Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 368 403
Rank change year-on-year -108 +35 -86
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 125 398 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.67% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.71% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 298 430
10th Percentile £409 £475 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -1.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £661 £741 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -101 99 £513 -10.87% 29
London -34 56 £525 -14.29% 14
Work from Home -19 46 £513 -10.87% 11
UK excluding London -15 38 £500 -9.09% 14
North of England +17 17 £513 -2.38% 5
North West +13 10 £525 - 2
South East -2 8 £450 -18.18% 6
Yorkshire +19 7 £475 -9.52% 2
East of England +18 5 £450 -30.77%
Scotland +43 3 £440 -
South West 0 3 £525 -7.69%
Midlands +14 1 £450 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +8 1 £450 -28.00% 1
Wales - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (100.00%) Azure
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (82.40%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (52.80%) Terraform
4 61 (48.80%) CI/CD
5 51 (40.80%) Kubernetes
6 47 (37.60%) PowerShell
6 47 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (31.20%) Python
8 38 (30.40%) Docker
9 30 (24.00%) Microsoft
10 28 (22.40%) Agile
11 24 (19.20%) Security Cleared
12 22 (17.60%) AWS
13 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
13 21 (16.80%) Finance
14 20 (16.00%) Linux
14 20 (16.00%) Ansible
14 20 (16.00%) PaaS
15 19 (15.20%) .NET
16 18 (14.40%) ARM Templates
17 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
17 17 (13.60%) Git
18 16 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (12.00%) GitLab
19 15 (12.00%) Bash
19 15 (12.00%) Jenkins
20 14 (11.20%) GitHub
20 14 (11.20%) Banking
20 14 (11.20%) Computer Science

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.40%) IIS
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.80%) JBoss
4 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Trello
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 103 (82.40%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.60%) AWS
4 20 (16.00%) PaaS
5 14 (11.20%) GitHub
6 12 (9.60%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.40%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.40%) Serverless
8 7 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.80%) GCP
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Service Fabric
10 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.20%) Miro
11 4 (3.20%) SaaS
12 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) DNS
2 8 (6.40%) VPN
3 6 (4.80%) Firewall
4 5 (4.00%) HTTP
4 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.20%) Internet
5 4 (3.20%) SSH
6 1 (0.80%) IPv4
6 1 (0.80%) MQTT
6 1 (0.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.80%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.00%) Power BI
2 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.20%) Redis
4 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.80%) Flink
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 15 (12.00%) GitLab
2 15 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.60%) Selenium
4 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.40%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.60%) JIRA
6 2 (1.60%) Maven
6 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.80%) Ant
7 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.80%) Gradle
7 1 (0.80%) JMeter
7 1 (0.80%) Snyk
7 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (16.80%) Finance
2 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Banking
3 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.00%) Electronics
4 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.00%) Marketing
4 5 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Wearables
7 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.20%) .NET
2 18 (14.40%) ARM Templates
3 12 (9.60%) JSON
4 11 (8.80%) YAML
5 8 (6.40%) Kafka
6 4 (3.20%) LDAP
6 4 (3.20%) Node.js
6 4 (3.20%) pytest
7 3 (2.40%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.40%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.60%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.60%) CSS
8 2 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.60%) HTML
8 2 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.60%) RESTful
9 1 (0.80%) ADO
9 1 (0.80%) MFC
9 1 (0.80%) WinForms
9 1 (0.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.80%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Tandem
6 2 (1.60%) Genomics
6 2 (1.60%) Life Science
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.80%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.80%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 13 (10.40%) Windows
3 5 (4.00%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Debian
5 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (48.80%) CI/CD
3 47 (37.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (22.40%) Agile
5 16 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.20%) Computer Science
7 13 (10.40%) Containerisation
8 11 (8.80%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (8.00%) Test Automation
10 9 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (7.20%) Open Source
11 8 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (5.60%) Microservices
12 7 (5.60%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (5.60%) Software Engineering
13 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (4.80%) Load Balancing
13 6 (4.80%) Migration
13 6 (4.80%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.60%) PowerShell
2 39 (31.20%) Python
3 15 (12.00%) Bash
4 14 (11.20%) SQL
5 13 (10.40%) C#
6 8 (6.40%) Java
7 7 (5.60%) Bicep
7 7 (5.60%) Go
8 4 (3.20%) C++
9 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.60%) C
10 2 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.60%) Ruby
10 2 (1.60%) Rust
10 2 (1.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.80%) C++/CLI
11 1 (0.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.80%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) Azure Certification
4 13 (10.40%) Degree
5 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.80%) MCSE
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (30.40%) Docker
2 12 (9.60%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 66 (52.80%) Terraform
2 51 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 20 (16.00%) Ansible
4 7 (5.60%) Puppet
5 6 (4.80%) Grafana
5 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.00%) SCOM
7 4 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.20%) SCCM
8 3 (2.40%) Argo
9 2 (1.60%) Netcool
9 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.80%) Consul
10 1 (0.80%) Istio
10 1 (0.80%) linkerd
10 1 (0.80%) Packer
10 1 (0.80%) Podman
10 1 (0.80%) SELinux
10 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.80%) Databricks
2 6 (4.80%) Splunk
3 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.00%) SAP
4 4 (3.20%) F5
5 2 (1.60%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.60%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.80%) VMware