Azure Pipelines Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 436 578
Rank change year-on-year +108 +142 -120
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 17 18 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.073% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 30
10th Percentile £425 £415 £324
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £483
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +8.81% +7.22%
75th Percentile £622 £550 £587
90th Percentile £639 £570 £639
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +18.92%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £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 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Azure Pipelines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Pipelines trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines.

Azure Pipelines daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Azure Pipelines daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Pipelines
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 8 (47.06%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (47.06%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (47.06%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Back Office
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Data Quality Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
1 9 (52.94%) React
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Core
2 8 (47.06%) CSS
2 8 (47.06%) jQuery
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
4 6 (35.29%) HTML
5 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (17.65%) ARM Templates
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) API Management
2 8 (47.06%) Clean Code
2 8 (47.06%) Front End Development
2 8 (47.06%) OO
2 8 (47.06%) OOD
2 8 (47.06%) TDD
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) MVC
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (11.76%) Data Mapping
8 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
8 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
8 2 (11.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 2 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
8 2 (11.76%) Scrum
9 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
1 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
2 8 (47.06%) Bicep
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Accessibility
1 8 (47.06%) WCAG
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks