Azure DevOps Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 50 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 -20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 90 111 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.36% 3.78% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 13.25% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 87 81
10th Percentile £425 £488 £413
25th Percentile £469 £511 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £640 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - £79.19 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.84% -
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £79.19 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +27.42% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 765 838 1,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.58% 28.53% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 610 839
10th Percentile £275 £311 £180
25th Percentile £413 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £21.49 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.23 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +43.95% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £59.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Berkshire -5 73 £550 - 4
Oxfordshire +13 10 £450 -10.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +5 7 £350 -46.15% 4
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 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.22%) Kentico
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Jadu
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.11%) Maximo
4 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (12.22%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (11.11%) PaaS
4 8 (8.89%) Azure API Management
4 8 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (8.89%) Azure Functions
4 8 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.89%) Serverless
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.33%) AWS
7 3 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.33%) IaaS
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
8 2 (2.22%) NuGet
9 1 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
1 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Power BI
1 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.33%) Big Data
4 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.22%) Tableau
6 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) JIRA
3 8 (8.89%) Selenium
3 8 (8.89%) Visual Studio
4 7 (7.78%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (6.67%) Postman
6 5 (5.56%) SpecFlow
7 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
7 4 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (3.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.11%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.11%) Appium
9 1 (1.11%) MSTest
9 1 (1.11%) NUnit
9 1 (1.11%) rollup.js
9 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.11%) webpack
9 1 (1.11%) Xcode
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Back Office
7 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Analyst
3 11 (12.22%) Consultant
4 9 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) Functional Consultant
5 8 (8.89%) Lead
5 8 (8.89%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (8.89%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 8 (8.89%) QA Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) QA Test Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) C# Developer
6 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Integration Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) .NET
2 8 (8.89%) ARM Templates
3 5 (5.56%) CSS
3 5 (5.56%) HTML
3 5 (5.56%) JSON
3 5 (5.56%) React
4 4 (4.44%) SOAP
4 4 (4.44%) XML
5 3 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.33%) DOM
5 3 (3.33%) GatsbyJS
5 3 (3.33%) OAuth
5 3 (3.33%) OpenID
5 3 (3.33%) REST
6 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.22%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.33%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (50.00%) Agile
3 17 (18.89%) Procure-to-Pay
3 17 (18.89%) Test Automation
4 16 (17.78%) Scrum
5 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (10.00%) E-business
8 9 (10.00%) OO
8 9 (10.00%) Release Management
9 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (8.89%) Incident Management
9 8 (8.89%) SOLID
9 8 (8.89%) Test Management
10 7 (7.78%) Application Virtualisation
10 7 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) C#
2 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
3 12 (13.33%) SQL
4 9 (10.00%) Python
5 7 (7.78%) VBScript
6 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.33%) C
7 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) Java
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
1 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.22%) CBAP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) CSPO
5 1 (1.11%) IIBA
5 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) PMO
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.33%) Docker
3 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.11%) Puppet
4 1 (1.11%) SCOM
4 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.22%) Oracle
3 7 (7.78%) VMware
4 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Atmel
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Adobe
6 1 (1.11%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.11%) BMC
6 1 (1.11%) Citrix
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) Remedy