Azure DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 56 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 512 887 1,783
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.47% 3.72% 4.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 9.42% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 679 1,301
10th Percentile £390 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.33% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £39.20 £54.05
25th Percentile - £60.00 £54.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.78% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £64.13
90th Percentile - £70.60 £65.85
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £57.70
% change year-on-year -6.43% +21.33% +28.21%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Azure DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (4.10%) Confluence
2 16 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.93%) CMS
4 8 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.17%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.78%) Kentico
7 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (3.32%) Dynamics AX
1 17 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 9 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.78%) Maximo
6 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.39%) Shopify
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 508 (99.22%) Azure
2 73 (14.26%) Dynamics 365
2 73 (14.26%) Power Platform
3 57 (11.13%) GitHub
4 53 (10.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 47 (9.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 46 (8.98%) PowerApps
7 43 (8.40%) Power Automate
7 43 (8.40%) Serverless
8 42 (8.20%) Azure API Management
9 35 (6.84%) AWS
10 34 (6.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 34 (6.64%) Azure Functions
11 33 (6.45%) PaaS
12 30 (5.86%) Entra ID
13 24 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (4.10%) IaaS
15 20 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (3.71%) SaaS
17 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.13%) Firewall
2 6 (1.17%) Network Security
3 5 (0.98%) DNS
4 4 (0.78%) HTTP
5 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.39%) FTP
6 2 (0.39%) IPv4
6 2 (0.39%) VPN
6 2 (0.39%) WAN
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) Extranet
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) PPP
7 1 (0.20%) RS-232
7 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (23.44%) SQL Server
2 52 (10.16%) Power BI
3 33 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 33 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 15 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.34%) Redis
6 10 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.56%) Big Data
7 8 (1.56%) MySQL
7 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.78%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (16.80%) Git
2 50 (9.77%) JIRA
3 28 (5.47%) Visual Studio
4 23 (4.49%) Selenium
4 23 (4.49%) SpecFlow
5 18 (3.52%) Jenkins
6 17 (3.32%) Postman
7 16 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.34%) GitLab
9 11 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (2.15%) WebDriver
10 10 (1.95%) Maven
11 9 (1.76%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (1.56%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (1.17%) NUnit
14 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.98%) JMeter
16 4 (0.78%) Moq
General
1 115 (22.46%) Finance
2 114 (22.27%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.99%) Public Sector
4 42 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.27%) Retail
6 19 (3.71%) Marketing
7 17 (3.32%) General Ledger
8 16 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.54%) Electronics
11 12 (2.34%) Back Office
12 11 (2.15%) Banking
13 10 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.17%) Law
15 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Front Office
16 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.59%) Legal
17 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (32.03%) Developer
2 84 (16.41%) Senior
3 62 (12.11%) Azure Engineer
4 50 (9.77%) Senior Developer
5 48 (9.38%) Lead
6 47 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (8.59%) Consultant
8 43 (8.40%) Azure Developer
9 37 (7.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 36 (7.03%) .NET Developer
11 34 (6.64%) Architect
12 31 (6.05%) Analyst
12 31 (6.05%) Software Developer
13 27 (5.27%) C# Developer
14 20 (3.91%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.71%) Functional Consultant
16 18 (3.52%) Full Stack Developer
16 18 (3.52%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.52%) Test Analyst
17 17 (3.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (25.39%) .NET
2 69 (13.48%) XML
3 48 (9.38%) ARM Templates
4 47 (9.18%) .NET Core
5 45 (8.79%) .NET Framework
6 34 (6.64%) HTML
7 32 (6.25%) React
8 31 (6.05%) CSS
9 29 (5.66%) ASP.NET
9 29 (5.66%) REST
10 22 (4.30%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.91%) JSON
12 17 (3.32%) Entity Framework
12 17 (3.32%) RESTful
12 17 (3.32%) YAML
13 16 (3.13%) SOAP
14 15 (2.93%) GraphQL
14 15 (2.93%) Web Services
15 13 (2.54%) jQuery
16 12 (2.34%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.01%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.52%) Data Structures
3 14 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.95%) Contactless
7 9 (1.76%) Wiki
8 5 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 5 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.78%) Derivative
9 4 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.49%) Windows
2 11 (2.15%) Linux
3 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.59%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (99.61%) DevOps
2 220 (42.97%) Agile
3 142 (27.73%) CI/CD
4 84 (16.41%) Scrum
5 74 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (14.26%) Test Automation
7 54 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (8.59%) Migration
10 41 (8.01%) TDD
11 39 (7.62%) Software Engineering
12 35 (6.84%) Unit Testing
13 34 (6.64%) Mentoring
13 34 (6.64%) User Stories
14 32 (6.25%) API Management
14 32 (6.25%) Kanban
14 32 (6.25%) Project Delivery
15 31 (6.05%) Full Stack Development
16 30 (5.86%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (5.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 155 (30.27%) C#
2 135 (26.37%) SQL
3 95 (18.55%) PowerShell
4 66 (12.89%) Python
5 55 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.55%) Bicep
7 30 (5.86%) Java
8 24 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.95%) Bash
11 8 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.17%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.98%) Go
14 4 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.78%) X++
15 3 (0.59%) C++
16 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 54 (10.55%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.18%) Degree
3 39 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.71%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.39%) CEH
10 2 (0.39%) CISM
10 2 (0.39%) CISSP
10 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.39%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.20%) ISEB
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.66%) QA
2 18 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.15%) NCSC
3 11 (2.15%) WCAG
4 7 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.98%) GDPR
5 5 (0.98%) PMO
6 4 (0.78%) PSD2
7 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.39%) COBIT
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 45 (8.79%) Docker
2 40 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (17.58%) Terraform
2 49 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.30%) Ansible
4 11 (2.15%) Grafana
5 8 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.59%) SCOM
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) Nessus
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 173 (33.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.08%) Oracle
3 21 (4.10%) SAP
4 14 (2.73%) Databricks
5 11 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.56%) Xamarin
7 7 (1.37%) Splunk
7 7 (1.37%) VMware
8 5 (0.98%) Informatica
9 4 (0.78%) Adobe
9 4 (0.78%) Google
10 3 (0.59%) IBM
10 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.59%) UiPath
11 2 (0.39%) Citrix
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) HP
11 2 (0.39%) Optimizely