Azure DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 104 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 -29 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 293 424 775
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.30% 2.04% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.17% 7.79% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 309 620
10th Percentile £363 £375 £406
25th Percentile £413 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +8.84%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £639 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -2.52% -4.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £29.45 £60.25 £57.70
25th Percentile £29.75 £64.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.91% -6.43% +23.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.75 £79.19
90th Percentile £61.55 £67.95 -
UK median hourly rate £76.25 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.41% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
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 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 +14 101 £500 -6.98% 198
Scotland +21 58 £425 -7.10% 49
Midlands +15 50 £525 +16.67% 95
North of England -19 49 £500 - 159
West Midlands -5 26 £525 +10.53% 61
South West +13 25 £525 - 52
East Midlands +24 24 £500 +19.33% 30
Yorkshire -7 22 £450 -5.26% 45
North West -11 22 £525 +2.44% 99
Wales -4 7 £425 -20.93% 20
East of England +12 6 £475 -5.00% 36
North East -1 4 £538 +13.76% 16
Northern Ireland -11 1 £550 - 7
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
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 9 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.39%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) WordPress
5 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 293 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (12.97%) Power Platform
3 31 (10.58%) GitHub
4 30 (10.24%) AWS
5 24 (8.19%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (7.17%) SaaS
7 18 (6.14%) Azure AKS
8 17 (5.80%) PowerApps
9 16 (5.46%) Serverless
10 15 (5.12%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (5.12%) IaaS
10 15 (5.12%) PaaS
11 14 (4.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (4.10%) Power Automate
13 11 (3.75%) Azure API Management
14 9 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.73%) Azure Storage
15 8 (2.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) Firewall
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 2 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.34%) 2G
3 1 (0.34%) 3G
3 1 (0.34%) 4G
3 1 (0.34%) 5G
3 1 (0.34%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) RS-232
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.85%) Power BI
2 20 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (3.75%) Big Data
5 7 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.05%) MySQL
7 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.37%) Power Query
8 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.02%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.02%) DB2
9 3 (1.02%) Metadata
9 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.68%) MS Access
10 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (17.75%) Git
2 41 (13.99%) JIRA
3 34 (11.60%) Selenium
4 27 (9.22%) Jenkins
5 18 (6.14%) GitLab
6 13 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.10%) Postman
8 10 (3.41%) Visual Studio
9 8 (2.73%) JUnit
9 8 (2.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (2.39%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.39%) SpecFlow
11 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.71%) Appium
12 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.71%) Subversion
12 5 (1.71%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.71%) TestRail
12 5 (1.71%) WebDriver
13 4 (1.37%) NUnit
General
1 65 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.06%) Finance
3 47 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.46%) Retail
6 14 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.41%) Electronics
8 10 (3.41%) Marketing
9 8 (2.73%) Banking
10 6 (2.05%) Military
11 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Law
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 2 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (21.84%) Developer
2 54 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (14.68%) Azure Engineer
4 33 (11.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 32 (10.92%) Analyst
6 29 (9.90%) Senior
7 17 (5.80%) Lead
8 15 (5.12%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.12%) Architect
8 15 (5.12%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.12%) Consultant
9 13 (4.44%) Azure Developer
9 13 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.75%) React Developer
12 10 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Site Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (2.73%) Test Analyst
13 8 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (18.77%) .NET
2 29 (9.90%) ADO
3 19 (6.48%) CSS
3 19 (6.48%) HTML
4 18 (6.14%) AngularJS
5 17 (5.80%) React
6 15 (5.12%) RESTful
6 15 (5.12%) YAML
7 14 (4.78%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.07%) Playwright
9 8 (2.73%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.73%) JSON
9 8 (2.73%) Web Services
10 7 (2.39%) PySpark
10 7 (2.39%) REST
11 6 (2.05%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.05%) OAuth
11 6 (2.05%) XML
12 5 (1.71%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.51%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.07%) Client/Server
2 9 (3.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.07%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (2.39%) Wiki
4 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.71%) PKI
5 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.37%) NHS
6 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.02%) EPoS
7 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.90%) Linux
1 29 (9.90%) Windows
2 13 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.73%) Android
5 5 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.02%) Unix
7 2 (0.68%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (98.63%) DevOps
2 139 (47.44%) Agile
3 89 (30.38%) CI/CD
4 70 (23.89%) Test Automation
5 52 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (12.63%) Scrum
7 31 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (8.87%) Migration
9 25 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (8.19%) Analytics
10 24 (8.19%) Project Management
10 24 (8.19%) Software Engineering
11 23 (7.85%) Unit Testing
12 20 (6.83%) Software Testing
12 20 (6.83%) Test Strategy
13 19 (6.48%) Containerisation
14 18 (6.14%) SDLC
14 18 (6.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (6.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.91%) Python
2 61 (20.82%) SQL
3 59 (20.14%) C#
4 51 (17.41%) PowerShell
5 32 (10.92%) JavaScript
6 26 (8.87%) Java
7 21 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.14%) Bash
8 18 (6.14%) Bicep
9 9 (3.07%) VBScript
10 5 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.37%) C++
11 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) VBA
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.12%) Degree
4 11 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.71%) ISEB
8 5 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) CITP
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.56%) QA
2 9 (3.07%) PMO
3 8 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.71%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.02%) PERC
5 3 (1.02%) WCAG
6 2 (0.68%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (9.56%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (22.18%) Terraform
2 42 (14.33%) Kubernetes
3 33 (11.26%) Ansible
4 12 (4.10%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.41%) Grafana
6 7 (2.39%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) linkerd
9 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.48%) Oracle
3 14 (4.78%) Databricks
4 12 (4.10%) SAP
5 11 (3.75%) VMware
6 8 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.71%) Google
9 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.37%) Fujitsu
10 3 (1.02%) Citrix
11 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.68%) Perforce
11 2 (0.68%) Wind River
12 1 (0.34%) Okta
12 1 (0.34%) Snow
12 1 (0.34%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.34%) UiPath