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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 57 36
Rank change year-on-year -15 -21 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 61 66 115
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.57% 3.87% 5.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.74% 8.92% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 72
10th Percentile £318 £281 £401
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £533 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +2.65% -5.68%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £704 £652 £656
Central London median daily rate £538 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +2.38% +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 £74.50 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.86% - -

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 905 740 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.06% 43.43% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 474 611
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -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 10 June 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 (11.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.64%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (29.51%) GitHub
3 12 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (19.67%) Power Platform
4 11 (18.03%) AWS
4 11 (18.03%) Azure AKS
5 7 (11.48%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (11.48%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Functions
7 5 (8.20%) Serverless
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.92%) GCP
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
1 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.11%) Power BI
3 4 (6.56%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.64%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.64%) QlikView
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) JIRA
2 7 (11.48%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) GitLab
4 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.28%) Selenium
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 19 (31.15%) Finance
2 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Architect
2 8 (13.11%) Consultant
3 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Junior Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) .NET
1 6 (9.84%) REST
2 5 (8.20%) PySpark
2 5 (8.20%) React
3 4 (6.56%) Kafka
3 4 (6.56%) Playwright
4 3 (4.92%) ADO
4 3 (4.92%) YAML
5 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.28%) Django
5 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.28%) Flask
5 2 (3.28%) Next.js
5 2 (3.28%) Redux
5 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 2 (3.28%) Spring
5 2 (3.28%) WPF
6 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.64%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) LIMS
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) VMS
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (98.36%) DevOps
2 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 22 (36.07%) Agile
4 17 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (21.31%) AI
5 13 (21.31%) Migration
5 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.03%) Analytics
8 10 (16.39%) Observability
8 10 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.11%) Data Engineering
9 8 (13.11%) Data Modelling
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
10 7 (11.48%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.51%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 9 (14.75%) Bicep
4 8 (13.11%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.84%) Bash
7 5 (8.20%) Java
8 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.64%) Korn
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 3 (4.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Terraform
2 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.31%) Databricks
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) Aderant
6 1 (1.64%) Foundry
6 1 (1.64%) Informatica
6 1 (1.64%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.64%) Palantir
6 1 (1.64%) Planview
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) VMware