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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -15 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 70 63 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.21% 3.62% 4.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.75% 8.33% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 55
10th Percentile £356 £416 £390
25th Percentile £421 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £582 £638
90th Percentile £707 £638 £698
Central London median daily rate £528 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.59% -
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 903 756 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.35% 43.47% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 495 613
10th Percentile £350 £390 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £660
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £546 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -0.68% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%

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 4 April 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 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.43%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (32.86%) GitHub
3 14 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (15.71%) AWS
5 10 (14.29%) Serverless
6 9 (12.86%) Power Platform
7 8 (11.43%) Azure AKS
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Functions
8 6 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.57%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.71%) Apigee
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) JIRA
2 9 (12.86%) Git
3 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.14%) Selenium
5 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.71%) Postman
6 3 (4.29%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.86%) GitLab
8 1 (1.43%) gulp
8 1 (1.43%) jMock
8 1 (1.43%) JUnit
8 1 (1.43%) Mockito
8 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.43%) TestRail
8 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.43%) webpack
8 1 (1.43%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.86%) Back Office
8 2 (2.86%) Front Office
8 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.86%) Law
9 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (12.86%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (12.86%) Developer
3 8 (11.43%) Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Architect
5 6 (8.57%) Consultant
5 6 (8.57%) Lead
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 6 (8.57%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) .NET
2 6 (8.57%) Node.js
2 6 (8.57%) Playwright
3 5 (7.14%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) JWT
4 4 (5.71%) REST
5 3 (4.29%) HTML
5 3 (4.29%) Next.js
5 3 (4.29%) React
5 3 (4.29%) Spring
6 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.86%) CSS
6 2 (2.86%) Django
6 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.86%) Flask
6 2 (2.86%) JSON
6 2 (2.86%) PySpark
6 2 (2.86%) WPF
6 2 (2.86%) XML
7 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) IoT
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) DevOps
2 41 (58.57%) CI/CD
3 31 (44.29%) Agile
4 21 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (22.86%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (18.57%) AI
7 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (15.71%) Analytics
8 11 (15.71%) Migration
8 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.86%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.43%) Observability
10 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.43%) Software Testing
10 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (10.00%) Scrum
11 7 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (27.14%) SQL
3 11 (15.71%) C#
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.57%) Bash
6 6 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.14%) Bicep
8 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.43%) C
9 1 (1.43%) ProC
9 1 (1.43%) VB
9 1 (1.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Degree
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.43%) CCNA
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.43%) MBA
8 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.29%) SLA
4 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) PMO
5 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (34.29%) Terraform
2 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.57%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) Icinga
4 1 (1.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) Databricks
3 8 (11.43%) Oracle
4 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.29%) VMware
6 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.86%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.86%) UiPath
7 1 (1.43%) Aderant
7 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.43%) Foundry
7 1 (1.43%) Informatica
7 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.43%) Palantir
7 1 (1.43%) Planview
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk
7 1 (1.43%) Workday