Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South East

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > South East

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the South East is £550, 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 139 197 190
Rank change year-on-year +58 -7 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 20 8 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.14% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.16% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 27
10th Percentile £413 £408 £463
25th Percentile £506 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £603 £556 £650
90th Percentile £663 £590 £788
England median daily rate £513 £513 £575
% change year-on-year - -10.87% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +52 15 £575 +27.78% 1
Berkshire +44 15 £575 +15.00%
Hampshire +28 3 £513 -6.82% 7
Kent +9 2 £569 +8.29%
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Azure
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (45.00%) IaaS
4 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (40.00%) Terraform
5 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (35.00%) SQL
6 7 (35.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
6 7 (35.00%) Bicep
7 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (30.00%) PaaS
7 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) ADO
7 6 (30.00%) Python
8 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (25.00%) Bash
8 5 (25.00%) Azure Storage
9 4 (20.00%) GitHub
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (20.00%) Windows
9 4 (20.00%) Migration
10 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) IaaS
4 8 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 6 (30.00%) PaaS
6 5 (25.00%) Azure Storage
7 4 (20.00%) GitHub
8 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (10.00%) Azure Table
9 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
10 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (5.00%) SaaS
10 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Electronics
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Police
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) ADO
2 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.00%) YAML
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
7 3 (15.00%) Information Security
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
8 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) ITIL
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (35.00%) Bicep
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Puppet
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) UiPath