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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 54 38
Rank change year-on-year -23 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 68 115
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.56% 3.93% 5.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% 9.15% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 73
10th Percentile £364 £281 £386
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +5.85% -7.87%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £650 £655
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% -8.89%
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 929 743 889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.34% 42.92% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 478 620
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £653
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.68 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +71.38% +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 19 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 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.61%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) GitHub
3 12 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (19.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (17.74%) Azure AKS
5 9 (14.52%) AWS
6 8 (12.90%) Power Automate
7 7 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.06%) Azure Functions
9 5 (8.06%) Serverless
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.84%) GCP
12 2 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Network Security
1 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) Power BI
3 4 (6.45%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.61%) QlikView
6 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) JIRA
2 7 (11.29%) Git
3 4 (6.45%) GitLab
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.23%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.61%) Postman
General
1 20 (32.26%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (12.90%) Architect
2 8 (12.90%) Consultant
3 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Architect
4 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.68%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.68%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) REST
2 5 (8.06%) Playwright
2 5 (8.06%) PySpark
2 5 (8.06%) React
3 4 (6.45%) .NET
3 4 (6.45%) Kafka
4 3 (4.84%) ADO
4 3 (4.84%) YAML
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.23%) Django
5 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.23%) Flask
5 2 (3.23%) HTML
5 2 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (3.23%) Next.js
5 2 (3.23%) Redux
5 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 2 (3.23%) Spring
5 2 (3.23%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) LIMS
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) VMS
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (98.39%) DevOps
2 33 (53.23%) CI/CD
3 25 (40.32%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (20.97%) Migration
6 12 (19.35%) AI
6 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (19.35%) Test Automation
7 11 (17.74%) Analytics
7 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) Observability
9 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.90%) Data Engineering
10 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
11 7 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 15 (24.19%) SQL
3 9 (14.52%) Bicep
3 9 (14.52%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.68%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) Java
7 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.61%) PMP
6 1 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Terraform
2 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.97%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Aderant
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.61%) Palantir
5 1 (1.61%) Planview
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) VMware