Hybrid/Remote Azure Pipelines Contract Job Trends

Azure Pipelines
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 314 335
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +121
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 8 3 46
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.078% 0.026% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.066% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 30
10th Percentile £380 - £350
25th Percentile £425 £613 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -6.88%

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 4,377 4,538 6,539
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.78% 38.86% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 3,046 4,738
10th Percentile £331 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.86 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Pipelines and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Pipelines job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Pipelines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Azure Pipelines daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Pipelines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) NumPy
3 2 (25.00%) Pandas
3 2 (25.00%) Plotly
3 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (25.00%) SciPy
3 2 (25.00%) Statsmodels
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) mypy
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) User Experience
1 3 (37.50%) UX Design
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dataiku