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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 98 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 -27 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,264 665 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 2.73% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 7.23% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 486 713
10th Percentile £363 £368 £404
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.45 £53.88
25th Percentile £25.38 £48.25 £61.56
Median hourly rate £49.25 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.04% +3.05% -6.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £65.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.75 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -34.38% +22.14% -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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +28 710 £500 -4.76% 131
South East -2 163 £538 +4.88% 101
North of England -6 124 £500 - 74
Midlands -2 119 £450 -13.88% 60
South West +22 88 £475 -9.52% 34
West Midlands -29 68 £450 -14.29% 37
North West +6 64 £483 -12.18% 41
East Midlands -2 49 £488 -2.50% 23
Yorkshire -31 46 £500 +14.29% 22
East of England -11 25 £438 +2.94% 33
North East -7 14 £500 -6.98% 11
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 81 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 69 (5.46%) Confluence
3 33 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.98%) Apache
5 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.87%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.79%) Mendix
9 7 (0.55%) IIS
10 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.079%) SAS
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
2 29 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.32%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.16%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.079%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 46 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Maximo
3 7 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.24%) Findur
5 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.079%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.079%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.079%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (100.00%) Azure
2 311 (24.60%) GitHub
3 211 (16.69%) GitHub Actions
4 206 (16.30%) Power Platform
5 149 (11.79%) AWS
6 139 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 133 (10.52%) Serverless
8 126 (9.97%) Azure AKS
9 125 (9.89%) Entra ID
10 122 (9.65%) Azure Monitor
11 102 (8.07%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (7.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 90 (7.12%) Azure Functions
14 80 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 80 (6.33%) Power Automate
15 79 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
16 72 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
17 71 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
18 62 (4.91%) PowerApps
19 60 (4.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.72%) Firewall
2 26 (2.06%) Network Security
3 22 (1.74%) DNS
4 20 (1.58%) VPN
5 14 (1.11%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.95%) WAN
7 8 (0.63%) DHCP
7 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.55%) LAN
9 6 (0.47%) Internet
10 5 (0.40%) HTTP
10 5 (0.40%) IPsec
10 5 (0.40%) SSL
11 4 (0.32%) MQTT
11 4 (0.32%) VLAN
12 3 (0.24%) FTP
12 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
13 2 (0.16%) MPLS
13 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (9.89%) Power BI
2 107 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 76 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (5.62%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.59%) Delta Lake
6 54 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (3.24%) NoSQL
8 37 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (2.22%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.66%) Spark SQL
13 19 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (1.34%) Tableau
15 15 (1.19%) DynamoDB
15 15 (1.19%) Redis
16 12 (0.95%) Metadata
16 12 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
18 10 (0.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 234 (18.51%) JIRA
2 174 (13.77%) Git
3 119 (9.41%) Jenkins
4 68 (5.38%) GitLab
5 55 (4.35%) Selenium
6 33 (2.61%) Oracle APEX
6 33 (2.61%) Postman
7 21 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 21 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.50%) TestRail
9 17 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.19%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.19%) Zephyr
11 14 (1.11%) SpecFlow
12 13 (1.03%) JUnit
12 13 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.95%) Artifactory
13 12 (0.95%) JMeter
14 11 (0.87%) Bitbucket
General
1 327 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 252 (19.94%) Finance
3 142 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 129 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.83%) Banking
6 34 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.66%) Retail
10 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.27%) Front Office
13 15 (1.19%) Legal
14 14 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.87%) Law
16 10 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.71%) Marketing
18 8 (0.63%) Back Office
18 8 (0.63%) Local Government
19 7 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 265 (20.97%) Developer
2 202 (15.98%) Azure Engineer
3 193 (15.27%) Senior
4 175 (13.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 110 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 109 (8.62%) Lead
7 105 (8.31%) Data Engineer
8 99 (7.83%) Analyst
9 89 (7.04%) Architect
10 60 (4.75%) Senior Developer
11 54 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.56%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.48%) Azure Developer
13 44 (3.48%) Tester
14 39 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 37 (2.93%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.85%) Azure Architect
17 35 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.61%) .NET Developer
18 33 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (15.82%) .NET
2 104 (8.23%) REST
3 75 (5.93%) PySpark
4 74 (5.85%) React
5 71 (5.62%) ARM Templates
5 71 (5.62%) Node.js
6 59 (4.67%) YAML
7 55 (4.35%) ADO
8 51 (4.03%) Kafka
9 49 (3.88%) RESTful
10 47 (3.72%) .NET Core
11 43 (3.40%) Playwright
12 42 (3.32%) .NET Framework
13 37 (2.93%) JSON
14 36 (2.85%) OAuth
15 33 (2.61%) CSS
16 32 (2.53%) SOAP
17 31 (2.45%) HTML
18 30 (2.37%) AngularJS
19 25 (1.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 19 (1.50%) Low-Code
6 19 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.42%) Reinsurance
8 17 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.03%) NHS
11 12 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (0.79%) Replication
13 10 (0.79%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.67%) Windows
2 46 (3.64%) Linux
3 18 (1.42%) VMS
4 9 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.55%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (99.37%) DevOps
2 679 (53.72%) CI/CD
3 483 (38.21%) Agile
4 299 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 223 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
6 210 (16.61%) Analytics
7 208 (16.46%) Test Automation
8 177 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 177 (14.00%) Scrum
9 150 (11.87%) Containerisation
10 147 (11.63%) AI
11 142 (11.23%) Migration
12 141 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
13 138 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 137 (10.84%) Data Modelling
15 132 (10.44%) Microservices
16 130 (10.28%) Validation
17 126 (9.97%) Observability
18 107 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
19 106 (8.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 412 (32.59%) SQL
2 342 (27.06%) Python
3 239 (18.91%) C#
4 180 (14.24%) JavaScript
5 141 (11.16%) PowerShell
6 115 (9.10%) Bicep
7 90 (7.12%) Java
8 89 (7.04%) Bash
9 78 (6.17%) TypeScript
10 53 (4.19%) PL/SQL
11 28 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 27 (2.14%) Scala
13 18 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (1.03%) Go
15 11 (0.87%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.87%) LotusScript
16 10 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.47%) PHP
18 5 (0.40%) C
18 5 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 357 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 302 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 107 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 80 (6.33%) Degree
5 37 (2.93%) ISTQB
6 34 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 31 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.27%) PMP
12 13 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.63%) CISSP
14 7 (0.55%) CISM
14 7 (0.55%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 5 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (11.23%) QA
2 88 (6.96%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.29%) GDPR
5 23 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.58%) NIST
7 19 (1.50%) NCSC
8 17 (1.34%) PMO
9 15 (1.19%) WCAG
10 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 9 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.63%) SLA
12 7 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.47%) HL7
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.24%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 190 (15.03%) Docker
2 80 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.32%) Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.079%) HDFS
8 1 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 350 (27.69%) Terraform
2 217 (17.17%) Kubernetes
3 63 (4.98%) Ansible
4 46 (3.64%) Grafana
5 36 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.19%) Argo
6 15 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.11%) HP ALM
7 14 (1.11%) Istio
8 13 (1.03%) Puppet
9 9 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.40%) Packer
12 4 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.32%) Podman
13 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.24%) Icinga
13 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 391 (30.93%) Microsoft
2 164 (12.97%) Databricks
3 131 (10.36%) Oracle
4 56 (4.43%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 33 (2.61%) SAP
7 29 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 26 (2.06%) Splunk
9 19 (1.50%) Informatica
10 15 (1.19%) Google
10 15 (1.19%) HP
11 14 (1.11%) VMware
12 12 (0.95%) Foundry
13 11 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.87%) Lotus
13 11 (0.87%) NEC
14 10 (0.79%) Citrix
14 10 (0.79%) IBM
14 10 (0.79%) Kofax
15 9 (0.71%) Brio