Azure DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 527 990 1,847
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.39% 3.76% 4.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 9.56% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 741 1,373
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +8.37%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £36.35 £53.20
25th Percentile - £57.13 £55.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +1.37% +38.11%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £70.45 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.74% +27.78%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,673 10,351 18,781
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.28% 41.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 7,601 14,027
10th Percentile £350 £370 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 126 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.30 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £18.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £62.36
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -35.38% +54.39% -7.51%

Azure DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 30 (5.69%) Confluence
2 27 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.42%) CMS
4 7 (1.33%) IIS
5 5 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.95%) Kentico
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.19%) Site Server
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) InVision
5 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (4.36%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 527 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (15.94%) Power Platform
3 71 (13.47%) Dynamics 365
4 56 (10.63%) Azure Service Bus
5 55 (10.44%) PowerApps
6 54 (10.25%) Power Automate
6 54 (10.25%) Serverless
7 51 (9.68%) AWS
8 49 (9.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 48 (9.11%) PaaS
10 46 (8.73%) GitHub
11 45 (8.54%) Azure API Management
12 42 (7.97%) Azure Functions
13 40 (7.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 33 (6.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (6.26%) Entra ID
15 32 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (4.36%) SaaS
17 22 (4.17%) Azure AKS
17 22 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.61%) Firewall
2 11 (2.09%) Network Security
3 10 (1.90%) DNS
4 6 (1.14%) SSL
5 4 (0.76%) FTP
5 4 (0.76%) HTTP
6 3 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.38%) IPv4
7 2 (0.38%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) Extranet
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) PPP
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
8 1 (0.19%) RS-232
8 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (19.54%) SQL Server
2 62 (11.76%) Power BI
3 42 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (7.59%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.71%) MySQL
9 9 (1.71%) Redis
10 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (0.95%) Power Query
12 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.76%) Big Data
12 4 (0.76%) OLTP
12 4 (0.76%) Tableau
13 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (15.56%) Git
2 57 (10.82%) JIRA
3 26 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.93%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 22 (4.17%) Selenium
6 17 (3.23%) GitLab
7 14 (2.66%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (2.09%) WebDriver
9 10 (1.90%) Postman
10 9 (1.71%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.33%) Moq
12 6 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.95%) NUnit
13 5 (0.95%) Visual Studio Team System
14 3 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
General
1 124 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.63%) Finance
3 101 (19.17%) Public Sector
4 45 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.31%) Retail
6 22 (4.17%) General Ledger
6 22 (4.17%) Marketing
7 17 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.66%) Electronics
10 13 (2.47%) Banking
10 13 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.90%) Back Office
13 8 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.33%) Legal
15 5 (0.95%) Law
16 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.76%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (29.98%) Developer
2 72 (13.66%) Senior
3 67 (12.71%) Azure Engineer
4 59 (11.20%) Lead
5 53 (10.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (9.30%) Azure Developer
6 49 (9.30%) Consultant
7 42 (7.97%) .NET Developer
8 37 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 34 (6.45%) Senior Developer
10 31 (5.88%) Architect
11 29 (5.50%) C# Developer
12 28 (5.31%) Analyst
13 21 (3.98%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 20 (3.80%) Functional Consultant
15 19 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (3.42%) Software Developer
17 17 (3.23%) Data Engineer
18 16 (3.04%) C# .NET Developer
18 16 (3.04%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (23.72%) .NET
2 59 (11.20%) XML
3 53 (10.06%) ARM Templates
4 43 (8.16%) .NET Core
5 40 (7.59%) .NET Framework
6 33 (6.26%) React
7 29 (5.50%) CSS
8 28 (5.31%) YAML
9 27 (5.12%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.93%) HTML
11 24 (4.55%) ASP.NET
12 23 (4.36%) Entity Framework
12 23 (4.36%) JSON
13 22 (4.17%) REST
14 18 (3.42%) RESTful
15 17 (3.23%) GraphQL
16 13 (2.47%) ASP.NET MVC
16 13 (2.47%) SOAP
17 12 (2.28%) jQuery
18 11 (2.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.35%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.74%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.09%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.90%) Contactless
6 10 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.90%) Wiki
7 8 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.33%) Derivative
9 6 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 4 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.50%) Windows
2 23 (4.36%) Linux
3 15 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.33%) VMS
5 6 (1.14%) Unix
6 3 (0.57%) Solaris
7 2 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (99.81%) DevOps
2 211 (40.04%) Agile
3 143 (27.13%) CI/CD
4 83 (15.75%) Scrum
5 82 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (12.71%) Test Automation
7 59 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (9.30%) TDD
10 48 (9.11%) Migration
11 41 (7.78%) Software Engineering
12 38 (7.21%) Mentoring
13 34 (6.45%) Microservices
14 32 (6.07%) API Management
15 31 (5.88%) Project Delivery
15 31 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
16 30 (5.69%) Kanban
16 30 (5.69%) OO
17 29 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 150 (28.46%) C#
2 141 (26.76%) SQL
3 103 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 73 (13.85%) Python
5 48 (9.11%) JavaScript
6 43 (8.16%) Bicep
7 24 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.80%) Java
9 16 (3.04%) Bash
10 10 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.95%) Scala
12 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.76%) C++
13 4 (0.76%) Go
13 4 (0.76%) X++
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 2 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (12.52%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.87%) Degree
4 17 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.38%) CEH
11 2 (0.38%) CISM
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.38%) CSSLP
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) ISEB
11 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.19%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.69%) QA
2 19 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.47%) WCAG
4 11 (2.09%) NCSC
5 8 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.33%) PMO
7 5 (0.95%) GDPR
8 4 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.76%) PSD2
9 3 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.38%) COBIT
10 2 (0.38%) GxP
10 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.38%) NIST
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 42 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.21%) Docker
3 14 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (17.46%) Terraform
2 48 (9.11%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.55%) Ansible
4 10 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.33%) Grafana
6 5 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.76%) SCCM
7 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.57%) Kibana
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.57%) Nagios
8 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.57%) Puppet
8 3 (0.57%) SCOM
9 2 (0.38%) Argo
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) Nessus
9 2 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 167 (31.69%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.55%) Oracle
3 22 (4.17%) SAP
4 17 (3.23%) Databricks
5 11 (2.09%) VMware
6 10 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.76%) HP
8 4 (0.76%) Informatica
8 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.76%) Splunk
8 4 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.57%) Adobe
9 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.57%) Citrix
9 3 (0.57%) Commvault
9 3 (0.57%) IBM
9 3 (0.57%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.57%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.57%) UiPath