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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 65 67
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,199 1,914 3,053
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 3.32% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.66% 9.03% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 1,395 2,224
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.75
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £70.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +25.56%

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 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

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 14 May 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 14 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 -3 1,030 £521 -5.33% 421
London +15 644 £525 -4.55% 142
Work from Home +1 505 £513 -6.82% 283
UK excluding London -36 411 £500 -6.54% 297
South East -12 140 £519 -5.68% 46
North of England -23 85 £500 -4.76% 100
South West -53 58 £525 -10.56% 32
Scotland +6 55 £450 -5.26% 12
Midlands -25 51 £463 +8.82% 64
North West -11 50 £519 -1.19% 52
West Midlands -10 43 £475 - 45
Yorkshire +1 32 £488 -7.14% 33
East of England +20 22 £525 -4.55% 15
East Midlands -11 8 £410 +7.06% 18
North East +9 5 £473 -5.50% 15
Wales -3 5 £363 -38.14% 21
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 10
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 56 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 48 (4.00%) Confluence
3 29 (2.42%) CMS
4 24 (2.00%) IIS
5 10 (0.83%) Apache
6 8 (0.67%) Site Server
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.58%) Kentico
8 6 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Jadu
11 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.083%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) InVision
6 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.25%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.083%) Endur
9 1 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.083%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (99.67%) Azure
2 154 (12.84%) Power Platform
3 121 (10.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 112 (9.34%) Dynamics 365
5 111 (9.26%) AWS
6 102 (8.51%) Serverless
7 96 (8.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 96 (8.01%) GitHub
8 84 (7.01%) Entra ID
9 81 (6.76%) PowerApps
10 79 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (6.51%) Power Automate
12 75 (6.26%) PaaS
13 74 (6.17%) Azure Functions
14 72 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 59 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 56 (4.67%) Azure API Management
17 45 (3.75%) Azure AKS
17 45 (3.75%) IaaS
18 38 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.09%) Firewall
2 16 (1.33%) DNS
3 15 (1.25%) Network Security
4 11 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) Internet
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.75%) FTP
7 8 (0.67%) HTTP
8 5 (0.42%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.33%) SSL
10 3 (0.25%) IPv4
10 3 (0.25%) SSH
11 1 (0.083%) 4G
11 1 (0.083%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.083%) Extranet
11 1 (0.083%) Intranet
11 1 (0.083%) MQTT
11 1 (0.083%) PPP
11 1 (0.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (23.27%) SQL Server
2 116 (9.67%) Power BI
3 72 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.34%) Data Lake
5 36 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 30 (2.50%) Redis
8 22 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.50%) MySQL
9 18 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (1.42%) Big Data
11 15 (1.25%) GIS
12 13 (1.08%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.92%) Tableau
14 8 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
14 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.58%) OLTP
16 6 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (16.43%) Git
2 97 (8.09%) JIRA
3 70 (5.84%) Selenium
4 67 (5.59%) Visual Studio
5 56 (4.67%) SpecFlow
6 51 (4.25%) Jenkins
7 40 (3.34%) GitLab
8 30 (2.50%) SonarQube
9 25 (2.09%) Postman
10 23 (1.92%) TeamCity
10 23 (1.92%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (1.33%) NUnit
13 15 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (1.00%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.83%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.75%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
17 8 (0.67%) Moq
General
1 278 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 238 (19.85%) Finance
3 182 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 116 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.92%) Retail
6 39 (3.25%) Back Office
7 36 (3.00%) Banking
7 36 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.25%) General Ledger
9 26 (2.17%) Marketing
10 24 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.42%) Electronics
12 17 (1.42%) Legal
13 16 (1.33%) Front Office
14 13 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.92%) Local Government
15 11 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (28.86%) Developer
2 202 (16.85%) Senior
3 157 (13.09%) Azure Engineer
4 124 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 115 (9.59%) Senior Developer
6 100 (8.34%) Lead
7 95 (7.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 94 (7.84%) Architect
9 92 (7.67%) Analyst
10 78 (6.51%) Azure Developer
11 74 (6.17%) .NET Developer
12 70 (5.84%) Consultant
13 61 (5.09%) C# Developer
14 59 (4.92%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (3.92%) Test Analyst
17 41 (3.42%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.42%) Data Engineer
17 41 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
18 35 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (30.44%) .NET
2 143 (11.93%) XML
3 131 (10.93%) .NET Core
4 107 (8.92%) .NET Framework
5 89 (7.42%) React
6 76 (6.34%) HTML
7 72 (6.01%) CSS
8 71 (5.92%) ARM Templates
9 68 (5.67%) AngularJS
10 63 (5.25%) REST
11 61 (5.09%) ASP.NET
12 52 (4.34%) YAML
13 41 (3.42%) JSON
14 35 (2.92%) RESTful
15 34 (2.84%) Node.js
16 33 (2.75%) SOAP
17 30 (2.50%) Entity Framework
18 29 (2.42%) Web Services
19 26 (2.17%) ADO
19 26 (2.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 122 (10.18%) Product Ownership
2 31 (2.59%) Cloud Native
2 31 (2.59%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 23 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.75%) Wiki
6 17 (1.42%) Client/Server
6 17 (1.42%) Derivative
7 16 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.08%) Contactless
11 11 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.09%) Windows
2 67 (5.59%) Linux
3 38 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.00%) Unix
6 5 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.33%) Solaris
7 4 (0.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.083%) AIX
9 1 (0.083%) CentOS
9 1 (0.083%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (99.50%) DevOps
2 572 (47.71%) Agile
3 362 (30.19%) CI/CD
4 249 (20.77%) Scrum
5 181 (15.10%) Test Automation
6 136 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
7 127 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
8 126 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 115 (9.59%) Migration
9 115 (9.59%) TDD
10 114 (9.51%) Software Engineering
11 84 (7.01%) API Management
12 83 (6.92%) Project Delivery
13 78 (6.51%) OO
14 77 (6.42%) Computer Science
15 76 (6.34%) B2C
16 68 (5.67%) Analytics
17 65 (5.42%) Kanban
18 64 (5.34%) Continuous Integration
19 62 (5.17%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 394 (32.86%) C#
2 273 (22.77%) PowerShell
3 262 (21.85%) SQL
4 188 (15.68%) Python
5 122 (10.18%) Bicep
6 114 (9.51%) JavaScript
7 71 (5.92%) TypeScript
8 69 (5.75%) Java
9 36 (3.00%) Bash
10 27 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 24 (2.00%) C++
12 17 (1.42%) VBScript
13 16 (1.33%) C
14 15 (1.25%) Go
15 13 (1.08%) Rust
16 8 (0.67%) Korn
16 8 (0.67%) Scala
17 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 121 (10.09%) Security Cleared
2 120 (10.01%) Degree
3 78 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 36 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.25%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.42%) CBAP
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) CISSP
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.25%) CISM
15 2 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.17%) QA
2 35 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.92%) WCAG
4 12 (1.00%) NCSC
4 12 (1.00%) PMO
5 11 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.58%) GDPR
9 5 (0.42%) NIST
10 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.17%) COBIT
12 2 (0.17%) GxP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (10.76%) Active Directory
2 100 (8.34%) Docker
3 27 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.083%) Ceph
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.083%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (15.10%) Terraform
2 112 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 64 (5.34%) Ansible
4 16 (1.33%) Grafana
4 16 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 16 (1.33%) SCOM
4 16 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 13 (1.08%) Puppet
6 7 (0.58%) SCCM
7 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.33%) Argo
9 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.25%) Nessus
10 2 (0.17%) Kibana
10 2 (0.17%) Nagios
10 2 (0.17%) Netcool
10 2 (0.17%) Packer
10 2 (0.17%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 412 (34.36%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.92%) Oracle
3 39 (3.25%) SAP
4 34 (2.84%) Databricks
5 32 (2.67%) VMware
6 22 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.17%) Splunk
9 13 (1.08%) F5
10 10 (0.83%) ESRI
11 9 (0.75%) Xamarin
12 8 (0.67%) Adobe
12 8 (0.67%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.58%) Google
14 6 (0.50%) Informatica
15 5 (0.42%) HP
15 5 (0.42%) Infragistics
15 5 (0.42%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.33%) Cadence
16 4 (0.33%) Citrix