Azure DevOps Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 63 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 101 142 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.36% 2.55% 3.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.09% 10.34% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 114 166
10th Percentile £363 £425 £463
25th Percentile £413 £464 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £638
90th Percentile £638 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19
75th Percentile £32.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.43% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
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 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 +20 76 £500 -2.44% 59
Berkshire +20 68 £500 -9.09% 43
Surrey +12 12 £450 -19.64% 21
Hampshire +10 11 £550 - 25
Buckinghamshire +16 7 £375 +7.14% 8
East Sussex -3 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire -4 1 - - 18
Middlesex - 1 £750 - 1
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.98%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (14.85%) Azure AKS
3 14 (13.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (11.88%) GitHub
5 11 (10.89%) Azure API Management
5 11 (10.89%) SaaS
6 10 (9.90%) AWS
6 10 (9.90%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (9.90%) IaaS
6 10 (9.90%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (8.91%) PaaS
8 7 (6.93%) Azure Storage
9 6 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.96%) Serverless
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.99%) 2G
2 1 (0.99%) 3G
2 1 (0.99%) 4G
2 1 (0.99%) 5G
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) Intranet
2 1 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.99%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.90%) Big Data
3 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.93%) Power BI
5 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.98%) MS Access
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.99%) HBase
6 1 (0.99%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.99%) Impala
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.99%) Parquet
6 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.99%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Git
2 15 (14.85%) Selenium
3 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.92%) JIRA
4 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.95%) SpecFlow
5 4 (3.96%) Appium
5 4 (3.96%) JUnit
5 4 (3.96%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.98%) Moq
7 2 (1.98%) QARun
7 2 (1.98%) Snyk
7 2 (1.98%) WinRunner
8 1 (0.99%) GitLab
8 1 (0.99%) JMeter
8 1 (0.99%) Mocha
8 1 (0.99%) Postman
8 1 (0.99%) Vite
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Finance
3 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.97%) Electronics
5 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.97%) Marketing
6 2 (1.98%) Billing
6 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Games
7 1 (0.99%) Local Government
7 1 (0.99%) Police
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (21.78%) Developer
3 19 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (17.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Senior
6 8 (7.92%) Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Azure Developer
7 6 (5.94%) Applications Packager
7 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 6 (5.94%) Site Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Lead
8 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Administrator
9 4 (3.96%) QA Manager
9 4 (3.96%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.82%) ADO
2 16 (15.84%) .NET
3 15 (14.85%) CSS
3 15 (14.85%) HTML
4 8 (7.92%) YAML
5 7 (6.93%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.94%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.95%) PySpark
7 5 (4.95%) React
7 5 (4.95%) RESTful
8 4 (3.96%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.96%) OAuth
8 4 (3.96%) Web Services
9 3 (2.97%) JSON
9 3 (2.97%) OpenID
9 3 (2.97%) Playwright
9 3 (2.97%) SAML
10 2 (1.98%) Blazor
10 2 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.94%) Client/Server
1 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
1 6 (5.94%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) IoT
5 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) FPGA
6 1 (0.99%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.99%) VHDL
6 1 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.81%) Windows
2 14 (13.86%) Linux
3 11 (10.89%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.95%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.97%) Unix
7 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (48.51%) Agile
3 30 (29.70%) CI/CD
4 27 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (25.74%) Test Automation
6 14 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (10.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (10.89%) Migration
9 10 (9.90%) Configuration Management
9 10 (9.90%) Integration Testing
9 10 (9.90%) Scrum
9 10 (9.90%) Software Testing
9 10 (9.90%) Unit Testing
10 9 (8.91%) Analytics
10 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (8.91%) SDLC
10 9 (8.91%) Software Engineering
11 8 (7.92%) Design Patterns
11 8 (7.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.60%) Python
2 28 (27.72%) C#
2 28 (27.72%) PowerShell
2 28 (27.72%) SQL
3 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.89%) Bicep
5 10 (9.90%) Java
6 9 (8.91%) Bash
7 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.94%) VBScript
9 3 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.98%) VB
11 1 (0.99%) C
11 1 (0.99%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.99%) Perl
11 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.99%) R
11 1 (0.99%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) Degree
4 7 (6.93%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) PMO
3 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.95%) Docker
3 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 21 (20.79%) Terraform
2 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.90%) Ansible
4 4 (3.96%) Puppet
5 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.98%) Grafana
7 1 (0.99%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (31.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.91%) Databricks
3 6 (5.94%) VMware
4 5 (4.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle
5 3 (2.97%) SAP
6 2 (1.98%) Citrix
7 1 (0.99%) Cramer
7 1 (0.99%) Google
7 1 (0.99%) Intel
7 1 (0.99%) NEC
7 1 (0.99%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.99%) Rackspace
7 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.99%) Siemens
7 1 (0.99%) Snow
7 1 (0.99%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.99%) UiPath