Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
Central London > City of London

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in the City of London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 131
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 3 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £475 £308 £425
25th Percentile £494 £411 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -13.73%
75th Percentile £613 £548 £706
90th Percentile £635 £619 £776
Central London median daily rate £550 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -13.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,684 1,928 2,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 92.96% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 1,179 1,735
10th Percentile £328 £361 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +95.92% -41.67%
75th Percentile £43.33 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.09% +40.08% -38.31%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the City of London

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft