Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 358 393
Rank change year-on-year -104 +35 -73
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 124 386 574
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.66% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.70% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 292 424
10th Percentile £409 £475 £446
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -1.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £661 £736 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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
England -126 99 £513 -10.87% 27
London -43 56 £525 -14.29% 14
Work from Home -31 44 £500 -13.04% 11
UK excluding London +3 37 £500 -9.09% 13
North of England +13 16 £513 -2.38% 4
North West +10 10 £525 - 2
South East -10 8 £450 -16.28% 5
Yorkshire +25 6 £475 -9.52% 2
East of England +6 5 £450 -30.77%
Scotland +44 3 £440 -
South West -2 3 £525 -9.68%
Midlands +17 2 £525 -16.00% 3
West Midlands +12 2 £525 -16.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (100.00%) Azure
1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (82.26%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (50.81%) Terraform
4 57 (45.97%) CI/CD
5 50 (40.32%) Kubernetes
6 46 (37.10%) PowerShell
7 45 (36.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (30.65%) Python
9 37 (29.84%) Docker
10 31 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 26 (20.97%) Agile
12 24 (19.35%) Security Cleared
13 23 (18.55%) AWS
14 21 (16.94%) Finance
14 21 (16.94%) Linux
15 20 (16.13%) .NET
15 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
15 20 (16.13%) PaaS
16 19 (15.32%) Ansible
17 18 (14.52%) ARM Templates
18 17 (13.71%) Git
19 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
19 16 (12.90%) Social Skills
20 15 (12.10%) Bash
20 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
20 15 (12.10%) Computer Science
20 15 (12.10%) SQL
21 14 (11.29%) C#

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 8 (6.45%) IIS
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Trello
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (82.26%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (18.55%) AWS
4 20 (16.13%) PaaS
5 13 (10.48%) Azure AKS
5 13 (10.48%) GitHub
6 8 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.45%) Serverless
7 7 (5.65%) GCP
7 7 (5.65%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Service Fabric
8 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.23%) Miro
9 4 (3.23%) SaaS
10 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) DNS
2 8 (6.45%) VPN
3 6 (4.84%) Firewall
4 5 (4.03%) HTTP
4 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.23%) Internet
5 4 (3.23%) SSH
6 1 (0.81%) IPv4
6 1 (0.81%) MQTT
6 1 (0.81%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.03%) Power BI
2 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.23%) Redis
4 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.81%) Flink
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Git
2 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.29%) GitLab
4 7 (5.65%) Selenium
5 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.42%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.61%) JIRA
7 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.81%) Ant
8 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Maven
8 1 (0.81%) Snyk
8 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (16.94%) Finance
2 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
2 16 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.29%) Banking
4 6 (4.84%) Electronics
4 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.84%) Marketing
4 6 (4.84%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Wearables
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.13%) .NET
2 18 (14.52%) ARM Templates
3 12 (9.68%) JSON
4 11 (8.87%) YAML
5 8 (6.45%) Kafka
6 4 (3.23%) LDAP
6 4 (3.23%) Node.js
6 4 (3.23%) pytest
7 3 (2.42%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.42%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.61%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.61%) CSS
8 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.61%) HTML
8 2 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.61%) RESTful
9 1 (0.81%) ADO
9 1 (0.81%) MFC
9 1 (0.81%) Middleware
9 1 (0.81%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.87%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.42%) Tandem
6 2 (1.61%) Genomics
6 2 (1.61%) Life Science
6 2 (1.61%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Linux
2 14 (11.29%) Windows
3 5 (4.03%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.81%) CentOS
5 1 (0.81%) Debian
5 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (45.97%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (20.97%) Agile
5 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.10%) Computer Science
7 13 (10.48%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (7.26%) Open Source
9 9 (7.26%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (6.45%) Software Engineering
11 7 (5.65%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (5.65%) Microservices
11 7 (5.65%) Network Virtualisation
12 6 (4.84%) Digital Marketing
12 6 (4.84%) Load Balancing
12 6 (4.84%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.10%) PowerShell
2 38 (30.65%) Python
3 15 (12.10%) Bash
3 15 (12.10%) SQL
4 14 (11.29%) C#
5 8 (6.45%) Java
6 7 (5.65%) Bicep
6 7 (5.65%) Go
7 4 (3.23%) C++
8 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.61%) C
9 2 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.61%) Ruby
9 2 (1.61%) Rust
9 2 (1.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.81%) Groovy
10 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) Azure Certification
4 13 (10.48%) Degree
5 9 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) MCSE
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 37 (29.84%) Docker
2 12 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 63 (50.81%) Terraform
2 50 (40.32%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.32%) Ansible
4 7 (5.65%) Puppet
5 6 (4.84%) Grafana
5 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.03%) SCOM
7 4 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.23%) SCCM
8 3 (2.42%) Argo
9 2 (1.61%) Netcool
9 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.81%) Consul
10 1 (0.81%) Istio
10 1 (0.81%) linkerd
10 1 (0.81%) Packer
10 1 (0.81%) Podman
10 1 (0.81%) SELinux
10 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.84%) Databricks
2 6 (4.84%) SAP
2 6 (4.84%) Splunk
3 5 (4.03%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.23%) F5
5 2 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.61%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.81%) VMware
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