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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 508 884 1,800
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.47% 3.69% 4.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.45% 9.37% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 675 1,313
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £39.20 £54.05
25th Percentile - £60.00 £54.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.78% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £64.13
90th Percentile - £70.60 £65.85
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%

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 5,373 9,439 18,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.45% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,880 7,029 13,660
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 132 152
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.06
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.29 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +34.19% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.31 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
% change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%

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 8 June 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 21 (4.13%) Confluence
2 16 (3.15%) CMS
2 16 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.18%) Apache
5 5 (0.98%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.98%) Kentico
6 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.33%) Dynamics AX
2 17 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.79%) Maximo
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.39%) Shopify
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 504 (99.21%) Azure
2 79 (15.55%) Power Platform
3 76 (14.96%) Dynamics 365
4 55 (10.83%) GitHub
5 51 (10.04%) Azure Service Bus
5 51 (10.04%) PowerApps
6 48 (9.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 48 (9.45%) Power Automate
7 45 (8.86%) Serverless
8 42 (8.27%) Azure API Management
9 36 (7.09%) Azure Functions
10 34 (6.69%) AWS
11 33 (6.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 33 (6.50%) PaaS
12 28 (5.51%) Entra ID
13 24 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (3.94%) IaaS
16 19 (3.74%) SaaS
17 16 (3.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.15%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) Network Security
3 5 (0.98%) DNS
4 4 (0.79%) HTTP
5 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.39%) FTP
6 2 (0.39%) IPv4
6 2 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) Extranet
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) PPP
7 1 (0.20%) RS-232
7 1 (0.20%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (23.62%) SQL Server
2 58 (11.42%) Power BI
3 38 (7.48%) Data Lake
4 34 (6.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.36%) Redis
7 10 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.57%) Big Data
9 8 (1.57%) MySQL
10 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.79%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (16.54%) Git
2 50 (9.84%) JIRA
3 29 (5.71%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.72%) Selenium
5 23 (4.53%) SpecFlow
6 18 (3.54%) Jenkins
7 17 (3.35%) Postman
8 15 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.36%) GitLab
10 11 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (2.17%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.77%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.57%) Maven
12 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (1.38%) NUnit
14 6 (1.18%) JMeter
14 6 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
General
1 119 (23.43%) Finance
2 116 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 87 (17.13%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.91%) Retail
6 22 (4.33%) General Ledger
7 19 (3.74%) Marketing
8 16 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.56%) Electronics
11 12 (2.36%) Back Office
12 11 (2.17%) Banking
13 10 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.18%) Law
15 4 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Front Office
16 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.59%) Legal
17 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (31.89%) Developer
2 81 (15.94%) Senior
3 59 (11.61%) Azure Engineer
4 49 (9.65%) Consultant
5 48 (9.45%) Lead
5 48 (9.45%) Senior Developer
6 46 (9.06%) Azure Developer
7 43 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 36 (7.09%) .NET Developer
9 34 (6.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 32 (6.30%) Architect
11 31 (6.10%) Analyst
11 31 (6.10%) Software Developer
12 27 (5.31%) C# Developer
13 21 (4.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 20 (3.94%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.74%) Functional Consultant
16 18 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
16 18 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.54%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (25.59%) .NET
2 69 (13.58%) XML
3 47 (9.25%) .NET Core
3 47 (9.25%) ARM Templates
4 44 (8.66%) .NET Framework
5 34 (6.69%) HTML
6 33 (6.50%) React
7 31 (6.10%) CSS
8 29 (5.71%) ASP.NET
9 28 (5.51%) REST
10 22 (4.33%) AngularJS
10 22 (4.33%) JSON
11 17 (3.35%) RESTful
11 17 (3.35%) SOAP
11 17 (3.35%) YAML
12 16 (3.15%) Entity Framework
12 16 (3.15%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.95%) Web Services
14 13 (2.56%) jQuery
15 12 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.27%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 14 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.97%) Contactless
7 9 (1.77%) Wiki
8 5 (0.98%) Cloud Native
8 5 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.79%) Derivative
9 4 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.39%) Clustering
11 2 (0.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.13%) Windows
2 9 (1.77%) Linux
3 8 (1.57%) 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%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (99.61%) DevOps
2 213 (41.93%) Agile
3 142 (27.95%) CI/CD
4 82 (16.14%) Scrum
5 78 (15.35%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (14.37%) Test Automation
7 52 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (8.27%) Migration
10 40 (7.87%) Software Engineering
10 40 (7.87%) TDD
11 34 (6.69%) Mentoring
11 34 (6.69%) User Stories
12 33 (6.50%) API Management
12 33 (6.50%) Unit Testing
13 32 (6.30%) Kanban
13 32 (6.30%) Project Delivery
14 30 (5.91%) Full Stack Development
15 28 (5.51%) Computer Science
15 28 (5.51%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 155 (30.51%) C#
2 135 (26.57%) SQL
3 97 (19.09%) PowerShell
4 66 (12.99%) Python
5 55 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.63%) Bicep
7 30 (5.91%) Java
8 24 (4.72%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.95%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.97%) Bash
11 7 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.98%) Go
14 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.79%) X++
15 3 (0.59%) C++
16 2 (0.39%) VB6
16 2 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 51 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.45%) Degree
3 37 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.39%) CEH
10 2 (0.39%) CISM
10 2 (0.39%) CISSP
10 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.39%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.20%) ISEB
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.71%) QA
2 18 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.17%) NCSC
3 11 (2.17%) WCAG
4 7 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.98%) GDPR
5 5 (0.98%) PMO
6 4 (0.79%) PSD2
7 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.39%) COBIT
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (8.46%) Docker
2 39 (7.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (17.13%) Terraform
2 47 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.94%) Ansible
4 11 (2.17%) Grafana
5 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.59%) Puppet
6 3 (0.59%) SCOM
6 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.39%) Nessus
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 176 (34.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.53%) Oracle
3 21 (4.13%) SAP
4 14 (2.76%) Databricks
5 11 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.57%) Xamarin
7 7 (1.38%) Splunk
7 7 (1.38%) VMware
8 5 (0.98%) Informatica
9 4 (0.79%) Adobe
9 4 (0.79%) Google
10 3 (0.59%) IBM
10 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.59%) UiPath
11 2 (0.39%) Citrix
11 2 (0.39%) HP
11 2 (0.39%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.39%) TIBCO