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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 349 341
Rank change year-on-year +40 -8 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 34 37 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.18% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.20% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 89
10th Percentile £413 £425 £463
25th Percentile £425 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £625
90th Percentile £648 £600 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -4.17%

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 11,781 18,945 22,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.49% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,499 11,550 15,483
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,261 1,134
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

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 13 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 13 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 +61 22 £531 +18.06% 9
North of England +14 9 £538 +4.88% 7
North West +13 4 £550 +4.76% 6
North East - 3 £525 -
Midlands +19 2 £450 -14.29%
West Midlands +18 2 £450 -14.29%
Yorkshire +11 2 £466 -1.84% 1
South West +43 1 £475 -9.52%
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 13 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 34 (100.00%) Azure
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (94.12%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (55.88%) Terraform
4 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
6 12 (35.29%) Python
6 12 (35.29%) Azure AKS
7 10 (29.41%) Bicep
7 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
7 10 (29.41%) IaaS
8 9 (26.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (26.47%) SQL
9 8 (23.53%) ADO
9 8 (23.53%) PaaS
9 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
9 8 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (20.59%) Grafana
10 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
10 7 (20.59%) Bash
10 7 (20.59%) Azure Storage
11 6 (17.65%) ARM Templates
11 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
11 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
11 6 (17.65%) Finance
11 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing

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 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (94.12%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Azure AKS
4 10 (29.41%) IaaS
5 8 (23.53%) PaaS
6 7 (20.59%) Azure Storage
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.76%) GitHub
7 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Table
8 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.88%) Serverless
10 1 (2.94%) AWS
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.94%) NuGet
10 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.76%) Power BI
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) GitLab
1 5 (14.71%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JMeter
3 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing
3 5 (14.71%) Electronics
3 5 (14.71%) Marketing
3 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Police
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) ADO
2 6 (17.65%) ARM Templates
3 5 (14.71%) .NET
3 5 (14.71%) pytest
4 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
4 3 (8.82%) YAML
5 1 (2.94%) OAuth
5 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (14.71%) Migration
8 5 (14.71%) Programme Management
9 4 (11.76%) Agile
9 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
10 3 (8.82%) Incident Management
10 3 (8.82%) Information Security
10 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
11 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (5.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
2 12 (35.29%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) Bicep
4 9 (26.47%) SQL
5 7 (20.59%) Bash
6 5 (14.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) DFS Replication
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Terraform
2 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.59%) Grafana
3 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
5 3 (8.82%) Ansible
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.94%) UiPath