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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 82 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 947 841 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.04% 2.74% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.96% 7.55% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 571 800
10th Percentile £356 £378 £410
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £635 £638
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £57.44 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%
75th Percentile £90.00 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.69% +18.95% -5.76%

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 11,904 11,137 13,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.20% 36.28% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,167 7,430 9,768
10th Percentile £305 £313 £293
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 147 269
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.25 £56.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -3 503 £520 -5.45% 127
South East -6 123 £500 -9.09% 146
North of England -27 98 £500 -4.76% 79
Midlands +6 86 £498 -0.50% 57
South West +33 75 £475 -3.55% 44
West Midlands -13 52 £575 +12.20% 34
North West -8 47 £403 -26.82% 38
Yorkshire -25 46 £513 +2.50% 26
East Midlands +11 34 £418 -12.11% 21
East of England +2 30 £525 -20.75% 34
North East -4 5 £600 +14.29% 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 53 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 50 (5.28%) Confluence
3 14 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.53%) CMS
7 5 (0.53%) IIS
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.21%) Mendix
10 2 (0.21%) Mule
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.42%) Endur
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.21%) Primavera
6 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 946 (99.89%) Azure
2 214 (22.60%) GitHub
3 162 (17.11%) Power Platform
4 158 (16.68%) GitHub Actions
5 126 (13.31%) AWS
6 113 (11.93%) Azure AKS
7 108 (11.40%) Serverless
8 88 (9.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 87 (9.19%) Azure Monitor
9 87 (9.19%) Dynamics 365
10 80 (8.45%) Entra ID
11 69 (7.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 64 (6.76%) PowerApps
13 63 (6.65%) Azure Functions
14 60 (6.34%) Power Automate
15 58 (6.12%) GCP
16 56 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
17 50 (5.28%) Azure Service Bus
18 49 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 46 (4.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.38%) Firewall
2 18 (1.90%) Network Security
3 17 (1.80%) DNS
4 16 (1.69%) VPN
5 10 (1.06%) WAN
6 8 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.53%) LAN
8 4 (0.42%) DHCP
8 4 (0.42%) HTTP
8 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.21%) AMQP
9 2 (0.21%) DSL
9 2 (0.21%) MPLS
9 2 (0.21%) NGFW
9 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) SSL
9 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) IPsec
10 1 (0.11%) VRRP
10 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (11.09%) Power BI
2 56 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (2.85%) Data Lake
6 25 (2.64%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.22%) Delta Lake
9 18 (1.90%) Redis
9 18 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.16%) MySQL
12 10 (1.06%) Big Data
12 10 (1.06%) Tableau
13 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 177 (18.69%) JIRA
2 139 (14.68%) Git
3 102 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 64 (6.76%) GitLab
5 52 (5.49%) Selenium
6 36 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
6 36 (3.80%) Postman
7 27 (2.85%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 19 (2.01%) JUnit
9 18 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 16 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.58%) SpecFlow
12 14 (1.48%) JMeter
13 12 (1.27%) Gradle
14 11 (1.16%) TestRail
15 10 (1.06%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.06%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.95%) NUnit
16 9 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 179 (18.90%) Finance
3 107 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 85 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (5.91%) Banking
6 33 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.32%) Retail
11 16 (1.69%) Law
12 13 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.27%) Marketing
14 11 (1.16%) Back Office
14 11 (1.16%) Billing
15 10 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.84%) Front Office
16 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.74%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 263 (27.77%) Developer
2 138 (14.57%) Senior
3 117 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
4 115 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (9.61%) Analyst
6 75 (7.92%) Lead
7 62 (6.55%) Senior Developer
8 60 (6.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 57 (6.02%) Architect
10 47 (4.96%) Business Analyst
11 46 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 43 (4.54%) Azure Developer
13 36 (3.80%) Test Analyst
14 30 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
15 29 (3.06%) .NET Developer
15 29 (3.06%) Tester
16 28 (2.96%) Project Manager
17 27 (2.85%) Azure Architect
18 24 (2.53%) C# Developer
18 24 (2.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (20.27%) .NET
2 86 (9.08%) REST
3 62 (6.55%) RESTful
4 60 (6.34%) ADO
5 59 (6.23%) React
6 55 (5.81%) Node.js
7 48 (5.07%) .NET Core
7 48 (5.07%) YAML
8 44 (4.65%) ARM Templates
8 44 (4.65%) SOAP
9 37 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 36 (3.80%) JSON
11 34 (3.59%) Kafka
11 34 (3.59%) PySpark
12 33 (3.48%) .NET Framework
12 33 (3.48%) OAuth
13 31 (3.27%) HTML
14 29 (3.06%) Playwright
15 24 (2.53%) XML
16 22 (2.32%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.64%) CMDB
5 22 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.16%) NHS
14 10 (1.06%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.07%) Windows
2 41 (4.33%) Linux
3 17 (1.80%) Android
4 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.06%) VMS
6 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.74%) Unix
7 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (99.79%) DevOps
2 502 (53.01%) CI/CD
3 460 (48.57%) Agile
4 218 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (21.44%) Scrum
6 179 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (16.79%) Test Automation
8 133 (14.04%) Analytics
9 123 (12.99%) Containerisation
10 119 (12.57%) Validation
11 117 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (11.40%) Microservices
13 106 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
14 102 (10.77%) AI
15 99 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 94 (9.93%) Migration
17 88 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 71 (7.50%) Data Engineering
19 68 (7.18%) Software Engineering
20 66 (6.97%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 264 (27.88%) SQL
2 243 (25.66%) Python
3 205 (21.65%) C#
4 159 (16.79%) JavaScript
5 114 (12.04%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.13%) Java
7 76 (8.03%) Bicep
8 59 (6.23%) Bash
9 57 (6.02%) TypeScript
10 46 (4.86%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.16%) Go
12 9 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.74%) PHP
13 7 (0.74%) VBA
14 6 (0.63%) Scala
14 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.63%) X++
15 5 (0.53%) Korn
15 5 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 231 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 191 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.18%) Azure Certification
4 67 (7.07%) Degree
5 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.58%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.53%) CBAP
14 5 (0.53%) CISSP
14 5 (0.53%) ISEB
14 5 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.45%) QA
2 37 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.38%) GDPR
4 31 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.90%) NIST
6 11 (1.16%) NCSC
7 7 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 7 (0.74%) WCAG
8 6 (0.63%) PMO
9 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.42%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.32%) PSD2
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 160 (16.90%) Docker
2 51 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Squid
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 251 (26.50%) Terraform
2 170 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.18%) Ansible
4 40 (4.22%) Grafana
5 38 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.69%) Puppet
7 14 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.84%) Kibana
8 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.74%) Istio
9 7 (0.74%) Podman
10 6 (0.63%) Argo
10 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.42%) Packer
12 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 290 (30.62%) Microsoft
2 99 (10.45%) Databricks
3 86 (9.08%) Oracle
4 59 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.22%) Splunk
8 20 (2.11%) SAP
9 16 (1.69%) Google
10 15 (1.58%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.06%) VMware
12 8 (0.84%) DocuSign
12 8 (0.84%) HP
12 8 (0.84%) Murex
13 7 (0.74%) Brio
13 7 (0.74%) Citrix
13 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.74%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.63%) Cisco
14 6 (0.63%) NetApp
419 Azure DevOps jobs in England