Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,233 1,822 3,061
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 3.28% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.73% 8.99% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,330 2,230
10th Percentile £400 £412 £407
25th Percentile £450 £469 £463
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 £707 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £54.20
25th Percentile £65.25 £63.00 £54.88
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £75.35 £62.69
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £65.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +17.10%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,120 20,258 33,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 36.46% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,980 14,661 24,495
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 326 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.09 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.60% +44.05% -4.55%

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 10 June 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 10 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 -4 1,052 £525 -4.55% 386
London +17 680 £525 -7.08% 133
Work from Home +3 512 £516 -6.14% 272
UK excluding London -41 407 £500 -9.09% 278
South East -20 131 £513 -10.09% 55
North of England -12 86 £500 -4.76% 90
South West -57 57 £525 -12.50% 27
Scotland +11 56 £450 -5.26% 22
North West -20 48 £519 -1.19% 42
Midlands -31 48 £450 - 50
West Midlands -8 41 £475 -2.56% 39
Yorkshire -4 35 £500 -4.76% 32
East of England 0 21 £525 +16.67% 14
Northern Ireland - 12 £588 - 8
East Midlands -18 7 £410 +13.75% 11
North East +13 5 £473 -21.25% 16
Wales -2 5 £363 -38.14% 14
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 56 (4.54%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.24%) Confluence
3 31 (2.51%) CMS
4 24 (1.95%) IIS
5 15 (1.22%) Apache
6 13 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.65%) Site Server
8 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.57%) Kentico
9 6 (0.49%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.24%) Drupal
11 3 (0.24%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Jadu
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 43 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.19%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.49%) Maximo
7 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.24%) Shopify
9 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
10 1 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.081%) Endur
10 1 (0.081%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.081%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (99.35%) Azure
2 151 (12.25%) Power Platform
3 125 (10.14%) Dynamics 365
4 111 (9.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 110 (8.92%) GitHub
6 104 (8.43%) AWS
7 100 (8.11%) Serverless
8 92 (7.46%) Entra ID
9 84 (6.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 78 (6.33%) Power Automate
10 78 (6.33%) PowerApps
11 74 (6.00%) Azure Functions
12 73 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
13 70 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (5.52%) PaaS
15 55 (4.46%) Azure API Management
16 50 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (3.81%) Azure AKS
18 46 (3.73%) IaaS
19 42 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.19%) Firewall
2 13 (1.05%) DNS
2 13 (1.05%) Network Security
3 10 (0.81%) Internet
4 9 (0.73%) FTP
4 9 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.57%) VPN
6 6 (0.49%) HTTP
7 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.32%) SSL
9 3 (0.24%) IPv4
10 2 (0.16%) SSH
11 1 (0.081%) 4G
11 1 (0.081%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.081%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.081%) Extranet
11 1 (0.081%) Intranet
11 1 (0.081%) PPP
11 1 (0.081%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (23.52%) SQL Server
2 112 (9.08%) Power BI
3 67 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 38 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 30 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.43%) Redis
8 22 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.62%) MySQL
10 16 (1.30%) Big Data
10 16 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (1.22%) GIS
11 15 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.81%) Tableau
13 8 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.57%) OLTP
14 7 (0.57%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 188 (15.25%) Git
2 94 (7.62%) JIRA
3 72 (5.84%) Selenium
4 71 (5.76%) Visual Studio
5 55 (4.46%) Jenkins
6 52 (4.22%) SpecFlow
7 43 (3.49%) GitLab
8 30 (2.43%) SonarQube
9 28 (2.27%) Postman
10 22 (1.78%) WebDriver
11 19 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (1.46%) TeamCity
12 18 (1.46%) Visual Studio Team System
13 16 (1.30%) NUnit
14 15 (1.22%) Cypress.io
15 14 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (1.05%) Artifactory
17 12 (0.97%) Maven
18 11 (0.89%) JMeter
19 10 (0.81%) Cucumber
General
1 279 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 249 (20.19%) Finance
3 180 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 117 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.14%) Retail
6 40 (3.24%) Back Office
6 40 (3.24%) Banking
7 35 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.19%) General Ledger
9 23 (1.87%) Marketing
10 22 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.38%) Front Office
12 17 (1.38%) Legal
13 16 (1.30%) Electronics
14 12 (0.97%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.89%) Local Government
16 9 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 357 (28.95%) Developer
2 210 (17.03%) Senior
3 164 (13.30%) Azure Engineer
4 136 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 124 (10.06%) Senior Developer
6 105 (8.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 95 (7.70%) Architect
8 94 (7.62%) Lead
9 92 (7.46%) Analyst
10 76 (6.16%) Azure Developer
11 73 (5.92%) .NET Developer
12 71 (5.76%) Consultant
13 63 (5.11%) Software Developer
14 54 (4.38%) C# Developer
15 50 (4.06%) Test Analyst
16 47 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (3.73%) Data Engineer
18 41 (3.33%) Backend Developer
18 41 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
19 34 (2.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (29.52%) .NET
2 143 (11.60%) XML
3 127 (10.30%) .NET Core
4 114 (9.25%) .NET Framework
5 87 (7.06%) HTML
6 85 (6.89%) React
7 77 (6.24%) ARM Templates
8 72 (5.84%) CSS
9 71 (5.76%) ASP.NET
10 69 (5.60%) REST
11 67 (5.43%) AngularJS
12 46 (3.73%) YAML
13 37 (3.00%) JSON
14 36 (2.92%) RESTful
15 35 (2.84%) Web Services
16 34 (2.76%) Node.js
16 34 (2.76%) SOAP
17 28 (2.27%) Entity Framework
18 26 (2.11%) ADO
18 26 (2.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.60%) Data Structures
3 27 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 24 (1.95%) Mobile App
5 21 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.54%) Wiki
7 18 (1.46%) Client/Server
7 18 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.30%) Derivative
9 13 (1.05%) Contactless
10 12 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.65%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.57%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.49%) Windows
2 67 (5.43%) Linux
3 34 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.73%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.32%) Android
8 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.081%) AIX
9 1 (0.081%) CentOS
9 1 (0.081%) Debian
9 1 (0.081%) Solaris
9 1 (0.081%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,227 (99.51%) DevOps
2 576 (46.72%) Agile
3 376 (30.49%) CI/CD
4 246 (19.95%) Scrum
5 176 (14.27%) Test Automation
6 138 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 130 (10.54%) Business Intelligence
7 130 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (9.25%) Migration
9 112 (9.08%) Software Engineering
10 110 (8.92%) TDD
11 82 (6.65%) API Management
11 82 (6.65%) Project Delivery
12 75 (6.08%) Computer Science
13 73 (5.92%) B2C
13 73 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (5.92%) User Stories
14 72 (5.84%) OO
15 68 (5.52%) Kanban
16 66 (5.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 387 (31.39%) C#
2 275 (22.30%) PowerShell
3 265 (21.49%) SQL
4 194 (15.73%) Python
5 126 (10.22%) JavaScript
6 123 (9.98%) Bicep
7 82 (6.65%) Java
8 69 (5.60%) TypeScript
9 39 (3.16%) Bash
10 38 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.95%) C++
12 18 (1.46%) C
12 18 (1.46%) VBScript
13 17 (1.38%) Go
14 14 (1.14%) Rust
14 14 (1.14%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.65%) Korn
17 7 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 131 (10.62%) Security Cleared
2 122 (9.89%) Degree
3 72 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 47 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.57%) ISEB
12 5 (0.41%) CISSP
13 4 (0.32%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.32%) CISM
13 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.24%) CBAP
14 3 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.00%) QA
2 36 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.95%) WCAG
4 12 (0.97%) NCSC
5 11 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.89%) PMO
6 8 (0.65%) GDPR
7 7 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.32%) GRC
9 4 (0.32%) PSD2
10 3 (0.24%) COBIT
10 3 (0.24%) IFRS
10 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.081%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 132 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 114 (9.25%) Docker
3 30 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.081%) Ceph
7 1 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.081%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 207 (16.79%) Terraform
2 128 (10.38%) Kubernetes
3 72 (5.84%) Ansible
4 23 (1.87%) Grafana
5 16 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.22%) Puppet
6 15 (1.22%) SCOM
6 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.49%) SCCM
9 4 (0.32%) Argo
9 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.24%) Nessus
11 2 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.16%) Netcool
11 2 (0.16%) Podman
11 2 (0.16%) Rancher
11 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 417 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.43%) Oracle
3 36 (2.92%) SAP
4 35 (2.84%) Databricks
5 31 (2.51%) VMware
6 24 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.38%) Splunk
8 13 (1.05%) F5
9 12 (0.97%) Google
10 10 (0.81%) ESRI
10 10 (0.81%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.65%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.57%) Adobe
13 6 (0.49%) Informatica
14 5 (0.41%) Cisco
14 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
15 4 (0.32%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.32%) Cadence
15 4 (0.32%) Fortinet