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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 92 66 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.02% 3.71% 5.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.83% 9.08% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 47 71
10th Percentile £414 £281 £383
25th Percentile £461 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £729 £658 £675
Central London median daily rate £540 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -60.00% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 936 727 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.94% 40.82% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 492 561
10th Percentile £363 £350 £383
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £656 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend 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 3 September 2026.

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.96%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.61%) Apache
4 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (4.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.09%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.09%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (27.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 25 (27.17%) Power Platform
3 21 (22.83%) GitHub
4 15 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (16.30%) Power Automate
5 12 (13.04%) AWS
6 11 (11.96%) Azure AKS
6 11 (11.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (11.96%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (10.87%) Azure Functions
7 10 (10.87%) PowerApps
7 10 (10.87%) Serverless
8 8 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (7.61%) Azure Databricks
9 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) DNS
1 4 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Power BI
2 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.52%) Metadata
6 5 (5.43%) Star Schema
7 4 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.26%) Data Hub
8 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.26%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (3.26%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.17%) Big Data
9 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.17%) Power Query
10 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Git
1 11 (11.96%) JIRA
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.70%) GitLab
4 3 (3.26%) Selenium
4 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.09%) Appium
6 1 (1.09%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.09%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.09%) Newman
6 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 30 (32.61%) Finance
2 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.87%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Developer
2 16 (17.39%) Architect
3 13 (14.13%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) Senior
4 10 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Consultant
6 8 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) DevOps Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Functional Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.52%) Terraform
2 17 (18.48%) PySpark
3 12 (13.04%) REST
4 9 (9.78%) .NET
5 6 (6.52%) Kafka
5 6 (6.52%) RESTful
6 5 (5.43%) Playwright
6 5 (5.43%) YAML
7 4 (4.35%) HTML
7 4 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (4.35%) React
8 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.26%) ADO
8 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.26%) CSS
8 3 (3.26%) JSON
8 3 (3.26%) Redux
8 3 (3.26%) XML
9 2 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.61%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (1.09%) LIMS
8 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (59.78%) CI/CD
3 39 (42.39%) Agile
4 27 (29.35%) Analytics
5 25 (27.17%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 22 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (20.65%) Migration
9 18 (19.57%) AI
10 15 (16.30%) Data Governance
10 15 (16.30%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (16.30%) Test Automation
11 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
11 14 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (14.13%) ETL
12 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (13.04%) Observability
14 11 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) SQL
2 27 (29.35%) Python
3 18 (19.57%) C#
4 16 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.96%) Bicep
6 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.70%) Java
8 7 (7.61%) Bash
8 7 (7.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.17%) Korn
10 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) DBS Check
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) IIBA
6 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
6 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.78%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) P3O
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (22.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.09%) SCCM
3 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.57%) Databricks
3 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.26%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) Foundry
5 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.17%) SAP
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.09%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.09%) IFS
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle
6 1 (1.09%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk