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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 174 188
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +66
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 19 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.23% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 20
10th Percentile - £424 £450
25th Percentile £413 £425 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -10.42% -0.08%
75th Percentile £519 £647 £620
90th Percentile £578 £670 £630
England median daily rate £458 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -16.68% - -8.33%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,194 4,415 5,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 92.27% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 2,667 3,650
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 360 231
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.50 £19.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.90 £65.63
90th Percentile £74.63 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the South East

Azure DevOps Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +23 14 £425 -30.47%
Thames Valley +10 14 £425 -19.05% 2
Hampshire +17 3 £513 -6.82%
Kent - 2 £569 -
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 27 August 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 19 (100.00%) Azure
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (89.47%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 12 (63.16%) IaaS
3 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 12 (63.16%) ADO
4 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
4 11 (57.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (57.89%) Azure AKS
4 11 (57.89%) Azure Storage
5 10 (52.63%) PaaS
6 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (36.84%) Terraform
7 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
8 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
9 5 (26.32%) Bash
10 4 (21.05%) Python
10 4 (21.05%) Bicep
10 4 (21.05%) ARM Templates
11 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
11 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
11 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
11 3 (15.79%) Azure Table
11 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (15.79%) .NET
11 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification

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 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (89.47%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (63.16%) IaaS
4 11 (57.89%) Azure AKS
4 11 (57.89%) Azure Storage
5 10 (52.63%) PaaS
6 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Table
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
7 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.53%) GitHub
9 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) ADO
2 4 (21.05%) ARM Templates
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 2 (10.53%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Security Patching
7 1 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.26%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
4 4 (21.05%) Bicep
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) DFS Replication
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Ansible
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) VMware