Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 460 460
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 -96
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 187 91 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 74 85
10th Percentile £400 £394 £418
25th Percentile £450 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £543 £550 £650
90th Percentile £638 £603 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +2.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 49,650 30,089 36,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.30% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,817 19,016 23,243
10th Percentile £326 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,489 1,535 2,025
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.28 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +20.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Contract Job 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 15 August 2026. 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 -48 149 £492 +3.58% 37
London -30 83 £500 +8.11% 20
UK excluding London -69 73 £492 -1.60% 17
Work from Home -16 69 £500 +6.21% 23
South East -54 31 £492 +15.76% 7
Midlands -35 14 £460 +2.22% 4
North of England -61 11 £425 -20.00% 6
Scotland -17 10 £513 +2.50%
West Midlands -38 10 £588 +30.56%
North West -44 7 £454 -24.38% 5
South West -47 5 £500 +8.11%
Yorkshire -44 4 £425 -17.07%
East Midlands - 4 £450 - 4
East of England - 2 £450 -

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 187 (100.00%) Azure
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 155 (82.89%) Azure DevOps
3 132 (70.59%) CI/CD
4 112 (59.89%) Terraform
5 97 (51.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (47.06%) Security Cleared
7 86 (45.99%) SC Cleared
8 73 (39.04%) Kubernetes
9 58 (31.02%) Microsoft
10 51 (27.27%) Containerisation
11 44 (23.53%) Docker
12 43 (22.99%) Agile
13 40 (21.39%) GitHub
14 39 (20.86%) Azure AKS
14 39 (20.86%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (20.86%) Python
15 38 (20.32%) PowerShell
16 31 (16.58%) Bash
17 27 (14.44%) Bicep
18 25 (13.37%) Git
18 25 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
19 24 (12.83%) Observability
20 23 (12.30%) Azure Certification
20 23 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
21 22 (11.76%) YAML
22 21 (11.23%) AWS
22 21 (11.23%) Databricks
23 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
24 19 (10.16%) ARM Templates

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.07%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 187 (100.00%) Azure
2 155 (82.89%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (21.39%) GitHub
4 39 (20.86%) Azure AKS
5 23 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.23%) AWS
7 18 (9.63%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
8 15 (8.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (4.81%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.28%) Serverless
12 7 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.67%) Azure AI
14 5 (2.67%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.14%) Azure API Management
15 4 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (2.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Firewall
2 7 (3.74%) VPN
3 6 (3.21%) DNS
4 3 (1.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.53%) IPsec
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.95%) Power BI
2 7 (3.74%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.07%) Big Data
5 2 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (13.37%) Git
2 12 (6.42%) GitLab
3 6 (3.21%) JIRA
4 5 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.07%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.07%) Snyk
7 1 (0.53%) Ant
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
7 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (15.51%) Public Sector
2 26 (13.90%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.09%) Finance
4 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.14%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Advertising
7 1 (0.53%) Front Office
7 1 (0.53%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Legal
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
7 1 (0.53%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.76%) YAML
2 19 (10.16%) ARM Templates
3 8 (4.28%) .NET
4 5 (2.67%) ADO
4 5 (2.67%) Kafka
5 3 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.07%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.07%) REST
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.53%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.53%) JSON
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.53%) Middleware
7 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.53%) IoT
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Windows
2 7 (3.74%) Linux
3 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.60%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 97 (51.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 43 (22.99%) Agile
6 39 (20.86%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (12.83%) Observability
9 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.16%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (8.02%) Analytics
13 14 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (7.49%) Migration
13 14 (7.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (6.95%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.95%) RBAC
15 12 (6.42%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.86%) Python
2 38 (20.32%) PowerShell
3 31 (16.58%) Bash
4 27 (14.44%) Bicep
5 12 (6.42%) C#
6 9 (4.81%) SQL
7 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.07%) Java
9 1 (0.53%) Go
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.99%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.30%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.14%) Degree
6 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) CCNA
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.67%) QA
1 5 (2.67%) SLA
2 2 (1.07%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (23.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 112 (59.89%) Terraform
2 73 (39.04%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.56%) Ansible
4 8 (4.28%) Grafana
4 8 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.21%) Packer
6 5 (2.67%) Argo
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.07%) Puppet
8 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.53%) Podman
8 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 58 (31.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.23%) Databricks
3 5 (2.67%) Splunk
4 4 (2.14%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.14%) VMware
5 2 (1.07%) Cisco
5 2 (1.07%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.07%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.07%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.53%) Citrix
6 1 (0.53%) Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) Okta
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow