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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 87 75
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,227 693 1,010
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 2.83% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.86% 7.49% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 504 719
10th Percentile £363 £375 £406
25th Percentile £413 £440 £454
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 £492 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -5.38% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 10
10th Percentile - £37.45 £54.63
25th Percentile £25.38 £48.25 £60.94
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.05% -3.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £65.75
90th Percentile £86.95 £77.75 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.97% +12.60% -4.73%

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 13,849 9,257 12,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.79% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 6,463 8,760
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 172 330
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £74.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +39.62% +24.01% -16.13%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +23 687 £500 -7.41% 127
South East -19 150 £505 -8.18% 101
North of England -13 127 £500 - 77
Midlands -8 114 £463 -11.06% 65
South West +25 87 £475 -8.21% 41
West Midlands -22 71 £475 -9.52% 39
North West +11 67 £473 -14.00% 45
Yorkshire -41 46 £518 +15.00% 22
East Midlands -11 42 £425 -12.82% 26
East of England +2 29 £538 -6.52% 33
North East -5 14 £500 -6.98% 10
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 76 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 72 (5.87%) Confluence
3 31 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.79%) Apache
5 15 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.90%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.81%) Mendix
8 8 (0.65%) IIS
9 4 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.081%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.081%) Kentico
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.081%) SAS
12 1 (0.081%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) Trello
6 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.081%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 46 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Maximo
3 7 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Findur
5 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.081%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,227 (100.00%) Azure
2 313 (25.51%) GitHub
3 214 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
4 207 (16.87%) Power Platform
5 150 (12.22%) AWS
6 136 (11.08%) Serverless
7 134 (10.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 127 (10.35%) Azure Monitor
9 119 (9.70%) Azure AKS
10 116 (9.45%) Entra ID
11 104 (8.48%) Dynamics 365
12 93 (7.58%) Azure Functions
13 88 (7.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 82 (6.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 81 (6.60%) Power Automate
16 80 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 71 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
18 68 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
19 64 (5.22%) GCP
19 64 (5.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.99%) Firewall
2 24 (1.96%) Network Security
3 22 (1.79%) DNS
4 21 (1.71%) VPN
5 15 (1.22%) SD-WAN
6 14 (1.14%) WAN
7 8 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.57%) LAN
9 6 (0.49%) DHCP
10 5 (0.41%) HTTP
11 4 (0.33%) Internet
11 4 (0.33%) IPsec
11 4 (0.33%) MQTT
12 3 (0.24%) FTP
12 3 (0.24%) MPLS
12 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.24%) SSL
12 3 (0.24%) VLAN
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
13 2 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (10.35%) Power BI
2 98 (7.99%) SQL Server
3 75 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (5.62%) Data Lake
5 57 (4.65%) Delta Lake
6 48 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 36 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (2.28%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.71%) Redis
10 21 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.63%) Spark SQL
12 18 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 18 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.30%) Tableau
14 12 (0.98%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.98%) Metadata
15 11 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 243 (19.80%) JIRA
2 175 (14.26%) Git
3 124 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 69 (5.62%) GitLab
5 52 (4.24%) Selenium
6 34 (2.77%) Oracle APEX
6 34 (2.77%) Postman
7 22 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.55%) TestRail
8 19 (1.55%) Visual Studio
9 17 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (1.14%) JMeter
11 14 (1.14%) Zephyr
12 13 (1.06%) JUnit
13 12 (0.98%) Artifactory
13 12 (0.98%) SpecFlow
14 11 (0.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 343 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 253 (20.62%) Finance
3 153 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 132 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.89%) Banking
6 31 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.87%) Retail
10 18 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.14%) Front Office
12 14 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.06%) Law
13 13 (1.06%) Legal
13 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.65%) Back Office
15 8 (0.65%) Local Government
15 8 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (21.84%) Developer
2 184 (15.00%) Senior
3 181 (14.75%) Azure Engineer
4 156 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 108 (8.80%) Lead
6 103 (8.39%) Analyst
7 98 (7.99%) Data Engineer
8 92 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 88 (7.17%) Architect
10 59 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 52 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.67%) Azure Developer
12 45 (3.67%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.59%) Tester
14 40 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 36 (2.93%) Azure Architect
16 34 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
17 33 (2.69%) Test Engineer
18 32 (2.61%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (16.06%) .NET
2 116 (9.45%) REST
3 73 (5.95%) React
4 72 (5.87%) ARM Templates
4 72 (5.87%) PySpark
5 69 (5.62%) Node.js
6 58 (4.73%) YAML
7 57 (4.65%) ADO
8 48 (3.91%) .NET Core
9 44 (3.59%) RESTful
10 41 (3.34%) Kafka
10 41 (3.34%) Playwright
11 40 (3.26%) .NET Framework
12 39 (3.18%) JSON
12 39 (3.18%) SOAP
13 37 (3.02%) CSS
13 37 (3.02%) HTML
14 35 (2.85%) OAuth
15 34 (2.77%) AngularJS
16 28 (2.28%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (1.71%) Low-Code
7 20 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 18 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.30%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.22%) CMDB
11 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.06%) NHS
12 13 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.90%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.81%) Replication
15 9 (0.73%) Data Centre
15 9 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.73%) Windows
2 51 (4.16%) Linux
3 16 (1.30%) VMS
4 9 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.57%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.081%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,219 (99.35%) DevOps
2 664 (54.12%) CI/CD
3 485 (39.53%) Agile
4 293 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (17.28%) Analytics
7 208 (16.95%) Test Automation
8 188 (15.32%) Scrum
9 184 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (12.14%) AI
11 144 (11.74%) Containerisation
12 142 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
13 141 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 138 (11.25%) Migration
15 133 (10.84%) Validation
16 131 (10.68%) Data Modelling
17 126 (10.27%) Microservices
18 123 (10.02%) Observability
19 99 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 97 (7.91%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 403 (32.84%) SQL
2 345 (28.12%) Python
3 224 (18.26%) C#
4 184 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 138 (11.25%) PowerShell
6 114 (9.29%) Bicep
7 87 (7.09%) Bash
8 86 (7.01%) Java
9 73 (5.95%) TypeScript
10 54 (4.40%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.20%) Scala
11 27 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.14%) Go
14 11 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.90%) Formula Language
14 11 (0.90%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.49%) PHP
15 6 (0.49%) X++
16 5 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 353 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 294 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.88%) Azure Certification
4 80 (6.52%) Degree
5 36 (2.93%) ISTQB
6 33 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.22%) PMP
12 13 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.65%) CISSP
15 7 (0.57%) CISM
15 7 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 5 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (11.08%) QA
2 82 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.44%) GDPR
5 24 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.63%) NIST
7 18 (1.47%) NCSC
8 16 (1.30%) PMO
9 14 (1.14%) WCAG
10 9 (0.73%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.65%) SLA
12 7 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.49%) HL7
14 5 (0.41%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.33%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 190 (15.48%) Docker
2 70 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.33%) Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.081%) HDFS
8 1 (0.081%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 347 (28.28%) Terraform
2 209 (17.03%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.38%) Ansible
4 52 (4.24%) Grafana
5 44 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.14%) HP ALM
6 14 (1.14%) Istio
7 13 (1.06%) Puppet
7 13 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.98%) Argo
9 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.41%) Podman
12 4 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.33%) Packer
13 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.24%) Icinga
13 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.16%) linkerd
14 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 387 (31.54%) Microsoft
2 156 (12.71%) Databricks
3 131 (10.68%) Oracle
4 66 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 30 (2.44%) SAP
7 27 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.87%) Splunk
9 17 (1.39%) Google
9 17 (1.39%) Informatica
10 15 (1.22%) HP
11 14 (1.14%) VMware
12 11 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.90%) Foundry
12 11 (0.90%) Lotus
12 11 (0.90%) NEC
13 10 (0.81%) Kofax
14 9 (0.73%) IBM
15 8 (0.65%) Cisco
15 8 (0.65%) Red Hat
410 Azure DevOps jobs in England