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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 53 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +38
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 56 77 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.11% 3.68% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.44% 9.37% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 66
10th Percentile £351 £421 £438
25th Percentile £400 £464 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.57%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £647
90th Percentile £676 £738 £777
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% - -

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 753 822 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.88% 39.24% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 522 762
10th Percentile £332 £401 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £32.30 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £35.88 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.13 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £60.28 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 14 December 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
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 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) GitHub
3 15 (26.79%) Power Platform
4 12 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 8 (14.29%) PowerApps
6 7 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (10.71%) AWS
7 6 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (10.71%) Serverless
8 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.14%) Apigee
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) NGFW
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) JIRA
2 8 (14.29%) Git
3 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.93%) Selenium
5 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.14%) Postman
5 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.57%) GitLab
7 2 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.79%) Gradle
8 1 (1.79%) JMeter
8 1 (1.79%) jMock
8 1 (1.79%) Maven
8 1 (1.79%) Mockito
8 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.79%) TestNG
8 1 (1.79%) webpack
8 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (41.07%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Back Office
6 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Front Office
7 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Test Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Senior
4 4 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Angular Developer
6 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) .NET
2 6 (10.71%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) OAuth
3 4 (7.14%) JSON
3 4 (7.14%) JWT
3 4 (7.14%) REST
4 3 (5.36%) SOAP
4 3 (5.36%) XML
5 2 (3.57%) ADO
5 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.57%) CSS
5 2 (3.57%) HTML
5 2 (3.57%) Kafka
5 2 (3.57%) LangChain
5 2 (3.57%) Playwright
5 2 (3.57%) PySpark
5 2 (3.57%) RxJS
6 1 (1.79%) React Native
6 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) CMDB
3 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.79%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Android
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 28 (50.00%) Agile
4 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (17.86%) Analytics
5 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.07%) Scrum
6 9 (16.07%) Validation
7 8 (14.29%) Migration
8 7 (12.50%) AI
8 7 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (10.71%) Data Governance
9 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.71%) Workflow
10 5 (8.93%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) C#
2 12 (21.43%) SQL
3 9 (16.07%) Java
4 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.36%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.57%) Bicep
7 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) C
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) ProC
8 1 (1.79%) VB
8 1 (1.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) CBAP
5 2 (3.57%) ISEB
5 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CCNA
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.36%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.79%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Terraform
2 7 (12.50%) Ansible
3 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Icinga
4 1 (1.79%) Istio
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.79%) Packer
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.79%) Puppet
4 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Databricks
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.36%) UiPath
4 3 (5.36%) VMware
5 2 (3.57%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.79%) Confluent
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Tenable
6 1 (1.79%) Workday