Azure DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 510 934 1,776
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.45% 3.79% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.45% 9.59% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 710 1,308
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £36.35 £54.50
25th Percentile - £57.13 £56.98
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +1.37% +38.11%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £65.79
90th Percentile - £70.45 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Azure DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (5.69%) Confluence
2 19 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.14%) CMS
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.98%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.98%) Kentico
5 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) InVision
4 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (4.31%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.39%) Maximo
6 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 509 (99.80%) Azure
2 83 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 71 (13.92%) Dynamics 365
4 56 (10.98%) Azure Service Bus
4 56 (10.98%) PowerApps
5 51 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 49 (9.61%) Power Automate
7 48 (9.41%) GitHub
7 48 (9.41%) Serverless
8 44 (8.63%) Azure API Management
9 43 (8.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 40 (7.84%) AWS
11 39 (7.65%) PaaS
12 38 (7.45%) Azure Functions
13 32 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (6.08%) Entra ID
15 30 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (3.92%) SaaS
17 19 (3.73%) Azure AKS
17 19 (3.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.14%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) DNS
2 6 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (0.78%) HTTP
4 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (0.59%) VPN
5 2 (0.39%) FTP
5 2 (0.39%) IPv4
6 1 (0.20%) 4G
6 1 (0.20%) Extranet
6 1 (0.20%) Internet
6 1 (0.20%) Intranet
6 1 (0.20%) MQTT
6 1 (0.20%) PPP
6 1 (0.20%) RS-232
6 1 (0.20%) SSL
6 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.55%) SQL Server
2 62 (12.16%) Power BI
3 39 (7.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (7.45%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.55%) Redis
9 10 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.76%) MySQL
11 8 (1.57%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.37%) Big Data
13 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
14 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.78%) OLTP
14 4 (0.78%) Power Query
14 4 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (17.06%) Git
2 52 (10.20%) JIRA
3 31 (6.08%) Visual Studio
4 26 (5.10%) SpecFlow
5 23 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 23 (4.51%) Selenium
6 15 (2.94%) Postman
6 15 (2.94%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.55%) GitLab
8 11 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (2.16%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (1.37%) NUnit
10 7 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.18%) Maven
11 6 (1.18%) Moq
11 6 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.98%) Visual Studio Team System
13 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
General
1 118 (23.14%) Finance
1 118 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 45 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.29%) Retail
5 22 (4.31%) General Ledger
6 21 (4.12%) Marketing
7 16 (3.14%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.55%) Electronics
9 12 (2.35%) Back Office
10 11 (2.16%) Banking
10 11 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.18%) Law
13 3 (0.59%) Front Office
13 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.59%) Legal
13 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 164 (32.16%) Developer
2 79 (15.49%) Senior
3 63 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
4 52 (10.20%) Lead
5 49 (9.61%) Azure Developer
6 48 (9.41%) Consultant
7 47 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 43 (8.43%) Senior Developer
9 34 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 34 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 32 (6.27%) Architect
10 32 (6.27%) C# Developer
11 31 (6.08%) Analyst
12 30 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 21 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 19 (3.73%) Functional Consultant
15 18 (3.53%) Data Engineer
15 18 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
16 17 (3.33%) Test Analyst
17 16 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (26.27%) .NET
2 71 (13.92%) XML
3 50 (9.80%) ARM Templates
4 48 (9.41%) .NET Core
5 44 (8.63%) .NET Framework
6 34 (6.67%) React
7 32 (6.27%) CSS
8 29 (5.69%) HTML
9 28 (5.49%) REST
10 25 (4.90%) ASP.NET
11 24 (4.71%) AngularJS
11 24 (4.71%) JSON
12 23 (4.51%) YAML
13 20 (3.92%) Entity Framework
14 18 (3.53%) SOAP
15 17 (3.33%) RESTful
16 16 (3.14%) GraphQL
17 13 (2.55%) Web Services
18 12 (2.35%) ASP.NET MVC
18 12 (2.35%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 16 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.96%) Contactless
6 10 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.37%) Wiki
9 6 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.18%) Derivative
10 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.78%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 4 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.51%) Windows
2 14 (2.75%) Linux
3 11 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (99.61%) DevOps
2 213 (41.76%) Agile
3 143 (28.04%) CI/CD
4 82 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
4 82 (16.08%) Scrum
5 74 (14.51%) Test Automation
6 52 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (8.43%) TDD
9 41 (8.04%) Software Engineering
10 40 (7.84%) Migration
11 34 (6.67%) Mentoring
12 33 (6.47%) Analytics
12 33 (6.47%) API Management
13 31 (6.08%) Kanban
13 31 (6.08%) Microservices
13 31 (6.08%) OO
14 30 (5.88%) Project Delivery
15 29 (5.69%) B2C
15 29 (5.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 165 (32.35%) C#
2 143 (28.04%) SQL
3 103 (20.20%) PowerShell
4 71 (13.92%) Python
5 54 (10.59%) Bicep
6 52 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 27 (5.29%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.71%) Java
9 13 (2.55%) Bash
10 11 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.18%) Scala
13 5 (0.98%) X++
14 4 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.78%) Go
14 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.59%) C++
16 2 (0.39%) R
16 2 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 52 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.80%) Degree
3 42 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 15 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.39%) CEH
9 2 (0.39%) CISM
9 2 (0.39%) CISSP
9 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.39%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.20%) CBAP
10 1 (0.20%) IIBA
10 1 (0.20%) ISEB
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.69%) QA
2 17 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.16%) NCSC
3 11 (2.16%) WCAG
4 7 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.18%) PMO
6 5 (0.98%) GDPR
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.78%) PSD2
8 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.39%) COBIT
9 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.39%) GxP
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.39%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 41 (8.04%) Active Directory
1 41 (8.04%) Docker
2 13 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (16.27%) Terraform
2 47 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.92%) Ansible
4 11 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.96%) Grafana
6 5 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.59%) SCOM
9 2 (0.39%) Argo
9 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.39%) Kibana
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.39%) Nagios
9 2 (0.39%) Nessus
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 176 (34.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.71%) Oracle
3 22 (4.31%) SAP
4 19 (3.73%) Databricks
5 10 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.76%) VMware
7 8 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.37%) Splunk
8 7 (1.37%) Xamarin
9 5 (0.98%) Adobe
9 5 (0.98%) Informatica
10 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.59%) UiPath
11 2 (0.39%) Citrix
11 2 (0.39%) Commvault
11 2 (0.39%) HP
11 2 (0.39%) IBM
11 2 (0.39%) Infragistics
11 2 (0.39%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.39%) Red Hat