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

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 93 75
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,492 756 971
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.31% 2.74% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 7.36% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 547 648
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £415 £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 £677 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £27.79 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £50.90 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% - -
75th Percentile £82.44 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.33 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -25.42% - -

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 15,802 10,273 11,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,537 6,977 8,026
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 266 238
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
% change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +21 826 £500 -4.76% 253
South East -19 185 £503 +11.67% 130
Midlands +28 175 £465 -7.00% 61
North of England +25 169 £480 -4.00% 91
West Midlands +16 128 £450 -14.29% 37
North West +8 87 £500 -4.76% 52
South West -3 73 £475 -5.00% 35
Yorkshire -17 59 £475 -4.95% 29
East Midlands +12 45 £525 +8.25% 22
East of England +11 36 £425 -12.82% 29
North East -18 23 £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
1 108 (7.24%) Confluence
2 85 (5.70%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.08%) Apache
6 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) CMS
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.067%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 54 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.54%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.47%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Notion
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.40%) Maximo
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.067%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.067%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.067%) SAP CS
Cloud Services
1 1,492 (100.00%) Azure
2 391 (26.21%) GitHub
3 268 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
4 231 (15.48%) Power Platform
5 224 (15.01%) AWS
6 134 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 126 (8.45%) Entra ID
8 125 (8.38%) Azure AKS
9 117 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
10 114 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
11 108 (7.24%) Power Automate
12 95 (6.37%) Serverless
13 87 (5.83%) GCP
14 86 (5.76%) PowerApps
15 78 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
15 78 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 64 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
17 63 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (4.09%) PaaS
19 60 (4.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.95%) Firewall
2 36 (2.41%) DNS
3 31 (2.08%) Network Security
4 25 (1.68%) VPN
5 15 (1.01%) SSL
5 15 (1.01%) WAN
6 13 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.80%) DHCP
8 9 (0.60%) Internet
8 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.47%) VLAN
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
11 3 (0.20%) 4G
11 3 (0.20%) BGP
11 3 (0.20%) OSPF
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.32%) Power BI
2 111 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 73 (4.89%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 71 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 53 (3.55%) Delta Lake
8 46 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.41%) Metadata
12 21 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.21%) Redis
13 18 (1.21%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.14%) Big Data
15 14 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.87%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.87%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 288 (19.30%) JIRA
2 239 (16.02%) Git
3 173 (11.60%) Jenkins
4 130 (8.71%) GitLab
5 60 (4.02%) Selenium
6 31 (2.08%) Postman
6 31 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 24 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.41%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 17 (1.14%) Gradle
12 16 (1.07%) JUnit
12 16 (1.07%) TestRail
13 15 (1.01%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.01%) Maven
14 14 (0.94%) MSI
15 12 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 384 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 301 (20.17%) Finance
3 188 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 155 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (5.09%) Banking
6 68 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.01%) Retail
8 28 (1.88%) Legal
8 28 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.27%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.01%) Marketing
13 14 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.87%) Law
14 13 (0.87%) Local Government
15 9 (0.60%) Billing
15 9 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.54%) Front Office
17 7 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 280 (18.77%) Developer
2 219 (14.68%) Senior
3 217 (14.54%) Azure Engineer
4 212 (14.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 132 (8.85%) Lead
6 130 (8.71%) Data Engineer
7 127 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 125 (8.38%) Analyst
9 103 (6.90%) Architect
10 65 (4.36%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (3.22%) Project Manager
13 44 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (2.95%) Test Analyst
14 43 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.82%) .NET Developer
15 42 (2.82%) Consultant
15 42 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (2.82%) Tester
16 39 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (13.47%) .NET
2 164 (10.99%) REST
3 83 (5.56%) PySpark
3 83 (5.56%) RESTful
4 75 (5.03%) ADO
5 72 (4.83%) YAML
6 68 (4.56%) JSON
7 63 (4.22%) .NET Framework
8 61 (4.09%) Kafka
9 58 (3.89%) React
10 53 (3.55%) .NET Core
10 53 (3.55%) ARM Templates
11 51 (3.42%) Playwright
12 44 (2.95%) SOAP
13 40 (2.68%) OAuth
14 37 (2.48%) HTML
15 34 (2.28%) CSS
15 34 (2.28%) XML
16 33 (2.21%) AngularJS
16 33 (2.21%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.41%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.21%) Replication
13 17 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 13 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.80%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.74%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.30%) Windows
2 63 (4.22%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.87%) VMS
5 10 (0.67%) Unix
6 8 (0.54%) Android
6 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,492 (100.00%) DevOps
2 813 (54.49%) CI/CD
3 613 (41.09%) Agile
4 370 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (17.16%) Test Automation
6 240 (16.09%) Analytics
7 236 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 224 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (14.48%) Containerisation
11 215 (14.41%) Scrum
12 203 (13.61%) Migration
13 170 (11.39%) Data Modelling
14 165 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
15 163 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 149 (9.99%) Microservices
17 148 (9.92%) AI
18 146 (9.79%) User Acceptance Testing
19 145 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
20 138 (9.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 407 (27.28%) SQL
2 368 (24.66%) Python
3 249 (16.69%) C#
4 184 (12.33%) PowerShell
5 150 (10.05%) JavaScript
6 147 (9.85%) Bicep
7 118 (7.91%) Bash
8 109 (7.31%) Java
9 85 (5.70%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.27%) Go
12 14 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.80%) X++
14 10 (0.67%) Scala
15 9 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.47%) C
16 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 439 (29.42%) Security Cleared
2 357 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.17%) Azure Certification
4 97 (6.50%) Degree
5 53 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (2.41%) ISTQB
8 34 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.94%) PMP
13 12 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.60%) CISSP
15 9 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (10.86%) QA
2 106 (7.10%) Data Quality
3 82 (5.50%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.49%) GDPR
5 48 (3.22%) WCAG
6 26 (1.74%) PMO
7 20 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.34%) NIST
8 18 (1.21%) NCSC
9 13 (0.87%) SLA
10 12 (0.80%) GRC
11 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
13 4 (0.27%) SEPA
14 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 224 (15.01%) Docker
2 83 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) Postfix
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) HDFS
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (27.75%) Terraform
2 284 (19.03%) Kubernetes
3 95 (6.37%) Ansible
4 62 (4.16%) Grafana
5 52 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.47%) Argo
7 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.34%) Puppet
8 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.87%) Packer
10 12 (0.80%) Istio
11 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.67%) HP ALM
13 8 (0.54%) SCCM
14 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.40%) SCOM
15 3 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.20%) Rancher
16 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 479 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.25%) Databricks
3 65 (4.36%) Oracle
4 63 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 51 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.22%) SAP
7 36 (2.41%) Google
8 30 (2.01%) Splunk
9 27 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.41%) VMware
11 20 (1.34%) Informatica
12 12 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.74%) Foundry
13 11 (0.74%) HP
14 10 (0.67%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.67%) IBM
14 10 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.60%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.54%) Cisco
16 8 (0.54%) Citrix
562 Azure DevOps jobs in England