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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 91 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,351 683 1,028
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.70% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 7.16% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 482 685
10th Percentile £372 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £736 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.25 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.75 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.35% +29.77% -6.43%

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 15,227 9,544 12,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.77% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,279 6,457 8,619
10th Percentile £325 £311 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 242 334
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +19 755 £500 -4.76% 134
South East 0 174 £500 +7.24% 104
North of England +25 156 £488 - 69
Midlands -3 139 £465 -9.27% 41
West Midlands -2 98 £450 -14.29% 22
North West +3 76 £500 -4.76% 39
South West +1 64 £475 -9.52% 26
Yorkshire -5 60 £500 +11.11% 22
East Midlands 0 39 £525 +5.00% 19
East of England +1 34 £438 -9.09% 34
North East -17 20 £450 -18.18% 9
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 87 (6.44%) Confluence
2 86 (6.37%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.07%) Apache
5 24 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.37%) Mendix
9 4 (0.30%) Documentum
9 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 45 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.59%) CPLEX
5 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.30%) Notion
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.074%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.074%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,351 (100.00%) Azure
2 336 (24.87%) GitHub
3 223 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
4 219 (16.21%) Power Platform
5 189 (13.99%) AWS
6 122 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 110 (8.14%) Azure AKS
7 110 (8.14%) Entra ID
8 104 (7.70%) Azure Monitor
8 104 (7.70%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (7.48%) Serverless
10 99 (7.33%) Power Automate
11 81 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 76 (5.63%) PowerApps
13 71 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 66 (4.89%) Azure Functions
14 66 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 66 (4.89%) GCP
15 62 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
16 57 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.48%) Firewall
2 24 (1.78%) Network Security
3 22 (1.63%) DNS
4 19 (1.41%) VPN
5 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.89%) WAN
7 8 (0.59%) Internet
8 7 (0.52%) DHCP
8 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.44%) SSL
9 6 (0.44%) VLAN
10 5 (0.37%) LAN
11 4 (0.30%) IPsec
12 3 (0.22%) MQTT
13 2 (0.15%) 4G
13 2 (0.15%) NAS
13 2 (0.15%) OSPF
13 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) SSH
13 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (10.44%) Power BI
2 99 (7.33%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.40%) Data Lake
4 72 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (4.81%) Delta Lake
6 55 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 45 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.78%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.48%) Redis
13 19 (1.41%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (1.11%) Big Data
15 15 (1.11%) Metadata
16 13 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.96%) Parquet
17 11 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 267 (19.76%) JIRA
2 216 (15.99%) Git
3 126 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 96 (7.11%) GitLab
5 50 (3.70%) Selenium
6 30 (2.22%) Postman
7 24 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.26%) WebDriver
11 16 (1.18%) TestRail
12 14 (1.04%) Gradle
12 14 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.89%) JUnit
14 11 (0.81%) NUnit
14 11 (0.81%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.74%) fastlane
General
1 327 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 284 (21.02%) Finance
3 145 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (5.03%) Banking
6 50 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (1.85%) Legal
9 21 (1.55%) Retail
10 20 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.89%) Marketing
13 11 (0.81%) Law
14 10 (0.74%) Front Office
15 8 (0.59%) Billing
15 8 (0.59%) Local Government
16 7 (0.52%) Back Office
16 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 254 (18.80%) Developer
2 214 (15.84%) Azure Engineer
3 189 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 186 (13.77%) Senior
5 132 (9.77%) Data Engineer
6 121 (8.96%) Analyst
7 119 (8.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 105 (7.77%) Lead
9 99 (7.33%) Architect
10 58 (4.29%) Business Analyst
11 57 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (3.33%) Test Analyst
13 40 (2.96%) Project Manager
13 40 (2.96%) Tester
14 39 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 37 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (2.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (13.69%) .NET
2 136 (10.07%) REST
3 79 (5.85%) PySpark
4 67 (4.96%) RESTful
5 66 (4.89%) ADO
5 66 (4.89%) React
6 57 (4.22%) Kafka
6 57 (4.22%) YAML
7 55 (4.07%) ARM Templates
8 54 (4.00%) JSON
9 50 (3.70%) .NET Framework
10 47 (3.48%) Playwright
11 39 (2.89%) Node.js
11 39 (2.89%) SOAP
12 38 (2.81%) .NET Core
13 37 (2.74%) HTML
14 36 (2.66%) CSS
15 33 (2.44%) OAuth
16 30 (2.22%) AngularJS
17 29 (2.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.07%) Reinsurance
7 25 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.96%) Replication
16 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.81%) Data Centre
17 11 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.55%) Windows
2 49 (3.63%) Linux
3 15 (1.11%) VMS
4 11 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.67%) Unix
6 6 (0.44%) Android
6 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,346 (99.63%) DevOps
2 740 (54.77%) CI/CD
3 525 (38.86%) Agile
4 321 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 227 (16.80%) Analytics
6 222 (16.43%) Test Automation
7 218 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
8 186 (13.77%) Scrum
9 184 (13.62%) Migration
10 179 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 169 (12.51%) Containerisation
11 169 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 159 (11.77%) Data Modelling
13 147 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
14 136 (10.07%) AI
15 134 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
16 131 (9.70%) ETL
17 130 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
18 128 (9.47%) Microservices
19 123 (9.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 397 (29.39%) SQL
2 341 (25.24%) Python
3 233 (17.25%) C#
4 136 (10.07%) PowerShell
5 135 (9.99%) JavaScript
6 123 (9.10%) Bicep
7 94 (6.96%) Bash
7 94 (6.96%) Java
8 82 (6.07%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.63%) Scala
9 22 (1.63%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.33%) Go
11 13 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.74%) X++
15 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.44%) R
16 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 367 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 307 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 97 (7.18%) Azure Certification
4 81 (6.00%) Degree
5 41 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.11%) PMP
13 11 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.37%) CISSP
18 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 3 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (11.10%) QA
2 103 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.03%) GDPR
5 34 (2.52%) WCAG
6 19 (1.41%) NIST
7 18 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (1.26%) SLA
9 16 (1.18%) NCSC
10 14 (1.04%) PMO
11 9 (0.67%) GRC
11 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) PSD2
15 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 185 (13.69%) Docker
2 73 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.074%) HDFS
8 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 361 (26.72%) Terraform
2 231 (17.10%) Kubernetes
3 66 (4.89%) Ansible
4 47 (3.48%) Grafana
5 41 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.33%) Argo
7 16 (1.18%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.96%) Puppet
8 13 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.89%) Istio
10 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.74%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) SCCM
14 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.15%) SCOM
14 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 406 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 146 (10.81%) Databricks
3 73 (5.40%) Oracle
4 56 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.18%) SAP
7 24 (1.78%) Google
8 23 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.63%) Informatica
9 22 (1.63%) Splunk
10 19 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.26%) HP
12 16 (1.18%) VMware
13 14 (1.04%) Foundry
14 10 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.74%) IBM
15 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.59%) Refinitiv
17 6 (0.44%) Zscaler
357 Azure DevOps jobs in England