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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 57 44
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 61 63 95
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.01% 3.49% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.24% 8.31% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 35 56
10th Percentile £356 £425 £425
25th Percentile £409 £459 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £650
90th Percentile £676 £638 £731
Central London median daily rate £528 £544 £600
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.38% +9.09%
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 843 758 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.57% 41.99% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 492 642
10th Percentile £342 £400 £357
25th Percentile £437 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +1.35% -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £535 £555 £540
% change year-on-year -3.60% +2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -56.57%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%

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 10 March 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 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) GitHub
3 10 (16.39%) AWS
3 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (14.75%) Serverless
5 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.20%) Azure AKS
6 5 (8.20%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.20%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.56%) Apigee
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.20%) Power BI
3 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) JIRA
2 9 (14.75%) Git
3 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.84%) Selenium
4 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.56%) Postman
5 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.64%) JMeter
7 1 (1.64%) jMock
7 1 (1.64%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) Mockito
7 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.64%) TestNG
7 1 (1.64%) webpack
7 1 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (29.51%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Back Office
7 2 (3.28%) Front Office
7 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
3 6 (9.84%) Lead
3 6 (9.84%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Azure Architect
4 5 (8.20%) Consultant
5 4 (6.56%) Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Senior
6 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Junior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) Node.js
3 5 (8.20%) OAuth
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) JWT
4 4 (6.56%) Playwright
5 3 (4.92%) HTML
5 3 (4.92%) Next.js
5 3 (4.92%) React
5 3 (4.92%) Spring
6 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.28%) CSS
6 2 (3.28%) Django
6 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.28%) Flask
6 2 (3.28%) JSON
6 2 (3.28%) PySpark
6 2 (3.28%) SOAP
6 2 (3.28%) XML
7 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.64%) CMDB
7 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.64%) NHS
7 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (98.36%) DevOps
2 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 30 (49.18%) Agile
4 17 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (24.59%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.39%) AI
8 10 (16.39%) Migration
8 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.75%) Analytics
9 9 (14.75%) Scrum
10 8 (13.11%) Roadmaps
11 7 (11.48%) Backlog Management
11 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.48%) Translating Business Requirements
12 6 (9.84%) Business Analysis
12 6 (9.84%) Change Management
12 6 (9.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Python
2 19 (31.15%) SQL
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.75%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.56%) Bash
7 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) Bicep
8 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.28%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) ProC
9 1 (1.64%) VB
9 1 (1.64%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 21 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) Degree
4 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.20%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.28%) CBAP
7 2 (3.28%) ISEB
7 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.64%) CCNA
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.64%) MBA
8 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.92%) SLA
4 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.28%) PMO
5 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) Terraform
2 6 (9.84%) Ansible
2 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Icinga
3 1 (1.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Databricks
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.28%) UiPath
7 1 (1.64%) Aderant
7 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.64%) Foundry
7 1 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.64%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.64%) Palantir
7 1 (1.64%) Planview
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (1.64%) Workday