Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 336 393
Rank change year-on-year -106 +57 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 95 343 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.71% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.75% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 262 328
10th Percentile £415 £475 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £670
90th Percentile £600 £736 £702
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -56 57 £550 -12.00% 16
North of England +4 15 £513 -2.38% 2
North West -3 9 £525 - 1
South East -4 7 £450 -16.28% 9
Yorkshire +10 6 £475 -9.52% 1
East of England +10 4 £450 -30.77%
South West -18 3 £525 -10.64%
Midlands +17 2 £525 -16.00% 3
West Midlands +12 2 £525 -16.00% 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
UK

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Azure
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 85 (89.47%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (53.68%) Terraform
3 51 (53.68%) CI/CD
4 39 (41.05%) PowerShell
5 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (34.74%) Kubernetes
7 30 (31.58%) Python
8 28 (29.47%) Microsoft
9 26 (27.37%) Docker
10 21 (22.11%) Linux
11 19 (20.00%) Finance
12 16 (16.84%) .NET
13 15 (15.79%) Agile
13 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
14 14 (14.74%) C#
14 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
14 14 (14.74%) Ansible
14 14 (14.74%) Azure AKS
15 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
15 13 (13.68%) GitLab
15 13 (13.68%) Bash
16 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
16 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (12.63%) PaaS
16 12 (12.63%) AWS
16 12 (12.63%) ARM Templates
17 11 (11.58%) Azure Certification
17 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (6.32%) IIS
2 2 (2.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 85 (89.47%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.74%) Azure AKS
4 12 (12.63%) AWS
4 12 (12.63%) PaaS
5 11 (11.58%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (6.32%) Serverless
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.21%) GCP
8 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.11%) IaaS
10 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) DNS
2 8 (8.42%) VPN
3 6 (6.32%) Firewall
4 5 (5.26%) HTTP
4 5 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.21%) Internet
5 4 (4.21%) SSH
6 1 (1.05%) IPv4
6 1 (1.05%) MQTT
6 1 (1.05%) Network Security
6 1 (1.05%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Power BI
1 4 (4.21%) Redis
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.68%) GitLab
3 10 (10.53%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) Selenium
5 4 (4.21%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.16%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.11%) JIRA
7 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.05%) Ant
8 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.05%) JMeter
8 1 (1.05%) Maven
8 1 (1.05%) Snyk
8 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (20.00%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.47%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Electronics
5 5 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.26%) Marketing
5 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.84%) .NET
2 12 (12.63%) ARM Templates
3 11 (11.58%) JSON
4 10 (10.53%) YAML
5 4 (4.21%) LDAP
5 4 (4.21%) pytest
6 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.11%) CSS
6 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.11%) HTML
6 2 (2.11%) Kafka
6 2 (2.11%) Node.js
6 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.05%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.05%) MFC
7 1 (1.05%) Middleware
7 1 (1.05%) RESTful
7 1 (1.05%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.05%) WinForms
7 1 (1.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.16%) Tandem
3 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.05%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Media Streaming
4 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.11%) Linux
2 9 (9.47%) Windows
3 5 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Unix
5 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.05%) CentOS
6 1 (1.05%) Debian
6 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (53.68%) CI/CD
3 36 (37.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (15.79%) Agile
5 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.58%) Computer Science
7 9 (9.47%) Containerisation
8 8 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (8.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (7.37%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (7.37%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (6.32%) Migration
10 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (6.32%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (5.26%) Customer Experience
11 5 (5.26%) Data Collection
11 5 (5.26%) Digital Marketing
11 5 (5.26%) Programme Management
11 5 (5.26%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) PowerShell
2 30 (31.58%) Python
3 14 (14.74%) C#
4 13 (13.68%) Bash
5 9 (9.47%) SQL
6 8 (8.42%) Bicep
7 7 (7.37%) Go
8 6 (6.32%) Java
9 4 (4.21%) C++
10 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.11%) C
11 2 (2.11%) Rust
11 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.05%) C++/CLI
12 1 (1.05%) Groovy
12 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Azure Certification
2 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) MCSE
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 26 (27.37%) Docker
2 9 (9.47%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (8.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 51 (53.68%) Terraform
2 33 (34.74%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.74%) Ansible
4 5 (5.26%) Grafana
4 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.21%) Puppet
6 3 (3.16%) Argo
6 3 (3.16%) SCOM
7 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.11%) Netcool
7 2 (2.11%) SCCM
8 1 (1.05%) Consul
8 1 (1.05%) Istio
8 1 (1.05%) linkerd
8 1 (1.05%) Packer
8 1 (1.05%) Podman
8 1 (1.05%) SELinux
8 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) SAP
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
4 2 (2.11%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.11%) F5
4 2 (2.11%) Splunk
4 2 (2.11%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.05%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) VMware