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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 90 78
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,493 799 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.86% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 7.49% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 568 589
10th Percentile £360 £350 £386
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.50 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.61 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% - -
75th Percentile £79.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.67 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £67.44 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.66% - -

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +24 843 £513 -2.38% 420
South East -19 175 £525 +13.98% 155
North of England +4 170 £475 -4.33% 178
Midlands +4 148 £460 -8.00% 105
West Midlands +23 120 £455 -20.87% 60
North West -7 81 £500 +17.65% 85
South West +1 74 £475 -17.39% 61
Yorkshire -11 67 £475 -5.00% 76
East of England +2 45 £438 -12.50% 47
East Midlands -16 27 £500 +8.11% 45
North East - 22 £450 - 19
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
1 116 (7.77%) Confluence
2 107 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (1.74%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.067%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 5 (0.33%) Trello
9 3 (0.20%) Mingle
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.067%) SAP FI-AR
7 1 (0.067%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,493 (100.00%) Azure
2 375 (25.12%) GitHub
3 281 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 255 (17.08%) GitHub Actions
5 238 (15.94%) AWS
6 134 (8.98%) Entra ID
7 133 (8.91%) Dynamics 365
8 124 (8.31%) Azure Monitor
9 123 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 122 (8.17%) Azure AKS
10 122 (8.17%) Serverless
11 120 (8.04%) Power Automate
12 93 (6.23%) Azure Functions
13 92 (6.16%) GCP
14 90 (6.03%) PowerApps
15 81 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 74 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 66 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
18 65 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
19 64 (4.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.02%) Firewall
2 44 (2.95%) DNS
3 37 (2.48%) Network Security
4 23 (1.54%) VPN
5 18 (1.21%) SSL
6 13 (0.87%) DHCP
7 9 (0.60%) WAN
8 6 (0.40%) VLAN
9 5 (0.33%) Internet
9 5 (0.33%) LAN
9 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
12 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (11.65%) Power BI
2 119 (7.97%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.82%) Data Lake
5 62 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (2.81%) Delta Lake
7 42 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 34 (2.28%) Metadata
9 31 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (1.34%) Big Data
11 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.14%) MySQL
12 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
13 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.94%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.87%) Parquet
15 13 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 278 (18.62%) Git
2 275 (18.42%) JIRA
3 194 (12.99%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.98%) GitLab
5 79 (5.29%) Selenium
6 40 (2.68%) Postman
7 35 (2.34%) Visual Studio
8 31 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 28 (1.88%) SonarQube
10 27 (1.81%) WebDriver
11 23 (1.54%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.27%) JUnit
13 18 (1.21%) Gradle
14 17 (1.14%) TestRail
15 15 (1.00%) Maven
16 14 (0.94%) JMeter
16 14 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.87%) MSI
18 12 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 418 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 318 (21.30%) Finance
3 183 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 160 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (5.63%) Banking
5 84 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (2.61%) Retail
7 31 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 26 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.67%) Legal
11 21 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.27%) Marketing
13 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.80%) Law
15 12 (0.80%) Local Government
16 11 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.67%) Billing
17 10 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (17.28%) Developer
2 237 (15.87%) Senior
3 235 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 228 (15.27%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (9.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 134 (8.98%) Analyst
6 134 (8.98%) Lead
7 115 (7.70%) Architect
8 112 (7.50%) Data Engineer
9 72 (4.82%) Business Analyst
10 56 (3.75%) Project Manager
11 53 (3.55%) Consultant
12 49 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
14 47 (3.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 43 (2.88%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.88%) Test Analyst
16 40 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (2.41%) .NET Developer
17 36 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (29.27%) Terraform
2 207 (13.86%) REST
3 199 (13.33%) .NET
4 83 (5.56%) JSON
5 79 (5.29%) RESTful
6 77 (5.16%) ADO
7 74 (4.96%) PySpark
8 70 (4.69%) ARM Templates
9 64 (4.29%) YAML
10 62 (4.15%) Kafka
11 61 (4.09%) React
12 58 (3.88%) .NET Framework
13 55 (3.68%) Playwright
14 54 (3.62%) .NET Core
15 45 (3.01%) OAuth
15 45 (3.01%) XML
16 40 (2.68%) HTML
17 39 (2.61%) Middleware
18 38 (2.55%) SOAP
19 35 (2.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 131 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 60 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.34%) Replication
13 19 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 16 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.90%) Windows
2 75 (5.02%) Linux
3 33 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.14%) VMS
5 13 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 9 (0.60%) Android
7 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,493 (100.00%) DevOps
2 842 (56.40%) CI/CD
3 652 (43.67%) Agile
4 398 (26.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 290 (19.42%) Test Automation
6 286 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 251 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 247 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (15.67%) Analytics
10 230 (15.41%) Containerisation
11 229 (15.34%) Scrum
12 206 (13.80%) Migration
13 189 (12.66%) AI
14 186 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
15 176 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 173 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
17 165 (11.05%) Data Modelling
18 161 (10.78%) Deployment Automation
19 159 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
20 158 (10.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.52%) Python
2 362 (24.25%) SQL
3 261 (17.48%) C#
4 213 (14.27%) PowerShell
5 177 (11.86%) Bicep
6 164 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 132 (8.84%) Bash
8 116 (7.77%) Java
9 95 (6.36%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.94%) Go
15 13 (0.87%) X++
16 9 (0.60%) C++
17 7 (0.47%) C
17 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) Scala
18 6 (0.40%) VB6
Qualifications
1 438 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 359 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 124 (8.31%) Azure Certification
4 121 (8.10%) Degree
5 73 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.81%) ISTQB
8 38 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.61%) PMI Certification
12 22 (1.47%) PMP
13 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.94%) CISSP
15 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (12.12%) QA
2 104 (6.97%) Data Quality
3 94 (6.30%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.02%) GDPR
5 54 (3.62%) WCAG
6 30 (2.01%) PMO
7 27 (1.81%) NIST
8 25 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.21%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.47%) SEPA
14 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.27%) PSD2
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
17 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 242 (16.21%) Docker
2 66 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 308 (20.63%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.50%) Ansible
3 53 (3.55%) Grafana
4 48 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.00%) Argo
7 15 (1.00%) Puppet
8 14 (0.94%) HP ALM
8 14 (0.94%) Packer
9 10 (0.67%) SCOM
10 9 (0.60%) SCCM
11 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.27%) Istio
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.13%) Nagios
15 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 555 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.91%) Databricks
3 59 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.68%) Oracle
4 55 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.08%) SAP
6 41 (2.75%) Google
7 34 (2.28%) Splunk
8 32 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.74%) VMware
10 22 (1.47%) Foundry
10 22 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 17 (1.14%) UiPath
12 15 (1.00%) HP
13 12 (0.80%) IBM
13 12 (0.80%) Workday
14 10 (0.67%) Informatica
15 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.54%) Adobe
993 Azure DevOps jobs in England