Azure Pipelines Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 452 588
Rank change year-on-year +132 +136 -136
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 25 25 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.097% 0.099%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 41
10th Percentile £377 £463 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £647 £575 £563
90th Percentile £661 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% +22.22%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Azure Pipelines 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 5,555 10,236 18,496
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.20% 39.59% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 7,514 13,810
10th Percentile £350 £373 £375
25th Percentile £430 £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 £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.43 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -18.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £78.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

Azure Pipelines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Pipelines trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
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 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 a work from home option citing Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (32.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (32.00%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (32.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) ERwin
4 1 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Back Office
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (24.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Analyst
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analyst
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Lead
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Data Quality Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Migration Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) .NET
1 9 (36.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) .NET Core
2 8 (32.00%) CSS
2 8 (32.00%) jQuery
3 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET
4 6 (24.00%) HTML
5 5 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (12.00%) ARM Templates
7 1 (4.00%) Jest
7 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.00%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
1 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) API Management
4 8 (32.00%) Clean Code
4 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
4 8 (32.00%) OO
4 8 (32.00%) OOD
4 8 (32.00%) TDD
5 6 (24.00%) MVC
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (8.00%) ETL
9 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) C#
1 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) Bicep
4 7 (28.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (32.00%) WCAG
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks