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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 65 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 +57
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 92 68 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.50% 2.62% 4.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.16% 9.38% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 55 91
10th Percentile £325 £413 £463
25th Percentile £400 £484 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% -12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £669
90th Percentile £600 £648 £775
South East median daily rate £458 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -10.73% -14.58% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
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

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 607 725 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.26% 27.92% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 488 616
10th Percentile £263 £338 £316
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £659 £714
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 20
10th Percentile - £15.93 £16.78
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £42.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year -41.98% +83.59% +10.24%
75th Percentile £32.75 £59.95 £32.98
90th Percentile £47.02 £61.33 £65.97
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £23.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.76% -12.04% +35.00%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +32 78 £498 -5.24% 17
Buckinghamshire +13 13 £350 -30.86% 12
Oxfordshire -11 1 - - 5
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 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) GitHub
3 17 (18.48%) Azure AKS
4 15 (16.30%) AWS
5 13 (14.13%) IaaS
5 13 (14.13%) PaaS
6 11 (11.96%) Azure Storage
7 10 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.78%) Power Platform
9 8 (8.70%) SaaS
10 7 (7.61%) Serverless
11 6 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (5.43%) GCP
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) Network Security
2 2 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.09%) 2G
3 1 (1.09%) 3G
3 1 (1.09%) 4G
3 1 (1.09%) 5G
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) RS-232
3 1 (1.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.87%) Big Data
4 6 (6.52%) Power BI
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.17%) MS Access
7 2 (2.17%) MySQL
8 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.09%) Parquet
8 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (19.57%) Git
2 16 (17.39%) JIRA
3 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.52%) Selenium
5 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.17%) GitLab
6 2 (2.17%) QARun
6 2 (2.17%) Snyk
6 2 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.17%) WinRunner
7 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.09%) MLflow
7 1 (1.09%) NUnit
7 1 (1.09%) Postman
7 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.09%) Vite
General
1 23 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Billing
4 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Automotive
7 1 (1.09%) Electronics
7 1 (1.09%) Games
7 1 (1.09%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) Developer
3 16 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) Senior
6 11 (11.96%) Analyst
7 9 (9.78%) Site Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Test Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) Cloud Developer
10 6 (6.52%) Lead
11 5 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Business Analyst
12 4 (4.35%) Project Manager
12 4 (4.35%) Python Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Security Manager
12 4 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.39%) ADO
2 12 (13.04%) .NET
3 8 (8.70%) HTML
4 7 (7.61%) RESTful
5 6 (6.52%) ARM Templates
6 5 (5.43%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.43%) CSS
6 5 (5.43%) FastAPI
6 5 (5.43%) REST
7 4 (4.35%) Hugging Face
7 4 (4.35%) JSON
7 4 (4.35%) NumPy
7 4 (4.35%) Pandas
7 4 (4.35%) Playwright
7 4 (4.35%) PyTorch
7 4 (4.35%) scikit-learn
7 4 (4.35%) Web Services
7 4 (4.35%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (3.26%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) FPGA
4 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.09%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.09%) VHDL
4 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
2 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (38.04%) Agile
3 34 (36.96%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 18 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (16.30%) Scrum
8 13 (14.13%) Migration
9 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (13.04%) Waterfall
10 11 (11.96%) Software Testing
11 10 (10.87%) Configuration Management
11 10 (10.87%) System Integration Testing
12 9 (9.78%) Test Management
13 8 (8.70%) Data Migration
13 8 (8.70%) High Availability
13 8 (8.70%) Integration Testing
13 8 (8.70%) Logistics
13 8 (8.70%) Test Planning
13 8 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) SQL
2 29 (31.52%) Python
3 22 (23.91%) C#
4 18 (19.57%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.04%) Bicep
6 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.61%) Bash
8 6 (6.52%) VB
9 5 (5.43%) Java
10 3 (3.26%) Apex Code
10 3 (3.26%) SOQL
10 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.17%) X++
12 1 (1.09%) C
12 1 (1.09%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (5.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.26%) Degree
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) GDPR
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) GRC
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) HL7
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (21.74%) Terraform
2 16 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.78%) Ansible
4 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.35%) Grafana
6 3 (3.26%) Puppet
7 1 (1.09%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (1.09%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Databricks
3 8 (8.70%) Oracle
4 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.35%) Virgin Media
5 3 (3.26%) Sage
6 2 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) Cramer
7 1 (1.09%) HP
7 1 (1.09%) Intel
7 1 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Siemens
7 1 (1.09%) Snow