Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
London > Central London

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in Central London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 122 133
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £468 £308 £425
25th Percentile £475 £411 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £669
90th Percentile £620 £619 £740
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,893 2,098 2,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 92.59% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 1,320 1,811
10th Percentile £339 £363 £331
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -4.36% -0.45% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 24 22
10th Percentile £19.86 £19.27 £17.19
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.79 £21.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -21.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 £47.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.53 £112.00 £65.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -10.03% +1.45% +1.47%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in Central London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
City of London -5 5 £500 +5.26% 2
Azure DevOps Engineer
London

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 2 January 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Terraform
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) Change Control
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft