Azure DevOps Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 36 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 69 113 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.92% 5.34% 3.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.20% 12.96% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 71 69
10th Percentile £281 £383 £435
25th Percentile £431 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -6.82% -11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £594 £650
90th Percentile £665 £650 £725
Central London median daily rate £543 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +6.11% -7.05% -11.11%
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 750 872 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.66% 41.17% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 610 907
10th Percentile £363 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the City of London

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 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the City of London

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 30 June 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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
1 7 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Endur
2 3 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.45%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
2 12 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.04%) GitHub
4 8 (11.59%) AWS
4 8 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (11.59%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (10.14%) Power Automate
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (8.70%) PaaS
6 6 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.80%) Serverless
9 3 (4.35%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.90%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) Network Security
3 2 (2.90%) FTP
3 2 (2.90%) SMTP
3 2 (2.90%) SSL
3 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.45%) LAN
4 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Power BI
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.90%) Big Data
4 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Parquet
5 1 (1.45%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) JIRA
2 6 (8.70%) Git
3 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.80%) Postman
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
5 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 2 (2.90%) JMeter
5 2 (2.90%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.90%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.45%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.45%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.45%) git-flow
6 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.54%) Finance
3 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.35%) Back Office
6 3 (4.35%) Billing
6 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Front Office
7 2 (2.90%) Law
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Analyst
2 11 (15.94%) Developer
3 10 (14.49%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Endur Support
5 6 (8.70%) OpenLink Support
6 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Angular Developer
7 4 (5.80%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Digital Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Digital Business Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead
8 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.74%) .NET
2 5 (7.25%) ADO
2 5 (7.25%) REST
3 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.80%) CSS
3 4 (5.80%) HTML
4 3 (4.35%) Django
4 3 (4.35%) Leaflet
5 2 (2.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.90%) JSON
5 2 (2.90%) Kafka
5 2 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.90%) PySpark
5 2 (2.90%) pytest
5 2 (2.90%) YAML
6 1 (1.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.45%) JWT
6 1 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.45%) OAuth
6 1 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Derivative
3 3 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) Equities
5 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) PACS
5 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.45%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (44.93%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.03%) Agile
4 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (14.49%) Scrum
6 10 (14.49%) User Stories
7 9 (13.04%) Analytics
7 9 (13.04%) ETL
7 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (10.14%) Acceptance Criteria
9 7 (10.14%) Microservices
9 7 (10.14%) Project Management
10 6 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) SQL
2 16 (23.19%) C#
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.14%) Bicep
5 4 (5.80%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) Bash
6 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) Ruby
7 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.90%) PMP
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) CBAP
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) EMIR
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.45%) MiFID
4 1 (1.45%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.45%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.45%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 9 (13.04%) Terraform
2 6 (8.70%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.35%) Grafana
3 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.90%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.90%) Istio
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
5 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (44.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Databricks
3 2 (2.90%) HP
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.90%) Workday
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe
4 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.45%) CQG
4 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.45%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.45%) GoldenSource
4 1 (1.45%) Informatica
4 1 (1.45%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.45%) Reuters
4 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) Talend