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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 63 35
Rank change year-on-year -11 -28 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 65 58 109
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.83% 3.30% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.17% 7.61% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 66
10th Percentile £351 £406 £391
25th Percentile £404 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% - -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £576 £600
90th Percentile £696 £638 £666
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 907 762 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.47% 43.37% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 490 610
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £538
% change year-on-year -0.66% +3.01% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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 2 May 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 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.54%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (35.38%) GitHub
3 14 (21.54%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (18.46%) AWS
5 10 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 10 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.31%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (12.31%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.23%) Serverless
8 5 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.62%) GCP
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.08%) Apigee
11 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
1 2 (3.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.77%) Power BI
3 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.54%) QlikView
6 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.15%) GitLab
4 4 (6.15%) Selenium
5 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.62%) Postman
5 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.54%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (32.31%) Finance
2 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.54%) Front Office
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (13.85%) Architect
1 9 (13.85%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Consultant
3 7 (10.77%) Developer
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Architect
4 6 (9.23%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Lead
4 6 (9.23%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 5 (7.69%) Dynamics AX Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Developer in Test
8 2 (3.08%) Scrum Master
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 5 (7.69%) Playwright
3 4 (6.15%) PySpark
3 4 (6.15%) React
3 4 (6.15%) REST
4 3 (4.62%) Kafka
4 3 (4.62%) Node.js
4 3 (4.62%) OAuth
5 2 (3.08%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.08%) Flask
5 2 (3.08%) JWT
5 2 (3.08%) Next.js
5 2 (3.08%) Redux
5 2 (3.08%) RESTful
5 2 (3.08%) Spring
5 2 (3.08%) WPF
6 1 (1.54%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.54%) IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
6 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (98.46%) DevOps
2 38 (58.46%) CI/CD
3 30 (46.15%) Agile
4 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (24.62%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.00%) AI
6 13 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.92%) Migration
8 11 (16.92%) Observability
9 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
9 9 (13.85%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.31%) Analytics
10 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
11 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.77%) Software Testing
11 7 (10.77%) Sprint Planning
12 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) Python
2 16 (24.62%) SQL
3 9 (13.85%) C#
3 9 (13.85%) Java
4 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.77%) Bicep
5 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.23%) Bash
6 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) ProC
8 1 (1.54%) VB
8 1 (1.54%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.54%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) MBA
6 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) PMO
2 3 (4.62%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.54%) P3O
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (32.31%) Terraform
2 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Icinga
4 1 (1.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Databricks
2 8 (12.31%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
3 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.54%) Aderant
5 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.54%) Foundry
5 1 (1.54%) Informatica
5 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.54%) Palantir
5 1 (1.54%) Planview
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) UiPath
5 1 (1.54%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Workday