Azure Pipelines Contracts

Azure Pipelines
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Pipelines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 653 761
Rank change year-on-year +101 +108 -161
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 39 65 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.30% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 67
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £448 £500 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +3.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £600 £513
% change year-on-year +8.33% +17.07% +15.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Pipelines 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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +99 34 £500 -6.98% 26
London +97 28 £463 -15.91% 9
Work from Home +128 22 £563 - 13
UK excluding London +52 8 £650 +8.33% 11
South West - 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £650 -
North of England +26 1 £563 - 5
South East +20 1 £650 - 5
North West - 1 £563 - 4

Azure Pipelines
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 15 (38.46%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (74.36%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (35.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (35.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.69%) IaaS
5 3 (7.69%) PaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) AWS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
1 3 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (51.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) SpecFlow
3 4 (10.26%) Selenium
4 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) Postman
4 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (25.64%) Back Office
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Local Government
4 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Senior
3 13 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (28.21%) Senior Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (15.38%) Lead
7 4 (10.26%) .NET Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Consultant
7 4 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (7.69%) C# Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) React Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
8 3 (7.69%) Test Leader
9 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (56.41%) .NET
2 19 (48.72%) .NET Core
3 15 (38.46%) React
4 14 (35.90%) CSS
4 14 (35.90%) jQuery
5 13 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 12 (30.77%) HTML
7 11 (28.21%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (10.26%) Playwright
8 4 (10.26%) REST
9 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
10 2 (5.13%) Django
11 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
11 1 (2.56%) Jest
11 1 (2.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.13%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
1 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (82.05%) DevOps
2 23 (58.97%) Agile
3 18 (46.15%) API Management
3 18 (46.15%) OO
3 18 (46.15%) OOD
3 18 (46.15%) TDD
4 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 13 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 12 (30.77%) Clean Code
5 12 (30.77%) MVC
6 9 (23.08%) Scrum
7 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (10.26%) Migration
8 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.69%) BDD
9 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) C#
2 16 (41.03%) TypeScript
3 15 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (35.90%) Bicep
5 7 (17.95%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (43.59%) Accessibility
1 17 (43.59%) WCAG
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (2.56%) XenApp
3 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix