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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,206 1,954 3,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 3.31% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 8.99% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,418 2,260
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £675 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.31% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.88
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £68.80
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 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
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 £630 £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 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 5 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 5 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 0 1,039 £525 -4.55% 453
London +16 650 £525 -4.55% 175
Work from Home +4 517 £525 -4.11% 292
UK excluding London -37 409 £501 -7.31% 308
South East -12 137 £525 -4.55% 54
North of England -10 87 £500 - 83
South West -41 59 £525 -10.18% 36
Midlands -20 52 £438 -2.78% 70
North West -4 50 £513 +2.50% 47
Scotland -4 45 £438 -7.89% 24
West Midlands -9 42 £475 - 48
Yorkshire +1 34 £475 -9.52% 30
East of England +23 23 £500 -9.09% 15
Wales -2 11 £475 -18.94% 20
East Midlands -7 10 £419 +1.58% 21
North East +15 5 £473 -5.50% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 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 57 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.06%) Confluence
3 30 (2.49%) CMS
3 30 (2.49%) IIS
4 10 (0.83%) Site Server
5 7 (0.58%) Apache
5 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.58%) Kentico
6 6 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.17%) Jadu
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.083%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.58%) 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 32 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.24%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) Shopify
8 1 (0.083%) Endur
8 1 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.083%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,203 (99.75%) Azure
2 146 (12.11%) Power Platform
3 117 (9.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 112 (9.29%) AWS
5 108 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
6 104 (8.62%) Serverless
7 95 (7.88%) GitHub
8 93 (7.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 87 (7.21%) Entra ID
10 80 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
11 77 (6.38%) PaaS
12 76 (6.30%) Azure Functions
13 73 (6.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 73 (6.05%) Power Automate
13 73 (6.05%) PowerApps
14 63 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.73%) Azure API Management
16 48 (3.98%) IaaS
17 44 (3.65%) Azure AKS
18 39 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.57%) Firewall
2 22 (1.82%) Network Security
3 21 (1.74%) DNS
4 11 (0.91%) FTP
5 10 (0.83%) Internet
5 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.75%) SSL
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.33%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.25%) IPv4
9 3 (0.25%) SSH
10 1 (0.083%) 4G
10 1 (0.083%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.083%) Extranet
10 1 (0.083%) Intranet
10 1 (0.083%) MQTT
10 1 (0.083%) PPP
10 1 (0.083%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (23.05%) SQL Server
2 113 (9.37%) Power BI
3 72 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 67 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 39 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (2.40%) Redis
8 28 (2.32%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (1.41%) GIS
10 17 (1.41%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.33%) Big Data
11 16 (1.33%) MySQL
12 14 (1.16%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.91%) Tableau
14 8 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.58%) OLTP
15 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 190 (15.75%) Git
2 99 (8.21%) JIRA
3 70 (5.80%) Selenium
4 58 (4.81%) Visual Studio
5 56 (4.64%) SpecFlow
6 53 (4.39%) Jenkins
7 39 (3.23%) GitLab
8 29 (2.40%) SonarQube
9 23 (1.91%) WebDriver
10 22 (1.82%) Postman
11 20 (1.66%) TeamCity
12 18 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (1.16%) NUnit
15 10 (0.83%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.83%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.75%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
17 7 (0.58%) Moq
General
1 279 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 231 (19.15%) Finance
3 188 (15.59%) Public Sector
4 112 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.90%) Retail
6 39 (3.23%) Back Office
7 37 (3.07%) Banking
8 34 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.32%) Marketing
10 27 (2.24%) General Ledger
11 26 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.58%) Electronics
14 17 (1.41%) Legal
15 16 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.33%) Front Office
16 11 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.91%) Local Government
16 11 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 343 (28.44%) Developer
2 198 (16.42%) Senior
3 166 (13.76%) Azure Engineer
4 130 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 115 (9.54%) Senior Developer
6 103 (8.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 101 (8.37%) Lead
8 93 (7.71%) Architect
9 85 (7.05%) Analyst
10 81 (6.72%) Azure Developer
11 77 (6.38%) .NET Developer
12 70 (5.80%) Consultant
13 62 (5.14%) C# Developer
14 58 (4.81%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (3.48%) Test Analyst
17 41 (3.40%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.40%) Data Engineer
17 41 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
18 36 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (29.19%) .NET
2 138 (11.44%) XML
3 126 (10.45%) .NET Core
4 106 (8.79%) .NET Framework
5 89 (7.38%) React
6 77 (6.38%) ARM Templates
7 69 (5.72%) CSS
7 69 (5.72%) HTML
8 67 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 58 (4.81%) ASP.NET
10 57 (4.73%) REST
11 56 (4.64%) YAML
12 42 (3.48%) JSON
13 34 (2.82%) Node.js
13 34 (2.82%) RESTful
14 31 (2.57%) Entity Framework
15 28 (2.32%) GraphQL
16 26 (2.16%) SOAP
17 24 (1.99%) ADO
17 24 (1.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.87%) Product Ownership
2 34 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 29 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 22 (1.82%) Wiki
6 21 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 17 (1.41%) Derivative
7 17 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (1.08%) Contactless
10 13 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.66%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 88 (7.30%) Windows
2 69 (5.72%) Linux
3 42 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.08%) Unix
6 10 (0.83%) VMS
7 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Solaris
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) Android
10 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
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 1,201 (99.59%) DevOps
2 566 (46.93%) Agile
3 367 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 244 (20.23%) Scrum
5 172 (14.26%) Test Automation
6 138 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 127 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (9.87%) Migration
10 115 (9.54%) Software Engineering
11 114 (9.45%) TDD
12 85 (7.05%) Project Delivery
13 83 (6.88%) API Management
14 79 (6.55%) Computer Science
15 78 (6.47%) OO
16 75 (6.22%) B2C
17 68 (5.64%) Analytics
18 64 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 63 (5.22%) Continuous Integration
19 63 (5.22%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 385 (31.92%) C#
2 287 (23.80%) PowerShell
3 261 (21.64%) SQL
4 191 (15.84%) Python
5 121 (10.03%) Bicep
6 109 (9.04%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.72%) TypeScript
8 67 (5.56%) Java
9 38 (3.15%) Bash
10 26 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.99%) C++
12 17 (1.41%) VBScript
13 15 (1.24%) C
14 13 (1.08%) Rust
15 11 (0.91%) Go
16 10 (0.83%) Korn
17 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.66%) Scala
18 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 129 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.03%) Degree
3 86 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.07%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.24%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.33%) CBAP
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.33%) PMP
13 3 (0.25%) CISSP
13 3 (0.25%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.17%) CISM
14 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.64%) QA
2 35 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.91%) WCAG
4 13 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.00%) NCSC
5 12 (1.00%) PMO
6 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.58%) GDPR
9 5 (0.41%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 134 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 100 (8.29%) Docker
3 27 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.49%) 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
1 196 (16.25%) Terraform
2 108 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.47%) Ansible
4 17 (1.41%) SCOM
5 15 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.16%) SCCM
7 13 (1.08%) Grafana
7 13 (1.08%) Puppet
8 11 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.33%) Argo
12 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.25%) Nessus
12 3 (0.25%) Packer
13 2 (0.17%) Kibana
13 2 (0.17%) Nagios
13 2 (0.17%) Netcool
13 2 (0.17%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 402 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.72%) Oracle
3 41 (3.40%) SAP
4 37 (3.07%) Databricks
5 31 (2.57%) VMware
6 22 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.16%) F5
9 12 (1.00%) ESRI
10 11 (0.91%) Splunk
11 7 (0.58%) Google
11 7 (0.58%) Xamarin
12 6 (0.50%) Adobe
12 6 (0.50%) Informatica
12 6 (0.50%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.41%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.41%) HP
13 5 (0.41%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.33%) Citrix
14 4 (0.33%) Optimizely