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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 64 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,210 1,906 3,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 3.33% 3.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.74% 9.06% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 1,394 2,272
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £646
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.22% +8.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 8
10th Percentile £64.50 £49.65 £54.63
25th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £65.75 £73.42 £63.36
90th Percentile £68.50 £79.19 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -6.43% +26.13% +23.33%

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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -4 1,038 £520 -5.45% 480
London +16 651 £525 -4.55% 161
Work from Home +8 511 £520 -5.45% 294
UK excluding London -36 415 £501 -7.22% 364
South East -11 142 £513 -6.82% 72
North of England -23 84 £500 -4.76% 115
South West -45 57 £525 -11.73% 37
Scotland +8 51 £450 -5.26% 13
Midlands -31 51 £463 +8.82% 80
North West -19 49 £513 +2.50% 49
West Midlands -6 43 £475 - 60
Yorkshire -2 32 £488 -7.14% 49
East of England +17 23 £525 -4.55% 14
Northern Ireland - 11 £600 - 11
East Midlands -14 8 £410 +7.06% 19
North East +11 5 £473 -14.09% 17
Wales -3 5 £363 -38.14% 24
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 57 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 49 (4.05%) Confluence
3 29 (2.40%) CMS
4 24 (1.98%) IIS
5 11 (0.91%) Apache
6 9 (0.74%) Site Server
7 8 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.58%) Kentico
9 6 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Jadu
12 2 (0.17%) nginx
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.083%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.083%) InVision
6 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.23%) Dynamics AX
3 17 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.33%) Maximo
6 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.25%) Shopify
8 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
9 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.083%) Endur
9 1 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.083%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (99.67%) Azure
2 153 (12.64%) Power Platform
3 122 (10.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 111 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
5 109 (9.01%) AWS
6 104 (8.60%) GitHub
7 100 (8.26%) Serverless
8 97 (8.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 85 (7.02%) Entra ID
10 81 (6.69%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (6.53%) PowerApps
12 77 (6.36%) Power Automate
13 74 (6.12%) Azure Functions
14 73 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (5.95%) PaaS
16 59 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (4.63%) Azure API Management
18 46 (3.80%) Azure AKS
19 43 (3.55%) IaaS
20 39 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.15%) Firewall
2 16 (1.32%) DNS
3 14 (1.16%) Network Security
4 11 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.83%) Internet
5 10 (0.83%) VPN
6 9 (0.74%) FTP
7 8 (0.66%) HTTP
8 5 (0.41%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.33%) SSL
10 3 (0.25%) IPv4
10 3 (0.25%) SSH
11 1 (0.083%) 4G
11 1 (0.083%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.083%) Extranet
11 1 (0.083%) Intranet
11 1 (0.083%) MQTT
11 1 (0.083%) PPP
11 1 (0.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (23.06%) SQL Server
2 117 (9.67%) Power BI
3 71 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (5.29%) Data Lake
5 38 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 30 (2.48%) Redis
8 22 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.57%) Big Data
10 18 (1.49%) MySQL
10 18 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.32%) GIS
12 13 (1.07%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.91%) Tableau
14 8 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
14 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.58%) OLTP
16 6 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 196 (16.20%) Git
2 96 (7.93%) JIRA
3 68 (5.62%) Selenium
4 66 (5.45%) Visual Studio
5 53 (4.38%) SpecFlow
6 52 (4.30%) Jenkins
7 40 (3.31%) GitLab
8 30 (2.48%) SonarQube
9 25 (2.07%) Postman
10 22 (1.82%) WebDriver
11 21 (1.74%) TeamCity
12 19 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
13 16 (1.32%) NUnit
14 15 (1.24%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (0.99%) Artifactory
16 10 (0.83%) Maven
17 9 (0.74%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 279 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 243 (20.08%) Finance
3 181 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 117 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (4.05%) Retail
6 39 (3.22%) Back Office
7 37 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (2.98%) Banking
9 27 (2.23%) General Ledger
9 27 (2.23%) Marketing
10 23 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.40%) Electronics
12 17 (1.40%) Front Office
12 17 (1.40%) Legal
13 13 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.91%) Local Government
15 10 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 352 (29.09%) Developer
2 199 (16.45%) Senior
3 162 (13.39%) Azure Engineer
4 125 (10.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 115 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 98 (8.10%) Lead
7 97 (8.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 95 (7.85%) Architect
9 93 (7.69%) Analyst
10 79 (6.53%) Azure Developer
11 71 (5.87%) .NET Developer
12 70 (5.79%) Consultant
13 62 (5.12%) Software Developer
14 61 (5.04%) C# Developer
15 49 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (3.88%) Test Analyst
17 43 (3.55%) Data Engineer
18 41 (3.39%) Backend Developer
18 41 (3.39%) Senior Software Developer
19 36 (2.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (30.00%) .NET
2 144 (11.90%) XML
3 132 (10.91%) .NET Core
4 107 (8.84%) .NET Framework
5 87 (7.19%) React
6 78 (6.45%) HTML
7 73 (6.03%) CSS
8 72 (5.95%) ARM Templates
9 71 (5.87%) REST
10 68 (5.62%) AngularJS
11 61 (5.04%) ASP.NET
12 53 (4.38%) YAML
13 41 (3.39%) JSON
14 34 (2.81%) Node.js
14 34 (2.81%) RESTful
14 34 (2.81%) SOAP
15 32 (2.64%) Web Services
16 30 (2.48%) Entity Framework
17 26 (2.15%) ADO
17 26 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 31 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 31 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 24 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 22 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.49%) Derivative
5 18 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (1.49%) Wiki
6 17 (1.40%) Client/Server
7 16 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.07%) Contactless
9 11 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 10 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.58%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.61%) Windows
2 67 (5.54%) Linux
3 37 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.74%) Unix
6 5 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Android
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.083%) AIX
8 1 (0.083%) CentOS
8 1 (0.083%) Debian
8 1 (0.083%) Solaris
8 1 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (99.50%) DevOps
2 574 (47.44%) Agile
3 366 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 249 (20.58%) Scrum
5 178 (14.71%) Test Automation
6 137 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
7 128 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 125 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (9.67%) TDD
10 115 (9.50%) Migration
10 115 (9.50%) Software Engineering
11 85 (7.02%) API Management
12 83 (6.86%) Project Delivery
13 78 (6.45%) OO
14 77 (6.36%) B2C
14 77 (6.36%) Computer Science
15 69 (5.70%) Analytics
16 66 (5.45%) Kanban
17 64 (5.29%) Continuous Integration
18 63 (5.21%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 393 (32.48%) C#
2 275 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 267 (22.07%) SQL
4 193 (15.95%) Python
5 125 (10.33%) Bicep
6 115 (9.50%) JavaScript
7 78 (6.45%) Java
8 70 (5.79%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.06%) Bash
10 27 (2.23%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.98%) C++
12 17 (1.40%) VBScript
13 16 (1.32%) C
14 15 (1.24%) Go
15 13 (1.07%) Rust
16 9 (0.74%) Korn
17 8 (0.66%) Scala
18 7 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
19 6 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 127 (10.50%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.00%) Degree
3 75 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 44 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 39 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.41%) CBAP
12 5 (0.41%) CISSP
13 4 (0.33%) CISM
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.25%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.17%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.03%) QA
2 34 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.98%) WCAG
4 12 (0.99%) NCSC
4 12 (0.99%) PMO
5 11 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.58%) GDPR
7 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.41%) NIST
10 4 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.25%) GRC
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.17%) COBIT
12 2 (0.17%) GxP
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 130 (10.74%) Active Directory
2 104 (8.60%) Docker
3 28 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.33%) NFS
7 1 (0.083%) Ceph
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.083%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (15.12%) Terraform
2 114 (9.42%) Kubernetes
3 63 (5.21%) Ansible
4 19 (1.57%) Grafana
5 17 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.32%) SCOM
6 16 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.07%) Puppet
8 12 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.58%) SCCM
10 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.33%) Argo
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.25%) Nessus
13 2 (0.17%) Kibana
13 2 (0.17%) Nagios
13 2 (0.17%) Netcool
13 2 (0.17%) Packer
13 2 (0.17%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 415 (34.30%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.70%) Oracle
3 39 (3.22%) SAP
4 36 (2.98%) Databricks
5 32 (2.64%) VMware
6 24 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.40%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.40%) Splunk
8 13 (1.07%) F5
9 11 (0.91%) ESRI
10 9 (0.74%) Adobe
10 9 (0.74%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.66%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.58%) Google
13 6 (0.50%) Informatica
14 5 (0.41%) Infragistics
15 4 (0.33%) Cadence
15 4 (0.33%) Citrix
15 4 (0.33%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.33%) Sitecore