Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North of England

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > North of England

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the North of England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 167 216
Rank change year-on-year +3 +49 -40
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 14 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.72% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.76% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 36 24
10th Percentile - £475 £408
25th Percentile £463 £509 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £598 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +15.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,414 5,292 6,908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.44% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,722 3,704 5,061
10th Percentile £263 £269 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 162 272
10th Percentile £11.10 £14.03 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.44
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.34 £19.48
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% +45.48% +10.46%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.92 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.68 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the North of England

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West -6 8 £525 - 1
Yorkshire +17 6 £475 -9.52% 1
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the North of England region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (64.29%) Terraform
5 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (42.86%) Python
7 5 (35.71%) Docker
8 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
9 3 (21.43%) Linux
9 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 3 (21.43%) Bash
9 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
9 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
10 2 (14.29%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
10 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
10 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
10 2 (14.29%) GitLab
10 2 (14.29%) pytest
10 2 (14.29%) Grafana
10 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
10 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (14.29%) Java
10 2 (14.29%) Resource Management

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (92.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) pytest
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (7.14%) Fintech
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (7.14%) Observability
6 1 (7.14%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft