Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK 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 419 456 361
Rank change year-on-year +37 -95 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 101 126 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.29% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.31% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 100 295
10th Percentile £400 £411 £475
25th Percentile £425 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% -1.67%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £675
90th Percentile £636 £694 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +43 85 £513 - 32
London +30 48 £498 -7.44% 7
Work from Home +39 44 £506 -1.22% 16
UK excluding London +59 35 £513 +2.50% 27
South East +58 20 £550 +22.22% 13
North of England +13 11 £538 +4.88% 7
North West +12 5 £550 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire +4 3 £425 -10.53% 2
North East - 3 £525 -
Midlands +23 2 £450 - 2
West Midlands +15 2 £450 -
South West +44 1 £475 -9.52% 3
Scotland +11 1 £323 -26.60% 1

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (100.00%) Azure
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 93 (92.08%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (65.35%) CI/CD
4 60 (59.41%) Terraform
5 47 (46.53%) Kubernetes
6 39 (38.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (38.61%) PowerShell
7 34 (33.66%) Python
8 30 (29.70%) Azure AKS
9 26 (25.74%) Docker
10 22 (21.78%) Finance
11 21 (20.79%) Bash
12 19 (18.81%) GitLab
13 18 (17.82%) PaaS
13 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
14 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
15 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
16 15 (14.85%) SQL
16 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
16 15 (14.85%) Bicep
17 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
17 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
17 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Automation
17 14 (13.86%) Agile
18 13 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (12.87%) C#
18 13 (12.87%) Linux

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.97%) Apache
3 2 (1.98%) IIS
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) JBoss
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (92.08%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (29.70%) Azure AKS
4 18 (17.82%) PaaS
5 16 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (10.89%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (10.89%) IaaS
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub
8 7 (6.93%) Serverless
9 6 (5.94%) AWS
9 6 (5.94%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.95%) Azure Storage
10 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.98%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) DNS
2 3 (2.97%) Network Security
3 2 (1.98%) DHCP
3 2 (1.98%) SAN
4 1 (0.99%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.95%) Power BI
3 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.97%) Big Data
4 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.98%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 19 (18.81%) GitLab
2 11 (10.89%) Git
3 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) Selenium
5 6 (5.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.96%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.97%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.98%) JIRA
8 2 (1.98%) JMeter
8 2 (1.98%) Maven
8 2 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.99%) Ant
9 1 (0.99%) Gradle
9 1 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (21.78%) Finance
2 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.95%) Electronics
5 5 (4.95%) Marketing
6 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Police
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) ARM Templates
2 8 (7.92%) YAML
3 6 (5.94%) .NET
3 6 (5.94%) ADO
4 5 (4.95%) pytest
5 3 (2.97%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.98%) Web Services
7 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.99%) CSS
7 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.99%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.99%) HTML
7 1 (0.99%) Kafka
7 1 (0.99%) LDAP
7 1 (0.99%) Middleware
7 1 (0.99%) Node.js
7 1 (0.99%) OAuth
7 1 (0.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.98%) Replication
4 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.87%) Linux
2 8 (7.92%) Windows
3 6 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.99%) VMS
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (65.35%) CI/CD
3 39 (38.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.86%) Agile
5 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
5 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Automation
6 13 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (10.89%) Configuration Management
7 11 (10.89%) Migration
8 10 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (7.92%) High Availability
10 7 (6.93%) Analytics
10 7 (6.93%) Release Management
10 7 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (5.94%) Cloud Security
11 6 (5.94%) Continuous Deployment
12 5 (4.95%) Data Engineering
12 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (4.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (38.61%) PowerShell
2 34 (33.66%) Python
3 21 (20.79%) Bash
4 15 (14.85%) Bicep
4 15 (14.85%) SQL
5 13 (12.87%) C#
6 10 (9.90%) Java
7 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.99%) Groovy
8 1 (0.99%) Perl
8 1 (0.99%) PHP
8 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (25.74%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.95%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.98%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (59.41%) Terraform
2 47 (46.53%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.89%) Ansible
3 11 (10.89%) Puppet
4 7 (6.93%) Grafana
4 7 (6.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.99%) Packer
6 1 (0.99%) Podman
6 1 (0.99%) Salt
6 1 (0.99%) SCCM
6 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) Databricks
3 8 (7.92%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.95%) SAP
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.98%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.99%) Citrix
8 1 (0.99%) Informatica
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle
8 1 (0.99%) UiPath
8 1 (0.99%) Zscaler