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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 65 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 -24 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 92 58 95
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.24% 3.36% 4.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.21% 8.36% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 43 63
10th Percentile £410 £281 £416
25th Percentile £460 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £675 £698
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -60.00% - -

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 901 694 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.52% 40.21% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 493 537
10th Percentile £350 £340 £393
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 7 October 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 10 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.61%) Apache
3 7 (7.61%) Confluence
4 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.09%) CMS
5 1 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.26%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.09%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (32.61%) Power Platform
3 24 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (21.74%) GitHub
5 14 (15.22%) AWS
5 14 (15.22%) Power Automate
6 12 (13.04%) Azure Functions
6 12 (13.04%) Serverless
7 11 (11.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (11.96%) PowerApps
8 10 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (9.78%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (8.70%) Azure AKS
11 7 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (6.52%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (6.52%) GCP
12 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (6.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) DNS
1 4 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) Power BI
2 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.78%) Data Lake
3 9 (9.78%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.70%) Metadata
5 6 (6.52%) Star Schema
6 4 (4.35%) Data Hub
6 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.26%) Spark SQL
8 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.17%) Power Query
9 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.09%) QlikView
9 1 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) JIRA
2 14 (15.22%) Git
3 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.70%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.26%) Selenium
6 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.17%) Postman
7 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.09%) Appium
8 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.09%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.09%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.09%) NUnit
8 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (33.70%) Finance
2 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.04%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Front Office
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Developer
2 14 (15.22%) Architect
3 12 (13.04%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Consultant
6 7 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Data Architect
6 7 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Lead
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (4.35%) DevOps Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.09%) Terraform
2 19 (20.65%) PySpark
3 17 (18.48%) REST
4 11 (11.96%) .NET
5 7 (7.61%) Kafka
5 7 (7.61%) RESTful
6 6 (6.52%) JSON
6 6 (6.52%) YAML
7 5 (5.43%) Middleware
8 4 (4.35%) ADO
8 4 (4.35%) HTML
8 4 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (4.35%) React
8 4 (4.35%) XML
9 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.26%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.26%) CSS
9 3 (3.26%) Playwright
9 3 (3.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (57.61%) CI/CD
3 41 (44.57%) Agile
4 28 (30.43%) Analytics
4 28 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 20 (21.74%) Migration
7 18 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (18.48%) AI
8 17 (18.48%) Test Automation
9 16 (17.39%) Data Governance
9 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.30%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (14.13%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (13.04%) Data Engineering
12 12 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.70%) SQL
2 28 (30.43%) Python
3 18 (19.57%) C#
4 14 (15.22%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.87%) Bicep
7 8 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (7.61%) Java
9 4 (4.35%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.17%) Korn
11 1 (1.09%) C
11 1 (1.09%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) DBS Check
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.26%) PMP
5 2 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) IIBA
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.13%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) P3O
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
4 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.09%) SCCM
3 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (48.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) Databricks
3 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.26%) Foundry
5 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Splunk
6 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 2 (2.17%) Workday
7 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.09%) Dell
7 1 (1.09%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.09%) IBM
7 1 (1.09%) Informatica
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle