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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 88 106
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.70% 4.19% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 10.56% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 53 67
10th Percentile £281 £463 £425
25th Percentile £384 £494 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.08%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £644
90th Percentile £675 £738 £776
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Cloud 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 708 833 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.70% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 537 780
10th Percentile £333 £400 £356
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 30 October 2025.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the City of London region over the 6 months to 30 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
Azure DevOps
Central London

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 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Endur
2 1 (1.59%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 12 (19.05%) GitHub
4 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (14.29%) AWS
6 8 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (11.11%) PaaS
7 7 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 7 (11.11%) PowerApps
8 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
10 4 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (6.35%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (6.35%) Serverless
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (4.76%) IaaS
11 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) NGFW
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Power BI
2 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JIRA
2 8 (12.70%) Git
3 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.17%) Postman
4 2 (3.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.59%) git-flow
5 1 (1.59%) Gradle
5 1 (1.59%) gulp
5 1 (1.59%) jMock
5 1 (1.59%) Mockito
5 1 (1.59%) Storybook
5 1 (1.59%) TestNG
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Back Office
6 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Front Office
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Law
7 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Endur Support
5 6 (9.52%) OpenLink Support
5 6 (9.52%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Angular Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) .NET
2 5 (7.94%) CSS
2 5 (7.94%) HTML
3 4 (6.35%) ADO
3 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.35%) REST
4 3 (4.76%) Django
4 3 (4.76%) JSON
4 3 (4.76%) Leaflet
4 3 (4.76%) Node.js
4 3 (4.76%) OAuth
4 3 (4.76%) SOAP
4 3 (4.76%) XML
5 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.17%) JWT
5 2 (3.17%) LangChain
5 2 (3.17%) RxJS
6 1 (1.59%) Next.js
6 1 (1.59%) Playwright
6 1 (1.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.17%) CMDB
1 2 (3.17%) Derivative
1 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.59%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.59%) IoT
2 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.59%) PACS
2 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Android
2 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (47.62%) Agile
3 27 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (15.87%) Scrum
6 9 (14.29%) ETL
7 8 (12.70%) Analytics
7 8 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (12.70%) Validation
7 8 (12.70%) Workflow
8 7 (11.11%) AI
8 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (9.52%) Business Analysis
9 6 (9.52%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 6 (9.52%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 16 (25.40%) SQL
3 13 (20.63%) C#
4 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.94%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.35%) Bicep
7 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.17%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Degree
3 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CBAP
5 2 (3.17%) ISEB
6 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.59%) SEPA
4 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Terraform
2 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
5 3 (4.76%) Istio
6 2 (3.17%) Grafana
6 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.59%) Argo
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
7 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) DocuSign
3 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) UiPath
4 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.59%) Confluent
4 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.59%) Tenable
4 1 (1.59%) VMware