Azure DevOps Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 77 69
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 718 1,036 1,535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.72% 2.77% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.25% 8.52% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 693 1,138
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £643
90th Percentile £738 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £36.45 £64.50 £49.60
25th Percentile £45.75 £65.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -6.43% +21.33%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.75 £79.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.77% -6.43% +20.92%

All Cloud 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 9,908 12,158 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.60% 32.56% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,684 8,677 12,700
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 328 292
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.15 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £69.63
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 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 -18 448 £525 - 890
South East +24 97 £458 -12.86% 503
Midlands +20 63 £500 +5.26% 278
North of England -19 56 £500 -4.76% 411
West Midlands +2 36 £525 +7.69% 160
Yorkshire 0 32 £463 -7.50% 152
East Midlands +25 27 £500 +25.00% 115
South West +7 27 £525 - 217
North West -16 23 £525 - 225
East of England +10 6 £481 -8.33% 190
North East -3 1 £550 +16.40% 35
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (5.15%) Confluence
2 23 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.25%) Apache
5 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) Mule
7 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.14%) Appian
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.39%) Endur
3 5 (0.70%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.56%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.28%) Maximo
6 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 718 (100.00%) Azure
2 100 (13.93%) AWS
3 98 (13.65%) GitHub
4 93 (12.95%) Power Platform
5 71 (9.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (9.61%) Azure Monitor
7 65 (9.05%) Azure AKS
8 61 (8.50%) Serverless
9 60 (8.36%) Dynamics 365
10 51 (7.10%) PaaS
11 47 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (5.85%) Entra ID
13 41 (5.71%) IaaS
14 38 (5.29%) PowerApps
15 37 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 37 (5.15%) Power Automate
16 36 (5.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 36 (5.01%) SaaS
17 35 (4.87%) GCP
18 34 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.29%) Firewall
2 19 (2.65%) DNS
3 17 (2.37%) VPN
4 15 (2.09%) Network Security
5 13 (1.81%) HTTP
6 12 (1.67%) SSL
7 9 (1.25%) SMTP
8 8 (1.11%) HTTPS
8 8 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.97%) FTP
10 6 (0.84%) LAN
10 6 (0.84%) WAN
11 2 (0.28%) AMQP
11 2 (0.28%) DHCP
11 2 (0.28%) DSL
11 2 (0.28%) POP3
11 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
11 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.14%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 55 (7.66%) Power BI
3 51 (7.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (4.04%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (3.48%) Redis
7 20 (2.79%) Delta Lake
7 20 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.37%) Big Data
10 13 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.39%) Metadata
11 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.70%) GIS
12 5 (0.70%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.70%) MySQL
13 4 (0.56%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.56%) Data Mart
13 4 (0.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 102 (14.21%) JIRA
2 95 (13.23%) Git
3 80 (11.14%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.96%) GitLab
5 36 (5.01%) Selenium
6 20 (2.79%) Postman
7 19 (2.65%) JMeter
7 19 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.81%) SpecFlow
9 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.53%) Appium
10 11 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 11 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 10 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (1.25%) LoadRunner
13 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.11%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.11%) NUnit
14 7 (0.97%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 226 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 164 (22.84%) Finance
3 79 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (8.50%) Banking
5 51 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.87%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.76%) Marketing
8 19 (2.65%) Retail
9 18 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.67%) Electronics
12 11 (1.53%) Law
12 11 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Front Office
14 9 (1.25%) Billing
15 6 (0.84%) Back Office
15 6 (0.84%) Military
16 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 157 (21.87%) Developer
2 115 (16.02%) Azure Engineer
3 100 (13.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 73 (10.17%) Analyst
4 73 (10.17%) Senior
5 70 (9.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 69 (9.61%) Lead
7 60 (8.36%) Architect
8 41 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.87%) .NET Developer
10 34 (4.74%) Senior Developer
11 32 (4.46%) Data Engineer
12 30 (4.18%) Azure Developer
13 29 (4.04%) Lead Developer
14 26 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.48%) Azure Architect
15 25 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 24 (3.34%) C# Developer
16 24 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (3.34%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (18.11%) .NET
2 51 (7.10%) ADO
3 41 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 41 (5.71%) REST
4 40 (5.57%) .NET Core
5 36 (5.01%) Kafka
6 35 (4.87%) HTML
7 34 (4.74%) RESTful
8 32 (4.46%) YAML
9 30 (4.18%) CSS
10 27 (3.76%) SOAP
11 26 (3.62%) AngularJS
12 25 (3.48%) .NET Framework
13 24 (3.34%) JSON
14 23 (3.20%) PySpark
14 23 (3.20%) React
15 21 (2.92%) ActiveMQ
16 20 (2.79%) ASP.NET
16 20 (2.79%) Web Services
17 19 (2.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.09%) Mobile App
5 14 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.25%) Derivative
9 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.11%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.11%) PKI
9 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.97%) Market Risk
11 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.13%) Windows
2 38 (5.29%) Linux
3 18 (2.51%) Android
4 12 (1.67%) Unix
4 12 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.70%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (99.86%) DevOps
2 315 (43.87%) Agile
3 300 (41.78%) CI/CD
4 156 (21.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 151 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (17.13%) Test Automation
7 114 (15.88%) Scrum
8 85 (11.84%) Analytics
9 73 (10.17%) Migration
10 70 (9.75%) Business Intelligence
11 68 (9.47%) Containerisation
12 67 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (8.50%) TDD
14 55 (7.66%) Microservices
15 48 (6.69%) Continuous Integration
16 46 (6.41%) Mentoring
17 45 (6.27%) BDD
17 45 (6.27%) ETL
18 44 (6.13%) Data Engineering
18 44 (6.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 180 (25.07%) Python
2 178 (24.79%) C#
3 167 (23.26%) SQL
4 136 (18.94%) PowerShell
5 97 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 81 (11.28%) Java
7 75 (10.45%) Bicep
8 51 (7.10%) Bash
9 23 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.09%) Scala
11 13 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.25%) VB
13 8 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.84%) Groovy
14 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.70%) C++
15 5 (0.70%) PHP
15 5 (0.70%) Ruby
15 5 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 101 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.38%) Degree
4 43 (5.99%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.79%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.84%) PMP
11 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) CISSP
13 2 (0.28%) CISM
13 2 (0.28%) ISEB
13 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.08%) QA
2 23 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.23%) GDPR
4 12 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.97%) NIST
6 5 (0.70%) NCSC
7 4 (0.56%) PMO
8 3 (0.42%) EMIR
8 3 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) HL7
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (10.72%) Docker
2 34 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.42%) OpenAM
5 3 (0.42%) OpenDJ
5 3 (0.42%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 203 (28.27%) Terraform
2 116 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 53 (7.38%) Ansible
4 22 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.79%) Grafana
6 16 (2.23%) Puppet
7 12 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.39%) HP ALM
9 9 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.70%) Control-M
12 5 (0.70%) Istio
13 4 (0.56%) Perfmon
14 3 (0.42%) Rundeck
15 2 (0.28%) Argo
15 2 (0.28%) Consul
15 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.28%) Nessus
15 2 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 209 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.33%) Databricks
3 29 (4.04%) SAP
4 20 (2.79%) Oracle
4 20 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.67%) Workday
6 11 (1.53%) Google
6 11 (1.53%) HP
6 11 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.25%) VMware
8 8 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.97%) Cloudera
9 7 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.84%) Citrix
10 6 (0.84%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.84%) Guidewire
10 6 (0.84%) Informatica
10 6 (0.84%) Murex
11 5 (0.70%) Cisco
11 5 (0.70%) Red Hat