Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 68 68
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,211 1,964 3,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.78% 3.26% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.61% 8.85% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1,421 2,252
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £490
% change year-on-year -5.47% +8.16% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 14
10th Percentile £53.88 £49.65 £46.80
25th Percentile £61.56 £60.00 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +25.56%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £67.40 £79.19 £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.13% +23.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,070 22,200 34,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 36.90% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,997 16,035 25,035
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 358 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.60 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.13% +29.65% -3.85%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +1 1,031 £525 -4.55% 481
London +20 633 £525 -4.55% 193
Work from Home +3 518 £525 -4.11% 341
UK excluding London -37 421 £501 -5.47% 322
South East -14 142 £550 -2.22% 72
North of England -8 91 £500 - 88
South West -44 56 £525 -8.70% 34
Midlands -12 53 £450 - 59
North West -15 51 £513 +2.50% 51
Scotland -7 48 £458 -3.68% 31
West Midlands +5 44 £475 +2.70% 37
Yorkshire +8 37 £475 -9.52% 30
East of England +21 25 £500 -13.04% 17
Wales 0 12 £538 -8.28% 14
East Midlands -11 9 £419 -0.24% 22
North East +16 5 £473 -5.50% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 £550 - 9
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 1

Azure DevOps
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 61 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 51 (4.21%) Confluence
3 30 (2.48%) CMS
3 30 (2.48%) IIS
4 11 (0.91%) Site Server
5 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.58%) Kentico
6 6 (0.50%) Apache
6 6 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 3 (0.25%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.17%) Jadu
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.083%) Appian
10 1 (0.083%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) InVision
6 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (2.64%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.25%) Maximo
6 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) Shopify
8 1 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.083%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (99.67%) Azure
2 151 (12.47%) Power Platform
3 122 (10.07%) AWS
4 113 (9.33%) Dynamics 365
5 112 (9.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 109 (9.00%) Serverless
7 95 (7.84%) GitHub
8 91 (7.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 85 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
10 82 (6.77%) PaaS
11 79 (6.52%) Azure Functions
11 79 (6.52%) Power Automate
12 78 (6.44%) Entra ID
13 73 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (5.95%) PowerApps
15 61 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 57 (4.71%) Azure API Management
17 49 (4.05%) Azure AKS
18 47 (3.88%) IaaS
19 42 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.56%) Firewall
2 22 (1.82%) Network Security
3 20 (1.65%) DNS
4 11 (0.91%) FTP
4 11 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) Internet
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) SSL
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.25%) IPv4
10 3 (0.25%) SSH
11 2 (0.17%) 4G
12 1 (0.083%) Extranet
12 1 (0.083%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.083%) Intranet
12 1 (0.083%) MQTT
12 1 (0.083%) PPP
12 1 (0.083%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (21.22%) SQL Server
2 115 (9.50%) Power BI
3 74 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 68 (5.62%) Data Lake
5 40 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.65%) Redis
9 18 (1.49%) GIS
9 18 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.24%) Big Data
11 15 (1.24%) MySQL
12 13 (1.07%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.99%) Tableau
14 7 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.58%) OLTP
14 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 189 (15.61%) Git
2 104 (8.59%) JIRA
3 69 (5.70%) Selenium
4 57 (4.71%) Jenkins
5 56 (4.62%) SpecFlow
6 55 (4.54%) Visual Studio
7 42 (3.47%) GitLab
8 29 (2.39%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.73%) Postman
9 21 (1.73%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.73%) WebDriver
10 19 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
12 12 (0.99%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.99%) NUnit
13 10 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
15 8 (0.66%) Moq
General
1 277 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 236 (19.49%) Finance
3 195 (16.10%) Public Sector
4 110 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.96%) Retail
6 37 (3.06%) Back Office
7 34 (2.81%) Banking
8 33 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.31%) Marketing
10 27 (2.23%) General Ledger
11 26 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.57%) Electronics
14 16 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.32%) Legal
15 15 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.07%) Front Office
17 10 (0.83%) Local Government
17 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 329 (27.17%) Developer
2 180 (14.86%) Senior
3 172 (14.20%) Azure Engineer
4 137 (11.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (8.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 105 (8.67%) Lead
7 98 (8.09%) Senior Developer
8 94 (7.76%) Architect
9 84 (6.94%) Analyst
10 77 (6.36%) .NET Developer
11 74 (6.11%) Azure Developer
12 69 (5.70%) Consultant
13 57 (4.71%) C# Developer
14 52 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 51 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.55%) Test Analyst
17 41 (3.39%) Data Engineer
18 38 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
19 37 (3.06%) Senior Software Developer
20 33 (2.73%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (27.33%) .NET
2 121 (9.99%) XML
3 119 (9.83%) .NET Core
4 99 (8.18%) .NET Framework
5 79 (6.52%) React
6 78 (6.44%) ARM Templates
7 68 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 59 (4.87%) CSS
8 59 (4.87%) HTML
8 59 (4.87%) REST
9 56 (4.62%) YAML
10 51 (4.21%) ASP.NET
11 41 (3.39%) JSON
12 34 (2.81%) Node.js
13 33 (2.73%) RESTful
14 32 (2.64%) Entity Framework
15 28 (2.31%) ADO
16 27 (2.23%) GraphQL
17 25 (2.06%) SOAP
18 22 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 35 (2.89%) Cloud Native
3 30 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 23 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 23 (1.90%) Wiki
5 21 (1.73%) Mobile App
6 17 (1.40%) Client/Server
6 17 (1.40%) Derivative
6 17 (1.40%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.07%) Contactless
9 13 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.66%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.18%) Windows
2 73 (6.03%) Linux
3 43 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.16%) Unix
6 11 (0.91%) VMS
7 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Solaris
8 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.17%) Android
11 1 (0.083%) AIX
11 1 (0.083%) CentOS
11 1 (0.083%) Debian
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (99.50%) DevOps
2 559 (46.16%) Agile
3 356 (29.40%) CI/CD
4 239 (19.74%) Scrum
5 165 (13.63%) Test Automation
6 140 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
8 130 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (9.99%) Migration
10 117 (9.66%) TDD
11 113 (9.33%) Software Engineering
12 89 (7.35%) Project Delivery
13 81 (6.69%) API Management
13 81 (6.69%) Computer Science
14 77 (6.36%) OO
15 72 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (5.62%) Analytics
17 64 (5.28%) B2C
17 64 (5.28%) Kanban
17 64 (5.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 362 (29.89%) C#
2 272 (22.46%) PowerShell
3 269 (22.21%) SQL
4 196 (16.18%) Python
5 107 (8.84%) Bicep
6 100 (8.26%) JavaScript
7 66 (5.45%) Java
8 58 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 42 (3.47%) Bash
10 28 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.98%) C++
12 17 (1.40%) VBScript
13 15 (1.24%) C
14 13 (1.07%) Rust
15 11 (0.91%) Go
15 11 (0.91%) Korn
16 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.58%) Scala
18 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 137 (11.31%) Security Cleared
2 125 (10.32%) Degree
3 89 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 39 (3.22%) Azure Certification
5 37 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 17 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 6 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) CBAP
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
14 3 (0.25%) CISSP
14 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.78%) QA
2 37 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.98%) WCAG
4 14 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.07%) NCSC
5 13 (1.07%) PMO
6 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.58%) GDPR
9 6 (0.50%) NIST
10 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.33%) PSD2
12 3 (0.25%) GRC
12 3 (0.25%) IFRS
12 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.17%) COBIT
13 2 (0.17%) GxP
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 125 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 101 (8.34%) Docker
3 28 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.083%) Ceph
8 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.083%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (16.76%) Terraform
2 113 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.62%) Ansible
4 17 (1.40%) SCOM
5 16 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.16%) SCCM
7 13 (1.07%) Grafana
8 12 (0.99%) Puppet
9 10 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.33%) Argo
13 4 (0.33%) Packer
14 3 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.25%) Kibana
14 3 (0.25%) Nagios
14 3 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 391 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.70%) Oracle
3 43 (3.55%) SAP
4 35 (2.89%) Databricks
5 33 (2.73%) VMware
6 22 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.16%) F5
9 13 (1.07%) ESRI
10 11 (0.91%) Splunk
11 10 (0.83%) Google
12 7 (0.58%) HP
12 7 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.58%) Xamarin
13 6 (0.50%) Adobe
13 6 (0.50%) Informatica
13 6 (0.50%) Optimizely
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix
14 5 (0.41%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.41%) Guidewire