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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 95 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,339 677 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.72% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.88% 7.22% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 480 696
10th Percentile £375 £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 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -3.97% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £89.59 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +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 15,086 9,377 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.70% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,221 6,374 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 233 339
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +12 744 £500 -4.76% 122
South East -2 182 £500 +9.71% 107
North of England +22 151 £485 -0.46% 68
Midlands -1 132 £470 -8.29% 44
West Midlands -7 91 £450 -14.29% 24
North West +13 72 £500 -4.76% 41
South West +17 68 £481 -8.33% 29
Yorkshire -26 58 £500 +11.11% 17
East Midlands -8 39 £525 +5.00% 20
East of England -1 33 £450 - 28
North East -15 21 £450 -18.18% 11
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 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 86 (6.42%) Confluence
3 38 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.09%) Apache
5 24 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) Mendix
8 5 (0.37%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) Documentum
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.60%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.075%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 44 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.75%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
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%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.075%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.075%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (100.00%) Azure
2 331 (24.72%) GitHub
3 217 (16.21%) GitHub Actions
3 217 (16.21%) Power Platform
4 179 (13.37%) AWS
5 123 (9.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 114 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 112 (8.36%) Azure AKS
8 106 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
9 102 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (7.62%) Serverless
10 96 (7.17%) Power Automate
11 84 (6.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 75 (5.60%) PowerApps
13 73 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 68 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 67 (5.00%) Azure Functions
16 65 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
17 62 (4.63%) GCP
18 57 (4.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.66%) Firewall
2 25 (1.87%) Network Security
3 21 (1.57%) DNS
3 21 (1.57%) VPN
4 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.90%) WAN
6 8 (0.60%) Internet
7 7 (0.52%) DHCP
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.52%) VLAN
8 5 (0.37%) LAN
9 4 (0.30%) IPsec
10 3 (0.22%) MQTT
10 3 (0.22%) SSL
11 2 (0.15%) BGP
11 2 (0.15%) FTP
11 2 (0.15%) NAS
11 2 (0.15%) OSPF
11 2 (0.15%) SAN
11 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.38%) Power BI
2 96 (7.17%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 75 (5.60%) Data Lake
4 66 (4.93%) Delta Lake
5 54 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 47 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 41 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 20 (1.49%) Spark SQL
11 19 (1.42%) Redis
12 17 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.12%) Big Data
14 14 (1.05%) Metadata
15 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.97%) Parquet
15 13 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 260 (19.42%) JIRA
2 210 (15.68%) Git
3 117 (8.74%) Jenkins
4 92 (6.87%) GitLab
5 48 (3.58%) Selenium
6 27 (2.02%) Postman
7 24 (1.79%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.72%) Visual Studio
9 22 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.05%) TestRail
14 13 (0.97%) Gradle
15 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.82%) NUnit
17 10 (0.75%) fastlane
17 10 (0.75%) JUnit
17 10 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 319 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 278 (20.76%) Finance
3 144 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.56%) Banking
6 48 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (1.79%) Legal
9 22 (1.64%) Retail
10 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.82%) Law
13 11 (0.82%) Marketing
14 10 (0.75%) Front Office
14 10 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.60%) Local Government
16 7 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 245 (18.30%) Developer
2 222 (16.58%) Azure Engineer
3 191 (14.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 183 (13.67%) Senior
5 135 (10.08%) Data Engineer
6 123 (9.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 118 (8.81%) Analyst
8 106 (7.92%) Lead
9 97 (7.24%) Architect
10 59 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (3.96%) Business Analyst
12 45 (3.36%) Test Analyst
13 43 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (2.99%) Project Manager
16 38 (2.84%) Tester
17 37 (2.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
18 36 (2.69%) Test Engineer
19 35 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.29%) .NET
2 128 (9.56%) REST
3 82 (6.12%) PySpark
4 67 (5.00%) React
5 66 (4.93%) ADO
6 62 (4.63%) ARM Templates
6 62 (4.63%) RESTful
7 59 (4.41%) YAML
8 57 (4.26%) Kafka
9 50 (3.73%) JSON
10 49 (3.66%) .NET Framework
11 45 (3.36%) Playwright
12 38 (2.84%) Node.js
13 37 (2.76%) SOAP
14 36 (2.69%) .NET Core
15 34 (2.54%) CSS
15 34 (2.54%) HTML
16 28 (2.09%) Middleware
16 28 (2.09%) OAuth
17 27 (2.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 155 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.90%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 26 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.97%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 11 (0.82%) Public Cloud
17 10 (0.75%) Replication
17 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.45%) Windows
2 44 (3.29%) Linux
3 17 (1.27%) VMS
4 8 (0.60%) Unix
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Android
5 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,332 (99.48%) DevOps
2 727 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 502 (37.49%) Agile
4 317 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 231 (17.25%) Analytics
6 218 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 209 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (13.37%) Migration
9 174 (12.99%) Scrum
10 170 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (12.02%) Containerisation
12 160 (11.95%) Data Modelling
12 160 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 147 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
14 138 (10.31%) AI
15 137 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
16 134 (10.01%) ETL
17 130 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
18 123 (9.19%) Microservices
19 117 (8.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 397 (29.65%) SQL
2 340 (25.39%) Python
3 226 (16.88%) C#
4 133 (9.93%) PowerShell
5 128 (9.56%) JavaScript
6 121 (9.04%) Bicep
7 91 (6.80%) Java
8 90 (6.72%) Bash
9 74 (5.53%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.64%) Scala
11 21 (1.57%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.19%) Go
13 12 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.82%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.75%) X++
16 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.45%) R
17 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 366 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 308 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 78 (5.83%) Degree
5 40 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.19%) PMP
12 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.60%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.52%) CISSP
16 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.37%) CISM
17 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (10.90%) QA
2 108 (8.07%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.91%) GDPR
5 33 (2.46%) WCAG
6 20 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.49%) NIST
7 18 (1.34%) NCSC
8 17 (1.27%) SLA
9 15 (1.12%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 177 (13.22%) Docker
2 76 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) HDFS
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (26.51%) Terraform
2 222 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 63 (4.71%) Ansible
4 42 (3.14%) Grafana
5 36 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.27%) Argo
7 13 (0.97%) HP ALM
7 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.90%) Istio
8 12 (0.90%) Puppet
9 10 (0.75%) Packer
9 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Rancher
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) linkerd
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 398 (29.72%) Microsoft
2 154 (11.50%) Databricks
3 70 (5.23%) Oracle
4 54 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 43 (3.21%) SAP
6 41 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 22 (1.64%) Google
8 22 (1.64%) Informatica
9 19 (1.42%) Splunk
10 16 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.12%) VMware
12 14 (1.05%) Foundry
12 14 (1.05%) HP
13 12 (0.90%) IBM
14 10 (0.75%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.60%) Refinitiv
17 7 (0.52%) Adobe
348 Azure DevOps jobs in England