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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 90 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,515 765 906
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.81% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 7.51% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 549 618
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
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 £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.43% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.24 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.60% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £102.17 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -46.82% - -

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 15,845 10,186 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.42% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,613 6,888 7,730
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £639
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 261 189
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +18 861 £500 -4.76% 414
North of England +8 173 £475 -5.00% 138
South East -21 171 £500 +5.26% 140
Midlands +35 167 £460 -10.24% 79
West Midlands +27 123 £450 -18.18% 39
North West +5 87 £500 +5.26% 74
South West -2 73 £475 -13.44% 62
Yorkshire -13 61 £478 -4.50% 42
East Midlands 0 42 £500 +6.67% 40
East of England +8 38 £425 -15.00% 50
North East - 25 £450 - 22
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
1 106 (7.00%) Confluence
2 95 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.05%) Apache
6 12 (0.79%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.26%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 51 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Findur
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (100.00%) Azure
2 393 (25.94%) GitHub
3 269 (17.76%) Power Platform
4 267 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (14.85%) AWS
6 140 (9.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (8.51%) Entra ID
8 125 (8.25%) Dynamics 365
9 124 (8.18%) Azure AKS
10 120 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
11 113 (7.46%) Serverless
12 111 (7.33%) Power Automate
13 85 (5.61%) PowerApps
14 82 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 80 (5.28%) GCP
16 77 (5.08%) Azure Functions
17 73 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
19 63 (4.16%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.42%) Firewall
2 39 (2.57%) DNS
3 38 (2.51%) Network Security
4 26 (1.72%) VPN
5 19 (1.25%) SSL
6 15 (0.99%) WAN
7 14 (0.92%) DHCP
8 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.46%) Internet
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
10 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.40%) VLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
12 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.13%) BGP
13 2 (0.13%) OSPF
13 2 (0.13%) SSH
13 2 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (11.68%) Power BI
2 113 (7.46%) SQL Server
3 80 (5.28%) Data Lake
4 79 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 53 (3.50%) Delta Lake
8 47 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (1.91%) Metadata
11 22 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 21 (1.39%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.32%) Big Data
13 20 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.12%) MySQL
14 17 (1.12%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.99%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.99%) Redis
15 15 (0.99%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.92%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 282 (18.61%) JIRA
2 258 (17.03%) Git
3 193 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 152 (10.03%) GitLab
5 74 (4.88%) Selenium
6 37 (2.44%) Postman
7 31 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.78%) WebDriver
10 26 (1.72%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.52%) Cucumber
12 20 (1.32%) REST Assured
13 19 (1.25%) Gradle
14 17 (1.12%) JUnit
15 16 (1.06%) TestRail
16 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
16 15 (0.99%) Maven
17 13 (0.86%) MSI
18 12 (0.79%) Snyk
18 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 409 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 317 (20.92%) Finance
3 186 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 162 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.35%) Banking
6 80 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (2.31%) Retail
8 28 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.72%) Legal
10 24 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.32%) Marketing
13 15 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.92%) Local Government
15 12 (0.79%) Law
16 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.53%) Billing
17 8 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 258 (17.03%) Developer
2 240 (15.84%) Senior
3 229 (15.12%) Azure Engineer
3 229 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 137 (9.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 131 (8.65%) Lead
6 128 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 125 (8.25%) Analyst
8 114 (7.52%) Architect
9 62 (4.09%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.63%) Project Manager
11 54 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 51 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (3.04%) Consultant
14 45 (2.97%) Senior Developer
15 41 (2.71%) Test Analyst
16 40 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (2.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 36 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 36 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (28.84%) Terraform
2 203 (13.40%) .NET
3 181 (11.95%) REST
4 85 (5.61%) PySpark
5 81 (5.35%) JSON
5 81 (5.35%) RESTful
6 76 (5.02%) ADO
7 69 (4.55%) Kafka
8 67 (4.42%) YAML
9 64 (4.22%) ARM Templates
10 59 (3.89%) React
11 55 (3.63%) .NET Framework
12 53 (3.50%) Playwright
13 52 (3.43%) .NET Core
14 43 (2.84%) XML
15 41 (2.71%) OAuth
16 40 (2.64%) HTML
17 37 (2.44%) Middleware
18 36 (2.38%) CSS
19 34 (2.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 177 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 122 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 30 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.32%) Replication
11 18 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.99%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.92%) Clustering
15 14 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 14 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.80%) Windows
2 74 (4.88%) Linux
3 34 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.12%) VMS
5 13 (0.86%) Unix
6 12 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.66%) Android
7 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (100.00%) DevOps
2 853 (56.30%) CI/CD
3 658 (43.43%) Agile
4 397 (26.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 279 (18.42%) Test Automation
6 269 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 245 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 241 (15.91%) Analytics
10 234 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 221 (14.59%) Scrum
12 201 (13.27%) Migration
13 187 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
14 175 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 172 (11.35%) Data Modelling
16 168 (11.09%) AI
17 167 (11.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 159 (10.50%) Validation
19 158 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
20 152 (10.03%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 405 (26.73%) SQL
2 394 (26.01%) Python
3 255 (16.83%) C#
4 209 (13.80%) PowerShell
5 169 (11.16%) Bicep
6 157 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 136 (8.98%) Bash
8 123 (8.12%) Java
9 90 (5.94%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.19%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.06%) Go
14 15 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.92%) X++
16 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.46%) Scala
18 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 449 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 366 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 120 (7.92%) Azure Certification
4 112 (7.39%) Degree
5 68 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.57%) ISTQB
9 33 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.06%) PMP
13 14 (0.92%) CISSP
14 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.68%) QA
2 112 (7.39%) Data Quality
3 87 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 54 (3.56%) GDPR
5 51 (3.37%) WCAG
6 32 (2.11%) PMO
7 28 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.78%) NIST
9 19 (1.25%) NCSC
10 12 (0.79%) SLA
11 10 (0.66%) GRC
12 9 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.33%) SEPA
16 4 (0.26%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
18 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 248 (16.37%) Docker
2 80 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 317 (20.92%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.53%) Ansible
3 56 (3.70%) Grafana
4 48 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.32%) Argo
7 20 (1.32%) Puppet
8 14 (0.92%) Packer
9 13 (0.86%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.66%) SCOM
10 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.59%) SCCM
12 7 (0.46%) Istio
13 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 542 (35.78%) Microsoft
2 143 (9.44%) Databricks
3 58 (3.83%) Oracle
4 56 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 53 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.04%) SAP
7 39 (2.57%) Google
8 30 (1.98%) Splunk
9 28 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.52%) VMware
11 19 (1.25%) Informatica
12 15 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.92%) Foundry
13 14 (0.92%) UiPath
14 13 (0.86%) HP
15 11 (0.73%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
18 8 (0.53%) Adobe
833 Azure DevOps jobs in England