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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 299 280
Rank change year-on-year +25 -19 +51
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 35 43 187
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.29% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.31% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 169
10th Percentile £400 £385 £450
25th Percentile £425 £422 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £650
90th Percentile £603 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% -6.25%
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 9,439 13,759 22,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 93.73% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,344 9,264 16,024
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 543 538
10th Percentile £13.96 £14.16 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.51 £22.50 £24.65
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 35 (100.00%) Azure
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (91.43%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 24 (68.57%) Terraform
5 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
7 13 (37.14%) Bash
7 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
7 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
8 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
9 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
9 11 (31.43%) Python
9 11 (31.43%) Docker
10 10 (28.57%) Agile
10 10 (28.57%) ARM Templates
11 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
11 9 (25.71%) Azure AKS
11 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
12 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (20.00%) Bicep
14 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (17.14%) Analytics
14 6 (17.14%) Windows
15 5 (14.29%) SQL
15 5 (14.29%) Migration
15 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
15 5 (14.29%) Ansible
15 5 (14.29%) SonarQube

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 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (91.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) Azure AKS
4 7 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Functions
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
5 4 (11.43%) IaaS
5 4 (11.43%) PaaS
5 4 (11.43%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Storage
6 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.71%) NuGet
8 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Network Security
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) SAN
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Police
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) ADO
2 3 (8.57%) YAML
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Legacy Code
1 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
5 10 (28.57%) Agile
6 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (17.14%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) DevSecOps
9 4 (11.43%) Log Analytics
9 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.43%) Release Management
9 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
10 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (8.57%) RBAC
10 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
2 13 (37.14%) Bash
3 11 (31.43%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) Bicep
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (8.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.57%) DFS Replication
4 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.57%) vSphere
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (68.57%) Terraform
2 13 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.86%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.86%) NetApp
4 1 (2.86%) Qualys
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