Azure DevOps Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 37 74
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 57 106 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.25% 4.82% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.52% 12.43% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 68
10th Percentile £406 £408 £421
25th Percentile £431 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £638 £671 £725
Central London median daily rate £533 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.65% -5.68% -12.00%

All Cloud 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 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the City of London

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the City of London

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.77%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.51%) Apache
5 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.75%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.75%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
2 12 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 11 (19.30%) GitHub
4 7 (12.28%) Azure AKS
4 7 (12.28%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (10.53%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.77%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.77%) Serverless
7 4 (7.02%) Azure App Service
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.51%) AWS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) HTTP
2 3 (5.26%) Network Security
3 2 (3.51%) DNS
3 2 (3.51%) FTP
3 2 (3.51%) SMTP
3 2 (3.51%) SSL
3 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
4 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Parquet
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) Postman
4 3 (5.26%) Selenium
5 2 (3.51%) JMeter
5 2 (3.51%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.75%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.75%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.75%) GitLab
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (24.56%) Finance
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Banking
3 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Billing
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Front Office
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Data Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Angular Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) QA Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.51%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.51%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Software Tester
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.09%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.02%) Kafka
4 3 (5.26%) ADO
4 3 (5.26%) JSON
4 3 (5.26%) OAuth
5 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (3.51%) JWT
5 2 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.51%) Pandas
5 2 (3.51%) PySpark
5 2 (3.51%) pytest
5 2 (3.51%) SOAP
5 2 (3.51%) YAML
6 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Derivative
5 1 (1.75%) Equities
5 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 18 (31.58%) Agile
4 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.79%) Analytics
7 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.28%) Microservices
7 7 (12.28%) Scrum
8 6 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (10.53%) ETL
8 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.77%) SDLC
9 5 (8.77%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (8.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) C#
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
4 12 (21.05%) Python
5 9 (15.79%) Bicep
5 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) Java
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 2 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.75%) C++
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
8 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) CBAP
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) EMIR
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) MiFID
3 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.75%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.75%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.04%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Databricks
3 3 (5.26%) SAP
4 2 (3.51%) HP
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.51%) Workday
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.75%) CQG
5 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.75%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.75%) Informatica
5 1 (1.75%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Reuters
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) Talend