Azure DevOps Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 62 67
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 130 193 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.30% 3.40% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.78% 11.52% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 161 184
10th Percentile £415 £463 £385
25th Percentile £444 £504 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +6.35% +3.66%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £79.19 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +27.42% -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -6.43% +20.92% +25.85%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,329 1,676 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.53% 29.56% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,218 1,803
10th Percentile £263 £250 £210
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £615
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 55
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.21 £13.63
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.13 £14.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.83 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% +32.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £24.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.23 £54.15
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -7 88 £513 -14.58% 22
Berkshire -14 71 £550 -6.78% 9
Hampshire -16 28 £550 +4.76% 10
Surrey +9 10 £450 -18.18% 11
Oxfordshire +13 9 £450 -10.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +12 8 £350 -46.15% 12
West Sussex - 4 £550 - 2
Kent +5 2 £550 -12.00% 7
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 5
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.31%) CMS
2 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.54%) Kentico
4 1 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.77%) Jadu
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (13.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (8.46%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (6.15%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.77%) Maximo
6 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (16.92%) Power Platform
3 15 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (10.77%) Power Automate
5 13 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 11 (8.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (6.92%) Serverless
9 8 (6.15%) PaaS
10 7 (5.38%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.62%) Azure API Management
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (3.08%) AWS
14 3 (2.31%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.31%) Azure Stack
14 3 (2.31%) GitHub
14 3 (2.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.23%) Power BI
3 6 (4.62%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.54%) Big Data
5 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.54%) Tableau
6 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.77%) MySQL
6 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) Selenium
3 10 (7.69%) JIRA
4 7 (5.38%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (4.62%) Postman
5 6 (4.62%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.85%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.85%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.08%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.31%) GitLab
9 2 (1.54%) Appium
9 2 (1.54%) NUnit
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.54%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.77%) JMeter
10 1 (0.77%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.77%) Maven
10 1 (0.77%) Xcode
General
1 33 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.15%) Finance
4 6 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.77%) Back Office
6 1 (0.77%) Banking
6 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.77%) Law
6 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (26.92%) Developer
2 21 (16.15%) Analyst
3 13 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 12 (9.23%) Consultant
5 10 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Azure Developer
6 9 (6.92%) Lead
7 8 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Functional Consultant
7 8 (6.15%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (6.15%) Oracle P2P Consultant
7 8 (6.15%) QA Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) QA Test Analyst
8 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Integration Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 6 (4.62%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.62%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior
9 6 (4.62%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.15%) .NET
2 8 (6.15%) .NET Framework
2 8 (6.15%) JSON
2 8 (6.15%) XML
3 7 (5.38%) ARM Templates
3 7 (5.38%) CSS
3 7 (5.38%) HTML
4 6 (4.62%) REST
5 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.85%) React
6 4 (3.08%) ADO
6 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.08%) Keycloak
6 4 (3.08%) OpenID
6 4 (3.08%) SOAP
7 3 (2.31%) DOM
7 3 (2.31%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Client/Server
2 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (0.77%) Clustering
6 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.77%) PKI
6 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.54%) Linux
2 19 (14.62%) Windows
3 18 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 17 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) Android
5 1 (0.77%) Solaris
5 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (99.23%) DevOps
2 64 (49.23%) Agile
3 26 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 21 (16.15%) Scrum
5 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
6 17 (13.08%) Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (12.31%) Application Packaging
7 16 (12.31%) Application Virtualisation
7 16 (12.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (11.54%) Test Management
9 14 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.00%) Release Management
11 12 (9.23%) Migration
12 11 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.92%) E-business
13 9 (6.92%) Functional Testing
13 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (6.92%) Project Delivery
14 8 (6.15%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.77%) C#
1 27 (20.77%) PowerShell
2 26 (20.00%) Python
3 20 (15.38%) SQL
4 16 (12.31%) VBScript
5 13 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.85%) Go
8 4 (3.08%) C
8 4 (3.08%) X++
9 3 (2.31%) Bicep
9 3 (2.31%) Java
10 2 (1.54%) C++
11 1 (0.77%) Bash
11 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.77%) PHP
11 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.77%) Rust
11 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.08%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.46%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.08%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.77%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Terraform
2 10 (7.69%) Ansible
2 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.77%) Nessus
3 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.77%) Puppet
3 1 (0.77%) SCOM
3 1 (0.77%) vRealize
3 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.46%) Oracle
3 19 (14.62%) VMware
4 5 (3.85%) Informatica
5 4 (3.08%) ArcSight
6 3 (2.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.54%) Atmel
7 2 (1.54%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.77%) BMC
8 1 (0.77%) Citrix
8 1 (0.77%) Databricks
8 1 (0.77%) Google
8 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.77%) Remedy
8 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds