Azure Pipelines Contracts

Azure Pipelines
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Pipelines 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 547 646 753
Rank change year-on-year +99 +107 -130
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 37 51 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.092% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 69
10th Percentile £425 £413 £410
25th Percentile £445 £472 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% +3.86% +18.28%
75th Percentile £606 £722 £644
90th Percentile £670 £825 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.71% +25.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Pipelines 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Pipelines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the UK 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
England +81 36 £500 -16.67% 13
London +87 31 £475 -18.63% 3
Work from Home +118 17 £500 - 7
UK excluding London +20 5 £650 +13.04% 10
South West - 3 - - 2
North of England +16 1 £650 -5.45% 3
North West +14 1 £650 -5.45% 3
South East +13 1 £650 - 1

Azure Pipelines
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 15 (40.54%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (67.57%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (48.65%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (37.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (37.84%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 4 (10.81%) PaaS
6 3 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.11%) Serverless
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.70%) AWS
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) SpecFlow
3 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
4 3 (8.11%) JMeter
4 3 (8.11%) Postman
4 3 (8.11%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.41%) MLflow
5 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (29.73%) Back Office
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
4 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) Senior
3 13 (35.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (29.73%) Senior Developer
5 10 (27.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) .NET Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Azure Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Consultant
7 4 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Test Leader
8 3 (8.11%) Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
8 3 (8.11%) React Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (5.41%) Full Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Migration Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (62.16%) .NET
2 20 (54.05%) .NET Core
3 15 (40.54%) React
4 14 (37.84%) CSS
4 14 (37.84%) jQuery
5 13 (35.14%) ASP.NET
6 12 (32.43%) HTML
7 11 (29.73%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (13.51%) Playwright
8 5 (13.51%) REST
9 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
10 2 (5.41%) Django
11 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
11 1 (2.70%) Jest
11 1 (2.70%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) DevOps
2 20 (54.05%) Agile
3 19 (51.35%) API Management
3 19 (51.35%) OO
3 19 (51.35%) OOD
3 19 (51.35%) TDD
4 13 (35.14%) Front End Development
5 12 (32.43%) Clean Code
5 12 (32.43%) MVC
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 5 (13.51%) Migration
9 4 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
10 3 (8.11%) BDD
10 3 (8.11%) Load Testing
10 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.11%) Performance Testing
10 3 (8.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) C#
2 15 (40.54%) TypeScript
3 14 (37.84%) Bicep
3 14 (37.84%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 4 (10.81%) Python
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (48.65%) Accessibility
1 18 (48.65%) WCAG
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) XenApp
3 1 (2.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix