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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 35
Rank change year-on-year -14 -19 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 69 69 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.88% 3.66% 5.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.29% 8.80% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 75
10th Percentile £352 £281 £378
25th Percentile £460 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +3.90% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £588
90th Percentile £709 £659 £654
Central London median daily rate £525 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +2.44% - -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £54.75 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -37.43% - -

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 946 784 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.42% 41.61% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 511 598
10th Percentile £352 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £670
90th Percentile £750 £756 £751
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £17.03
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 £23.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -48.57%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £43.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £72.85
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -47.32%

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 26 July 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 7 (10.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 5 (7.25%) Apache
4 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.90%) Confluence
6 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (26.09%) GitHub
3 13 (18.84%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (14.49%) Power Automate
6 9 (13.04%) Azure AKS
7 8 (11.59%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (10.14%) AWS
8 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
9 5 (7.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (5.80%) Azure Functions
10 4 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.80%) PowerApps
10 4 (5.80%) Serverless
11 3 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) DHCP
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
2 1 (1.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Power BI
2 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.90%) Metadata
5 2 (2.90%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) QlikView
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) JIRA
2 8 (11.59%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Selenium
4 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.90%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.45%) Appium
5 1 (1.45%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (36.23%) Finance
2 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Consultant
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Developer
4 7 (10.14%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (8.70%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (8.70%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) PySpark
2 7 (10.14%) REST
3 6 (8.70%) Playwright
4 5 (7.25%) .NET
5 4 (5.80%) ADO
5 4 (5.80%) HTML
5 4 (5.80%) Kafka
5 4 (5.80%) RESTful
6 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.35%) React
6 3 (4.35%) Spring
6 3 (4.35%) YAML
7 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.90%) CSS
7 2 (2.90%) JSON
7 2 (2.90%) Redux
7 2 (2.90%) SOAP
7 2 (2.90%) WPF
7 2 (2.90%) XML
8 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) LIMS
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Android
2 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.45%) VMS
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (55.07%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.93%) Agile
4 17 (24.64%) Migration
5 15 (21.74%) Analytics
5 15 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (20.29%) Data Modelling
7 13 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.94%) AI
9 11 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.49%) Data Governance
11 9 (13.04%) Data Engineering
11 9 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.59%) Observability
13 7 (10.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) SQL
2 17 (24.64%) Python
3 10 (14.49%) C#
3 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.14%) Bicep
5 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.70%) Bash
7 5 (7.25%) Java
8 3 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 4 (5.80%) DBS Check
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) IIBA
7 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) P3O
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (26.09%) Terraform
2 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.45%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) SCCM
4 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Databricks
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) VMware
4 1 (1.45%) Aderant
4 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) OutSystems
4 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.45%) Splunk