Azure DevOps Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 56 89 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.61% 3.33% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.79% 9.05% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 63 77
10th Percentile £358 £363 £411
25th Percentile £372 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £568 £550
90th Percentile £550 £594 £625
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.33% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Scotland

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +15 34 £425 -9.33% 14
Glasgow +7 5 £488 -10.14% 5
Perthshire +6 4 £525 -6.08%
Lanarkshire +3 2 £388 -33.53% 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.79%) JBoss
3 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.79%) WildFly
3 1 (1.79%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.14%) PaaS
3 4 (7.14%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.36%) GitHub
4 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) IaaS
5 2 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.79%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Git
2 10 (17.86%) JIRA
3 8 (14.29%) Selenium
4 7 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 4 (7.14%) Visual Studio
6 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
6 3 (5.36%) Subversion
7 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.57%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (1.79%) Appium
8 1 (1.79%) JUnit
8 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 28 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Finance
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 12 (21.43%) .NET Developer
3 11 (19.64%) Analyst
4 9 (16.07%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Lead
5 6 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Automation Tester
6 5 (8.93%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.93%) React Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior React Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Tester
7 4 (7.14%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Test Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (37.50%) .NET
2 8 (14.29%) React
3 6 (10.71%) SOAP
4 5 (8.93%) .NET Core
4 5 (8.93%) CSS
4 5 (8.93%) RESTful
4 5 (8.93%) Web Services
5 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 4 (7.14%) Playwright
5 4 (7.14%) REST
5 4 (7.14%) WinForms
5 4 (7.14%) WPF
6 3 (5.36%) HTML
7 2 (3.57%) ADO
7 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.57%) jQuery
7 2 (3.57%) OAuth
7 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.57%) OpenID
7 2 (3.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.07%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (16.07%) Wiki
3 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) AIX
2 1 (1.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (62.50%) Agile
3 14 (25.00%) Scrum
3 14 (25.00%) User Experience
4 11 (19.64%) Code Quality
4 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
4 11 (19.64%) Test Scripting
5 10 (17.86%) Knowledge Transfer
5 10 (17.86%) Project Management
6 9 (16.07%) Software Delivery
7 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.29%) Migration
7 8 (14.29%) Supplier Management
8 7 (12.50%) Change Control
8 7 (12.50%) Dependency Management
8 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.50%) User Research
8 7 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) C#
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.14%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) VB
4 4 (7.14%) VB6
5 3 (5.36%) C++
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.57%) VBA
6 2 (3.57%) VBScript
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) ISEB
1 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Infragistics
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe
3 2 (3.57%) HP
3 2 (3.57%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) VMware