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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 38
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 60 105
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.69% 3.43% 4.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 7.91% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 32 63
10th Percentile £358 £322 £386
25th Percentile £421 £448 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +3.90% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £582 £594
90th Percentile £702 £638 £638
Central London median daily rate £525 £533 £510
% change year-on-year -1.41% +4.41% -7.27%
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 894 759 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.84% 43.45% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 480 601
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.86%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -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 18 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 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.61%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) GitHub
3 13 (20.97%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (17.74%) AWS
4 11 (17.74%) Power Platform
5 10 (16.13%) Azure AKS
6 9 (14.52%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (14.52%) Power Automate
7 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.45%) Serverless
9 3 (4.84%) GCP
10 2 (3.23%) Azure App Service
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.29%) Power BI
3 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.61%) QlikView
6 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) JIRA
2 5 (8.06%) Git
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) GitLab
4 3 (4.84%) REST Assured
4 3 (4.84%) Selenium
5 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.23%) Postman
6 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.61%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.61%) TestRail
6 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (32.26%) Finance
2 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Architect
3 8 (12.90%) Consultant
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
4 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Azure Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Java Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Junior Java Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Junior Java Technical Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Junior Technical Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) .NET
2 5 (8.06%) Playwright
3 4 (6.45%) React
3 4 (6.45%) REST
4 3 (4.84%) Kafka
4 3 (4.84%) PySpark
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) Django
5 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.23%) Flask
5 2 (3.23%) Next.js
5 2 (3.23%) Redux
5 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 2 (3.23%) Spring
5 2 (3.23%) WPF
6 1 (1.61%) ADO
6 1 (1.61%) HTML
6 1 (1.61%) J2EE
6 1 (1.61%) JSON
6 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (98.39%) DevOps
2 35 (56.45%) CI/CD
3 27 (43.55%) Agile
4 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (24.19%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.97%) AI
6 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.74%) Observability
9 10 (16.13%) Migration
10 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
12 7 (11.29%) Analytics
12 7 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
12 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (11.29%) Sprint Planning
13 6 (9.68%) DevSecOps
13 6 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (9.68%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Python
2 16 (25.81%) SQL
3 8 (12.90%) Bicep
3 8 (12.90%) C#
3 8 (12.90%) Java
3 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.68%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.61%) C
7 1 (1.61%) ProC
7 1 (1.61%) VB
7 1 (1.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) CCNA
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) MBA
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Terraform
2 12 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Icinga
4 1 (1.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.61%) Aderant
6 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.61%) Foundry
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.61%) Palantir
6 1 (1.61%) Planview
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) Workday