Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 71 70
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,163 1,742 3,033
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.90% 3.21% 3.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 8.79% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 1,269 2,234
10th Percentile £375 £400 £408
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £708 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% +3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - £44.40 £54.50
25th Percentile - £60.00 £55.13
Median hourly rate - £68.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year - +17.46% +18.14%
75th Percentile - £73.42 £65.79
90th Percentile - £79.19 £66.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year - +26.13% +13.27%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,451 19,825 34,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 36.48% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,410 14,326 25,125
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £743 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 345 396
10th Percentile £14.16 £15.08 £13.46
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.93 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +55.56% +6.26%
75th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £51.14
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.75% +32.50% -

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 26 July 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
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 26 July 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 +2 994 £525 -4.55% 190
London +18 672 £525 -4.55% 51
Work from Home +6 481 £500 -4.76% 134
UK excluding London -42 358 £500 -4.76% 159
South East -9 104 £513 -14.58% 48
North of England -28 76 £513 -2.38% 51
South West -47 56 £525 -8.70% 19
Scotland -1 51 £450 -5.26% 8
Midlands -29 47 £475 +11.76% 25
West Midlands -2 42 £488 +2.63% 24
North West -17 40 £525 - 24
Yorkshire +5 33 £500 -4.76% 20
East of England -13 12 £525 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 12 £575 - 5
Wales +5 6 £388 -26.19% 2
East Midlands -22 5 £363 +0.69% 1
North East 0 3 £394 -34.38% 7
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

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 50 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.10%) Confluence
3 22 (1.89%) CMS
4 19 (1.63%) IIS
5 15 (1.29%) Apache
6 12 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.69%) Site Server
9 6 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) JBoss
12 2 (0.17%) nginx
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.086%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.086%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.086%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.52%) Maximo
5 5 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.17%) Shopify
8 1 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.086%) Endur
8 1 (0.086%) Exstream
8 1 (0.086%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.086%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.086%) SAP FI-CA
8 1 (0.086%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.086%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.086%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,155 (99.31%) Azure
2 143 (12.30%) Power Platform
3 119 (10.23%) Dynamics 365
3 119 (10.23%) Serverless
4 113 (9.72%) Azure Service Bus
5 103 (8.86%) GitHub
6 96 (8.25%) Entra ID
7 94 (8.08%) Azure Functions
8 92 (7.91%) AWS
8 92 (7.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 74 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
10 70 (6.02%) Power Automate
10 70 (6.02%) PowerApps
11 65 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 63 (5.42%) PaaS
13 53 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 51 (4.39%) IaaS
15 50 (4.30%) Azure API Management
16 49 (4.21%) Azure AKS
16 49 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.41%) Firewall
2 20 (1.72%) DNS
3 14 (1.20%) Network Security
4 13 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.03%) FTP
6 9 (0.77%) SSL
6 9 (0.77%) VPN
7 8 (0.69%) HTTP
7 8 (0.69%) Internet
8 5 (0.43%) WAN
9 4 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.26%) BGP
10 3 (0.26%) DHCP
10 3 (0.26%) IPsec
10 3 (0.26%) MPLS
10 3 (0.26%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.17%) IPv4
12 1 (0.086%) MQTT
12 1 (0.086%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (27.17%) SQL Server
2 97 (8.34%) Power BI
3 81 (6.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 41 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 31 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 28 (2.41%) Redis
9 24 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.89%) Big Data
11 21 (1.81%) MySQL
12 20 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.38%) GIS
13 16 (1.38%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.60%) OLTP
16 6 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (16.68%) Git
2 88 (7.57%) JIRA
3 82 (7.05%) Visual Studio
4 71 (6.10%) Selenium
5 59 (5.07%) SpecFlow
6 44 (3.78%) Jenkins
7 36 (3.10%) GitLab
7 36 (3.10%) Postman
8 26 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (2.15%) WebDriver
10 24 (2.06%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.55%) Maven
11 18 (1.55%) Visual Studio Team System
12 16 (1.38%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.29%) NUnit
14 13 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
14 13 (1.12%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 10 (0.86%) JMeter
17 8 (0.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 259 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 233 (20.03%) Finance
3 178 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 79 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.39%) Back Office
6 42 (3.61%) Retail
7 38 (3.27%) Banking
8 26 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (1.63%) Marketing
10 18 (1.55%) Front Office
10 18 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.29%) Electronics
12 15 (1.29%) General Ledger
13 12 (1.03%) Legal
14 11 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.95%) Local Government
15 9 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 378 (32.50%) Developer
2 212 (18.23%) Senior
3 157 (13.50%) Azure Engineer
4 135 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 123 (10.58%) Senior Developer
6 99 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 97 (8.34%) .NET Developer
8 88 (7.57%) Analyst
8 88 (7.57%) Lead
9 72 (6.19%) Architect
10 69 (5.93%) Azure Developer
11 67 (5.76%) Software Developer
12 57 (4.90%) Consultant
13 53 (4.56%) Data Engineer
14 52 (4.47%) C# Developer
15 45 (3.87%) Test Analyst
16 41 (3.53%) Backend Developer
16 41 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
17 37 (3.18%) Software Engineer
18 30 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (32.33%) .NET
2 150 (12.90%) .NET Core
3 145 (12.47%) XML
4 123 (10.58%) .NET Framework
5 102 (8.77%) HTML
6 92 (7.91%) ASP.NET
7 90 (7.74%) AngularJS
8 88 (7.57%) React
9 86 (7.39%) CSS
10 76 (6.53%) REST
11 64 (5.50%) ARM Templates
12 52 (4.47%) RESTful
13 46 (3.96%) YAML
14 39 (3.35%) Web Services
15 38 (3.27%) JSON
16 33 (2.84%) Entity Framework
17 30 (2.58%) SOAP
18 28 (2.41%) ADO
19 26 (2.24%) Node.js
20 25 (2.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.51%) Product Ownership
2 29 (2.49%) Cloud Native
3 27 (2.32%) Mobile App
4 21 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.55%) Derivative
7 15 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.12%) Contactless
9 13 (1.12%) Wiki
10 11 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 11 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.69%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 76 (6.53%) Windows
2 60 (5.16%) Linux
3 23 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.52%) Unix
6 3 (0.26%) Android
6 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Debian
7 2 (0.17%) Solaris
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.086%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.086%) CentOS
8 1 (0.086%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (99.48%) DevOps
2 574 (49.36%) Agile
3 392 (33.71%) CI/CD
4 236 (20.29%) Scrum
5 204 (17.54%) Test Automation
6 134 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 121 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
9 108 (9.29%) TDD
10 94 (8.08%) Software Engineering
11 88 (7.57%) Migration
12 82 (7.05%) API Management
13 78 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (6.71%) Unit Testing
14 77 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
15 76 (6.53%) Analytics
16 73 (6.28%) Containerisation
16 73 (6.28%) OO
17 71 (6.10%) B2C
17 71 (6.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 406 (34.91%) C#
2 284 (24.42%) SQL
3 266 (22.87%) PowerShell
4 185 (15.91%) Python
5 137 (11.78%) JavaScript
6 118 (10.15%) Bicep
7 86 (7.39%) Java
8 67 (5.76%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.13%) T-SQL
10 44 (3.78%) Bash
11 25 (2.15%) C++
12 21 (1.81%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.55%) C
14 16 (1.38%) Go
15 13 (1.12%) Rust
16 11 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.95%) VBScript
17 10 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.69%) Korn
19 7 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 135 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 96 (8.25%) Degree
3 83 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.07%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.12%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.52%) ISEB
12 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.26%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.26%) CISSP
13 3 (0.26%) PMP
14 2 (0.17%) CCSK
14 2 (0.17%) CISM
14 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.47%) QA
2 38 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.15%) WCAG
4 14 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.95%) PMO
6 7 (0.60%) GDPR
6 7 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.43%) NCSC
8 4 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.34%) GRC
8 4 (0.34%) IFRS
8 4 (0.34%) NIST
8 4 (0.34%) PSD2
9 3 (0.26%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.26%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.086%) COBIT
11 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.086%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.086%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 137 (11.78%) Docker
2 131 (11.26%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 203 (17.45%) Terraform
2 140 (12.04%) Kubernetes
3 59 (5.07%) Ansible
4 21 (1.81%) Grafana
5 14 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.12%) Puppet
7 8 (0.69%) SCOM
8 4 (0.34%) Argo
8 4 (0.34%) SCCM
9 3 (0.26%) Istio
10 2 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.17%) Podman
10 2 (0.17%) Rancher
10 2 (0.17%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.086%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.086%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.086%) Packer
Vendors
1 447 (38.44%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.73%) Oracle
3 42 (3.61%) Databricks
4 34 (2.92%) SAP
5 25 (2.15%) VMware
6 16 (1.38%) Google
7 15 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.29%) Splunk
8 14 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.86%) ESRI
10 9 (0.77%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.69%) Adobe
11 8 (0.69%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.60%) Cisco
13 6 (0.52%) IBM
13 6 (0.52%) Informatica
13 6 (0.52%) New Relic
14 5 (0.43%) F5
14 5 (0.43%) HP
14 5 (0.43%) Infragistics