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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 98 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 -27 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,275 657 1,043
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 2.70% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 7.25% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 470 701
10th Percentile £363 £365 £400
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £519
% change year-on-year -1.48% -2.17% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £33.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £31.32 £39.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -24.43% -6.43%
75th Percentile £85.25 £59.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £102.80 £65.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £76.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year -20.66% +16.41% -6.43%

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +25 719 £500 -5.66% 164
South East -1 174 £500 - 106
North of England +12 125 £500 - 85
Midlands -17 124 £458 -12.86% 44
South West +19 79 £481 -8.33% 19
West Midlands -17 75 £450 -14.29% 21
North West +5 66 £500 -4.76% 42
East Midlands -11 47 £488 -2.50% 23
Yorkshire -26 47 £525 +16.67% 19
East of England -17 22 £450 -5.26% 32
North East -8 12 £475 -11.63% 24
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 84 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 71 (5.57%) Confluence
3 39 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.04%) Apache
5 16 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.78%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.78%) Mendix
8 6 (0.47%) IIS
9 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.078%) SAS
11 1 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.31%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.24%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.078%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 36 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.63%) Maximo
4 7 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.24%) Findur
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.078%) Endur
9 1 (0.078%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.078%) Primavera
9 1 (0.078%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.078%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (100.00%) Azure
2 310 (24.31%) GitHub
3 205 (16.08%) GitHub Actions
4 195 (15.29%) Power Platform
5 165 (12.94%) AWS
6 133 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 124 (9.73%) Azure AKS
8 116 (9.10%) Entra ID
9 111 (8.71%) Serverless
10 106 (8.31%) Azure Monitor
11 93 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
12 87 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
13 78 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 76 (5.96%) Power Automate
15 74 (5.80%) Azure Functions
16 71 (5.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 66 (5.18%) GCP
18 64 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
19 63 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
20 56 (4.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.92%) Firewall
2 24 (1.88%) Network Security
3 20 (1.57%) DNS
4 18 (1.41%) VPN
5 14 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 13 (1.02%) WAN
7 7 (0.55%) DHCP
7 7 (0.55%) LAN
7 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
9 5 (0.39%) IPsec
9 5 (0.39%) VLAN
10 4 (0.31%) HTTP
10 4 (0.31%) MQTT
11 3 (0.24%) FTP
11 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.24%) SSL
12 2 (0.16%) MPLS
12 2 (0.16%) OSPF
12 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.27%) Power BI
2 112 (8.78%) SQL Server
3 78 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 76 (5.96%) Data Lake
5 65 (5.10%) Delta Lake
6 58 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 41 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 27 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 26 (2.04%) Relational Database
12 20 (1.57%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.41%) Tableau
14 17 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (1.18%) Metadata
15 15 (1.18%) Redis
16 13 (1.02%) Big Data
17 12 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 240 (18.82%) JIRA
2 190 (14.90%) Git
3 120 (9.41%) Jenkins
4 81 (6.35%) GitLab
5 46 (3.61%) Selenium
6 28 (2.20%) Postman
7 22 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.49%) TestRail
9 16 (1.25%) REST Assured
10 14 (1.10%) SpecFlow
10 14 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.94%) Artifactory
11 12 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.94%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.94%) Zephyr
12 10 (0.78%) JUnit
12 10 (0.78%) NUnit
13 9 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
General
1 295 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 262 (20.55%) Finance
3 132 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 58 (4.55%) Banking
6 33 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.57%) Legal
9 18 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.18%) Front Office
11 15 (1.18%) Retail
12 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.71%) Law
13 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.63%) Local Government
15 7 (0.55%) Marketing
16 6 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 236 (18.51%) Developer
2 210 (16.47%) Azure Engineer
3 178 (13.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 178 (13.96%) Senior
4 127 (9.96%) Data Engineer
5 112 (8.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 107 (8.39%) Analyst
7 106 (8.31%) Lead
8 87 (6.82%) Architect
9 52 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (3.69%) Test Analyst
11 44 (3.45%) Tester
12 43 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 40 (3.14%) Azure Developer
14 39 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (2.98%) Business Analyst
16 37 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (2.90%) Project Manager
17 35 (2.75%) Test Engineer
18 33 (2.59%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (14.82%) .NET
2 100 (7.84%) REST
3 82 (6.43%) PySpark
4 71 (5.57%) React
5 67 (5.25%) ARM Templates
6 62 (4.86%) ADO
7 60 (4.71%) Kafka
8 59 (4.63%) Node.js
9 56 (4.39%) YAML
10 51 (4.00%) RESTful
11 46 (3.61%) .NET Framework
12 45 (3.53%) Playwright
13 43 (3.37%) .NET Core
14 41 (3.22%) JSON
15 31 (2.43%) AngularJS
15 31 (2.43%) CSS
15 31 (2.43%) SOAP
16 28 (2.20%) HTML
16 28 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (2.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 23 (1.80%) Reinsurance
8 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.02%) Replication
12 11 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.71%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.71%) NHS
13 9 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.25%) Windows
2 49 (3.84%) Linux
3 15 (1.18%) VMS
4 10 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.71%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,268 (99.45%) DevOps
2 690 (54.12%) CI/CD
3 463 (36.31%) Agile
4 302 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 219 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (16.55%) Test Automation
7 201 (15.76%) Analytics
8 164 (12.86%) Migration
9 161 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 154 (12.08%) Containerisation
11 153 (12.00%) Scrum
12 150 (11.76%) Data Modelling
13 142 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
14 134 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 126 (9.88%) AI
15 126 (9.88%) Microservices
16 125 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
17 124 (9.73%) Observability
18 123 (9.65%) ETL
19 111 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 404 (31.69%) SQL
2 331 (25.96%) Python
3 231 (18.12%) C#
4 136 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 135 (10.59%) PowerShell
6 114 (8.94%) Bicep
7 89 (6.98%) Bash
8 85 (6.67%) Java
9 70 (5.49%) TypeScript
10 30 (2.35%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.12%) T-SQL
12 26 (2.04%) Scala
13 16 (1.25%) Go
14 14 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.78%) Formula Language
16 10 (0.78%) LotusScript
17 8 (0.63%) R
18 7 (0.55%) VB
19 6 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 357 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 300 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 73 (5.73%) Degree
5 37 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.75%) ISTQB
7 29 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.33%) PMP
10 10 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.47%) CISM
12 6 (0.47%) CISSP
13 5 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.37%) QA
2 97 (7.61%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.12%) GDPR
5 20 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.49%) PMO
7 17 (1.33%) NIST
8 15 (1.18%) WCAG
9 14 (1.10%) NCSC
10 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.71%) SLA
11 7 (0.55%) GRC
12 5 (0.39%) HL7
13 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.16%) PSD2
14 2 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (14.59%) Docker
2 73 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.31%) Firmware
6 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.078%) HDFS
8 1 (0.078%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.078%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 349 (27.37%) Terraform
2 230 (18.04%) Kubernetes
3 61 (4.78%) Ansible
4 43 (3.37%) Grafana
5 37 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.41%) Argo
7 15 (1.18%) Puppet
8 14 (1.10%) HP ALM
8 14 (1.10%) Istio
9 11 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.55%) Packer
12 4 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.24%) Icinga
13 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 3 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 375 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 154 (12.08%) Databricks
3 106 (8.31%) Oracle
4 58 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.90%) SAP
6 33 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 26 (2.04%) Splunk
9 22 (1.73%) Informatica
10 16 (1.25%) Google
11 15 (1.18%) HP
12 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.94%) Foundry
13 12 (0.94%) VMware
14 11 (0.86%) IBM
14 11 (0.86%) NEC
15 10 (0.78%) Kofax
15 10 (0.78%) Lotus
16 9 (0.71%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.71%) Citrix
414 Azure DevOps jobs in England