Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the UK is £525 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 459 362 403
Rank change year-on-year -97 +41 -90
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 120 357 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.67% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 276 410
10th Percentile £413 £475 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +8.60%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £683 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 13 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 Engineer within the UK 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
England -99 97 £525 -9.68% 24
London -20 62 £550 -12.00% 12
Work from Home -34 40 £500 -13.04% 15
UK excluding London -30 31 £500 -9.09% 12
North of England +3 14 £513 -2.38% 3
North West -6 8 £525 - 1
South East -9 7 £450 -13.25% 6
Yorkshire +17 6 £475 -9.52% 1
East of England +8 3 £450 -40.00%
South West -9 3 £525 -10.64%
Scotland +41 2 £440 -2.22%
Midlands +11 2 £525 -16.00% 2
West Midlands +2 2 £525 -16.00% 2

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (100.00%) Azure
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 99 (82.50%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (54.17%) Terraform
4 60 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 51 (42.50%) Kubernetes
6 44 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (35.00%) Docker
8 41 (34.17%) PowerShell
9 40 (33.33%) Python
10 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
11 25 (20.83%) Agile
12 22 (18.33%) AWS
13 21 (17.50%) Security Cleared
13 21 (17.50%) Linux
14 20 (16.67%) Finance
15 18 (15.00%) Ansible
16 17 (14.17%) ARM Templates
17 16 (13.33%) Social Skills
17 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
17 16 (13.33%) SC Cleared
17 16 (13.33%) Banking
18 15 (12.50%) PaaS
18 15 (12.50%) Bash
18 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (12.50%) Azure AKS
19 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
19 14 (11.67%) .NET
20 13 (10.83%) SQL
20 13 (10.83%) Degree

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (5.00%) IIS
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) Apache
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Trello
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 99 (82.50%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (18.33%) AWS
4 15 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 15 (12.50%) PaaS
5 12 (10.00%) GitHub
6 8 (6.67%) Serverless
7 7 (5.83%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
7 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.33%) Miro
9 4 (3.33%) SaaS
10 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) DNS
1 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.17%) VPN
3 3 (2.50%) HTTP
3 3 (2.50%) Internet
3 3 (2.50%) SSH
3 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) IPv4
4 1 (0.83%) MQTT
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.17%) Power BI
3 4 (3.33%) Redis
3 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.83%) Flink
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.83%) Git
2 13 (10.83%) GitLab
3 7 (5.83%) Selenium
4 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.50%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.83%) Ant
7 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.83%) Newman
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) Snyk
7 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (16.67%) Finance
2 16 (13.33%) Banking
2 16 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.83%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.17%) Electronics
6 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Wearables
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.17%) ARM Templates
2 14 (11.67%) .NET
3 10 (8.33%) YAML
4 9 (7.50%) JSON
5 8 (6.67%) Kafka
6 4 (3.33%) Node.js
6 4 (3.33%) pytest
7 3 (2.50%) LDAP
8 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.67%) CSS
8 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.67%) HTML
8 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.67%) RESTful
9 1 (0.83%) ADO
9 1 (0.83%) MFC
9 1 (0.83%) PySpark
9 1 (0.83%) React
9 1 (0.83%) REST
9 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.50%) Tandem
6 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.67%) Genomics
6 2 (1.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Linux
2 11 (9.17%) Windows
3 5 (4.17%) Alpine Linux
3 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.33%) Unix
5 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 44 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (20.83%) Agile
5 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (10.83%) Computer Science
8 10 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.50%) Open Source
9 9 (7.50%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 7 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (5.83%) Migration
11 7 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (4.17%) Machine Learning
13 5 (4.17%) Programme Management
13 5 (4.17%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.17%) PowerShell
2 40 (33.33%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) Bash
4 13 (10.83%) SQL
5 12 (10.00%) C#
6 7 (5.83%) Bicep
6 7 (5.83%) Go
6 7 (5.83%) Java
7 4 (3.33%) C++
7 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.50%) Rust
9 2 (1.67%) C
9 2 (1.67%) Ruby
9 2 (1.67%) Scala
9 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.83%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) Azure Certification
3 13 (10.83%) Degree
4 8 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 42 (35.00%) Docker
2 9 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 65 (54.17%) Terraform
2 51 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 18 (15.00%) Ansible
4 7 (5.83%) Puppet
5 6 (5.00%) Grafana
5 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.50%) Argo
6 3 (2.50%) SCOM
7 2 (1.67%) Netcool
7 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.67%) SCCM
8 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.83%) Consul
8 1 (0.83%) Istio
8 1 (0.83%) linkerd
8 1 (0.83%) Packer
8 1 (0.83%) Podman
8 1 (0.83%) SELinux
8 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.83%) Databricks
3 6 (5.00%) Splunk
4 5 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.67%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.67%) F5
5 2 (1.67%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.83%) Brio
6 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Sun
6 1 (0.83%) VMware
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