Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 92 76
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,335 673 1,043
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.72% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 7.20% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 479 696
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -3.97% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £89.59 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +29.77% -6.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,019 9,344 11,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.77% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,182 6,359 8,563
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 234 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.44 £38.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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 +17 744 £500 -4.76% 139
South East +2 183 £500 +9.29% 140
North of England +20 152 £485 -0.46% 118
Midlands -5 129 £470 -8.29% 72
West Midlands -2 90 £450 -14.29% 36
North West +10 72 £500 -4.76% 58
South West +14 68 £481 -8.33% 42
Yorkshire -23 58 £500 +11.11% 33
East Midlands -9 37 £525 +5.00% 36
East of England -3 30 £450 - 70
North East -11 22 £450 -18.18% 27
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 86 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 85 (6.37%) Confluence
3 40 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.10%) Apache
5 24 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.52%) Mendix
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
8 6 (0.45%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) Documentum
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.60%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.075%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 44 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.75%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.075%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,335 (100.00%) Azure
2 332 (24.87%) GitHub
3 220 (16.48%) Power Platform
4 216 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
5 180 (13.48%) AWS
6 127 (9.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 116 (8.69%) Azure AKS
8 111 (8.31%) Entra ID
9 105 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
10 103 (7.72%) Serverless
11 102 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (7.12%) Power Automate
13 83 (6.22%) Azure Key Vault
14 76 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 74 (5.54%) PowerApps
16 67 (5.02%) Azure Functions
16 67 (5.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 64 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (4.57%) GCP
19 56 (4.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.60%) Firewall
2 23 (1.72%) Network Security
3 20 (1.50%) DNS
3 20 (1.50%) VPN
4 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.90%) WAN
6 8 (0.60%) Internet
7 7 (0.52%) DHCP
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.45%) VLAN
9 5 (0.37%) LAN
10 4 (0.30%) IPsec
11 3 (0.22%) MQTT
11 3 (0.22%) SSL
12 2 (0.15%) FTP
12 2 (0.15%) NAS
12 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.15%) SAN
12 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (10.56%) Power BI
2 100 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.92%) Data Lake
4 75 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (5.17%) Delta Lake
6 56 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 44 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.72%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.65%) Spark SQL
12 20 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.42%) Redis
14 18 (1.35%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.12%) Big Data
15 15 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (1.05%) Metadata
16 14 (1.05%) Parquet
17 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 259 (19.40%) JIRA
2 210 (15.73%) Git
3 118 (8.84%) Jenkins
4 91 (6.82%) GitLab
5 48 (3.60%) Selenium
6 27 (2.02%) Postman
7 24 (1.80%) REST Assured
8 22 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 20 (1.50%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.05%) TestRail
14 13 (0.97%) Gradle
15 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.82%) NUnit
17 10 (0.75%) fastlane
17 10 (0.75%) JUnit
17 10 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 318 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 277 (20.75%) Finance
3 144 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.49%) Banking
6 46 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (1.80%) Legal
9 20 (1.50%) Retail
10 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.82%) Law
13 11 (0.82%) Marketing
14 10 (0.75%) Front Office
14 10 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.52%) Back Office
16 7 (0.52%) Local Government
16 7 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (17.98%) Developer
2 223 (16.70%) Azure Engineer
3 189 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 184 (13.78%) Senior
5 137 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 123 (9.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 120 (8.99%) Analyst
8 108 (8.09%) Lead
9 96 (7.19%) Architect
10 59 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 45 (3.37%) Test Analyst
13 41 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (3.07%) Project Manager
13 41 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.85%) Tester
15 37 (2.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 37 (2.77%) Test Engineer
16 35 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
16 35 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (13.18%) .NET
2 124 (9.29%) REST
3 85 (6.37%) PySpark
4 68 (5.09%) ADO
5 67 (5.02%) React
6 62 (4.64%) ARM Templates
7 60 (4.49%) RESTful
8 59 (4.42%) YAML
9 58 (4.34%) Kafka
10 50 (3.75%) JSON
11 46 (3.45%) .NET Framework
12 45 (3.37%) Playwright
13 39 (2.92%) Node.js
14 36 (2.70%) SOAP
15 34 (2.55%) CSS
16 33 (2.47%) .NET Core
16 33 (2.47%) HTML
17 28 (2.10%) OAuth
18 27 (2.02%) AngularJS
18 27 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 152 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 25 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.97%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.75%) Management Information System
16 10 (0.75%) Replication
16 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.32%) Windows
2 47 (3.52%) Linux
3 17 (1.27%) VMS
4 8 (0.60%) Unix
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Android
5 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,328 (99.48%) DevOps
2 724 (54.23%) CI/CD
3 498 (37.30%) Agile
4 315 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 230 (17.23%) Analytics
6 219 (16.40%) Test Automation
7 208 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 175 (13.11%) Migration
9 170 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (12.73%) Scrum
10 161 (12.06%) Containerisation
10 161 (12.06%) Data Modelling
11 159 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 149 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
13 140 (10.49%) AI
14 139 (10.41%) Data Pipeline
15 137 (10.26%) ETL
16 131 (9.81%) Platform Engineering
17 120 (8.99%) Microservices
18 119 (8.91%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 399 (29.89%) SQL
2 345 (25.84%) Python
3 221 (16.55%) C#
4 134 (10.04%) PowerShell
5 124 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 121 (9.06%) Bicep
7 93 (6.97%) Java
8 92 (6.89%) Bash
9 71 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.72%) Scala
10 23 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (1.20%) Go
12 11 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.67%) X++
15 6 (0.45%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 365 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 306 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 76 (5.69%) Degree
5 40 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.40%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.20%) PMP
12 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.60%) CISSP
15 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.45%) CISM
15 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (10.56%) QA
2 109 (8.16%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.42%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.85%) GDPR
5 33 (2.47%) WCAG
6 20 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.50%) NIST
7 18 (1.35%) NCSC
8 17 (1.27%) SLA
9 15 (1.12%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) HL7
13 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 184 (13.78%) Docker
2 74 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) HDFS
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 357 (26.74%) Terraform
2 227 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 64 (4.79%) Ansible
4 43 (3.22%) Grafana
5 37 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.27%) Argo
7 13 (0.97%) HP ALM
7 13 (0.97%) Istio
7 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.90%) Puppet
9 10 (0.75%) Packer
9 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Rancher
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) linkerd
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 395 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 160 (11.99%) Databricks
3 73 (5.47%) Oracle
4 54 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.07%) SAP
6 40 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 22 (1.65%) Informatica
9 21 (1.57%) Google
10 19 (1.42%) Splunk
11 17 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.12%) VMware
13 14 (1.05%) Foundry
13 14 (1.05%) HP
14 12 (0.90%) IBM
15 10 (0.75%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.60%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.60%) Refinitiv
18 7 (0.52%) Adobe
538 Azure DevOps jobs in England