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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 62 39
Rank change year-on-year -9 -23 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 67 61 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.95% 3.43% 4.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.42% 8.03% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 57
10th Percentile £343 £406 £393
25th Percentile £378 £437 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £625
90th Percentile £694 £638 £664
Central London median daily rate £524 £541 £519
% change year-on-year -3.23% +4.34% -4.82%
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 903 760 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.81% 42.72% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 489 609
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £670
90th Percentile £750 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.78 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.35 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -66.67%

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 25 April 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 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.49%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (35.82%) GitHub
3 14 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (17.91%) AWS
5 10 (14.93%) Azure AKS
6 8 (11.94%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (11.94%) Power Automate
6 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
6 8 (11.94%) Serverless
7 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.97%) Apigee
9 4 (5.97%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Network Security
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.46%) Power BI
3 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.49%) QlikView
6 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.97%) Selenium
5 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.48%) Postman
5 3 (4.48%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.99%) GitLab
7 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.49%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.49%) TestRail
7 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (31.34%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Back Office
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Front Office
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Lead
5 6 (8.96%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Junior Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) .NET
1 5 (7.46%) Node.js
1 5 (7.46%) OAuth
1 5 (7.46%) Playwright
2 4 (5.97%) JWT
3 2 (2.99%) Django
3 2 (2.99%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.99%) Flask
3 2 (2.99%) Next.js
3 2 (2.99%) PySpark
3 2 (2.99%) React
3 2 (2.99%) REST
3 2 (2.99%) Spring
3 2 (2.99%) WPF
4 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.49%) J2EE
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Kafka
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (98.51%) DevOps
2 39 (58.21%) CI/CD
3 28 (41.79%) Agile
4 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
6 13 (19.40%) AI
7 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.42%) Analytics
9 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
9 10 (14.93%) Migration
10 9 (13.43%) Observability
10 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.43%) Roadmaps
11 7 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (10.45%) Software Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Sprint Planning
12 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) Scrum
12 6 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.36%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) SQL
3 9 (13.43%) Java
4 7 (10.45%) Bicep
4 7 (10.45%) C#
4 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.96%) Bash
5 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.49%) C
8 1 (1.49%) ProC
8 1 (1.49%) VB
8 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.49%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) CCNA
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) MBA
7 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) PMO
2 3 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.48%) SLA
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.49%) P3O
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (37.31%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.49%) Icinga
4 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Databricks
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
3 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.99%) OutSystems
4 2 (2.99%) VMware
5 1 (1.49%) Aderant
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) Foundry
5 1 (1.49%) Informatica
5 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.49%) Palantir
5 1 (1.49%) Planview
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) UiPath
5 1 (1.49%) Workday