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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 92 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,515 754 948
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.73% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.51% 7.35% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 548 631
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.84 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -30.98% - -

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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +23 848 £500 -4.76% 271
South East -21 183 £500 +11.11% 134
Midlands +30 175 £450 -10.00% 65
North of England +10 172 £483 -4.12% 93
West Midlands +24 130 £450 -14.29% 35
North West +16 87 £500 -4.76% 58
South West +3 74 £475 -6.86% 32
Yorkshire -19 61 £478 -3.83% 24
East Midlands +11 43 £506 +6.58% 30
East of England +7 35 £425 -12.82% 32
North East -19 24 £450 -18.18% 12
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
1 107 (7.06%) Confluence
2 88 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.05%) Apache
6 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.066%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 48 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.066%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.066%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (100.00%) Azure
2 401 (26.47%) GitHub
3 275 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
4 244 (16.11%) Power Platform
5 230 (15.18%) AWS
6 140 (9.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (8.84%) Entra ID
8 122 (8.05%) Azure AKS
9 119 (7.85%) Dynamics 365
10 116 (7.66%) Azure Monitor
11 112 (7.39%) Power Automate
12 99 (6.53%) Serverless
13 89 (5.87%) PowerApps
14 87 (5.74%) GCP
15 78 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 76 (5.02%) Azure Key Vault
17 69 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
19 65 (4.29%) PaaS
20 64 (4.22%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.96%) Firewall
2 36 (2.38%) DNS
3 33 (2.18%) Network Security
4 26 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (0.99%) SSL
5 15 (0.99%) WAN
6 13 (0.86%) DHCP
6 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.59%) Internet
8 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.46%) VLAN
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
11 3 (0.20%) 4G
11 3 (0.20%) BGP
11 3 (0.20%) OSPF
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (10.56%) Power BI
2 109 (7.19%) SQL Server
3 75 (4.95%) Data Lake
4 71 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.56%) Delta Lake
7 53 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 43 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.52%) Metadata
12 21 (1.39%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.19%) Big Data
14 18 (1.19%) Redis
14 18 (1.19%) Spark SQL
15 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.86%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.86%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 290 (19.14%) JIRA
2 241 (15.91%) Git
3 177 (11.68%) Jenkins
4 137 (9.04%) GitLab
5 62 (4.09%) Selenium
6 33 (2.18%) Postman
7 32 (2.11%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.78%) Visual Studio
9 25 (1.65%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.19%) Gradle
12 17 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.12%) TestRail
13 16 (1.06%) JUnit
13 16 (1.06%) Maven
14 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.92%) MSI
16 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 390 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 307 (20.26%) Finance
3 191 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 155 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (5.21%) Banking
6 71 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.18%) Retail
8 29 (1.91%) Legal
9 27 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.39%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.99%) Marketing
14 13 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.86%) Law
14 13 (0.86%) Local Government
15 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.59%) Billing
17 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 278 (18.35%) Developer
2 223 (14.72%) Senior
3 222 (14.65%) Azure Engineer
4 212 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.04%) Lead
6 129 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 127 (8.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 122 (8.05%) Analyst
9 103 (6.80%) Architect
10 63 (4.16%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 48 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 43 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.84%) Test Analyst
14 43 (2.84%) Tester
15 42 (2.77%) Consultant
16 41 (2.71%) .NET Developer
17 39 (2.57%) Senior Developer
17 39 (2.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (13.60%) .NET
2 170 (11.22%) REST
3 83 (5.48%) PySpark
4 80 (5.28%) RESTful
5 77 (5.08%) ADO
6 73 (4.82%) YAML
7 71 (4.69%) JSON
8 62 (4.09%) .NET Framework
9 61 (4.03%) Kafka
10 58 (3.83%) React
11 56 (3.70%) ARM Templates
12 52 (3.43%) .NET Core
12 52 (3.43%) Playwright
13 43 (2.84%) SOAP
14 39 (2.57%) OAuth
15 38 (2.51%) HTML
16 37 (2.44%) XML
17 34 (2.24%) CSS
17 34 (2.24%) Middleware
18 33 (2.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 107 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.12%) Reinsurance
11 17 (1.12%) Replication
12 16 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.79%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.34%) Windows
2 69 (4.55%) Linux
3 27 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) VMS
5 10 (0.66%) Unix
6 8 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (100.00%) DevOps
2 829 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 630 (41.58%) Agile
4 384 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (17.62%) Test Automation
6 239 (15.78%) Analytics
7 236 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 233 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 228 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (14.26%) Containerisation
11 214 (14.13%) Scrum
12 205 (13.53%) Migration
13 169 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
14 167 (11.02%) Data Modelling
15 166 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 151 (9.97%) Microservices
17 149 (9.83%) Platform Engineering
18 148 (9.77%) AI
18 148 (9.77%) User Acceptance Testing
19 143 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 413 (27.26%) SQL
2 384 (25.35%) Python
3 260 (17.16%) C#
4 195 (12.87%) PowerShell
5 158 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 150 (9.90%) Bicep
7 124 (8.18%) Bash
8 112 (7.39%) Java
9 87 (5.74%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.25%) Go
12 17 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.86%) X++
15 12 (0.79%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.66%) Scala
17 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.40%) C
19 6 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 449 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 366 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 97 (6.40%) Degree
5 52 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 35 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 16 (1.06%) PMP
11 15 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.66%) CISSP
15 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (10.83%) QA
2 109 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 84 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.50%) GDPR
5 48 (3.17%) WCAG
6 26 (1.72%) PMO
7 23 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.52%) NIST
8 19 (1.25%) NCSC
9 13 (0.86%) SLA
10 12 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.33%) SEPA
13 4 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
14 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 223 (14.72%) Docker
2 84 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) Postfix
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 427 (28.18%) Terraform
2 292 (19.27%) Kubernetes
3 96 (6.34%) Ansible
4 62 (4.09%) Grafana
5 52 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.39%) Argo
7 20 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.32%) Puppet
8 13 (0.86%) Packer
9 12 (0.79%) Istio
10 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.66%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.53%) SCCM
13 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.40%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Rancher
16 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 498 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.11%) Databricks
3 63 (4.16%) Oracle
3 63 (4.16%) ServiceNow
4 51 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 48 (3.17%) SAP
6 36 (2.38%) Google
7 32 (2.11%) Splunk
8 27 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.39%) VMware
10 20 (1.32%) Informatica
11 12 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.73%) Foundry
12 11 (0.73%) HP
12 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.66%) IBM
13 10 (0.66%) UiPath
14 9 (0.59%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.59%) Cisco
14 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
595 Azure DevOps jobs in England