Azure DevOps Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 71 79
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 60 51 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.70% 2.37% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.74% 6.97% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 71
10th Percentile £363 £324 £400
25th Percentile £400 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £500 £509 £550
90th Percentile £529 £550 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.77% -6.43% +20.92%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 616 732 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.98% 33.95% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 509 730
10th Percentile £306 £232 £250
25th Percentile £408 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £634 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £18.05 £15.94 £17.74
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 £40.31
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £61.28
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -72.26% +67.88%
75th Percentile £24.18 £19.57 £68.25
90th Percentile £26.70 £34.48 £76.90
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -38.94% +56.25%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Edinburgh +5 29 £450 +10.77% 21
Glasgow +15 27 £459 -5.90% 21
Perthshire +1 2 £375 -28.57%
West Lothian - 1 £500 -
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) WordPress
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Camunda
4 1 (1.67%) JBoss
4 1 (1.67%) nginx
4 1 (1.67%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.00%) GitHub
4 10 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 8 (13.33%) AWS
5 8 (13.33%) SaaS
6 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (8.33%) Power Automate
9 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.67%) Serverless
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.00%) Google Analytics
10 3 (5.00%) IaaS
10 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (5.00%) PaaS
11 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.67%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Power BI
2 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.00%) DB2
3 3 (5.00%) MariaDB
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) Power Query
3 3 (5.00%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (31.67%) JIRA
2 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.00%) Git
4 7 (11.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.67%) GitLab
5 4 (6.67%) JUnit
5 4 (6.67%) Postman
5 4 (6.67%) Selenium
6 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 3 (5.00%) Mockito
6 3 (5.00%) PyCharm
6 3 (5.00%) Subversion
6 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (5.00%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.67%) MSTest
7 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Developer
2 11 (18.33%) Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) React Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Portfolio Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Release Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) .NET
2 9 (15.00%) React
3 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.67%) JSON
3 4 (6.67%) YAML
4 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (5.00%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) Spring
4 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Web Services
5 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.33%) Blazor
5 2 (3.33%) Playwright
5 2 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (1.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (10.00%) Wiki
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (61.67%) Agile
3 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (15.00%) SDLC
7 8 (13.33%) Analytics
7 8 (13.33%) Code Quality
7 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.67%) Build Automation
8 7 (11.67%) Kanban
8 7 (11.67%) Software Delivery
8 7 (11.67%) Waterfall
9 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
9 6 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (10.00%) User Experience
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) Java
2 16 (26.67%) C#
3 15 (25.00%) SQL
4 13 (21.67%) Python
5 10 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.67%) Bash
8 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.00%) Bicep
9 3 (5.00%) C++
9 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (5.00%) VBA
9 3 (5.00%) VBScript
10 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) ISEB
1 3 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) PERC
2 3 (5.00%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Ansible
1 11 (18.33%) Terraform
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Adobe
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Databricks
4 1 (1.67%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.67%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow