Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 65 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,216 1,916 3,067
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.82% 3.30% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.73% 8.96% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1,390 2,236
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £646
90th Percentile £675 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.88
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% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £68.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.13% +23.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,925 21,380 33,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.80% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,896 15,449 24,739
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 343 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £62.40 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +1 1,045 £525 -4.55% 408
London +18 654 £525 -4.55% 141
Work from Home +5 519 £513 -5.96% 269
UK excluding London -29 413 £500 -7.41% 290
South East -16 137 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -12 86 £500 - 78
South West -44 60 £525 -9.44% 37
Midlands -19 54 £450 - 70
Scotland +3 51 £450 -5.26% 20
North West -7 50 £513 +2.50% 44
West Midlands -7 44 £475 - 48
Yorkshire +9 33 £475 -9.52% 28
East of England +11 23 £500 -9.09% 16
East Midlands -7 10 £419 +1.58% 21
Wales -1 7 £363 -38.14% 20
North East +14 5 £473 -5.50% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 7
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

Azure DevOps
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 57 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.03%) Confluence
3 30 (2.47%) IIS
4 29 (2.38%) CMS
5 9 (0.74%) Site Server
6 8 (0.66%) Apache
7 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.58%) Kentico
8 6 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.16%) Jadu
11 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.082%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.082%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.082%) WildFly
Applications
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.082%) InVision
6 1 (0.082%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Shopify
9 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.082%) Endur
9 1 (0.082%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.082%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (99.67%) Azure
2 149 (12.25%) Power Platform
3 120 (9.87%) Azure Service Bus
4 113 (9.29%) AWS
5 111 (9.13%) Dynamics 365
6 105 (8.63%) Serverless
7 94 (7.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 94 (7.73%) GitHub
8 88 (7.24%) Entra ID
9 81 (6.66%) Azure Monitor
10 77 (6.33%) Azure Functions
10 77 (6.33%) PaaS
11 76 (6.25%) PowerApps
12 75 (6.17%) Power Automate
13 73 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 63 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 57 (4.69%) Azure API Management
16 47 (3.87%) IaaS
17 45 (3.70%) Azure AKS
18 41 (3.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.55%) Firewall
2 22 (1.81%) Network Security
3 21 (1.73%) DNS
4 11 (0.90%) FTP
5 10 (0.82%) Internet
5 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.82%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) SSL
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.33%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.25%) IPv4
9 3 (0.25%) SSH
10 1 (0.082%) 4G
10 1 (0.082%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.082%) Extranet
10 1 (0.082%) Intranet
10 1 (0.082%) MQTT
10 1 (0.082%) PPP
10 1 (0.082%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (23.19%) SQL Server
2 115 (9.46%) Power BI
3 72 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 67 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 39 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.47%) Redis
8 28 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.40%) MySQL
12 16 (1.32%) Big Data
12 16 (1.32%) GIS
13 14 (1.15%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.90%) Tableau
15 8 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.58%) OLTP
16 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 201 (16.53%) Git
2 98 (8.06%) JIRA
3 71 (5.84%) Selenium
4 65 (5.35%) Visual Studio
5 56 (4.61%) SpecFlow
6 53 (4.36%) Jenkins
7 39 (3.21%) GitLab
8 30 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.97%) Postman
10 23 (1.89%) WebDriver
11 21 (1.73%) TeamCity
12 18 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.23%) NUnit
13 15 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (0.82%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.82%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
16 7 (0.58%) Moq
General
1 283 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 233 (19.16%) Finance
3 186 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 114 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (3.87%) Retail
6 39 (3.21%) Back Office
7 37 (3.04%) Banking
8 35 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (2.30%) Marketing
10 27 (2.22%) General Ledger
11 26 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.56%) Electronics
14 17 (1.40%) Legal
15 16 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.32%) Front Office
16 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.90%) Local Government
16 11 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (28.62%) Developer
2 201 (16.53%) Senior
3 164 (13.49%) Azure Engineer
4 129 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 117 (9.62%) Senior Developer
6 104 (8.55%) Lead
7 102 (8.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 94 (7.73%) Architect
9 87 (7.15%) Analyst
10 80 (6.58%) Azure Developer
11 79 (6.50%) .NET Developer
12 71 (5.84%) Consultant
13 63 (5.18%) C# Developer
14 59 (4.85%) Software Developer
15 49 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (3.54%) Test Analyst
17 41 (3.37%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.37%) Data Engineer
17 41 (3.37%) Senior Software Developer
18 35 (2.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (30.18%) .NET
2 141 (11.60%) XML
3 130 (10.69%) .NET Core
4 108 (8.88%) .NET Framework
5 90 (7.40%) React
6 77 (6.33%) ARM Templates
7 71 (5.84%) CSS
7 71 (5.84%) HTML
8 69 (5.67%) AngularJS
9 63 (5.18%) REST
10 60 (4.93%) ASP.NET
11 57 (4.69%) YAML
12 42 (3.45%) JSON
13 35 (2.88%) RESTful
14 34 (2.80%) Node.js
15 33 (2.71%) SOAP
16 32 (2.63%) Entity Framework
17 29 (2.38%) GraphQL
18 28 (2.30%) Web Services
19 24 (1.97%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 33 (2.71%) Cloud Native
3 30 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.97%) Mobile App
4 24 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 22 (1.81%) Wiki
6 17 (1.40%) Client/Server
6 17 (1.40%) Derivative
6 17 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.07%) Contactless
9 13 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.66%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.81%) Windows
2 71 (5.84%) Linux
3 42 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.07%) Unix
6 10 (0.82%) VMS
7 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.33%) Solaris
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.082%) AIX
11 1 (0.082%) CentOS
11 1 (0.082%) Debian
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,210 (99.51%) DevOps
2 575 (47.29%) Agile
3 364 (29.93%) CI/CD
4 244 (20.07%) Scrum
5 180 (14.80%) Test Automation
6 136 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
7 132 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 128 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (9.79%) Migration
10 116 (9.54%) Software Engineering
10 116 (9.54%) TDD
11 84 (6.91%) API Management
12 83 (6.83%) Project Delivery
13 79 (6.50%) Computer Science
13 79 (6.50%) OO
14 76 (6.25%) B2C
15 68 (5.59%) Analytics
16 65 (5.35%) Continuous Integration
17 63 (5.18%) Kanban
18 62 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 399 (32.81%) C#
2 286 (23.52%) PowerShell
3 272 (22.37%) SQL
4 191 (15.71%) Python
5 123 (10.12%) Bicep
6 112 (9.21%) JavaScript
7 71 (5.84%) TypeScript
8 68 (5.59%) Java
9 38 (3.13%) Bash
10 26 (2.14%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.97%) C++
12 17 (1.40%) VBScript
13 15 (1.23%) C
14 13 (1.07%) Rust
15 12 (0.99%) Go
16 9 (0.74%) Korn
17 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.66%) Scala
18 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 125 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 121 (9.95%) Degree
3 82 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.41%) CBAP
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.25%) CISSP
14 3 (0.25%) PMP
15 2 (0.16%) CEH
15 2 (0.16%) CISM
15 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.09%) QA
2 36 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.89%) WCAG
4 13 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.99%) NCSC
5 12 (0.99%) PMO
6 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.58%) GDPR
9 5 (0.41%) NIST
10 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.16%) COBIT
12 2 (0.16%) GxP
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.082%) SLA
System Software
1 136 (11.18%) Active Directory
2 101 (8.31%) Docker
3 26 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.082%) Ceph
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (15.54%) Terraform
2 111 (9.13%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.43%) Ansible
4 17 (1.40%) SCOM
5 16 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.15%) Grafana
7 14 (1.15%) SCCM
8 13 (1.07%) Puppet
9 12 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.33%) Argo
13 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.25%) Nessus
13 3 (0.25%) Packer
14 2 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.16%) Nagios
14 2 (0.16%) Netcool
14 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 406 (33.39%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.09%) Oracle
3 41 (3.37%) SAP
4 37 (3.04%) Databricks
5 31 (2.55%) VMware
6 22 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.15%) F5
9 12 (0.99%) Splunk
10 11 (0.90%) ESRI
11 9 (0.74%) Xamarin
12 8 (0.66%) Adobe
13 7 (0.58%) Google
14 6 (0.49%) Informatica
14 6 (0.49%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.41%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.41%) HP
15 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
15 5 (0.41%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.33%) Freshdesk