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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 57 68 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.14% 3.62% 3.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.59% 9.28% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 63
10th Percentile £351 £433 £425
25th Percentile £388 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £676 £731 £735
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -1.35% -3.04% +2.22%

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 751 733 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.38% 39.03% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 465 692
10th Percentile £338 £406 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £770 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 13 January 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) GitHub
3 13 (22.81%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (22.81%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.54%) AWS
5 8 (14.04%) Serverless
6 7 (12.28%) Power Automate
7 6 (10.53%) PowerApps
8 5 (8.77%) Azure AKS
8 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.02%) Apigee
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Functions
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Power BI
2 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) JIRA
2 6 (10.53%) Git
3 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.02%) Selenium
4 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.26%) Postman
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.51%) GitLab
6 2 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.75%) Gradle
7 1 (1.75%) jMock
7 1 (1.75%) Maven
7 1 (1.75%) Mockito
7 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.75%) TestNG
7 1 (1.75%) webpack
7 1 (1.75%) Xcode
7 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Back Office
7 2 (3.51%) Front Office
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Lead
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) Node.js
2 6 (10.53%) OAuth
3 4 (7.02%) JSON
3 4 (7.02%) JWT
3 4 (7.02%) REST
4 3 (5.26%) Next.js
4 3 (5.26%) React
4 3 (5.26%) SOAP
4 3 (5.26%) XML
5 2 (3.51%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.51%) CSS
5 2 (3.51%) Django
5 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.51%) Flask
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 2 (3.51%) LangChain
5 2 (3.51%) Playwright
6 1 (1.75%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.51%) CMDB
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 27 (47.37%) Agile
4 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
6 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.79%) AI
7 9 (15.79%) Analytics
7 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.04%) Scrum
8 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (14.04%) Validation
9 7 (12.28%) Migration
9 7 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (10.53%) Workflow
11 5 (8.77%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Python
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) C#
5 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.26%) Bicep
9 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.51%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.75%) Bash
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) ProC
10 1 (1.75%) VB
10 1 (1.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.51%) CBAP
6 2 (3.51%) ISEB
6 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) MBA
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.51%) SLA
5 1 (1.75%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
5 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Icinga
3 1 (1.75%) Istio
3 1 (1.75%) Packer
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) Databricks
3 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.51%) UiPath
6 1 (1.75%) Confluent
6 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.75%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Tenable
6 1 (1.75%) Workday