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

 6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 85 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 992 741 957
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.76% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.23% 7.50% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 494 729
10th Percentile £360 £382 £413
25th Percentile £413 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £55.00
25th Percentile £49.94 £69.69 £58.75
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +12.60% +8.45%
75th Percentile £79.69 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.69% +12.60% -1.72%

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 12,058 9,874 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.91% 36.74% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,360 6,572 9,057
10th Percentile £300 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 140 252
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.70 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +17.42% +6.14%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.51 £52.31
90th Percentile £77.19 £68.75 £73.63
UK median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +5.85% +10.00% +11.11%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +12 539 £500 -9.09% 107
South East -5 129 £525 -4.55% 139
North of England -24 95 £475 -5.00% 107
Midlands -2 87 £500 -2.20% 69
South West +43 80 £475 -2.56% 55
West Midlands -12 52 £575 +9.52% 33
North West -7 49 £403 -26.82% 53
Yorkshire -48 36 £525 +6.60% 39
East Midlands +3 35 £418 -12.11% 35
East of England +5 28 £538 -18.87% 58
North East -6 10 £500 -4.76% 15
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 67 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 50 (5.04%) Confluence
3 17 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.01%) HCL Notes
5 9 (0.91%) Apache
5 9 (0.91%) Mendix
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.50%) IIS
7 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.30%) Documentum
9 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.20%) Trello
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.50%) Maximo
4 4 (0.40%) Endur
4 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Primavera
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.10%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 991 (99.90%) Azure
2 240 (24.19%) GitHub
3 191 (19.25%) Power Platform
4 171 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 128 (12.90%) Azure AKS
5 128 (12.90%) Serverless
6 121 (12.20%) AWS
7 113 (11.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 95 (9.58%) Azure Monitor
9 94 (9.48%) Entra ID
10 89 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
11 84 (8.47%) Azure Functions
12 80 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
13 68 (6.85%) Power Automate
14 63 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
15 61 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 61 (6.15%) PowerApps
16 60 (6.05%) GCP
17 54 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
18 51 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.73%) Firewall
2 20 (2.02%) Network Security
2 20 (2.02%) VPN
3 13 (1.31%) DNS
4 10 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 9 (0.91%) WAN
6 4 (0.40%) HTTP
6 4 (0.40%) LAN
6 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) IPsec
8 2 (0.20%) FTP
8 2 (0.20%) MPLS
8 2 (0.20%) MQTT
8 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) BGP
9 1 (0.10%) VoIP
9 1 (0.10%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (13.21%) Power BI
2 78 (7.86%) SQL Server
3 55 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 36 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.92%) Delta Lake
8 24 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 22 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 21 (2.12%) Relational Database
11 20 (2.02%) Oracle Database
12 17 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.61%) Tableau
14 13 (1.31%) Redis
15 10 (1.01%) DynamoDB
15 10 (1.01%) Metadata
15 10 (1.01%) MySQL
15 10 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.01%) Spark SQL
16 9 (0.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 181 (18.25%) JIRA
2 133 (13.41%) Git
3 96 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 52 (5.24%) GitLab
5 45 (4.54%) Selenium
6 36 (3.63%) Oracle APEX
6 36 (3.63%) Postman
7 23 (2.32%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.92%) JUnit
9 14 (1.41%) Visual Studio
10 13 (1.31%) Gradle
11 12 (1.21%) Artifactory
11 12 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.21%) TestRail
12 11 (1.11%) JMeter
13 10 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 322 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 179 (18.04%) Finance
3 113 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 91 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.04%) Banking
6 29 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.12%) Retail
9 19 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 15 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.41%) Law
13 13 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.11%) Marketing
15 10 (1.01%) Back Office
15 10 (1.01%) Front Office
16 9 (0.91%) Billing
16 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.71%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 239 (24.09%) Developer
2 146 (14.72%) Azure Engineer
3 136 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (13.61%) Senior
5 82 (8.27%) Analyst
6 79 (7.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 73 (7.36%) Lead
8 70 (7.06%) Architect
9 67 (6.75%) Data Engineer
10 56 (5.65%) Senior Developer
11 41 (4.13%) Azure Developer
12 34 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
12 34 (3.43%) Test Analyst
13 32 (3.23%) Azure Architect
13 32 (3.23%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 29 (2.92%) Project Manager
14 29 (2.92%) Software Engineer
15 28 (2.82%) Consultant
15 28 (2.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (19.66%) .NET
2 91 (9.17%) REST
3 69 (6.96%) React
4 66 (6.65%) ARM Templates
5 62 (6.25%) ADO
6 61 (6.15%) Node.js
7 50 (5.04%) PySpark
8 47 (4.74%) RESTful
9 45 (4.54%) .NET Core
10 41 (4.13%) YAML
11 33 (3.33%) JSON
11 33 (3.33%) OAuth
12 31 (3.13%) Kafka
12 31 (3.13%) SOAP
13 30 (3.02%) AngularJS
14 29 (2.92%) HTML
15 25 (2.52%) .NET Framework
15 25 (2.52%) CSS
15 25 (2.52%) Playwright
16 22 (2.22%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.42%) CMDB
7 21 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.41%) NHS
12 13 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.01%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.44%) Windows
2 40 (4.03%) Linux
3 14 (1.41%) VMS
4 11 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.01%) Android
6 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.20%) Unix
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (99.09%) DevOps
2 537 (54.13%) CI/CD
3 431 (43.45%) Agile
4 244 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (18.45%) Scrum
7 167 (16.83%) Analytics
8 160 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 142 (14.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 137 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
11 127 (12.80%) Containerisation
12 121 (12.20%) Validation
13 113 (11.39%) AI
14 109 (10.99%) Microservices
15 101 (10.18%) Migration
16 99 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 98 (9.88%) Data Modelling
18 97 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 80 (8.06%) Data Pipeline
20 73 (7.36%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 303 (30.54%) SQL
2 257 (25.91%) Python
3 190 (19.15%) C#
4 171 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 110 (11.09%) PowerShell
6 100 (10.08%) Bicep
7 70 (7.06%) Java
8 65 (6.55%) TypeScript
9 59 (5.95%) Bash
10 52 (5.24%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.81%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.11%) Go
13 10 (1.01%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.01%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.01%) Scala
14 9 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.71%) PHP
15 7 (0.71%) VBA
16 6 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 267 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 224 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.87%) Azure Certification
4 68 (6.85%) Degree
5 37 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.71%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.01%) CISSP
10 10 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.01%) PMP
11 7 (0.71%) CISM
12 6 (0.60%) ISEB
12 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (9.07%) QA
2 53 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.62%) GDPR
5 21 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.12%) NIST
6 16 (1.61%) NCSC
7 11 (1.11%) PMO
8 8 (0.81%) WCAG
9 7 (0.71%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.60%) HL7
10 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.30%) PSD2
14 2 (0.20%) GxP
14 2 (0.20%) SLA
14 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 178 (17.94%) Docker
2 57 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 292 (29.44%) Terraform
2 188 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 58 (5.85%) Ansible
4 38 (3.83%) Grafana
5 34 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.21%) Puppet
7 11 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.81%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.81%) Istio
8 8 (0.81%) Podman
9 7 (0.71%) Kibana
9 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.50%) Argo
10 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.40%) Packer
12 3 (0.30%) Icinga
13 2 (0.20%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 315 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 121 (12.20%) Databricks
3 109 (10.99%) Oracle
4 57 (5.75%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.62%) OpenAI
5 26 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.71%) Google
6 17 (1.71%) SAP
6 17 (1.71%) Splunk
7 12 (1.21%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.01%) Lotus
8 10 (1.01%) VMware
9 9 (0.91%) Informatica
9 9 (0.91%) Kofax
9 9 (0.91%) Sitecore
10 8 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.81%) HP
11 7 (0.71%) Citrix
11 7 (0.71%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.60%) NetApp
507 Azure DevOps jobs in England