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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 66 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,222 1,845 3,098
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 3.29% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.75% 9.04% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 1,352 2,242
10th Percentile £400 £413 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.91% +10.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £54.50
25th Percentile £65.25 £63.00 £55.13
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +28.64%
75th Percentile £65.75 £75.35 £64.58
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £74.20
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -6 1,043 £525 -4.55% 417
London +22 673 £525 -7.08% 146
Work from Home +1 508 £513 -6.82% 271
UK excluding London -38 404 £501 -8.91% 304
South East -20 130 £513 -9.29% 55
North of England -23 87 £500 -4.76% 89
South West -51 56 £525 -10.94% 29
Scotland +9 55 £450 -5.26% 29
North West -18 48 £519 -1.19% 44
Midlands -28 47 £463 +8.82% 60
West Midlands -15 40 £475 - 48
Yorkshire +4 36 £500 -4.76% 30
East of England +11 21 £525 -2.33% 21
Northern Ireland - 12 £588 - 9
East Midlands -18 7 £410 +11.43% 12
North East +12 5 £473 -21.25% 15
Wales -4 5 £363 -38.14% 15
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 55 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.27%) Confluence
3 30 (2.45%) CMS
4 24 (1.96%) IIS
5 14 (1.15%) Apache
6 13 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.65%) Site Server
8 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.57%) Kentico
9 6 (0.49%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.33%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.25%) Drupal
12 3 (0.25%) nginx
13 2 (0.16%) Jadu
13 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
6 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 35 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.21%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.49%) Maximo
7 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.25%) Shopify
9 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
10 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.082%) Endur
10 1 (0.082%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.082%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (99.35%) Azure
2 150 (12.27%) Power Platform
3 117 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
4 116 (9.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 109 (8.92%) GitHub
6 103 (8.43%) AWS
7 98 (8.02%) Serverless
8 92 (7.53%) Entra ID
9 86 (7.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 78 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
10 78 (6.38%) Power Automate
10 78 (6.38%) PowerApps
11 72 (5.89%) Azure Functions
11 72 (5.89%) PaaS
12 71 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
13 55 (4.50%) Azure API Management
14 50 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 49 (4.01%) Azure AKS
16 46 (3.76%) IaaS
17 41 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.21%) Firewall
2 13 (1.06%) DNS
2 13 (1.06%) Network Security
3 10 (0.82%) Internet
4 9 (0.74%) FTP
4 9 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.57%) VPN
6 6 (0.49%) HTTP
7 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.33%) SSL
9 3 (0.25%) IPv4
10 2 (0.16%) SSH
11 1 (0.082%) 4G
11 1 (0.082%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.082%) Extranet
11 1 (0.082%) Intranet
11 1 (0.082%) MQTT
11 1 (0.082%) PPP
11 1 (0.082%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (22.67%) SQL Server
2 111 (9.08%) Power BI
3 69 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.24%) Data Lake
5 39 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 31 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (2.45%) Redis
9 21 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.64%) MySQL
11 18 (1.47%) Big Data
12 15 (1.23%) GIS
12 15 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.06%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.82%) Tableau
15 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
16 8 (0.65%) Spark SQL
17 7 (0.57%) OLTP
18 6 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 192 (15.71%) Git
2 93 (7.61%) JIRA
3 72 (5.89%) Selenium
4 65 (5.32%) Visual Studio
5 55 (4.50%) Jenkins
6 53 (4.34%) SpecFlow
7 41 (3.36%) GitLab
8 29 (2.37%) SonarQube
9 28 (2.29%) Postman
10 22 (1.80%) WebDriver
11 19 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (1.47%) TeamCity
13 16 (1.31%) NUnit
14 15 (1.23%) Cypress.io
15 14 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
16 12 (0.98%) Artifactory
17 11 (0.90%) Maven
18 10 (0.82%) Cucumber
18 10 (0.82%) JMeter
18 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 278 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 246 (20.13%) Finance
3 179 (14.65%) Public Sector
4 115 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (4.17%) Retail
6 40 (3.27%) Banking
7 39 (3.19%) Back Office
8 34 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.21%) General Ledger
10 23 (1.88%) Marketing
11 22 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.39%) Front Office
13 17 (1.39%) Legal
14 16 (1.31%) Electronics
15 11 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.90%) Local Government
16 10 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 353 (28.89%) Developer
2 200 (16.37%) Senior
3 161 (13.18%) Azure Engineer
4 129 (10.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 117 (9.57%) Senior Developer
6 99 (8.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 95 (7.77%) Architect
8 93 (7.61%) Lead
9 92 (7.53%) Analyst
10 78 (6.38%) Azure Developer
11 73 (5.97%) .NET Developer
12 71 (5.81%) Consultant
13 63 (5.16%) Software Developer
14 60 (4.91%) C# Developer
15 50 (4.09%) Test Analyst
16 47 (3.85%) Data Engineer
16 47 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
17 41 (3.36%) Backend Developer
17 41 (3.36%) Senior Software Developer
18 35 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (29.38%) .NET
2 143 (11.70%) XML
3 131 (10.72%) .NET Core
4 111 (9.08%) .NET Framework
5 87 (7.12%) React
6 79 (6.46%) HTML
7 75 (6.14%) ARM Templates
8 73 (5.97%) CSS
9 69 (5.65%) AngularJS
9 69 (5.65%) REST
10 61 (4.99%) ASP.NET
11 46 (3.76%) YAML
12 37 (3.03%) JSON
13 36 (2.95%) RESTful
14 35 (2.86%) Web Services
15 34 (2.78%) Node.js
15 34 (2.78%) SOAP
16 31 (2.54%) Entity Framework
17 27 (2.21%) ADO
18 26 (2.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.62%) Data Structures
3 28 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 24 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 21 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.55%) Wiki
7 18 (1.47%) Client/Server
7 18 (1.47%) Derivative
7 18 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.06%) Contactless
10 12 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.57%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.57%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.38%) Windows
2 70 (5.73%) Linux
3 33 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.74%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.082%) AIX
8 1 (0.082%) CentOS
8 1 (0.082%) Debian
8 1 (0.082%) Solaris
8 1 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,216 (99.51%) DevOps
2 576 (47.14%) Agile
3 366 (29.95%) CI/CD
4 249 (20.38%) Scrum
5 177 (14.48%) Test Automation
6 134 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
8 128 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (9.25%) TDD
10 112 (9.17%) Migration
10 112 (9.17%) Software Engineering
11 84 (6.87%) API Management
12 81 (6.63%) Project Delivery
13 75 (6.14%) Computer Science
14 74 (6.06%) B2C
15 73 (5.97%) OO
16 72 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 67 (5.48%) Analytics
17 67 (5.48%) Kanban
18 66 (5.40%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 388 (31.75%) C#
2 271 (22.18%) PowerShell
3 263 (21.52%) SQL
4 195 (15.96%) Python
5 124 (10.15%) Bicep
6 120 (9.82%) JavaScript
7 81 (6.63%) Java
8 70 (5.73%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.03%) Bash
10 32 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.96%) C++
12 18 (1.47%) VBScript
13 17 (1.39%) C
14 16 (1.31%) Go
15 14 (1.15%) Rust
16 9 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.65%) Korn
18 7 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 132 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 122 (9.98%) Degree
3 74 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.57%) ISEB
11 5 (0.41%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISM
12 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.25%) CBAP
13 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.97%) QA
2 35 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.88%) WCAG
4 12 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.98%) NCSC
5 11 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.90%) PMO
6 8 (0.65%) GDPR
7 7 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.33%) GRC
9 4 (0.33%) PSD2
10 3 (0.25%) COBIT
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 135 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 111 (9.08%) Docker
3 30 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.082%) Ceph
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.082%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (16.04%) Terraform
2 126 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.56%) Ansible
4 22 (1.80%) Grafana
5 16 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.23%) SCOM
6 15 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.15%) Puppet
8 12 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.49%) SCCM
10 4 (0.33%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.16%) Netcool
12 2 (0.16%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
13 1 (0.082%) Consul
13 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 415 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.40%) Oracle
3 36 (2.95%) SAP
4 33 (2.70%) Databricks
5 31 (2.54%) VMware
6 24 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.31%) Splunk
9 13 (1.06%) F5
10 12 (0.98%) Google
11 10 (0.82%) ESRI
12 8 (0.65%) Guidewire
12 8 (0.65%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.57%) Adobe
14 6 (0.49%) Informatica
15 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
16 4 (0.33%) ArcSight
16 4 (0.33%) Atlassian
16 4 (0.33%) Cadence
16 4 (0.33%) Cisco