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

 6 months to
27 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 93 79
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,470 785 914
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.81% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.22% 7.38% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 561 599
10th Percentile £363 £354 £386
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.50 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £69.61 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% - -
75th Percentile £79.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.67 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £67.44 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.66% - -

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 15,945 10,634 11,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.39% 38.08% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,637 7,206 7,601
10th Percentile £319 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 249 164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.79 £43.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -4.17%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +22 825 £513 -2.38% 378
South East -25 172 £525 +14.44% 137
North of England +7 166 £477 -4.70% 164
Midlands +14 149 £460 -8.00% 87
West Midlands +18 120 £450 -21.74% 47
North West -9 79 £500 +14.29% 88
South West +5 75 £475 -15.56% 47
Yorkshire -17 65 £475 -5.00% 63
East of England +9 45 £438 -12.50% 43
East Midlands -14 28 £500 +8.11% 40
North East - 22 £450 - 14
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
1 111 (7.55%) Confluence
2 106 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (1.77%) Apache
6 12 (0.82%) CMS
7 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.41%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) Notion
8 5 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Mingle
9 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.068%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.068%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,470 (100.00%) Azure
2 370 (25.17%) GitHub
3 276 (18.78%) Power Platform
4 251 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
5 231 (15.71%) AWS
6 133 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
7 128 (8.71%) Entra ID
8 122 (8.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 121 (8.23%) Serverless
10 120 (8.16%) Azure AKS
10 120 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
10 120 (8.16%) Power Automate
11 92 (6.26%) Azure Functions
12 90 (6.12%) GCP
13 89 (6.05%) PowerApps
14 79 (5.37%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (4.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 64 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
17 62 (4.22%) PaaS
18 61 (4.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.08%) Firewall
2 41 (2.79%) DNS
3 36 (2.45%) Network Security
4 21 (1.43%) VPN
5 18 (1.22%) SSL
6 13 (0.88%) DHCP
7 9 (0.61%) WAN
8 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 5 (0.34%) Internet
9 5 (0.34%) LAN
9 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.14%) SSH
12 2 (0.14%) VSAN
12 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.63%) Power BI
2 117 (7.96%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (2.93%) Delta Lake
6 43 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.11%) Metadata
8 31 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.36%) Big Data
10 19 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 17 (1.16%) MySQL
11 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.02%) Star Schema
13 14 (0.95%) Data Vault
13 14 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (0.95%) MongoDB
13 14 (0.95%) Spark SQL
14 13 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 274 (18.64%) Git
2 264 (17.96%) JIRA
3 188 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 147 (10.00%) GitLab
5 78 (5.31%) Selenium
6 41 (2.79%) Postman
7 35 (2.38%) Visual Studio
8 31 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 28 (1.90%) WebDriver
11 27 (1.84%) SonarQube
12 22 (1.50%) REST Assured
13 18 (1.22%) Gradle
13 18 (1.22%) JUnit
14 16 (1.09%) TestRail
15 15 (1.02%) Maven
16 14 (0.95%) JMeter
17 13 (0.88%) MSI
17 13 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.82%) Bitbucket
General
1 412 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 309 (21.02%) Finance
3 180 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 156 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.51%) Banking
7 37 (2.52%) Retail
8 30 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.70%) Legal
11 24 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.29%) Marketing
14 15 (1.02%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.95%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.82%) Law
16 12 (0.82%) Local Government
17 10 (0.68%) Billing
17 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 255 (17.35%) Developer
2 233 (15.85%) Senior
3 231 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 225 (15.31%) Azure Engineer
5 139 (9.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 133 (9.05%) Lead
7 129 (8.78%) Analyst
8 115 (7.82%) Data Engineer
9 112 (7.62%) Architect
10 70 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.54%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 51 (3.47%) Consultant
13 47 (3.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 47 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (2.99%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.93%) Test Analyst
16 38 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (29.46%) Terraform
2 198 (13.47%) .NET
2 198 (13.47%) REST
3 81 (5.51%) JSON
4 77 (5.24%) ADO
4 77 (5.24%) RESTful
5 75 (5.10%) PySpark
6 65 (4.42%) ARM Templates
7 60 (4.08%) Kafka
7 60 (4.08%) React
7 60 (4.08%) YAML
8 58 (3.95%) .NET Framework
9 53 (3.61%) .NET Core
9 53 (3.61%) Playwright
10 46 (3.13%) XML
11 44 (2.99%) OAuth
12 40 (2.72%) HTML
13 39 (2.65%) Middleware
14 37 (2.52%) SOAP
15 35 (2.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.16%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.78%) Product Ownership
3 59 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.36%) Replication
13 19 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.09%) Data Centre
17 15 (1.02%) Mobile App
17 15 (1.02%) Taxonomies
18 14 (0.95%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.87%) Windows
2 74 (5.03%) Linux
3 32 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.02%) VMS
5 13 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.68%) Unix
7 9 (0.61%) Android
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,470 (100.00%) DevOps
2 832 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 637 (43.33%) Agile
4 394 (26.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 284 (19.32%) Test Automation
6 277 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 240 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (15.65%) Containerisation
10 229 (15.58%) Analytics
11 223 (15.17%) Scrum
12 199 (13.54%) Migration
13 185 (12.59%) AI
14 183 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
15 170 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 170 (11.56%) User Acceptance Testing
16 166 (11.29%) Data Modelling
17 160 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
18 158 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
19 157 (10.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 374 (25.44%) Python
2 360 (24.49%) SQL
3 259 (17.62%) C#
4 209 (14.22%) PowerShell
5 171 (11.63%) Bicep
6 164 (11.16%) JavaScript
7 129 (8.78%) Bash
8 114 (7.76%) Java
9 95 (6.46%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.70%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.09%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.95%) Go
15 13 (0.88%) X++
16 9 (0.61%) C++
17 7 (0.48%) C
17 7 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.48%) Scala
18 6 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 435 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 358 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.37%) Azure Certification
4 118 (8.03%) Degree
5 73 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.86%) ISTQB
8 38 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.77%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.43%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.22%) PMP
13 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.95%) CISSP
15 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (11.90%) QA
2 103 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 92 (6.26%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.08%) GDPR
5 54 (3.67%) WCAG
6 30 (2.04%) PMO
7 27 (1.84%) NIST
8 25 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.22%) NCSC
10 12 (0.82%) SLA
11 10 (0.68%) GRC
11 10 (0.68%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.48%) SEPA
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 241 (16.39%) Docker
2 65 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.34%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 303 (20.61%) Kubernetes
2 96 (6.53%) Ansible
3 52 (3.54%) Grafana
4 47 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.02%) Argo
7 15 (1.02%) Puppet
8 14 (0.95%) HP ALM
8 14 (0.95%) Packer
9 10 (0.68%) SCOM
10 9 (0.61%) SCCM
11 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.27%) Istio
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.14%) Nagios
15 2 (0.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 542 (36.87%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.91%) Databricks
3 56 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.74%) Oracle
4 55 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 44 (2.99%) SAP
6 41 (2.79%) Google
7 33 (2.24%) Splunk
8 32 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.77%) VMware
10 22 (1.50%) Foundry
10 22 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.16%) UiPath
12 16 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.02%) HP
14 12 (0.82%) IBM
14 12 (0.82%) Workday
15 9 (0.61%) Informatica
15 9 (0.61%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.54%) Adobe
882 Azure DevOps jobs in England