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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 62 36
Rank change year-on-year -8 -26 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 56 109
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.72% 3.32% 5.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.05% 7.67% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 31 67
10th Percentile £359 £281 £393
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £600
90th Percentile £709 £638 £653
Central London median daily rate £538 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +7.50% -2.20% -7.05%
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 893 730 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.56% 43.25% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 465 610
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £652
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.34% +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 22 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 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.59%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) GitHub
3 12 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.46%) AWS
4 11 (17.46%) Azure AKS
5 9 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (12.70%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Functions
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.35%) Serverless
10 3 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.76%) GCP
11 2 (3.17%) Azure App Service
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.70%) Power BI
3 4 (6.35%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Big Data
6 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.59%) QlikView
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JIRA
2 8 (12.70%) Git
3 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 3 (4.76%) Selenium
6 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.17%) Postman
7 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.59%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.59%) TestRail
7 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Architect
2 9 (14.29%) Consultant
3 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Developer
3 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Azure Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (9.52%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Developer in Test
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) .NET
2 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 5 (7.94%) Playwright
2 5 (7.94%) PySpark
3 4 (6.35%) React
3 4 (6.35%) REST
4 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.17%) Django
4 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.17%) Flask
4 2 (3.17%) Next.js
4 2 (3.17%) Redux
4 2 (3.17%) RESTful
4 2 (3.17%) Spring
4 2 (3.17%) WPF
4 2 (3.17%) YAML
5 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.59%) J2EE
5 1 (1.59%) JSON
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (98.41%) DevOps
2 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 24 (38.10%) Agile
4 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.63%) AI
6 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.46%) Migration
7 11 (17.46%) Observability
7 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.29%) Analytics
8 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.70%) Data Modelling
9 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.11%) Data Engineering
10 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.70%) Bicep
4 8 (12.70%) C#
4 8 (12.70%) Java
4 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.52%) Bash
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) C
8 1 (1.59%) ProC
8 1 (1.59%) VB
8 1 (1.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCNA
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MBA
6 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) PMO
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Terraform
2 14 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Icinga
4 1 (1.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.46%) Databricks
3 7 (11.11%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.59%) Aderant
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Foundry
6 1 (1.59%) Informatica
6 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.59%) Palantir
6 1 (1.59%) Planview
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (1.59%) Workday