Azure DevOps Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 71 75
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,033 1,586 2,317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.84% 3.29% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 9.01% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 1,176 1,686
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £64.50 £44.45 £54.63
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +26.80%
75th Percentile £65.75 £77.27 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £69.01
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +18 645 £525 -4.55% 121
South East -10 141 £513 -6.82% 45
North of England -25 85 £500 -4.76% 101
South West -49 57 £525 -10.64% 28
Midlands -20 51 £463 +8.82% 70
North West -21 50 £519 -1.19% 52
West Midlands -1 43 £475 - 49
Yorkshire -5 32 £488 -7.14% 36
East of England +17 23 £525 -4.55% 12
East Midlands -17 8 £410 +5.00% 20
North East +8 5 £473 -5.50% 13
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
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 44 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.87%) Confluence
3 24 (2.32%) CMS
3 24 (2.32%) IIS
4 8 (0.77%) Site Server
5 6 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.29%) Drupal
8 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Jadu
9 2 (0.19%) Kentico
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.097%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.097%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (2.52%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.19%) Shopify
8 1 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.097%) Endur
8 1 (0.097%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.097%) Maximo
8 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (99.71%) Azure
2 130 (12.58%) Power Platform
3 111 (10.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 104 (10.07%) Dynamics 365
5 96 (9.29%) Serverless
6 92 (8.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 83 (8.03%) AWS
8 80 (7.74%) Entra ID
9 76 (7.36%) PowerApps
10 74 (7.16%) Power Automate
11 72 (6.97%) GitHub
12 71 (6.87%) Azure Functions
12 71 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
13 69 (6.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 52 (5.03%) Azure API Management
14 52 (5.03%) PaaS
15 51 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (3.68%) Azure AKS
17 33 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (2.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.52%) Firewall
2 16 (1.55%) DNS
3 14 (1.36%) Network Security
4 11 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.97%) Internet
5 10 (0.97%) VPN
6 9 (0.87%) FTP
7 5 (0.48%) HTTP
7 5 (0.48%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.39%) SSL
9 3 (0.29%) IPv4
9 3 (0.29%) SSH
10 1 (0.097%) 4G
10 1 (0.097%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.097%) Extranet
10 1 (0.097%) Intranet
10 1 (0.097%) MQTT
10 1 (0.097%) RS-232
10 1 (0.097%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.49%) Power BI
3 62 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 33 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.90%) Redis
7 27 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.55%) Big Data
11 15 (1.45%) GIS
11 15 (1.45%) MySQL
12 13 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.06%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.68%) OLTP
15 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.58%) Tableau
17 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 162 (15.68%) Git
2 78 (7.55%) JIRA
3 60 (5.81%) Visual Studio
4 59 (5.71%) Selenium
5 52 (5.03%) SpecFlow
6 44 (4.26%) Jenkins
7 38 (3.68%) GitLab
8 23 (2.23%) Postman
9 20 (1.94%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.55%) NUnit
10 16 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 16 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.45%) WebDriver
12 12 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.87%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
15 8 (0.77%) Moq
16 7 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
General
1 233 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 221 (21.39%) Finance
3 146 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (4.07%) Retail
6 39 (3.78%) Back Office
7 36 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (2.90%) Banking
9 26 (2.52%) General Ledger
10 24 (2.32%) Marketing
11 22 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.45%) Electronics
13 15 (1.45%) Front Office
14 14 (1.36%) Legal
15 11 (1.06%) Local Government
16 9 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.77%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.58%) German Language
18 6 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 315 (30.49%) Developer
2 184 (17.81%) Senior
3 143 (13.84%) Azure Engineer
4 110 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (10.36%) Senior Developer
6 85 (8.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 81 (7.84%) Lead
8 79 (7.65%) Analyst
9 77 (7.45%) Architect
10 70 (6.78%) Azure Developer
11 63 (6.10%) Consultant
12 59 (5.71%) .NET Developer
13 57 (5.52%) Software Developer
14 56 (5.42%) C# Developer
15 42 (4.07%) Test Analyst
16 41 (3.97%) Backend Developer
17 40 (3.87%) Senior Software Developer
18 39 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (3.29%) Data Engineer
20 33 (3.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (31.66%) .NET
2 140 (13.55%) XML
3 123 (11.91%) .NET Core
4 101 (9.78%) .NET Framework
5 69 (6.68%) React
6 65 (6.29%) HTML
7 64 (6.20%) AngularJS
8 58 (5.61%) CSS
9 56 (5.42%) ASP.NET
10 55 (5.32%) ARM Templates
11 52 (5.03%) REST
12 48 (4.65%) YAML
13 40 (3.87%) JSON
14 32 (3.10%) Node.js
15 27 (2.61%) RESTful
15 27 (2.61%) SOAP
16 26 (2.52%) Web Services
17 23 (2.23%) Entity Framework
18 22 (2.13%) ADO
19 21 (2.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 29 (2.81%) Data Structures
3 28 (2.71%) Cloud Native
4 20 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.65%) Derivative
5 17 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 11 (1.06%) Contactless
8 10 (0.97%) Wiki
9 9 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 8 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (0.77%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.68%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.58%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.20%) Windows
2 63 (6.10%) Linux
3 33 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.68%) Unix
6 5 (0.48%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Android
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.097%) CentOS
8 1 (0.097%) Debian
8 1 (0.097%) Solaris
8 1 (0.097%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (99.61%) DevOps
2 499 (48.31%) Agile
3 330 (31.95%) CI/CD
4 218 (21.10%) Scrum
5 138 (13.36%) Test Automation
6 116 (11.23%) Business Intelligence
7 112 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (10.84%) TDD
8 105 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (9.68%) Migration
10 95 (9.20%) Software Engineering
11 79 (7.65%) API Management
12 77 (7.45%) OO
13 74 (7.16%) B2C
14 71 (6.87%) Project Delivery
15 64 (6.20%) Computer Science
16 56 (5.42%) Analytics
17 55 (5.32%) Kanban
17 55 (5.32%) OOD
18 54 (5.23%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 360 (34.85%) C#
2 256 (24.78%) PowerShell
3 213 (20.62%) SQL
4 169 (16.36%) Python
5 122 (11.81%) Bicep
6 100 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 66 (6.39%) TypeScript
8 60 (5.81%) Java
9 35 (3.39%) Bash
10 23 (2.23%) T-SQL
11 21 (2.03%) C++
12 16 (1.55%) C
13 15 (1.45%) Go
13 15 (1.45%) VBScript
14 13 (1.26%) Rust
15 8 (0.77%) Korn
15 8 (0.77%) Scala
16 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.39%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 102 (9.87%) Degree
2 98 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.48%) CBAP
11 5 (0.48%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.29%) CISM
13 3 (0.29%) CISSP
14 2 (0.19%) CEH
14 2 (0.19%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.19%) CSSLP
15 1 (0.097%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.00%) QA
2 33 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.13%) WCAG
4 11 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.77%) PMO
6 6 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.39%) NIST
8 3 (0.29%) GDPR
8 3 (0.29%) GRC
8 3 (0.29%) IFRS
8 3 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.29%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.19%) COBIT
9 2 (0.19%) GxP
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.097%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 127 (12.29%) Active Directory
2 84 (8.13%) Docker
3 26 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.39%) NFS
7 1 (0.097%) Ceph
7 1 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.097%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (15.39%) Terraform
2 86 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 50 (4.84%) Ansible
4 15 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.26%) Grafana
5 13 (1.26%) SCOM
6 11 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.97%) Puppet
8 9 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.68%) SCCM
10 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.39%) Argo
11 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.29%) Nessus
12 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
12 2 (0.19%) Netcool
12 2 (0.19%) Packer
12 2 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.19%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 385 (37.27%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.52%) Oracle
3 31 (3.00%) VMware
4 30 (2.90%) Databricks
5 29 (2.81%) SAP
6 21 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.26%) F5
9 12 (1.16%) Splunk
10 10 (0.97%) ESRI
11 8 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.68%) Xamarin
13 5 (0.48%) Adobe
13 5 (0.48%) Informatica
14 4 (0.39%) Cadence
14 4 (0.39%) Freshdesk
14 4 (0.39%) Optimizely
14 4 (0.39%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.39%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.29%) Blue Prism