Azure DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 56 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 352 527 963
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.55% 3.43% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.93% 9.48% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 340 720
10th Percentile £364 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -2.52% -4.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £36.35
25th Percentile £66.25 - £57.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £63.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £70.45
UK median hourly rate £76.25 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.41% -6.43% +21.74%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Azure DevOps
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.

Azure DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.13%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.57%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.14%) Trello
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 351 (99.72%) Azure
2 52 (14.77%) Dynamics 365
3 47 (13.35%) Power Platform
4 45 (12.78%) GitHub
5 36 (10.23%) AWS
6 31 (8.81%) PowerApps
7 30 (8.52%) Azure Monitor
8 29 (8.24%) Serverless
9 28 (7.95%) Azure AKS
10 27 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (7.39%) Power Automate
12 25 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 21 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (5.97%) Azure Functions
14 18 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (3.41%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.41%) SaaS
16 11 (3.13%) Azure API Management
16 11 (3.13%) PaaS
17 10 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.98%) Firewall
2 9 (2.56%) HTTP
3 8 (2.27%) DNS
4 7 (1.99%) VPN
5 6 (1.70%) Network Security
5 6 (1.70%) SMTP
5 6 (1.70%) SSL
5 6 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.14%) FTP
7 2 (0.57%) POP3
7 2 (0.57%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.28%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.10%) Power BI
2 20 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (3.98%) Redis
6 12 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.99%) Big Data
7 7 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.85%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.57%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.57%) MS Access
11 2 (0.57%) MySQL
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (17.05%) Git
2 53 (15.06%) JIRA
3 37 (10.51%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.25%) GitLab
5 19 (5.40%) Selenium
6 17 (4.83%) JMeter
7 13 (3.69%) Postman
8 12 (3.41%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.27%) Gatling
9 8 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (2.27%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.99%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.99%) SpecFlow
11 6 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.70%) LoadRunner
11 6 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.42%) Appium
12 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.42%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.45%) Finance
3 50 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 32 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.10%) Banking
6 19 (5.40%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.83%) Retail
8 14 (3.98%) Marketing
9 12 (3.41%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.56%) Back Office
10 9 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.27%) Electronics
11 8 (2.27%) Front Office
11 8 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Military
15 2 (0.57%) Games
15 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 90 (25.57%) Developer
2 59 (16.76%) Azure Engineer
3 51 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (12.50%) Lead
5 41 (11.65%) Senior
6 40 (11.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.53%) Consultant
8 22 (6.25%) Analyst
9 20 (5.68%) .NET Developer
9 20 (5.68%) Architect
10 17 (4.83%) Power Platform Developer
11 15 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.98%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.98%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.98%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.41%) Azure Architect
15 11 (3.13%) Business Analyst
15 11 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.03%) .NET
2 33 (9.38%) REST
3 23 (6.53%) SOAP
4 19 (5.40%) .NET Core
5 18 (5.11%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.11%) Playwright
5 18 (5.11%) YAML
6 16 (4.55%) ADO
7 15 (4.26%) Kafka
8 14 (3.98%) JSON
9 13 (3.69%) .NET Framework
9 13 (3.69%) ARM Templates
10 11 (3.13%) RESTful
11 10 (2.84%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (2.84%) CSS
11 10 (2.84%) HTML
11 10 (2.84%) Play Framework
12 9 (2.56%) PySpark
13 8 (2.27%) ASP.NET
13 8 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.80%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.85%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.57%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.55%) Linux
2 11 (3.13%) Windows
3 7 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.14%) Unix
6 3 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.57%) Android
7 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (99.72%) DevOps
2 178 (50.57%) Agile
3 135 (38.35%) CI/CD
4 67 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (16.48%) Test Automation
6 52 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (13.07%) Containerisation
8 44 (12.50%) Scrum
9 37 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (9.09%) TDD
11 31 (8.81%) Analytics
11 31 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (7.95%) Microservices
13 27 (7.67%) Logistics
13 27 (7.67%) Mentoring
14 26 (7.39%) Migration
14 26 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (7.10%) Kanban
16 24 (6.82%) Project Management
17 22 (6.25%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (26.42%) C#
2 83 (23.58%) Python
2 83 (23.58%) SQL
3 74 (21.02%) PowerShell
4 44 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.36%) Java
6 30 (8.52%) Bash
7 28 (7.95%) Bicep
8 25 (7.10%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.84%) Scala
10 7 (1.99%) C++
11 5 (1.42%) Ruby
12 4 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.14%) PHP
12 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.85%) Perl
13 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.57%) VB
14 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 2 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 61 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.53%) Degree
4 12 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.57%) ISEB
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) CSPO
10 1 (0.28%) PhD
10 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.40%) QA
2 11 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.70%) GDPR
4 5 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.42%) WCAG
5 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) PMO
7 2 (0.57%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) PERC
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.28%) MiFID
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (14.20%) Docker
2 10 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.28%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (25.00%) Terraform
2 73 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.40%) Ansible
4 13 (3.69%) Grafana
5 12 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.70%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.70%) Puppet
7 5 (1.42%) Istio
8 4 (1.14%) Perfmon
9 3 (0.85%) Control-M
9 3 (0.85%) Rundeck
9 3 (0.85%) SCCM
9 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.28%) Kibana
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.11%) Databricks
3 14 (3.98%) SAP
4 12 (3.41%) Oracle
5 8 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.70%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.42%) Fujitsu
7 5 (1.42%) Google
8 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.14%) New Relic
9 3 (0.85%) Citrix
9 3 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.85%) Workday
10 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco
10 2 (0.57%) InterSystems
10 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.57%) Murex
10 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.57%) VMware