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 £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 348 390
Rank change year-on-year -5 +42 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 38 109 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.48% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 85 105
10th Percentile £425 £468 £425
25th Percentile £440 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.58%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £600 £738 £684
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
North of England +12 17 £513 -2.38% 4
North West +6 10 £525 - 2
South East -1 8 £450 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire +20 7 £475 -9.52% 2
East of England +11 5 £450 -30.77%
Scotland +42 3 £440 -
South West 0 3 £525 -7.69%
Midlands +14 1 £450 -28.00% 1
West Midlands +10 1 £450 -28.00% 1
Wales - 1 £650 -
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 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Azure
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (86.84%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (63.16%) Terraform
4 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
5 19 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
7 14 (36.84%) Python
7 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (26.32%) Docker
9 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
9 7 (18.42%) Agile
10 6 (15.79%) Java
10 6 (15.79%) .NET
10 6 (15.79%) Linux
10 6 (15.79%) Bash
10 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
11 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (13.16%) Bicep
11 5 (13.16%) ARM Templates
11 5 (13.16%) Ansible
11 5 (13.16%) AWS
11 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
11 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
12 4 (10.53%) Windows
12 4 (10.53%) SQL
12 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
12 4 (10.53%) Go
12 4 (10.53%) GitOps

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) IIS
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (86.84%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.16%) AWS
4 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) MQTT
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) RS-232
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Redis
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Snyk
4 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (5.26%) Finance
1 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Electronics
2 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.63%) Marketing
2 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.89%) YAML
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) pytest
4 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.63%) MFC
5 1 (2.63%) WinForms
5 1 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 19 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (10.53%) GitOps
7 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (7.89%) Observability
8 3 (7.89%) Software Delivery
8 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Test Automation
9 2 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (5.26%) Data Engineering
9 2 (5.26%) Load Balancing
9 2 (5.26%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Bash
2 6 (15.79%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) Bicep
4 4 (10.53%) Go
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) Scala
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) C++/CLI
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) MCSE
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Terraform
2 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) SCOM
5 2 (5.26%) Argo
5 2 (5.26%) SCCM
6 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.63%) Istio
6 1 (2.63%) linkerd
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) SELinux
6 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Databricks
2 2 (5.26%) F5
2 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) VMware