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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 60 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 90 59 101
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.01% 3.37% 4.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.70% 8.36% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 68
10th Percentile £413 £281 £401
25th Percentile £463 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £606
90th Percentile £738 £669 £684
Central London median daily rate £548 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.45% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -60.00% - -

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 928 706 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 40.27% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 489 563
10th Percentile £363 £332 £377
25th Percentile £456 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £557
% change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +68.67%

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 18 September 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 11 (12.22%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.78%) Apache
4 6 (6.67%) Confluence
5 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.11%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 25 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (21.11%) GitHub
5 15 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 14 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (13.33%) AWS
8 11 (12.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (12.22%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (11.11%) Azure Functions
9 10 (11.11%) PowerApps
9 10 (11.11%) Serverless
10 9 (10.00%) Azure AKS
11 8 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (7.78%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (6.67%) SaaS
14 5 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) DNS
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) DHCP
3 1 (1.11%) VPN
3 1 (1.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) Power BI
2 9 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 9 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.78%) Metadata
4 6 (6.67%) Star Schema
5 4 (4.44%) Data Hub
5 4 (4.44%) Delta Lake
5 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.33%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.22%) Big Data
7 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.22%) Power Query
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.11%) MySQL
8 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) JIRA
2 11 (12.22%) Git
3 9 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.89%) GitLab
5 3 (3.33%) Selenium
5 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.22%) Postman
7 1 (1.11%) Appium
7 1 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.11%) MLflow
7 1 (1.11%) Newman
7 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.11%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.11%) Storybook
7 1 (1.11%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 29 (32.22%) Finance
2 21 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Banking
5 4 (4.44%) Marketing
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Games
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (17.78%) Architect
2 15 (16.67%) Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Senior
4 11 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Data Architect
9 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.44%) Analyst
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Architect
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Consultant
11 4 (4.44%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 4 (4.44%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (4.44%) Dynamics AX Consultant
11 4 (4.44%) Functional Consultant
11 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.89%) Terraform
2 18 (20.00%) PySpark
3 13 (14.44%) REST
4 9 (10.00%) .NET
5 6 (6.67%) Kafka
5 6 (6.67%) RESTful
6 5 (5.56%) YAML
7 4 (4.44%) ADO
7 4 (4.44%) HTML
7 4 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (4.44%) JSON
7 4 (4.44%) React
8 3 (3.33%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.33%) CSS
8 3 (3.33%) Middleware
8 3 (3.33%) Playwright
8 3 (3.33%) Redux
8 3 (3.33%) XML
9 2 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) IoT
8 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (57.78%) CI/CD
3 37 (41.11%) Agile
4 28 (31.11%) Analytics
5 27 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (26.67%) Data Modelling
7 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (20.00%) Migration
9 17 (18.89%) AI
10 16 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
13 13 (14.44%) Data Engineering
13 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (12.22%) Integration Patterns
15 11 (12.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 28 (31.11%) SQL
2 27 (30.00%) Python
3 16 (17.78%) C#
4 14 (15.56%) PowerShell
5 11 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.11%) Bicep
6 10 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (7.78%) Java
9 5 (5.56%) Bash
10 2 (2.22%) Korn
11 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 20 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) IIBA
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) P3O
4 1 (1.11%) PMO
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) Grafana
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.11%) SCCM
3 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.00%) Databricks
3 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.33%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Foundry
5 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.11%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.11%) IFS
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle