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

 6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 84 79
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 998 756 955
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.77% 2.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.32% 7.57% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 506 736
10th Percentile £360 £380 £413
25th Percentile £413 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £45.78 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £48.63 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +18.95% +12.73%
75th Percentile £84.38 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%

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 11,989 9,992 12,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.58% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 6,676 9,078
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 134 236
10th Percentile £14.46 £16.41 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -1.38%
75th Percentile £57.31 £46.18 £50.40
90th Percentile £78.00 £67.63 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.57% +2.22%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +6 531 £510 -7.27% 176
South East -3 134 £525 -8.30% 185
North of England -18 98 £493 -1.50% 144
South West +41 85 £475 -2.56% 66
Midlands +4 85 £500 -4.31% 115
North West -7 49 £405 -26.36% 68
West Midlands -24 48 £575 +9.52% 60
Yorkshire -40 39 £525 +5.00% 62
East Midlands +3 37 £418 -12.11% 50
East of England +1 28 £538 -18.87% 81
North East -4 10 £500 -4.76% 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 65 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 50 (5.01%) Confluence
3 17 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) Apache
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.80%) HCL Notes
8 7 (0.70%) Mendix
9 5 (0.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.30%) Documentum
11 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Kentico
12 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.20%) Trello
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.60%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.50%) Maximo
5 4 (0.40%) Endur
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.20%) Primavera
7 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 997 (99.90%) Azure
2 237 (23.75%) GitHub
3 190 (19.04%) Power Platform
4 169 (16.93%) GitHub Actions
5 127 (12.73%) AWS
6 125 (12.53%) Azure AKS
7 122 (12.22%) Serverless
8 107 (10.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 93 (9.32%) Azure Monitor
10 91 (9.12%) Dynamics 365
11 90 (9.02%) Entra ID
12 80 (8.02%) Azure Functions
13 77 (7.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (6.81%) Power Automate
15 65 (6.51%) GCP
15 65 (6.51%) PowerApps
16 62 (6.21%) Azure Key Vault
16 62 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 51 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
18 49 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.81%) Firewall
2 21 (2.10%) Network Security
2 21 (2.10%) VPN
3 15 (1.50%) DNS
4 9 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 9 (0.90%) WAN
5 4 (0.40%) HTTP
5 4 (0.40%) LAN
5 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) FTP
7 2 (0.20%) IPsec
7 2 (0.20%) MPLS
7 2 (0.20%) NGFW
7 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) BGP
8 1 (0.10%) MQTT
8 1 (0.10%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (13.13%) Power BI
2 73 (7.31%) SQL Server
3 54 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (3.91%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.51%) Delta Lake
8 25 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 19 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.80%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.40%) Tableau
13 13 (1.30%) Redis
14 11 (1.10%) MySQL
15 10 (1.00%) Metadata
15 10 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (0.90%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 9 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 177 (17.74%) JIRA
2 137 (13.73%) Git
3 103 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.81%) GitLab
5 45 (4.51%) Selenium
6 37 (3.71%) Oracle APEX
6 37 (3.71%) Postman
7 25 (2.51%) SonarQube
8 20 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.90%) JUnit
10 15 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.40%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.30%) Gradle
13 12 (1.20%) Artifactory
13 12 (1.20%) JMeter
14 11 (1.10%) TestRail
14 11 (1.10%) Visual Studio
15 10 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.00%) SpecFlow
15 10 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 319 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 177 (17.74%) Finance
3 118 (11.82%) Public Sector
4 85 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (5.21%) Banking
6 31 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.20%) Retail
10 20 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.40%) Law
13 13 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.00%) Back Office
15 10 (1.00%) Marketing
16 9 (0.90%) Billing
16 9 (0.90%) Front Office
17 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 253 (25.35%) Developer
2 144 (14.43%) Azure Engineer
3 138 (13.83%) Senior
4 135 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (8.12%) Analyst
6 79 (7.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 75 (7.52%) Lead
8 64 (6.41%) Architect
9 60 (6.01%) Data Engineer
9 60 (6.01%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.41%) Azure Developer
11 35 (3.51%) Project Manager
12 34 (3.41%) Business Analyst
13 33 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.11%) Test Analyst
15 29 (2.91%) Software Engineer
16 28 (2.81%) Azure Architect
16 28 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
17 27 (2.71%) Tester
18 26 (2.61%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (19.64%) .NET
2 92 (9.22%) REST
3 68 (6.81%) React
4 66 (6.61%) ADO
5 61 (6.11%) Node.js
6 59 (5.91%) ARM Templates
7 57 (5.71%) RESTful
8 49 (4.91%) .NET Core
9 47 (4.71%) PySpark
10 46 (4.61%) YAML
11 36 (3.61%) JSON
12 34 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 34 (3.41%) Kafka
13 33 (3.31%) SOAP
14 32 (3.21%) HTML
15 31 (3.11%) OAuth
16 28 (2.81%) .NET Framework
17 25 (2.51%) CSS
17 25 (2.51%) Playwright
18 21 (2.10%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.40%) CMDB
7 19 (1.90%) Low-Code
8 17 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.30%) NHS
10 13 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.61%) Windows
2 41 (4.11%) Linux
3 15 (1.50%) VMS
4 13 (1.30%) Android
5 11 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Unix
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (99.40%) DevOps
2 538 (53.91%) CI/CD
3 443 (44.39%) Agile
4 242 (24.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 184 (18.44%) Scrum
6 183 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (15.93%) Test Automation
8 156 (15.63%) Analytics
9 136 (13.63%) Business Intelligence
10 135 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (13.03%) Containerisation
12 118 (11.82%) Validation
13 111 (11.12%) Microservices
14 107 (10.72%) AI
15 104 (10.42%) Migration
16 97 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 96 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
18 89 (8.92%) Data Modelling
19 78 (7.82%) Data Pipeline
20 72 (7.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 293 (29.36%) SQL
2 251 (25.15%) Python
3 194 (19.44%) C#
4 166 (16.63%) JavaScript
5 115 (11.52%) PowerShell
6 95 (9.52%) Bicep
7 74 (7.41%) Java
8 64 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 61 (6.11%) Bash
10 54 (5.41%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.80%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.10%) Go
13 9 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.80%) Formula Language
14 8 (0.80%) LotusScript
14 8 (0.80%) Scala
15 7 (0.70%) PHP
15 7 (0.70%) VBA
16 5 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 268 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 222 (22.24%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.72%) Azure Certification
4 70 (7.01%) Degree
5 37 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.10%) CISSP
11 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.90%) PMP
13 7 (0.70%) CISM
14 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.50%) ISEB
15 5 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.62%) QA
2 46 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.71%) GDPR
5 23 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.30%) NIST
6 15 (1.50%) NCSC
7 11 (1.10%) PMO
8 8 (0.80%) WCAG
9 7 (0.70%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.50%) HL7
11 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.30%) PSD2
12 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) GRC
13 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (18.04%) Docker
2 55 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 286 (28.66%) Terraform
2 193 (19.34%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.31%) Ansible
4 43 (4.31%) Grafana
5 37 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.30%) Puppet
7 11 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.80%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.80%) Istio
8 8 (0.80%) Kibana
8 8 (0.80%) Podman
9 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.50%) Argo
10 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.40%) Packer
12 3 (0.30%) Icinga
13 2 (0.20%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 312 (31.26%) Microsoft
2 118 (11.82%) Databricks
3 105 (10.52%) Oracle
4 58 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.00%) Splunk
8 18 (1.80%) Google
9 16 (1.60%) SAP
10 12 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.00%) VMware
12 9 (0.90%) Sitecore
13 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.80%) HP
13 8 (0.80%) Lotus
14 7 (0.70%) Brio
14 7 (0.70%) Citrix
14 7 (0.70%) Kofax
14 7 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.60%) NEC
730 Azure DevOps jobs in England