Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
South East > Thames Valley

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the Thames Valley is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 135 154
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -30
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 6 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £405 £575 £362
25th Percentile £413 £613 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £475 £719 £627
90th Percentile £558 £763 £720
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,756 3,352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 94.32% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,908 2,284
10th Percentile £212 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.28% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 75 103
10th Percentile £15.78 £17.27 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.33 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £450 - 1
Berkshire -17 2 £500 -18.43%
Azure DevOps Engineer
South East

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) WSUS
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) SCOM
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) C++
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) VPN

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Rust
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) SCOM
3 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft