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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 57
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 56 61 76
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.92% 3.38% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.00% 8.27% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 29 53
10th Percentile £356 £421 £430
25th Percentile £417 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -10.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £650
90th Percentile £676 £638 £735
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +4.35%

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 800 738 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.64% 40.93% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 464 645
10th Percentile £330 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -45.71%

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 17 February 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 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (33.93%) GitHub
3 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 9 (16.07%) AWS
5 9 (16.07%) Serverless
6 5 (8.93%) Azure AKS
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.93%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.14%) Apigee
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Network Security
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) JIRA
2 8 (14.29%) Git
3 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.71%) Selenium
4 4 (7.14%) Postman
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.57%) GitLab
6 2 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.79%) gulp
7 1 (1.79%) jMock
7 1 (1.79%) Maven
7 1 (1.79%) Mockito
7 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.79%) TestNG
7 1 (1.79%) webpack
7 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (32.14%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Back Office
8 2 (3.57%) Front Office
8 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Law
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.79%) Legal
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.29%) Developer
1 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (8.93%) Analyst
2 5 (8.93%) Architect
2 5 (8.93%) Lead
2 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
3 4 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (5.36%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Architect
4 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Consultant
4 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) .NET
2 6 (10.71%) Node.js
3 5 (8.93%) OAuth
3 5 (8.93%) REST
4 4 (7.14%) JWT
5 3 (5.36%) Next.js
5 3 (5.36%) Playwright
5 3 (5.36%) React
6 2 (3.57%) CSS
6 2 (3.57%) Django
6 2 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.57%) Flask
6 2 (3.57%) HTML
6 2 (3.57%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) LangChain
6 2 (3.57%) PySpark
6 2 (3.57%) SOAP
6 2 (3.57%) Spring
6 2 (3.57%) XML
7 1 (1.79%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) DevOps
2 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
3 27 (48.21%) Agile
4 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (19.64%) AI
6 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (16.07%) Analytics
8 9 (16.07%) Scrum
8 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.50%) Migration
9 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.71%) Backlog Management
10 6 (10.71%) Business Analysis
10 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
10 6 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) SQL
3 12 (21.43%) Java
4 9 (16.07%) C#
5 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.36%) Bicep
7 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.57%) Bash
8 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.57%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.79%) C
9 1 (1.79%) ProC
9 1 (1.79%) VB
9 1 (1.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Degree
4 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.57%) CBAP
6 2 (3.57%) ISEB
6 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.79%) MBA
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (5.36%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) SLA
5 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (32.14%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
2 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Icinga
3 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Databricks
2 7 (12.50%) Oracle
3 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.36%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.36%) VMware
6 2 (3.57%) UiPath
7 1 (1.79%) Aderant
7 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.79%) Foundry
7 1 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.79%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.79%) Palantir
7 1 (1.79%) Planview
7 1 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Workday