Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK > Work from Home

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 277 333
Rank change year-on-year -21 +56 -122
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 43 185 317
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.81% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 164 236
10th Percentile £348 £463 £425
25th Percentile £413 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £600 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer.

Azure DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Azure
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (86.05%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (58.14%) Terraform
4 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
5 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (34.88%) PowerShell
7 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
7 13 (30.23%) Python
7 13 (30.23%) Agile
8 12 (27.91%) Docker
9 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
10 10 (23.26%) PaaS
10 10 (23.26%) AWS
10 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
10 10 (23.26%) ARM Templates
11 9 (20.93%) Degree
11 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
12 8 (18.60%) Git
12 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
13 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
13 7 (16.28%) Finance
14 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
14 6 (13.95%) Firewall
14 6 (13.95%) SQL
14 6 (13.95%) Ansible
14 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
15 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (86.05%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) PaaS
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
5 4 (9.30%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) Miro
5 4 (9.30%) SaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Azure API Management
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.98%) Serverless
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AI
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Fabric
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.65%) IaaS
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) MQTT
4 1 (2.33%) Network Security
4 1 (2.33%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.65%) Redis
3 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Flink
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) Selenium
4 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.33%) Newman
5 1 (2.33%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) Snyk
5 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Electronics
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) ARM Templates
2 5 (11.63%) YAML
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 2 (4.65%) pytest
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) ADO
5 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) MFC
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) WinForms
5 1 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.65%) Tandem
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (30.23%) Agile
5 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Performance Testing
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
7 4 (9.30%) OOP
7 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Project Management
8 3 (6.98%) API Management
8 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.98%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (6.98%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) PowerShell
2 13 (30.23%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 5 (11.63%) Bicep
5 3 (6.98%) Go
5 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.65%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Java
6 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) C++/CLI
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
7 1 (2.33%) Rust
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Terraform
2 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.95%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Grafana
4 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Databricks
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) VMware