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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 61 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 56 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.66% 3.34% 5.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.90% 7.85% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 32 70
10th Percentile £321 £284 £398
25th Percentile £417 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +3.90% -6.82%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £600
90th Percentile £681 £649 £658
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
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 898 713 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.51% 42.57% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 451 603
10th Percentile £344 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £654
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -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 29 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 7 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.61%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) GitHub
3 12 (19.35%) AWS
3 12 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (19.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.74%) Azure AKS
5 8 (12.90%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (11.29%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
8 5 (8.06%) Azure Functions
8 5 (8.06%) Serverless
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.84%) GCP
11 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Network Security
1 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) Power BI
3 4 (6.45%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.61%) QlikView
6 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) JIRA
2 7 (11.29%) Git
3 4 (6.45%) GitLab
3 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) Selenium
5 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.23%) Postman
5 2 (3.23%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.61%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.61%) TestRail
6 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Architect
3 8 (12.90%) Consultant
4 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Azure Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Developer in Test
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
2 5 (8.06%) Kafka
2 5 (8.06%) Playwright
2 5 (8.06%) PySpark
2 5 (8.06%) React
2 5 (8.06%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.23%) ADO
3 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.23%) Django
3 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.23%) Flask
3 2 (3.23%) Next.js
3 2 (3.23%) Redux
3 2 (3.23%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
3 2 (3.23%) WPF
3 2 (3.23%) YAML
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.61%) LIMS
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) VMS
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (98.39%) DevOps
2 34 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 23 (37.10%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (24.19%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.97%) AI
7 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.35%) Migration
8 11 (17.74%) Analytics
8 11 (17.74%) Observability
9 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.90%) Data Engineering
11 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
11 8 (12.90%) Roadmaps
12 7 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) SQL
3 9 (14.52%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) Bicep
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.06%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.61%) C
8 1 (1.61%) Korn
8 1 (1.61%) ProC
8 1 (1.61%) VB
8 1 (1.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
1 16 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.61%) PMP
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) P3O
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Terraform
2 15 (24.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) Databricks
3 7 (11.29%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.61%) Aderant
6 1 (1.61%) Foundry
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) Palantir
6 1 (1.61%) Planview
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) Workday