Azure DevOps Engineer Contracts 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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 119 151
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 3 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.16% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.46% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile £490 £495 £425
25th Percentile £498 £575 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £649 £663 £588
90th Percentile £716 £675 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.28%

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 1,763 1,957 3,113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 94.72% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,310 2,135
10th Percentile £333 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £723
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 12
10th Percentile £17.57 £15.87 £14.42
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.88 £20.09
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -27.84% -10.92%
75th Percentile £62.00 £89.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £86.43 £137.50 £82.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -15.66%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the City of London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps Engineer 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 9 August 2025.

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

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 9 August 2025, 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Istio
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Table
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI