Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 59 101 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.35% 4.81% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 11.92% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 65
10th Percentile £281 £401 £425
25th Percentile £363 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £625
90th Percentile £669 £684 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the City of London

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the City of London

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Azure DevOps
Central London

Azure DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Confluence
1 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Endur
2 1 (1.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (27.12%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.25%) GitHub
3 9 (15.25%) Power Automate
3 9 (15.25%) PowerApps
4 8 (13.56%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (11.86%) AWS
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.86%) PaaS
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.39%) IaaS
9 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) FTP
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) LAN
3 1 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (1.69%) NGFW
3 1 (1.69%) SMTP
3 1 (1.69%) SSL
3 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.69%) Parquet
6 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Git
3 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.08%) Selenium
3 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.69%) eggPlant
5 1 (1.69%) git-flow
5 1 (1.69%) Gradle
5 1 (1.69%) JMeter
5 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.69%) Storybook
5 1 (1.69%) TestNG
5 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Back Office
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Billing
7 1 (1.69%) Front Office
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Developer
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 8 (13.56%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Endur Support
4 6 (10.17%) OpenLink Support
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Angular Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Digital Business Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Django Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) .NET
2 5 (8.47%) ADO
3 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.08%) CSS
3 3 (5.08%) Django
3 3 (5.08%) HTML
3 3 (5.08%) Leaflet
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) PySpark
4 2 (3.39%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) D3.js
5 1 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) OAuth
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) SOAP
5 1 (1.69%) SVG
5 1 (1.69%) XSD
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.39%) Derivative
1 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
1 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.69%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (1.69%) CMDB
2 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.69%) IoT
2 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.69%) PACS
2 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Android
1 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (49.15%) Agile
3 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (15.25%) ETL
4 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
5 8 (13.56%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (13.56%) User Stories
6 7 (11.86%) Scrum
6 7 (11.86%) Workflow
7 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (10.17%) Validation
8 5 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (8.47%) Business Case
8 5 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (8.47%) Project Management
8 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) C#
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.78%) Bicep
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) Java
6 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.39%) PMP
2 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.39%) GDPR
5 1 (1.69%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.69%) NIST
5 1 (1.69%) PMO
5 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Terraform
2 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.17%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (5.08%) Istio
5 2 (3.39%) Grafana
5 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Ansible
6 1 (1.69%) Argo
6 1 (1.69%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.69%) Puppet
6 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (38.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Databricks
3 2 (3.39%) DocuSign
3 2 (3.39%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco
4 1 (1.69%) Confluent
4 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.69%) HP
4 1 (1.69%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Tenable
4 1 (1.69%) UiPath