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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 90 72
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,462 764 999
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.79% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.23% 7.47% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 545 668
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.43% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 0
10th Percentile £20.45 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £103.10 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.12% - -

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 15,839 10,232 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.34% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,573 6,915 8,251
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 267 270
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £45.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +17 806 £505 -3.81% 183
South East -18 185 £500 +11.11% 108
Midlands +20 167 £450 -10.00% 52
North of England +5 166 £483 -3.40% 77
West Midlands +18 120 £450 -13.25% 32
North West +3 84 £500 -4.76% 48
South West +8 74 £475 -13.24% 27
Yorkshire -26 60 £480 -4.00% 21
East Midlands +4 45 £525 +10.53% 20
East of England +9 35 £425 -12.82% 22
North East -21 22 £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
1 108 (7.39%) Confluence
2 86 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 33 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.92%) Apache
5 26 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.48%) CMS
8 6 (0.41%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Mendix
10 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.068%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.55%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.41%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.27%) Notion
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.068%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 45 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.41%) Maximo
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) Findur
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.068%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.068%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,462 (100.00%) Azure
2 368 (25.17%) GitHub
3 248 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
4 225 (15.39%) Power Platform
5 211 (14.43%) AWS
6 123 (8.41%) Entra ID
7 122 (8.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 119 (8.14%) Azure AKS
9 117 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
10 108 (7.39%) Dynamics 365
11 103 (7.05%) Power Automate
12 91 (6.22%) Serverless
13 82 (5.61%) PowerApps
14 81 (5.54%) Azure Key Vault
15 79 (5.40%) GCP
16 72 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 64 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
18 62 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
19 57 (3.90%) Azure Functions
20 56 (3.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.69%) Firewall
2 31 (2.12%) DNS
2 31 (2.12%) Network Security
3 22 (1.50%) VPN
4 15 (1.03%) WAN
5 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.89%) SSL
6 10 (0.68%) DHCP
7 9 (0.62%) Internet
7 9 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.41%) LAN
8 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 3 (0.21%) 4G
9 3 (0.21%) BGP
9 3 (0.21%) OSPF
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.14%) IPsec
10 2 (0.14%) MPLS
10 2 (0.14%) NAS
10 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.05%) Power BI
2 110 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.06%) Data Lake
4 69 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.69%) Delta Lake
7 53 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 46 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.57%) MongoDB
10 23 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.37%) Metadata
13 19 (1.30%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.16%) Redis
15 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.96%) Big Data
17 13 (0.89%) Parquet
18 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
19 10 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 290 (19.84%) JIRA
2 238 (16.28%) Git
3 154 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 112 (7.66%) GitLab
5 60 (4.10%) Selenium
6 29 (1.98%) Postman
7 26 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.57%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.37%) WebDriver
10 17 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 16 (1.09%) Gradle
11 16 (1.09%) JUnit
11 16 (1.09%) TestRail
12 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.82%) MSI
15 11 (0.75%) Maven
15 11 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 376 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 299 (20.45%) Finance
3 177 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 151 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (4.79%) Banking
6 64 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.92%) Legal
9 27 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (1.78%) Retail
11 22 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 13 (0.89%) Law
14 12 (0.82%) Marketing
15 11 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.75%) Local Government
16 9 (0.62%) Billing
16 9 (0.62%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 272 (18.60%) Developer
2 219 (14.98%) Azure Engineer
3 213 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 203 (13.89%) Senior
5 130 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 130 (8.89%) Data Engineer
6 129 (8.82%) Analyst
7 125 (8.55%) Lead
8 97 (6.63%) Architect
9 65 (4.45%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.21%) Project Manager
11 47 (3.21%) Test Analyst
12 44 (3.01%) Tester
13 43 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 41 (2.80%) Consultant
15 41 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 40 (2.74%) .NET Developer
17 36 (2.46%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (13.47%) .NET
2 160 (10.94%) REST
3 81 (5.54%) PySpark
4 79 (5.40%) RESTful
5 77 (5.27%) ADO
6 73 (4.99%) YAML
7 68 (4.65%) JSON
8 62 (4.24%) .NET Framework
9 60 (4.10%) React
10 59 (4.04%) Kafka
11 54 (3.69%) ARM Templates
12 52 (3.56%) .NET Core
13 49 (3.35%) Playwright
14 46 (3.15%) SOAP
15 39 (2.67%) HTML
15 39 (2.67%) OAuth
16 37 (2.53%) Node.js
17 36 (2.46%) CSS
18 33 (2.26%) AngularJS
19 31 (2.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 169 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.57%) Reinsurance
11 19 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.30%) Replication
12 16 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.03%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.75%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.09%) Windows
2 60 (4.10%) Linux
3 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.89%) VMS
5 10 (0.68%) Unix
6 7 (0.48%) Android
6 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,462 (100.00%) DevOps
2 782 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 597 (40.83%) Agile
4 349 (23.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 249 (17.03%) Test Automation
6 234 (16.01%) Analytics
7 229 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 223 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 219 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 208 (14.23%) Scrum
11 199 (13.61%) Containerisation
12 197 (13.47%) Migration
13 164 (11.22%) Data Modelling
14 157 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
15 153 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 143 (9.78%) Microservices
17 141 (9.64%) AI
17 141 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
18 137 (9.37%) Platform Engineering
19 133 (9.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 401 (27.43%) SQL
2 360 (24.62%) Python
3 247 (16.89%) C#
4 174 (11.90%) PowerShell
5 139 (9.51%) JavaScript
6 134 (9.17%) Bicep
7 112 (7.66%) Bash
8 108 (7.39%) Java
9 85 (5.81%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.30%) Go
12 15 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.96%) Scala
14 12 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.75%) X++
16 10 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.48%) VB
18 6 (0.41%) C
18 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 420 (28.73%) Security Cleared
2 341 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.11%) Azure Certification
4 95 (6.50%) Degree
5 54 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 46 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.96%) PMP
11 13 (0.89%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.48%) CISSP
17 5 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
18 4 (0.27%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (10.60%) QA
2 103 (7.05%) Data Quality
3 79 (5.40%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.49%) GDPR
5 45 (3.08%) WCAG
6 25 (1.71%) PMO
7 18 (1.23%) NIST
8 16 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.96%) SLA
10 13 (0.89%) NCSC
11 12 (0.82%) GRC
12 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.14%) PSD2
15 2 (0.14%) SEPA
16 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 205 (14.02%) Docker
2 79 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.068%) HDFS
7 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (26.68%) Terraform
2 261 (17.85%) Kubernetes
3 86 (5.88%) Ansible
4 58 (3.97%) Grafana
5 51 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.37%) Argo
6 20 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.37%) Puppet
7 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.89%) Packer
9 12 (0.82%) HP ALM
9 12 (0.82%) Istio
9 12 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.34%) SCCM
11 5 (0.34%) SCOM
12 4 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.21%) Rancher
14 2 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 463 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.10%) Databricks
3 71 (4.86%) Oracle
4 62 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 48 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 47 (3.21%) SAP
7 30 (2.05%) Google
8 27 (1.85%) Splunk
9 20 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.37%) VMware
10 18 (1.23%) Informatica
11 16 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.89%) Foundry
12 13 (0.89%) HP
13 11 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.68%) IBM
15 9 (0.62%) Guidewire
15 9 (0.62%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.55%) Citrix
425 Azure DevOps jobs in England