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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 61 87 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.44% 4.03% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.18% 10.26% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 67
10th Percentile £343 £416 £440
25th Percentile £396 £463 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £653
90th Percentile £677 £738 £782
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +3.60%
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 746 848 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.12% 39.31% 41.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 545 784
10th Percentile £343 £400 £358
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 & 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 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.64%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Power Platform
3 14 (22.95%) GitHub
4 11 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (13.11%) Power Automate
5 8 (13.11%) PowerApps
6 6 (9.84%) AWS
6 6 (9.84%) Serverless
7 5 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.56%) Apigee
8 4 (6.56%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (6.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) NGFW
3 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Power BI
2 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 9 (14.75%) Git
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.56%) Selenium
5 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.92%) Postman
5 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) JMeter
7 1 (1.64%) jMock
7 1 (1.64%) JUnit
7 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.64%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) Mockito
7 1 (1.64%) TestNG
7 1 (1.64%) Xcode
General
1 26 (42.62%) Finance
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Back Office
6 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Front Office
8 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Law
9 1 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Developer
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
2 8 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Senior
5 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Angular Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) Node.js
2 6 (9.84%) OAuth
3 4 (6.56%) JWT
3 4 (6.56%) REST
4 3 (4.92%) ADO
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) CSS
4 3 (4.92%) HTML
4 3 (4.92%) JSON
4 3 (4.92%) SOAP
4 3 (4.92%) XML
5 2 (3.28%) LangChain
5 2 (3.28%) PySpark
5 2 (3.28%) RxJS
6 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.64%) React
6 1 (1.64%) React Native
6 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) CMDB
3 2 (3.28%) Derivative
3 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) PACS
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Android
2 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (52.46%) Agile
2 32 (52.46%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.03%) Scrum
5 10 (16.39%) Analytics
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (16.39%) Validation
6 9 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (11.48%) AI
8 7 (11.48%) Business Analysis
8 7 (11.48%) ETL
8 7 (11.48%) Migration
8 7 (11.48%) Workflow
9 6 (9.84%) Data Governance
9 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) SQL
3 12 (19.67%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) Java
5 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.92%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.28%) Bicep
7 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) CBAP
5 2 (3.28%) ISEB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CCNA
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.64%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (1.64%) SEPA
5 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Icinga
4 1 (1.64%) Istio
4 1 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.64%) Packer
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Puppet
4 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.92%) UiPath
4 3 (4.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.64%) Confluent
6 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.64%) Splunk
6 1 (1.64%) Tenable