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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 57 35
Rank change year-on-year -21 -22 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 70 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.58% 3.86% 5.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.73% 9.08% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 75
10th Percentile £326 £281 £390
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £548 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +6.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £600
90th Percentile £708 £663 £668
Central London median daily rate £525 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -3.67% +6.34% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.86% - -

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 936 771 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.34% 42.55% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 498 617
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £25.18 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +55.86% -63.33%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £34.65 £24.75
% change year-on-year +57.58% +40.00% -52.86%

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 4 July 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 7 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) CMS
4 1 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (25.40%) GitHub
3 15 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (15.87%) Power Automate
6 9 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 8 (12.70%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (11.11%) AWS
8 7 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (11.11%) Entra ID
9 5 (7.94%) Azure Functions
9 5 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (7.94%) Serverless
10 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.35%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) Network Security
1 1 (1.59%) VPN
1 1 (1.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Power BI
2 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.35%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Big Data
6 1 (1.59%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) QlikView
6 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
4 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.17%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.59%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.59%) JUnit
6 1 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.59%) Postman
6 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (14.29%) Architect
1 9 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Consultant
3 7 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Developer
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) REST
2 6 (9.52%) PySpark
3 5 (7.94%) .NET
3 5 (7.94%) Playwright
4 4 (6.35%) ADO
4 4 (6.35%) HTML
4 4 (6.35%) Kafka
4 4 (6.35%) RESTful
5 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.76%) React
5 3 (4.76%) Spring
5 3 (4.76%) YAML
6 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.17%) CSS
6 2 (3.17%) JSON
6 2 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (3.17%) Redux
6 2 (3.17%) SOAP
6 2 (3.17%) WPF
6 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) LIMS
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) VMS
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (98.41%) DevOps
2 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 28 (44.44%) Agile
4 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (22.22%) Migration
6 13 (20.63%) Analytics
7 12 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.87%) AI
9 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
11 8 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (12.70%) Observability
11 8 (12.70%) Scrum
12 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
1 15 (23.81%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) C#
3 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.11%) Bicep
4 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) Bash
6 4 (6.35%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) IIBA
7 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
7 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) PMO
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) P3O
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.63%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Aderant
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.59%) Palantir
5 1 (1.59%) Planview
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) VMware