Azure Pipelines Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Pipelines 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 294 320 452
Rank change year-on-year +26 +132 +136
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 10 25 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.16% 0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.45% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 17
10th Percentile £444 £377 £463
25th Percentile £498 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% -1.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £617 £647 £575
90th Percentile £626 £661 £600
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +1.43% -7.49% +3.18%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Pipelines 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 Pipelines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines.

Azure Pipelines daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Pipelines daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Route 53
5 1 (10.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Military
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (20.00%) ADO
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) JSON Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) TypeORM
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) VB
2 2 (20.00%) VB6
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) InterSystems