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 in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 387 415
Rank change year-on-year -81 +28 -93
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 126 340 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 262 409
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.96%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £678 £725 £750
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

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 11 June 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 13 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 11 June 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 -73 102 £525 -10.64% 25
London -30 65 £550 -12.00% 12
Work from Home -31 43 £500 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London -28 33 £500 -9.09% 15
North of England +2 14 £513 -2.38% 1
South East -1 8 £450 -13.25% 9
North West -9 8 £525 - 1
Yorkshire +1 6 £475 -11.63%
East of England +4 4 £450 -40.00%
South West -9 3 £525 -14.29% 1
Scotland +37 2 £440 -2.22%
Midlands +4 2 £525 -16.00% 3
West Midlands +1 2 £525 -16.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 126 (100.00%) Azure
1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (84.13%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (54.76%) Terraform
4 65 (51.59%) CI/CD
5 51 (40.48%) Kubernetes
6 46 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (34.13%) Docker
7 43 (34.13%) PowerShell
8 39 (30.95%) Python
9 26 (20.63%) Microsoft
10 25 (19.84%) Agile
11 23 (18.25%) Linux
12 22 (17.46%) AWS
13 21 (16.67%) Finance
13 21 (16.67%) Security Cleared
14 19 (15.08%) Ansible
15 18 (14.29%) ARM Templates
16 17 (13.49%) Azure AKS
16 17 (13.49%) Bash
16 17 (13.49%) Banking
17 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
17 16 (12.70%) Jenkins
17 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
18 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (11.90%) PaaS
18 15 (11.90%) .NET
19 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
20 13 (10.32%) Azure Certification
20 13 (10.32%) Public Sector

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 6 (4.76%) IIS
2 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) JBoss
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Trello
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 106 (84.13%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.46%) AWS
4 17 (13.49%) Azure AKS
5 15 (11.90%) PaaS
6 12 (9.52%) GitHub
7 8 (6.35%) Serverless
8 7 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (5.56%) GCP
8 7 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.17%) Miro
11 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.17%) SaaS
12 3 (2.38%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) DNS
1 6 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) VPN
3 3 (2.38%) HTTP
3 3 (2.38%) Internet
3 3 (2.38%) SSH
3 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) IPv4
4 1 (0.79%) MQTT
4 1 (0.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.17%) Power BI
2 4 (3.17%) Redis
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.79%) Flink
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.32%) Git
2 13 (10.32%) GitLab
3 7 (5.56%) Selenium
4 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.38%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.59%) JIRA
6 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.79%) Ant
7 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.79%) JMeter
7 1 (0.79%) Maven
7 1 (0.79%) Newman
7 1 (0.79%) Postman
7 1 (0.79%) Snyk
7 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (16.67%) Finance
2 17 (13.49%) Banking
3 16 (12.70%) Social Skills
4 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.35%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.97%) Electronics
7 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.97%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.59%) Wearables
9 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 15 (11.90%) .NET
3 12 (9.52%) YAML
4 9 (7.14%) JSON
5 8 (6.35%) Kafka
6 4 (3.17%) Node.js
6 4 (3.17%) pytest
7 3 (2.38%) LDAP
7 3 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.59%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.59%) CSS
8 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.59%) HTML
8 2 (1.59%) RESTful
9 1 (0.79%) ADO
9 1 (0.79%) MFC
9 1 (0.79%) PySpark
9 1 (0.79%) React
9 1 (0.79%) REST
9 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.38%) Tandem
6 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Genomics
6 2 (1.59%) Life Science
6 2 (1.59%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) IoT
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.79%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) PKI
7 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.25%) Linux
2 12 (9.52%) Windows
3 5 (3.97%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Unix
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) CentOS
6 1 (0.79%) Debian
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (51.59%) CI/CD
3 46 (36.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (19.84%) Agile
5 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 13 (10.32%) Computer Science
8 11 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (7.94%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (7.14%) Open Source
10 9 (7.14%) Test Automation
11 8 (6.35%) Software Engineering
12 7 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (5.56%) Migration
12 7 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (4.76%) Machine Learning
13 6 (4.76%) Wealth Management
14 5 (3.97%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) PowerShell
2 39 (30.95%) Python
3 17 (13.49%) Bash
4 13 (10.32%) SQL
5 12 (9.52%) C#
6 7 (5.56%) Bicep
6 7 (5.56%) Go
6 7 (5.56%) Java
7 4 (3.17%) C++
7 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.38%) Rust
9 2 (1.59%) C
9 2 (1.59%) Groovy
9 2 (1.59%) Ruby
9 2 (1.59%) Scala
9 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.79%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.32%) Azure Certification
3 13 (10.32%) Degree
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 43 (34.13%) Docker
2 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 69 (54.76%) Terraform
2 51 (40.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.08%) Ansible
4 7 (5.56%) Puppet
5 6 (4.76%) Grafana
5 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.38%) Argo
6 3 (2.38%) SCOM
7 2 (1.59%) Netcool
7 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.59%) SCCM
8 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.79%) Consul
8 1 (0.79%) Istio
8 1 (0.79%) linkerd
8 1 (0.79%) Packer
8 1 (0.79%) Podman
8 1 (0.79%) SELinux
8 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) Databricks
3 6 (4.76%) Splunk
4 5 (3.97%) Dynatrace
4 5 (3.97%) SAP
5 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.59%) F5
5 2 (1.59%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.79%) Brio
6 1 (0.79%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Sun
6 1 (0.79%) VMware
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