Azure DevOps Contracts

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 66 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,206 1,903 3,032
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 3.33% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.72% 9.07% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,388 2,208
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% +7.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.75
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £62.15
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £70.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +23.89% +25.56%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £634 £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 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -2 1,033 £521 -5.33% 417
London +21 646 £525 -4.55% 132
Work from Home +6 513 £525 -4.55% 278
UK excluding London -33 413 £505 -5.70% 302
South East -9 140 £519 -5.68% 48
North of England -26 85 £500 -4.76% 101
South West -44 58 £525 -10.60% 34
Scotland +8 51 £450 -5.26% 11
Midlands -18 51 £463 +8.82% 64
North West -17 50 £519 -1.19% 52
West Midlands -10 43 £475 - 45
Yorkshire 0 32 £488 -7.14% 34
East of England +19 23 £525 -4.55% 14
Northern Ireland - 9 £600 - 10
East Midlands -14 8 £410 +7.06% 18
North East +9 5 £473 -5.50% 15
Wales 0 5 £363 -38.14% 22
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

Azure DevOps
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 56 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.98%) Confluence
3 29 (2.40%) CMS
4 24 (1.99%) IIS
5 11 (0.91%) Apache
6 8 (0.66%) Site Server
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.58%) Kentico
8 6 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.17%) Jadu
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.083%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) InVision
6 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.24%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.083%) Endur
9 1 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.083%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,202 (99.67%) Azure
2 154 (12.77%) Power Platform
3 121 (10.03%) Azure Service Bus
4 112 (9.29%) Dynamics 365
5 111 (9.20%) AWS
6 102 (8.46%) GitHub
7 101 (8.37%) Serverless
8 96 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 84 (6.97%) Entra ID
10 81 (6.72%) PowerApps
11 80 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
12 78 (6.47%) Power Automate
13 75 (6.22%) PaaS
14 74 (6.14%) Azure Functions
15 72 (5.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 59 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (4.64%) Azure API Management
18 46 (3.81%) Azure AKS
19 45 (3.73%) IaaS
20 38 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.16%) Firewall
2 16 (1.33%) DNS
3 14 (1.16%) Network Security
4 11 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) Internet
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.75%) FTP
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.33%) SSL
10 3 (0.25%) IPv4
10 3 (0.25%) SSH
11 1 (0.083%) 4G
11 1 (0.083%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.083%) Extranet
11 1 (0.083%) Intranet
11 1 (0.083%) MQTT
11 1 (0.083%) PPP
11 1 (0.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (23.13%) SQL Server
2 116 (9.62%) Power BI
3 72 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 38 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 30 (2.49%) Redis
8 22 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.58%) Big Data
10 18 (1.49%) MySQL
10 18 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (1.24%) GIS
12 13 (1.08%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.91%) Tableau
14 8 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
14 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.58%) OLTP
16 6 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (16.33%) Git
2 96 (7.96%) JIRA
3 69 (5.72%) Selenium
4 66 (5.47%) Visual Studio
5 55 (4.56%) SpecFlow
6 52 (4.31%) Jenkins
7 41 (3.40%) GitLab
8 30 (2.49%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.99%) Postman
10 22 (1.82%) TeamCity
10 22 (1.82%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (1.33%) NUnit
13 15 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (1.00%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.75%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.75%) Maven
15 9 (0.75%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 277 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 241 (19.98%) Finance
3 179 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 115 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.98%) Retail
6 39 (3.23%) Back Office
7 36 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (2.90%) Banking
9 27 (2.24%) General Ledger
10 26 (2.16%) Marketing
11 24 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.41%) Electronics
13 17 (1.41%) Legal
14 16 (1.33%) Front Office
15 13 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.91%) Local Government
16 11 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (28.77%) Developer
2 200 (16.58%) Senior
3 162 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 126 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 114 (9.45%) Senior Developer
6 99 (8.21%) Lead
7 97 (8.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 94 (7.79%) Architect
9 91 (7.55%) Analyst
10 78 (6.47%) Azure Developer
11 70 (5.80%) .NET Developer
11 70 (5.80%) Consultant
12 62 (5.14%) Software Developer
13 61 (5.06%) C# Developer
14 49 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.81%) Test Analyst
16 43 (3.57%) Data Engineer
17 41 (3.40%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
18 36 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (29.93%) .NET
2 143 (11.86%) XML
3 131 (10.86%) .NET Core
4 107 (8.87%) .NET Framework
5 85 (7.05%) React
6 77 (6.38%) HTML
7 72 (5.97%) ARM Templates
7 72 (5.97%) CSS
8 68 (5.64%) AngularJS
8 68 (5.64%) REST
9 61 (5.06%) ASP.NET
10 52 (4.31%) YAML
11 41 (3.40%) JSON
12 34 (2.82%) Node.js
12 34 (2.82%) RESTful
13 33 (2.74%) SOAP
14 31 (2.57%) Web Services
15 30 (2.49%) Entity Framework
16 26 (2.16%) ADO
16 26 (2.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.65%) Cloud Native
3 31 (2.57%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.99%) Mobile App
5 23 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 18 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 17 (1.41%) Derivative
7 17 (1.41%) Wiki
8 15 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.08%) Contactless
10 11 (0.91%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.05%) Windows
2 67 (5.56%) Linux
3 38 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.00%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.33%) Solaris
7 4 (0.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.083%) AIX
9 1 (0.083%) CentOS
9 1 (0.083%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (99.50%) DevOps
2 571 (47.35%) Agile
3 366 (30.35%) CI/CD
4 247 (20.48%) Scrum
5 179 (14.84%) Test Automation
6 136 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
7 128 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 128 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (9.62%) TDD
9 114 (9.45%) Migration
9 114 (9.45%) Software Engineering
10 84 (6.97%) API Management
11 83 (6.88%) Project Delivery
12 77 (6.38%) Computer Science
12 77 (6.38%) OO
13 76 (6.30%) B2C
14 69 (5.72%) Analytics
15 65 (5.39%) Kanban
16 64 (5.31%) Continuous Integration
17 62 (5.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 394 (32.67%) C#
2 273 (22.64%) PowerShell
3 265 (21.97%) SQL
4 193 (16.00%) Python
5 124 (10.28%) Bicep
6 116 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 76 (6.30%) Java
8 71 (5.89%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.07%) Bash
10 27 (2.24%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.99%) C++
12 17 (1.41%) VBScript
13 16 (1.33%) C
13 16 (1.33%) Go
14 13 (1.08%) Rust
15 8 (0.66%) Korn
15 8 (0.66%) Scala
16 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 126 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 119 (9.87%) Degree
3 78 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.41%) CBAP
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.33%) CISSP
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.25%) CISM
15 2 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.05%) QA
2 34 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.91%) WCAG
4 12 (1.00%) NCSC
4 12 (1.00%) PMO
5 11 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.58%) GDPR
9 5 (0.41%) NIST
10 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.17%) COBIT
12 2 (0.17%) GxP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 129 (10.70%) Active Directory
2 103 (8.54%) Docker
3 28 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.083%) Ceph
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.083%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (15.17%) Terraform
2 116 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 64 (5.31%) Ansible
4 19 (1.58%) Grafana
5 17 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.33%) SCOM
6 16 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 13 (1.08%) Puppet
8 7 (0.58%) SCCM
9 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
11 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) Nagios
12 2 (0.17%) Netcool
12 2 (0.17%) Packer
12 2 (0.17%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 417 (34.58%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.89%) Oracle
3 39 (3.23%) SAP
4 36 (2.99%) Databricks
5 32 (2.65%) VMware
6 22 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.41%) Splunk
8 13 (1.08%) F5
9 10 (0.83%) ESRI
10 9 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.66%) Adobe
11 8 (0.66%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.58%) Google
13 6 (0.50%) Informatica
14 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
14 5 (0.41%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.33%) Cadence
15 4 (0.33%) Citrix
15 4 (0.33%) Palo Alto