Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > UK excluding London

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 360 351
Rank change year-on-year +59 -9 +29
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 35 39 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.19% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.20% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 87
10th Percentile £413 £425 £470
25th Percentile £425 £440 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £625
90th Percentile £640 £600 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% -1.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +58 20 £550 +22.22% 49
North of England +13 11 £538 +4.88% 38
North West +12 5 £550 +4.76% 18
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 -10.53% 16
North East - 3 £525 - 4
Midlands +23 2 £450 - 32
West Midlands +15 2 £450 - 16
South West +44 1 £475 -9.52% 22
Scotland +11 1 £323 -26.60% 7
Azure DevOps Engineer
UK

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Azure
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (94.29%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (57.14%) Terraform
4 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
5 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
6 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
7 12 (34.29%) Python
7 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (28.57%) Azure AKS
9 9 (25.71%) Bicep
9 9 (25.71%) IaaS
9 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
10 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (22.86%) PaaS
10 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
11 7 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (20.00%) Docker
11 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (20.00%) SQL
11 7 (20.00%) Finance
12 6 (17.14%) Manufacturing
12 6 (17.14%) Linux
12 6 (17.14%) ADO
12 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
12 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
12 6 (17.14%) Selenium
12 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (17.14%) Grafana

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (94.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 9 (25.71%) IaaS
5 8 (22.86%) PaaS
6 5 (14.29%) Azure Storage
7 4 (11.43%) GitHub
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
8 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.57%) Serverless
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Table
9 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.71%) NuGet
10 1 (2.86%) AWS
10 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) SAN
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.86%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) GitLab
1 6 (17.14%) Selenium
2 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) JMeter
2 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Manufacturing
4 5 (14.29%) Electronics
4 5 (14.29%) Marketing
4 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Police
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) ADO
2 5 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 5 (14.29%) pytest
3 4 (11.43%) .NET
4 3 (8.57%) YAML
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 5 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Programme Management
8 4 (11.43%) Agile
8 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (8.57%) Identity Management
9 3 (8.57%) Information Security
10 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
10 2 (5.71%) ITIL
10 2 (5.71%) Project Management
10 2 (5.71%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 12 (34.29%) Python
3 9 (25.71%) Bicep
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Bash
6 4 (11.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) vSphere
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (57.14%) Terraform
2 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.14%) Grafana
3 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
4 5 (14.29%) Puppet
5 4 (11.43%) Ansible
6 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.86%) UiPath