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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 53 39
Rank change year-on-year -18 -14 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 67 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.60% 3.88% 5.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.75% 9.08% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 72
10th Percentile £364 £281 £384
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +5.85% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £650 £649
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% -7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.86% - -

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 933 738 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.52% 42.76% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 475 619
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £658
90th Percentile £750 £754 £769
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -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 22 June 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
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%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) GitHub
3 13 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (20.63%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.46%) Azure AKS
5 9 (14.29%) AWS
5 9 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 7 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.94%) Azure Functions
8 5 (7.94%) Serverless
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.76%) GCP
10 3 (4.76%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) Network Security
1 1 (1.59%) VPN
1 1 (1.59%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Power BI
1 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.35%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.59%) QlikView
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) JIRA
2 7 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) GitLab
4 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.17%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Architect
2 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Consultant
2 8 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Dynamics AX Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
4 5 (7.94%) Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Senior
5 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) REST
2 5 (7.94%) Playwright
2 5 (7.94%) PySpark
2 5 (7.94%) React
3 4 (6.35%) .NET
3 4 (6.35%) Kafka
4 3 (4.76%) ADO
4 3 (4.76%) YAML
5 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.17%) Django
5 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.17%) Flask
5 2 (3.17%) HTML
5 2 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (3.17%) Next.js
5 2 (3.17%) Redux
5 2 (3.17%) RESTful
5 2 (3.17%) Spring
5 2 (3.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) LIMS
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) VMS
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (98.41%) DevOps
2 34 (53.97%) CI/CD
3 26 (41.27%) Agile
4 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (20.63%) Migration
6 12 (19.05%) AI
6 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 11 (17.46%) Analytics
8 10 (15.87%) Observability
8 10 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
10 8 (12.70%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Bicep
3 9 (14.29%) C#
4 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) Bash
6 3 (4.76%) Java
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.35%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) PMO
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) Terraform
2 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.63%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Aderant
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.59%) Palantir
5 1 (1.59%) Planview
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) VMware