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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 57 43
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 62 102
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 3.51% 4.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.02% 8.12% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 58
10th Percentile £349 £414 £395
25th Percentile £386 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £638
90th Percentile £698 £638 £662
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.67%
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 898 764 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.43% 43.26% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 492 612
10th Percentile £350 £389 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +0.71% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £761
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -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 18 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 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.59%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) GitHub
3 12 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (17.46%) AWS
5 8 (12.70%) Azure AKS
5 8 (12.70%) Serverless
6 7 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.35%) Apigee
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.35%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JIRA
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) Selenium
5 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.76%) Postman
5 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.17%) GitLab
7 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.59%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.59%) TestRail
7 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Banking
6 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Law
9 1 (1.59%) Back Office
9 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Front Office
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 6 (9.52%) Consultant
5 6 (9.52%) Lead
5 6 (9.52%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Functional Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Developer in Test
9 2 (3.17%) Migration Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) .NET
1 5 (7.94%) Node.js
1 5 (7.94%) OAuth
1 5 (7.94%) Playwright
2 4 (6.35%) JWT
3 2 (3.17%) Django
3 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.17%) Flask
3 2 (3.17%) Next.js
3 2 (3.17%) PySpark
3 2 (3.17%) React
3 2 (3.17%) REST
3 2 (3.17%) Spring
3 2 (3.17%) WPF
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.59%) OpenID
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (98.41%) DevOps
2 37 (58.73%) CI/CD
3 27 (42.86%) Agile
4 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.46%) AI
9 10 (15.87%) Analytics
9 10 (15.87%) Migration
9 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.70%) Observability
11 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
12 7 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
13 6 (9.52%) Change Management
13 6 (9.52%) Scrum
13 6 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 16 (25.40%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) C#
4 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.52%) Bash
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) Bicep
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.59%) C
8 1 (1.59%) ProC
8 1 (1.59%) VB
8 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CCNA
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MBA
6 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (4.76%) SLA
4 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.17%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (36.51%) Terraform
2 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Icinga
4 1 (1.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Databricks
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.17%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.59%) Aderant
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.59%) Palantir
5 1 (1.59%) Planview
5 1 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) UiPath
5 1 (1.59%) Workday