Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 299 279
Rank change year-on-year +39 -20 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 44 46 204
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.30% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.32% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 173
10th Percentile £406 £354 £475
25th Percentile £425 £445 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -10.87% -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £650
90th Percentile £639 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £71.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Azure DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Azure
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (70.45%) CI/CD
4 30 (68.18%) Terraform
5 26 (59.09%) Kubernetes
6 15 (34.09%) Docker
6 15 (34.09%) PowerShell
7 14 (31.82%) Azure AKS
8 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
8 13 (29.55%) Python
8 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 10 (22.73%) Bash
11 9 (20.45%) Agile
11 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
12 8 (18.18%) Bicep
12 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
13 6 (13.64%) GitLab
13 6 (13.64%) ARM Templates
13 6 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
14 5 (11.36%) Serverless
14 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (11.36%) SQL
14 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
14 5 (11.36%) Finance
15 4 (9.09%) .NET

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Azure AKS
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
5 5 (11.36%) Serverless
6 3 (6.82%) PaaS
7 2 (4.55%) AWS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub
7 2 (4.55%) IaaS
7 2 (4.55%) NuGet
8 1 (2.27%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) DHCP
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) SAN
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) GitLab
2 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.82%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.55%) JMeter
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Police
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) ARM Templates
2 4 (9.09%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) YAML
4 2 (4.55%) pytest
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (70.45%) CI/CD
3 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.45%) Agile
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.09%) Analytics
7 4 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.09%) Release Management
8 3 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (6.82%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (6.82%) GitOps
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.82%) ITIL
8 3 (6.82%) RBAC
8 3 (6.82%) SDLC
8 3 (6.82%) Software Delivery
9 2 (4.55%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) PowerShell
2 13 (29.55%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) Bash
4 8 (18.18%) Bicep
5 5 (11.36%) SQL
6 3 (6.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) DFS Replication
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (68.18%) Terraform
2 26 (59.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Grafana
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (4.55%) SAP
2 2 (4.55%) VMware
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks