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) Selenium
3 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Snyk
3 2 (4.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Billing
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Security Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Security Project Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.14%) QA Tester
6 3 (7.14%) Test Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Test Leader
6 3 (7.14%) Tester
7 2 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Release Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) FastAPI
2 4 (9.52%) ADO
2 4 (9.52%) CSS
2 4 (9.52%) HTML
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) Playwright
4 2 (4.76%) Express.js
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.38%) Blazor
5 1 (2.38%) FHIR
5 1 (2.38%) Framer.js
5 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) PySpark
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (40.48%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.19%) Scrum
5 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
8 5 (11.90%) Project Management
8 5 (11.90%) Test Management
9 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.52%) CQRS
9 4 (9.52%) CRM
9 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.52%) Release Management
9 4 (9.52%) Test Strategy
9 4 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) C#
2 3 (7.14%) Java
2 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.14%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) Bicep
3 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) GRC
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) HL7
3 1 (2.38%) PMO
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (2.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Databricks
3 4 (9.52%) Virgin Media
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Cramer
5 1 (2.38%) HP
17 Azure DevOps jobs in Berkshire