Azure DevOps Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 43 63
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 60 111 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.00% 4.54% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.98% 11.62% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 68 73
10th Percentile £406 £411 £415
25th Percentile £437 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -5.68% -12.00%
75th Percentile £623 £628 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £725
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in Central London

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in Central London

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Central London

Azure DevOps
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -25 57 £500 -4.76% 25
Azure DevOps
London

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.33%) Apache
5 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.67%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.67%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.67%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 12 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (18.33%) GitHub
4 7 (11.67%) Azure AKS
4 7 (11.67%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.33%) Serverless
7 4 (6.67%) Azure App Service
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.33%) AWS
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) FTP
3 2 (3.33%) SMTP
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.67%) LAN
4 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Power BI
2 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Parquet
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) Postman
4 3 (5.00%) Selenium
5 2 (3.33%) JMeter
5 2 (3.33%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.67%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.67%) GitLab
6 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Billing
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Lead
4 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Angular Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Tester
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Test Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.33%) .NET
2 6 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.00%) ADO
4 3 (5.00%) JSON
4 3 (5.00%) OAuth
5 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.33%) JWT
5 2 (3.33%) LINQ
5 2 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.33%) Pandas
5 2 (3.33%) PySpark
5 2 (3.33%) pytest
5 2 (3.33%) SOAP
5 2 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Equities
5 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (31.67%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.00%) Analytics
7 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (11.67%) Microservices
7 7 (11.67%) Scrum
8 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (10.00%) ETL
8 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.33%) Migration
9 5 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) C#
2 15 (25.00%) SQL
3 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
4 12 (20.00%) Python
5 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 9 (15.00%) Bicep
7 5 (8.33%) Java
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.67%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) CBAP
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) EMIR
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) MiFID
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.67%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.67%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) HP
4 2 (3.33%) Murex
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Workday
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe
5 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.67%) CQG
5 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.67%) Reuters
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Talend