Azure DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 508 908 1,812
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.47% 3.75% 4.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 9.52% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 695 1,322
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £39.20 £54.35
25th Percentile - £60.00 £55.25
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% +38.11%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £67.00
90th Percentile - £70.60 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £60.02
% change year-on-year -6.43% +16.63% +33.38%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,369 9,537 18,208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 39.34% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,113 13,635
10th Percentile £350 £370 £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 £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 134 154
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.10
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.26 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +26.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

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 2 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 (4.13%) Confluence
2 16 (3.15%) CMS
2 16 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
4 5 (0.98%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.98%) Kentico
5 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.33%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (1.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.79%) Maximo
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
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
1 504 (99.21%) Azure
2 77 (15.16%) Power Platform
3 73 (14.37%) Dynamics 365
4 55 (10.83%) GitHub
5 53 (10.43%) Azure Service Bus
6 51 (10.04%) PowerApps
7 49 (9.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 48 (9.45%) Power Automate
9 44 (8.66%) Serverless
10 42 (8.27%) Azure API Management
11 36 (7.09%) PaaS
12 35 (6.89%) Azure Functions
13 34 (6.69%) AWS
13 34 (6.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 30 (5.91%) Entra ID
15 26 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (3.94%) IaaS
18 19 (3.74%) SaaS
19 18 (3.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.15%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) Network Security
3 5 (0.98%) DNS
4 4 (0.79%) HTTP
5 3 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.39%) FTP
6 2 (0.39%) IPv4
6 2 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) 4G
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%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (22.44%) SQL Server
2 56 (11.02%) Power BI
3 38 (7.48%) Data Lake
4 35 (6.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.36%) Redis
9 9 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.57%) Big Data
10 8 (1.57%) MySQL
10 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.98%) InterSystems Cache
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.79%) OLTP
13 4 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 85 (16.73%) Git
2 48 (9.45%) JIRA
3 27 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 25 (4.92%) SpecFlow
5 24 (4.72%) Selenium
6 19 (3.74%) Jenkins
7 17 (3.35%) Postman
8 15 (2.95%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.17%) GitLab
9 11 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (2.17%) WebDriver
10 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.57%) Maven
10 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.38%) NUnit
12 6 (1.18%) JMeter
12 6 (1.18%) Moq
12 6 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
General
1 118 (23.23%) Finance
2 115 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 87 (17.13%) Public Sector
4 46 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.91%) Retail
6 22 (4.33%) General Ledger
7 19 (3.74%) Marketing
8 16 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.56%) Electronics
11 12 (2.36%) Back Office
11 12 (2.36%) Banking
12 10 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.18%) Law
15 4 (0.79%) 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
1 163 (32.09%) Developer
2 76 (14.96%) Senior
3 61 (12.01%) Azure Engineer
4 49 (9.65%) Consultant
5 48 (9.45%) Azure Developer
5 48 (9.45%) Lead
6 44 (8.66%) Senior Developer
7 43 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 37 (7.28%) .NET Developer
9 34 (6.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 32 (6.30%) Architect
11 31 (6.10%) C# Developer
11 31 (6.10%) Software Developer
12 30 (5.91%) Analyst
13 21 (4.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 19 (3.74%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.74%) Functional Consultant
15 18 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
15 18 (3.54%) Test Analyst
16 17 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (25.98%) .NET
2 69 (13.58%) XML
3 49 (9.65%) .NET Core
4 47 (9.25%) ARM Templates
5 45 (8.86%) .NET Framework
6 34 (6.69%) React
7 32 (6.30%) CSS
8 30 (5.91%) HTML
9 29 (5.71%) REST
10 25 (4.92%) ASP.NET
11 24 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 22 (4.33%) JSON
13 19 (3.74%) Entity Framework
14 18 (3.54%) RESTful
15 17 (3.35%) SOAP
15 17 (3.35%) YAML
16 16 (3.15%) GraphQL
17 15 (2.95%) Web Services
18 13 (2.56%) jQuery
19 12 (2.36%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 14 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.97%) Contactless
6 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.77%) Wiki
8 6 (1.18%) Derivative
9 5 (0.98%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.98%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 4 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.39%) Clustering
11 2 (0.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.94%) Windows
2 12 (2.36%) Linux
3 7 (1.38%) 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%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (99.61%) DevOps
2 211 (41.54%) Agile
3 141 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 83 (16.34%) Scrum
5 76 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (14.57%) Test Automation
7 51 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (8.27%) TDD
10 41 (8.07%) Migration
10 41 (8.07%) Software Engineering
11 34 (6.69%) API Management
12 33 (6.50%) Mentoring
13 31 (6.10%) Kanban
13 31 (6.10%) Project Delivery
14 30 (5.91%) Full Stack Development
14 30 (5.91%) User Stories
15 29 (5.71%) Unit Testing
16 28 (5.51%) Computer Science
16 28 (5.51%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 159 (31.30%) C#
2 135 (26.57%) SQL
3 97 (19.09%) PowerShell
4 65 (12.80%) Python
5 54 (10.63%) Bicep
6 53 (10.43%) JavaScript
7 29 (5.71%) Java
8 25 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.36%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.97%) Bash
11 7 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.98%) X++
13 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.79%) Go
13 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.39%) VB
15 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 53 (10.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.45%) Degree
3 39 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.38%) 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 (5.71%) QA
2 18 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.17%) NCSC
3 11 (2.17%) WCAG
4 7 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.98%) GDPR
5 5 (0.98%) PMO
6 4 (0.79%) 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 42 (8.27%) Docker
2 40 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (16.73%) Terraform
2 47 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.74%) Ansible
4 10 (1.97%) Grafana
5 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.59%) SCOM
6 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.39%) Argo
7 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.39%) Nessus
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
7 2 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 173 (34.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.53%) Oracle
3 21 (4.13%) SAP
4 14 (2.76%) Databricks
5 11 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.38%) VMware
7 7 (1.38%) Xamarin
8 6 (1.18%) Splunk
9 5 (0.98%) Informatica
10 4 (0.79%) Adobe
10 4 (0.79%) Google
11 3 (0.59%) IBM
11 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.59%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.59%) UiPath
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.39%) PayPal
12 2 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud