Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 356 400
Rank change year-on-year -95 +44 -64
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 120 378 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.66% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.70% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 286 418
10th Percentile £413 £475 £463
25th Percentile £455 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £680 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 13 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -103 95 £525 -9.68% 28
London -38 57 £550 -12.00% 16
Work from Home -46 42 £500 -12.28% 16
UK excluding London -16 34 £500 -9.09% 13
North of England +11 15 £513 -2.38% 3
North West +2 9 £525 - 1
South East +13 7 £450 -16.28% 9
Yorkshire +12 6 £475 -9.52% 2
East of England +4 4 £450 -30.77%
Scotland +43 3 £440 -
South West -13 3 £525 -10.64%
West Midlands +10 2 £525 -16.00% 1
Midlands +9 2 £525 -16.00% 1

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (100.00%) Azure
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (81.67%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (52.50%) Terraform
4 59 (49.17%) CI/CD
5 48 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 44 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (35.83%) PowerShell
8 38 (31.67%) Docker
9 37 (30.83%) Python
10 31 (25.83%) Microsoft
11 26 (21.67%) Agile
12 23 (19.17%) AWS
13 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
13 22 (18.33%) Finance
14 21 (17.50%) Linux
15 19 (15.83%) PaaS
15 19 (15.83%) Ansible
16 18 (15.00%) .NET
16 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
17 17 (14.17%) Git
18 16 (13.33%) ARM Templates
18 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
19 15 (12.50%) Bash
19 15 (12.50%) Banking
19 15 (12.50%) Social Skills
19 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
20 14 (11.67%) Azure AKS
20 14 (11.67%) Computer Science

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (5.00%) IIS
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) Apache
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Trello
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 98 (81.67%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (19.17%) AWS
4 19 (15.83%) PaaS
5 14 (11.67%) Azure AKS
6 13 (10.83%) GitHub
7 8 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.67%) Serverless
8 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Service Fabric
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.33%) Miro
11 4 (3.33%) SaaS
12 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) DNS
2 8 (6.67%) VPN
3 6 (5.00%) Firewall
4 5 (4.17%) HTTP
4 5 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.33%) Internet
5 4 (3.33%) SSH
6 1 (0.83%) IPv4
6 1 (0.83%) MQTT
6 1 (0.83%) Network Security
6 1 (0.83%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.17%) Power BI
3 4 (3.33%) Redis
3 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) Flink
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.17%) Git
2 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.67%) GitLab
4 7 (5.83%) Selenium
5 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.50%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.67%) JIRA
7 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.83%) Ant
8 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) Newman
8 1 (0.83%) Postman
8 1 (0.83%) Snyk
8 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (18.33%) Finance
2 15 (12.50%) Banking
2 15 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.83%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.00%) Electronics
5 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.00%) Marketing
6 5 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.00%) .NET
2 16 (13.33%) ARM Templates
3 11 (9.17%) JSON
3 11 (9.17%) YAML
4 8 (6.67%) Kafka
5 4 (3.33%) LDAP
5 4 (3.33%) Node.js
5 4 (3.33%) pytest
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.67%) CSS
6 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.67%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.67%) HTML
6 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.67%) RESTful
6 2 (1.67%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.83%) MFC
7 1 (0.83%) React
7 1 (0.83%) REST
7 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.50%) Tandem
6 2 (1.67%) Genomics
6 2 (1.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Linux
2 12 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (4.17%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.33%) Unix
5 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (49.17%) CI/CD
3 44 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (21.67%) Agile
5 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.67%) Computer Science
7 11 (9.17%) Containerisation
8 10 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 9 (7.50%) Open Source
10 8 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 7 (5.83%) Network Virtualisation
12 6 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (5.00%) DevSecOps
12 6 (5.00%) Microservices
12 6 (5.00%) Migration
12 6 (5.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.83%) PowerShell
2 37 (30.83%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) Bash
4 14 (11.67%) C#
5 13 (10.83%) SQL
6 8 (6.67%) Bicep
6 8 (6.67%) Java
7 7 (5.83%) Go
8 4 (3.33%) C++
9 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.67%) C
10 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.67%) Ruby
10 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 2 (1.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.83%) C++/CLI
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) Azure Certification
4 12 (10.00%) Degree
5 8 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) MCSE
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 38 (31.67%) Docker
2 10 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 63 (52.50%) Terraform
2 48 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (15.83%) Ansible
4 7 (5.83%) Puppet
5 6 (5.00%) Grafana
5 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.50%) Argo
6 3 (2.50%) SCOM
7 2 (1.67%) Netcool
7 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.67%) SCCM
7 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.83%) Consul
8 1 (0.83%) Istio
8 1 (0.83%) linkerd
8 1 (0.83%) Packer
8 1 (0.83%) Podman
8 1 (0.83%) SELinux
8 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.00%) Databricks
2 6 (5.00%) SAP
2 6 (5.00%) Splunk
3 5 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.67%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.67%) F5
4 2 (1.67%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.83%) VMware
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