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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 95 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,281 640 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 2.69% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 7.19% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 448 693
10th Percentile £370 £360 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 6
10th Percentile £25.38 - £64.50
25th Percentile £37.25 £30.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £31.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +136.51% -51.91% -6.43%
75th Percentile £94.42 £32.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 - £68.50
UK median hourly rate £72.25 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +17 721 £500 -4.76% 140
South East +4 186 £500 - 85
North of England +4 133 £500 +2.56% 84
Midlands -13 122 £475 -7.32% 37
West Midlands -15 81 £475 -9.52% 20
North West +8 67 £500 -2.44% 49
South West +5 64 £500 -4.76% 18
Yorkshire -28 50 £519 +22.12% 18
East Midlands -14 39 £488 -2.50% 17
East of England -18 24 £450 -5.26% 29
North East -9 16 £463 -15.91% 18
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 86 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 71 (5.54%) Confluence
3 40 (3.12%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.03%) Apache
5 22 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.78%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.78%) Mendix
8 5 (0.39%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.078%) Kentico
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.31%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Notion
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.078%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 38 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.62%) Maximo
4 7 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.23%) Findur
6 3 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.16%) Endur
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.078%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.078%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.078%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,281 (100.00%) Azure
2 310 (24.20%) GitHub
3 208 (16.24%) Power Platform
4 203 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
5 174 (13.58%) AWS
6 135 (10.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 115 (8.98%) Azure AKS
8 112 (8.74%) Entra ID
9 104 (8.12%) Serverless
10 100 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
11 92 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
12 84 (6.56%) Power Automate
13 83 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 78 (6.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 74 (5.78%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (5.70%) Azure Functions
17 69 (5.39%) GCP
18 65 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (4.84%) PowerApps
20 61 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.59%) Firewall
2 22 (1.72%) Network Security
3 19 (1.48%) DNS
4 18 (1.41%) VPN
5 14 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.94%) WAN
7 8 (0.62%) Internet
8 7 (0.55%) DHCP
8 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.47%) LAN
10 5 (0.39%) IPsec
10 5 (0.39%) VLAN
11 4 (0.31%) MQTT
12 3 (0.23%) HTTP
12 3 (0.23%) SSL
13 2 (0.16%) BGP
13 2 (0.16%) FTP
13 2 (0.16%) OSPF
13 2 (0.16%) SAN
13 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (10.62%) Power BI
2 111 (8.67%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.01%) Data Lake
4 76 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (5.46%) Delta Lake
6 58 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (3.59%) NoSQL
8 43 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (2.03%) MongoDB
10 25 (1.95%) Oracle Database
10 25 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.64%) Spark SQL
12 16 (1.25%) Redis
12 16 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.17%) Tableau
14 14 (1.09%) Metadata
14 14 (1.09%) Parquet
15 13 (1.01%) Big Data
16 12 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 240 (18.74%) JIRA
2 189 (14.75%) Git
3 112 (8.74%) Jenkins
4 82 (6.40%) GitLab
5 42 (3.28%) Selenium
6 26 (2.03%) Postman
7 19 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 18 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 17 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.33%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.25%) TestRail
11 13 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.94%) SpecFlow
13 11 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.86%) NUnit
14 10 (0.78%) Zephyr
15 9 (0.70%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.70%) JMeter
16 8 (0.62%) JUnit
General
1 288 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 270 (21.08%) Finance
3 131 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.68%) Banking
6 33 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.87%) Legal
9 19 (1.48%) Retail
10 18 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.09%) Front Office
13 13 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.86%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.70%) Marketing
16 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.47%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.47%) Law
18 5 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 231 (18.03%) Developer
2 210 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
3 174 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 164 (12.80%) Senior
5 135 (10.54%) Data Engineer
6 113 (8.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 106 (8.27%) Analyst
8 104 (8.12%) Lead
9 89 (6.95%) Architect
10 48 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (3.36%) Business Analyst
11 43 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 41 (3.20%) Test Analyst
13 40 (3.12%) Tester
14 39 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 36 (2.81%) Test Engineer
16 35 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
17 34 (2.65%) .NET Developer
17 34 (2.65%) Azure Developer
18 33 (2.58%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (14.83%) .NET
2 101 (7.88%) REST
3 88 (6.87%) PySpark
4 71 (5.54%) React
5 62 (4.84%) ADO
5 62 (4.84%) ARM Templates
6 58 (4.53%) YAML
7 57 (4.45%) Kafka
8 54 (4.22%) RESTful
9 49 (3.83%) Node.js
10 46 (3.59%) JSON
11 43 (3.36%) Playwright
12 42 (3.28%) .NET Framework
13 38 (2.97%) .NET Core
14 33 (2.58%) SOAP
15 29 (2.26%) CSS
16 26 (2.03%) AngularJS
16 26 (2.03%) HTML
16 26 (2.03%) OAuth
17 25 (1.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 140 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (2.03%) Reinsurance
7 24 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.48%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.01%) Replication
13 12 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.70%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.70%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.62%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 69 (5.39%) Windows
2 51 (3.98%) Linux
3 16 (1.25%) VMS
4 10 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.62%) Unix
6 4 (0.31%) Android
6 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,274 (99.45%) DevOps
2 685 (53.47%) CI/CD
3 460 (35.91%) Agile
4 295 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 214 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (16.24%) Analytics
7 206 (16.08%) Test Automation
8 175 (13.66%) Migration
9 164 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 159 (12.41%) Data Modelling
11 150 (11.71%) Scrum
12 148 (11.55%) Business Intelligence
13 144 (11.24%) Containerisation
14 141 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 132 (10.30%) AI
16 131 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
17 130 (10.15%) ETL
18 119 (9.29%) Observability
19 114 (8.90%) Microservices
20 110 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 401 (31.30%) SQL
2 327 (25.53%) Python
3 224 (17.49%) C#
4 134 (10.46%) PowerShell
5 122 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 114 (8.90%) Bicep
7 87 (6.79%) Bash
8 84 (6.56%) Java
9 66 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 28 (2.19%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.95%) Scala
12 17 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (1.25%) Go
14 12 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.78%) Formula Language
15 10 (0.78%) LotusScript
16 7 (0.55%) VB
17 6 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 343 (26.78%) Security Cleared
2 285 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.88%) Azure Certification
4 67 (5.23%) Degree
5 37 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.42%) ISTQB
6 31 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.33%) PMP
10 10 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.47%) CISM
12 6 (0.47%) CISSP
13 5 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.32%) QA
2 103 (8.04%) Data Quality
3 39 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.34%) GDPR
5 20 (1.56%) WCAG
6 19 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.41%) PMO
8 17 (1.33%) NIST
9 14 (1.09%) SLA
10 13 (1.01%) NCSC
11 10 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.62%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) HL7
15 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) PSD2
15 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 170 (13.27%) Docker
2 74 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.31%) Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (27.09%) Terraform
2 219 (17.10%) Kubernetes
3 59 (4.61%) Ansible
4 42 (3.28%) Grafana
5 35 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.25%) Argo
7 15 (1.17%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.01%) Puppet
9 11 (0.86%) Istio
9 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.62%) Packer
11 6 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 3 (0.23%) SCCM
14 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 382 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 159 (12.41%) Databricks
3 95 (7.42%) Oracle
4 61 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 38 (2.97%) SAP
6 33 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.87%) Splunk
9 23 (1.80%) Informatica
10 19 (1.48%) Google
11 16 (1.25%) HP
12 15 (1.17%) Foundry
13 14 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 13 (1.01%) VMware
15 12 (0.94%) IBM
16 10 (0.78%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.78%) Kofax
16 10 (0.78%) Lotus
17 9 (0.70%) InterSystems
18 8 (0.62%) Red Hat
371 Azure DevOps jobs in England