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

 6 months to
13 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 89 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,523 821 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.27% 2.94% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 7.62% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 586 574
10th Percentile £363 £355 £382
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £617
90th Percentile £675 £695 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £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 16,067 10,775 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.60% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,284 7,497
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 260 159
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +22 853 £520 -0.95% 424
North of England +12 186 £475 -3.65% 171
South East -18 178 £525 +10.53% 185
Midlands -2 143 £460 -8.00% 79
West Midlands +7 120 £460 -20.00% 49
North West -5 89 £500 +23.46% 74
South West +2 80 £525 -4.55% 53
Yorkshire +1 75 £474 -5.25% 75
East of England -1 44 £450 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -18 23 £450 -2.70% 30
North East -20 22 £450 -25.00% 24
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
1 126 (8.27%) Confluence
2 107 (7.03%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.64%) Apache
6 12 (0.79%) CMS
7 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Mendix
10 4 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.066%) EPiServer
Applications
1 52 (3.41%) Microsoft Project
2 48 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.39%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
7 5 (0.33%) Trello
8 3 (0.20%) Mingle
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 61 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
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%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.066%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,523 (100.00%) Azure
2 388 (25.48%) GitHub
3 287 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 261 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 230 (15.10%) AWS
6 144 (9.46%) Entra ID
7 141 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
8 135 (8.86%) Azure Monitor
9 129 (8.47%) Azure AKS
10 128 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 125 (8.21%) Serverless
12 123 (8.08%) Power Automate
13 100 (6.57%) Azure Functions
14 93 (6.11%) GCP
14 93 (6.11%) PowerApps
15 86 (5.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 78 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 72 (4.73%) PaaS
18 70 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
19 68 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.07%) Firewall
2 49 (3.22%) DNS
3 37 (2.43%) Network Security
4 21 (1.38%) VPN
5 16 (1.05%) SSL
6 13 (0.85%) DHCP
7 8 (0.53%) WAN
8 5 (0.33%) VLAN
9 4 (0.26%) Internet
9 4 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.26%) SAN
9 4 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.13%) 4G
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.16%) Power BI
2 118 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 75 (4.92%) Data Lake
4 74 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 39 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 39 (2.56%) Metadata
9 31 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.38%) Big Data
11 19 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.12%) MySQL
13 16 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.98%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (0.92%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.92%) Redis
15 14 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 283 (18.58%) JIRA
2 282 (18.52%) Git
3 205 (13.46%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.78%) GitLab
5 80 (5.25%) Selenium
6 44 (2.89%) Postman
7 38 (2.50%) Visual Studio
8 34 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 32 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.77%) WebDriver
11 26 (1.71%) SonarQube
12 24 (1.58%) REST Assured
13 18 (1.18%) JUnit
13 18 (1.18%) TestRail
14 17 (1.12%) Gradle
15 16 (1.05%) JMeter
16 14 (0.92%) Maven
16 14 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.85%) MSI
18 12 (0.79%) Bitbucket
General
1 446 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 340 (22.32%) Finance
3 200 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 167 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (6.11%) Banking
6 82 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.56%) Retail
8 31 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 29 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.51%) Legal
11 23 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.44%) Marketing
13 19 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.92%) Law
15 14 (0.92%) Local Government
16 13 (0.85%) Police
17 12 (0.79%) Billing
18 11 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (16.87%) Developer
2 249 (16.35%) Senior
3 233 (15.30%) Azure Engineer
3 233 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 145 (9.52%) Lead
5 137 (9.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 135 (8.86%) Analyst
7 126 (8.27%) Architect
8 109 (7.16%) Data Engineer
9 70 (4.60%) Business Analyst
10 59 (3.87%) Consultant
11 55 (3.61%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (3.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 47 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
16 43 (2.82%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 40 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (29.48%) Terraform
2 225 (14.77%) REST
3 210 (13.79%) .NET
4 82 (5.38%) JSON
5 78 (5.12%) ADO
6 77 (5.06%) RESTful
7 74 (4.86%) PySpark
8 71 (4.66%) ARM Templates
9 66 (4.33%) YAML
10 65 (4.27%) React
11 59 (3.87%) .NET Framework
11 59 (3.87%) Kafka
12 57 (3.74%) Playwright
13 55 (3.61%) .NET Core
14 50 (3.28%) OAuth
15 44 (2.89%) Middleware
15 44 (2.89%) XML
16 40 (2.63%) HTML
16 40 (2.63%) SOAP
17 35 (2.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 163 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 141 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 60 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 57 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 51 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 49 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.64%) Low-Code
11 22 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.38%) Replication
13 20 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 15 (0.98%) Taxonomies
17 14 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.63%) Windows
2 80 (5.25%) Linux
3 35 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.18%) VMS
5 15 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.66%) Unix
7 9 (0.59%) Android
7 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.33%) CentOS
11 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.066%) macOS
12 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (100.00%) DevOps
2 854 (56.07%) CI/CD
3 662 (43.47%) Agile
4 406 (26.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 304 (19.96%) Test Automation
7 274 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 255 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
9 244 (16.02%) Analytics
10 234 (15.36%) Scrum
11 226 (14.84%) Containerisation
12 215 (14.12%) Migration
13 198 (13.00%) AI
14 183 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
15 182 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 174 (11.42%) Deployment Automation
16 174 (11.42%) User Acceptance Testing
17 170 (11.16%) Data Modelling
18 166 (10.90%) Validation
19 157 (10.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 384 (25.21%) Python
2 361 (23.70%) SQL
3 267 (17.53%) C#
4 222 (14.58%) PowerShell
5 188 (12.34%) Bicep
6 171 (11.23%) JavaScript
7 136 (8.93%) Bash
8 114 (7.49%) Java
9 104 (6.83%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 19 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (1.18%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.85%) X++
15 12 (0.79%) Go
16 10 (0.66%) C++
17 8 (0.53%) Scala
18 7 (0.46%) C
18 7 (0.46%) VB
19 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 458 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 372 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 131 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 127 (8.34%) Degree
5 73 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 45 (2.95%) ISTQB
8 42 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (2.10%) PMI Certification
11 30 (1.97%) PMP
12 29 (1.90%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.98%) CISSP
15 12 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 11 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 9 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (13.07%) QA
2 107 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 98 (6.43%) Accessibility
4 60 (3.94%) GDPR
5 54 (3.55%) WCAG
6 32 (2.10%) PMO
7 25 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.58%) NIST
9 18 (1.18%) NCSC
10 11 (0.72%) SLA
11 9 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.53%) GRC
13 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.46%) SEPA
14 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.26%) PSD2
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 251 (16.48%) Docker
2 65 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.39%) vSphere
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
6 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 313 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.57%) Ansible
3 62 (4.07%) Grafana
4 52 (3.41%) Prometheus
5 34 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.38%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.98%) Argo
7 15 (0.98%) Puppet
8 13 (0.85%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.85%) Packer
9 10 (0.66%) SCCM
9 10 (0.66%) SCOM
10 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.20%) Kibana
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 584 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.80%) Databricks
3 64 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 60 (3.94%) Oracle
5 56 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.22%) SAP
7 43 (2.82%) Google
8 40 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 33 (2.17%) Splunk
10 25 (1.64%) VMware
11 24 (1.58%) OpenAI
12 23 (1.51%) Foundry
13 19 (1.25%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.18%) UiPath
15 14 (0.92%) HP
16 13 (0.85%) Workday
17 11 (0.72%) IBM
17 11 (0.72%) Informatica
17 11 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 8 (0.53%) Cloudera
971 Azure DevOps jobs in England