Azure DevOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 36 56 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 -5 +30
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 76 91 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.03% 3.39% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.87% 12.05% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 74 85
10th Percentile £363 £425 £488
25th Percentile £413 £472 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £597 £588 £638
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £31.50 - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - +27.42%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
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 within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 68 £500 -9.09% 42
Buckinghamshire +16 7 £375 +7.14% 8
Oxfordshire -4 1 - - 17
Azure DevOps
South East

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) Azure AKS
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (14.47%) Azure API Management
4 11 (14.47%) GitHub
5 10 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.16%) IaaS
5 10 (13.16%) Power Platform
6 9 (11.84%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (11.84%) PaaS
7 8 (10.53%) AWS
8 7 (9.21%) Azure Storage
9 6 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
10 5 (6.58%) SaaS
11 4 (5.26%) Serverless
12 3 (3.95%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.32%) 2G
2 1 (1.32%) 3G
2 1 (1.32%) 4G
2 1 (1.32%) 5G
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (13.16%) Big Data
3 7 (9.21%) Power BI
3 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.63%) MS Access
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) HBase
5 1 (1.32%) HDInsight
5 1 (1.32%) Impala
5 1 (1.32%) Metadata
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.32%) Parquet
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.32%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Git
2 9 (11.84%) Selenium
3 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.63%) QARun
5 2 (2.63%) Snyk
5 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.63%) WinRunner
6 1 (1.32%) GitLab
6 1 (1.32%) Postman
6 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.32%) Vite
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Electronics
6 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.95%) Marketing
7 2 (2.63%) Billing
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Games
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (22.37%) Developer
3 16 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (19.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Azure Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Analyst
6 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Administrator
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) PMO Administrator
8 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 4 (5.26%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) ADO
2 13 (17.11%) .NET
3 10 (13.16%) CSS
3 10 (13.16%) HTML
4 5 (6.58%) ARM Templates
5 4 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.26%) OAuth
5 4 (5.26%) PySpark
5 4 (5.26%) Web Services
6 3 (3.95%) OpenID
6 3 (3.95%) React
6 3 (3.95%) SAML
6 3 (3.95%) YAML
7 2 (2.63%) Blazor
7 2 (2.63%) Middleware
7 2 (2.63%) Node.js
7 2 (2.63%) Playwright
7 2 (2.63%) REST
8 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.32%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) IoT
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.32%) FPGA
5 1 (1.32%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.32%) VHDL
5 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Unix
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (44.74%) Agile
3 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.37%) Test Automation
6 13 (17.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (13.16%) Configuration Management
8 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.84%) Analytics
9 9 (11.84%) Integration Testing
9 9 (11.84%) Migration
9 9 (11.84%) SDLC
9 9 (11.84%) Software Testing
10 7 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (9.21%) High Availability
10 7 (9.21%) Validation
11 6 (7.89%) API Management
11 6 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) Python
2 27 (35.53%) SQL
3 21 (27.63%) C#
4 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (14.47%) Bicep
5 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.84%) Java
7 6 (7.89%) Bash
8 3 (3.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.63%) VB
10 1 (1.32%) C
10 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.32%) Perl
10 1 (1.32%) R
10 1 (1.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) PMO
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.26%) Docker
1 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (22.37%) Terraform
2 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.21%) Ansible
4 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.95%) Puppet
5 2 (2.63%) Grafana
6 1 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Databricks
3 5 (6.58%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) SAP
5 2 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (1.32%) Cramer
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Intel
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) Siemens
6 1 (1.32%) Snow
6 1 (1.32%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.32%) UiPath